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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Israel is scheduled to free 110 Palestinians, including 30 children, from its prisons, after Hamas released three Israelis and five Thai nationals […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will join other leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for an emergency meeting to respond to President Donald Trump’s […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We end today’s show looking at how the Chinese startup DeepSeek, which uses a free, open-source artificial intelligence model, has upended Silicon Valley. It’s new, low-cost AI tool R1 has […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We turn now to Sudan. Earlier today, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his call for an immediate halt to the fighting between the Sudanese military and paramilitary Rapid Support […]

Harvard adopts controversial IHRA antisemitism definition to block debate over Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza Harvard University’s decision to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism sparks debate over free speech, criticism of Israel, and the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism. • Harvard settles lawsuit with Jewish students who accused pro-Palestine protesters of antisemitism. • […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. On Monday, Holocaust survivors and world leaders marked 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp. Events were held in Poland, as well as at the […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We look now at the impact of an executive order President Trump signed on his first day in office that paused the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in order to see if it, quote, “aligns with the interests” of the U.S. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show with the Senate confirmation of Pete Hegseth as defense secretary by one vote on Friday night and Hegseth’s embrace of extreme Christian nationalism. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Public health advocates across the globe are expressing alarm after President Trump ordered the United States to withdraw from the U.N.’s World Health Organization. The U.S. is the biggest financial backer of the WHO, contributing about 18% of the agency’s […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: President Trump is defending his decision to grant “full, complete and unconditional” presidential pardons to over 1,500 of his supporters involved in […]