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Headlines for June 03, 2026; “Fraud on the Court”: Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion; MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte Tapped to Be New U.S. Spy Chief, Led Efforts to Target Trump Critics; “Appalling Misconduct”: Chicago Federal Prosecutors Under Fire; “Broadview 6” Charges Dropped; The Government Tried to Villainize Us: Broadview 6 Defendants Speak Out After Charges Dropped

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2026

Headlines for June 02, 2026; Iran Suspends U.S. Talks as Israel Kills 8 More in Lebanon & Expands Occupation; “Murder as Policy”: Amnesty Int’l Decries U.S. Strikes on Latin American Boats as Death Toll Tops 200; “The Overseer Class”: Steven Thrasher on Black Cops, Pro-Palestine Protests, DEI & More

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2026

Headlines for June 01, 2026; NJ State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall; “We Closed Our Account”: Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails; “Revolving Door”: Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief; Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges

Transcribed - Published: 1 June 2026

Headlines for May 29, 2026; “Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall; Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter’s Death in Boeing Crash; “It’s About People Feeding Their Families”: Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2026

Headlines for May 28, 2026; No End in Sight: Israel Expands War on Lebanon, Orders Evacuation of 14% of Country; Ex-Nuclear Negotiator on U.S.-Iran Talks, Abraham Accords & Trump’s Threat to Blow Up Oman; “From Bogotá to El Fasher”: How UAE Trained Colombian Mercenaries to Fight Alongside RSF in Sudan; Trump’s Enemies List: DOJ Launches “Egregious” Criminal Probe into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2026

Headlines for May 27, 2026; “They Are Not Alone Inside”: Protests Outside Newark ICE Jail Support Hunger-Striking Detainees; Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies; “How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies”: Northwestern Prof. Jeffrey Winters on Book “The Blind Spot”

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2026

Headlines for May 26, 2026; U.S. Bombs Iran Despite Peace Talks; Israel Strikes Lebanon to “Force Trump’s Hand”: Negar Mortazavi; “Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention; “He Was in Agony”: Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2026

Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More

Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2026

Headlines for May 22, 2026; “Politically Driven Epidemic”: Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment & U.S. Global Health Cuts; Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media: David Sirota; “AI Resist List”: Karen Hao on Data Center Resistance, Tech Billionaires, “Empire of AI” & More

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2026

Headlines for May 21, 2026; “Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans; Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump’s Gutting of USAID: Study; “They’re Trying to Silence Us”: Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2026

Headlines for May 20, 2026; “Dictatorship in Action”: David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund & Shielding Trumps “Forever” from IRS; Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade; Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA’s Widening Role; Amnesty: Executions Spike in Iran as Gov’t Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S./Israeli Attacks

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2026

Headlines for May 19, 2026; 3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More; “Ask E. Jean” Film Profiles the Woman Who Twice Sued Trump & Won, for Sexual Assault & Defamation; Minnesota Officials Charge ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant & Falsely Reported What Happened

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2026

Headlines for May 18, 2026; As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?; Trump’s Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner; “Staggering Corruption”: Rep. Raskin on Trump’s $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business

Transcribed - Published: 18 May 2026

Headlines for May 15, 2026; Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience; “Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism

Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2026

Headlines for May 14, 2026; Xi Warns Trump of Potential “Conflict” over Taiwan in Beijing Summit on Iran, Trade, Tech & More; “Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2026

Headlines for May 13, 2026; FDA Chief Pushed Out in Latest Sign of Public Health Chaos Under RFK Jr.; Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting “Billionaire Big Tech Agenda”; Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim & Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2026

Headlines for May 12, 2026; A Return to Jim Crow? Ex-DOJ Civil Rights Chief Kristen Clarke Denounces Gutting of Voting Rights Act; I Was Kidnapped by Israel in Int’l Waters, Jailed for 10 Days: Gaza Flotilla Activist Saif Abukeshek

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2026

Headlines for May 11, 2026; Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Party Surges in U.K. Elections; Calls Grow for Labour PM Starmer to Resign; Meet Guido Reichstadter, the Marine Veteran Who Scaled D.C. Bridge to Protest Iran War & AI; Canceled over Palestine: Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour on Rutgers Disinviting Him as Graduation Speaker

Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2026

Headlines for May 08, 2026; Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker; Amid Growing Abuse at ICE Jails, Rep. Adelita Grijalva Calls to Shut Down Trump’s Detention Network; “They Don’t Care”: Trump’s Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site; “Absolutely Vulnerable”: Over 20,000 Global South Ship Workers Stranded at Sea Due to Iran War

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2026

Headlines for May 07, 2026; Gaza Faces Public Health Collapse Amid Rat Infestation & Disease as Israel Blocks Reconstruction; India’s Modi Gov’t Purged Millions of Voters Before Elections in “Direct Attack” on Democracy; “Gerrymandering Arms Race”: GOP Rushes to Erase Black Representation After SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2026

Headlines for May 06, 2026; Global Press Freedom Hits Record Low, U.S. Drops to 64th in the World: Reporters Without Borders; Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Turns Villages into “Moonscapes”: Reporter Lylla Younes; “Backtalker”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on New Memoir, Voting Rights, Critical Race Theory & Clarence Thomas

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2026

Headlines for May 05, 2026; Trump’s War on Iran & Strait of Hormuz Crisis Reveal “Limits of American Imperial Power”; “Assault on the First Amendment”: Dem. FCC Commissioner on Megamergers & Trump Targeting Kimmel, ABC; Public Access TV at Risk: Cable Giants Threaten to Cut Funds for Local Stations Across U.S.

