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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.

Democracy Now! Thursday, June 26, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-06-25 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 25, 2025
• "We Fight for Working People with No Apology": Zohran Mamdani Beats Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary
• "One Mass Casualty After Another": U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at Aid Sites
• "Imperial Decline": NATO Nations Boost War Spending at Trump's Urging as He Defends Iran Bombing
• "Inhumane": Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-24 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 24, 2025
• F-Bombs and Real Bombs: Trita Parsi on Shaky Iran Ceasefire & Trump's Anger at Netanyahu
• NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City
• How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Decide NYC’s Mayoral Election: John Tarleton on Cuomo vs. Progressives
• "Blatantly Unconstitutional": Rep. Ro Khanna Decries U.S. Strikes on Iran Without Congressional Approval

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-23 Monday

• Headlines for June 23, 2025
• Report from Tehran: Iranians View U.S. Strikes on Key Nuclear Sites as "Act of War"
• Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide
• Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East
• Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University

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Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife and met his newborn son after being released from over 100 days in ICE detention. After flying from Louisiana to New Jersey, Khalil told reporters, “If they threaten me with detention, even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Palestine.” Khalil was the first arrested, on March 8. He is a legal permanent resident of the United States, with a green card. His wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, a U.S. citizen, was eight months pregnant at the time. Mahmoud played a prominent role in the Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University last spring. Watch a special report from Democracy Now! from the Newark airport.