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Democracy Now! 2025-07-18 Friday

• Headlines for July 18, 2025
• "Stunning Reversal": Trump Stonewalls on Epstein Files After Campaigning on Full Transparency
• Epstein Survivor Calls for Accountability: Release the Files, End Impunity for Rich & Powerful Abusers
• Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes to Release All Epstein Files, Calls Gutting of Public Media "Devastating Blow"
• Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-16 Wednesday

• Headlines for July 16, 2025
• Disappearing Video, Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth, Largest U.S. Health Insurer, Silences Critics
• New Release of Bob Dylan's "Hard Rain" as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary
• "Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard": UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-15 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 15, 2025
• Beaten to Death: Eyewitnesses Describe Brutal Killing of U.S. Citizen by Israeli Settlers in West Bank
• "Gator Grift": Hundreds Caged in Inhumane Conditions with No Due Process at Florida Immigrant Jail
• "Purge Palantir": Day of Action Protests Firm's Role in Gov't Surveillance, ICE & Genocide in Gaza

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-14 Monday

• Headlines for July 14, 2025
• "War on Children": Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel's Plan for Concentration Camps
• Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal in April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going to Stay in Power: NY Times
• ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond

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Full interview with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The conversation touched on Gaza, immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to preserve human rights and more.

Democracy Now! 2025-07-11 Friday

• Headlines for July 11, 2025
• Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking "Disaster Response Chain" as Climate Crisis Escalates
• Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent to El Salvador
• U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies, "Militarized Response" to Protests

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Part 2 of Democracy Now!'s conversation with Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory. She was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration, shortly after publishing a report on corporations supporting what she calls Israel's “economy of genocide.”

Democracy Now! 2025-07-10 Thursday

• Headlines for July 10, 2025
• From Agents on Horseback in L.A. to a Chicago Arts Festival, Latino Communities Mobilize Against ICE
• "Apocalypse in the Tropics": Brazilian Filmmaker on Evangelicals, Bolsonaro & Trump's Tariff Threat
• "Economy of Genocide": U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel's Gaza War

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-07 Monday

• Headlines for July 07, 2025
• Texas Flood Kills 82+, Including 28 Kids, Amid Drought, Trump Cuts to Weather Service, NOAA & FEMA
• "Most Massive Transfer of Wealth Upward in American History": John Nichols on Trump's Budget Law
• "Frontal Assault" on Climate Justice: Rolling Stone's Antonia Juhasz on Trump's Budget Law
• "Completely Illegal": Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on Israel's "Outrageous" Attacks on Gaza Hospitals & Staff

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-02 Wednesday

• Headlines for July 02, 2025
• "Not a Done Deal": After Senate Passes "Big, Ugly Bill," Progressives Fight to Stop It in the House
• GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE "Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation"
• "Alligator Alcatraz": Florida Activists Resist Everglades Migrant Jail as ICE Deaths Rise in U.S.
• "Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later": Why Did L.A. ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez?

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-01 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 01, 2025
• "Worst Thing I've Ever Seen": U.S. Surgeon Describes Mass Starvation, Injury and Death in Gaza
• "Trying to Find Food Is a Death Sentence": Palestinian Writer Muhammad Shehada on Gaza Aid Massacres
• "Ethnic Cleansing": U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Israel's War in Gaza
• "Damaging and Deadly" Heat Domes Nearly Tripled, from Europe to the U.S.: Climatologist Michael Mann

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Democracy Now! Monday, June 30, 2025

Part Two of our conversation with journalist Rebecca Grant, who writes about reproductive rights. She outlines the alternative healthcare methods that many are forced to turn to in the face of dangerous and — since the fall of Roe v. Wade — increasingly draconian abortion restrictions. “We know throughout history that making abortion illegal or trying to ban it does not make it go away,” she says. This underground network of abortion access in the United States is the subject of Grant’s new book, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-27 Friday

• Headlines for June 27, 2025
• Open the Floodgates: SCOTUS Says South Carolina Can Defund Planned Parenthood. Will Other States Follow?
• Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero’s Family on 100+ Days of Disappearance
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Trump Is Attacking "Every Part of the Legal Immigration System"
• Bill Moyers Dies at 91: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

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The Brooklyn-based Sikh American musician Sonny Singh joins us in our Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his remarkable music. Singh gained fame as a member of Red Baraat and now records as solo artist. He recently released a new album titled Sage Warrior and is playing at Joe’s Pub in New York on July 2.