Democracy Now! 2025-07-16 Wednesday
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.3 | I had a phone call into the operating room saying that United Healthcare wanted me to call |
| 0:23.9 | them about one of the patients who was having surgery today, who was actually asleep |
| 0:28.1 | having surgery, and, you know, said I had to call right now. |
| 0:33.2 | So I scrubbed out of my case and I called United Healthcare. |
| 0:36.7 | And the gentleman said he needed |
| 0:38.7 | some information about her. |
| 0:39.9 | I want to know her diagnosis and whether her inpatient stay should be justified. |
| 0:47.6 | United Health's campaign to quiet critics. |
| 0:51.8 | That's the headline of a New York Times expasse of the largest health insurance |
| 0:57.5 | company in the United States. We'll speak with journalist David Enrich. Then ICE raids terrorize |
| 1:04.2 | immigrant communities. I'm a single mother, and I have three children who depend on me. and it breaks my heart that every time I leave the house, they tell me, Mommy, be careful because they can take you and send you to Mexico, and we're going to stay here without you. |
| 1:22.1 | We'll go to California to speak with Teresa Romero, the first immigrant Latina president of the United Farm Workers of America. |
| 1:32.3 | And finally, 80 years ago today, the first nuclear bomb in the world was tested in the desert of New Mexico. |
| 1:40.8 | Today, the Nobel laureate assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War is gathering in Chicago. |
| 1:47.8 | Nobel Prize winning scientists, peace activists, and musicians. |
| 1:51.4 | They'll release two new renditions of Nobel laureate Bob Dylan's A Hard Rains are going to fall. |
| 1:59.4 | And it's a hard. It going to fall. |
| 2:18.2 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:29.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:35.3 | In the Gaza Strip, at least 21 people were killed Wednesday morning at a food distribution site run by the militarized, shadowy, so-called Gaza humanitarian foundation. |
| 2:41.1 | Survivors report guards fired tear gas at starving Palestinians lined up to recede |
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