Democracy Now! was at the demonstration and spoke to some of the protesters, including Motaz Azaiza, renowned photojournalist from Gaza, and Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, who was arrested.

Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability. A coalition of 16 press ...

More than 600 journalists call the press restrictions in Gaza “the worst blackout in modern conflict” as Israel moves forward with plans to fully occupy the strip and restricts independent coverage of ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that Donald Trump “has brokered on average about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his 6 months in office.” Therefore, she concluded, “It ...

With international treaty negotiations aimed at addressing the plastic pollution crisis resuming in Switzerland this week, a new document reveals that one of the world’s largest plastic producers, ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is offering signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and student loan forgiveness of up to $60,000 in an aggressive new recruitment campaign backed by a massive ...

Diplomacy, backed by military readiness, worked with the Soviets; it can work here. Khamenei’s refusal to negotiate under duress is predictable, but his regime’s survival instinct is not. A deal that ...

Defying torrential rain, hundreds of thousands in Australia’s largest city joined a growing global movement calling for a Gaza cease-fire, humanitarian aid access, and political accountability for ...

The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.

More than 50 Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives fled the state Sunday in a high-stakes attempt to block a vote on Republican-led redistricting legislation that they argue ...

The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.

A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024. In January 2024, researchers found hundreds of dead or dying ...