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2026

Headlines for May 04, 2026; Abortion Rights Movement Shifts to “Plan C” as Court Restricts Mifepristone by Mail; Gaza Flotilla Participant Details “Cruelty” of Israeli Abduction at Sea; Two Activists Still Detained; Trita Parsi on Iran War: Trump Still “Looking for a Silver Bullet” Instead of Negotiating Seriously

Transcribed - Published: 4 May 2026

Headlines for May 01, 2026; From Springfield, Ohio, to the Supreme Court: A Pastor’s Fight to Protect TPS for Haitians; “No School, No Work, No Shopping”: Workers, Immigrants to Lead Thousands of May Day Protests; “A People’s History of Invisible India”: Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights

Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026

Headlines for April 30, 2026; Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in “Devastating Blow” to Democracy & Civil Rights: Maya Wiley; Maya Wiley: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment Is Part of Trump’s Broader Attack on Civil Rights; Scholar Gilbert Achcar on the U.S. War Against Iran & Trump’s “Old-New Imperial Doctrine”; Sunlight Doesn’t Go Through the Strait of Hormuz: Bill McKibben on Iran Oil Shock & Green Transition

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2026

Headlines for April 29, 2026; “Political Disaster for Donald Trump”: Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks; UAE Quits OPEC as Many Countries Ramp Up Oil Production Despite Worsening Climate Crisis; “We Are Bombarding America’s Forests with Roundup”: Despite Cancer Fear, Trump Admin Pushes Herbicide

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2026

Headlines for April 28, 2026; Trump vs. Dreamers: Justice Dept. Moves to Make It Easier to Deport 500K+ DACA Recipients; Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada’s NDP: “Life Just Doesn’t Have to Be So Grindingly Unfair”; Colombia Hosts First Global Summit on Transitioning from Fossil Fuels in Attempt to Break U.N. Deadlock

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2026

Headlines for April 27, 2026; Rep. Ro Khanna on White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting, Political Violence, Epstein Files & More; “Slow Civil War” Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing Normalization of Violence at Home & Abroad; Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump’s Moves to Ramp Up Executions

Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2026

Headlines for April 24, 2026; Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Killed in Israeli Strike, Medics Blocked from Saving Her Under Rubble; NYC Councilmember Chi Ossé Calls for End to “Deed Theft” After Arrest at Eviction Protest in Brooklyn; “Muskism”: Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More

Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026

Headlines for April 23, 2026; How Hawkish Democrats, from Schumer to Harris, Paved the Way for War with Iran: Stephen Zunes; The Looming Food Crisis: Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Disrupting Global Agriculture; Betting on War: Mysterious Traders Make Millions on Well-Timed Bets Tied to Trump’s War on Iran

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2026

Headlines for April 22, 2026; AI Data Center Resistance: Maine Passes Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium — Will Gov. Mills Sign It?; “Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis; “Data Colonialism”: Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land; Greenpeace Sends Ship to Support Global Sumud Flotilla’s Attempt to Break Israel’s Blockade of Gaza

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2026

Headlines for April 21, 2026; Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week; Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart; Animal Rights Activists Target Wisconsin Facility Accused of Breeding Dogs for Medical Experiments

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2026

Headlines for April 20, 2026; “Gulf of Trust” Between Iran & U.S. as End of Ceasefire Nears, Peace Talks Uncertain; Who Is Breaking International Law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s Not Iran, Says Scholar; Shepard Fairey on Art, Activism & Resisting Fascism: “It Can Happen Here, and It Is”; Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2026

Headlines for April 17, 2026; As Iran Reopens Strait of Hormuz, Are U.S. & Iran Near Deal or Renewed Fighting?; Report from Beirut: Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Met with “Cautious Optimism”; Rami Khouri: U.S. & Israel Were “Forced into Two Ceasefires” as Regional Balance of Power Shifts; Aliya Rahman v. DHS: Disabled Woman Dragged from Car Files Claim over Violent Arrest in Minneapolis

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2026

Headlines for April 16, 2026; Hormuz Crisis “Only Going to Get More Horrific Before It Gets Any Better”: Prof. Laleh Khalili; “Depths of Hell”: Sudan Enters Fourth Year of Devastating Civil War Amid Growing Energy Crisis; “Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2026

Headlines for April 15, 2026; Israel’s War & Demands “Could Throw Lebanon Back into a Civil War”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy; “Scorched-Earth Campaign”: Israel Uses “Gaza Playbook” to Turn Southern Lebanon into Rubble; Reps. Swalwell & Gonzales Resign over Alleged Sexual Misconduct; Will Congress Take More Action?; “The Future Is Peace”: Maoz Inon & Aziz Abu Sarah on Israelis and Palestinians Working Together

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2026

Headlines for April 14, 2026; Exclusive: Former U.S. Envoy & Iranian Nuclear Negotiator Discuss Ceasefire Talks, How War Could End; President vs. Pope: Trump Posts Pic of Self as Jesus, Pope Says Warmakers Have “Hands Full of Blood”

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2026

Headlines for April 13, 2026; Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf; Viktor Orbán’s Era Is Over: Hungarians Celebrate as Longtime Far-Right Leader Suffers Landslide Loss; Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi; Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist

Transcribed - Published: 13 April 2026

Headlines for April 10, 2026; “10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 from Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Attack; Will the U.S. and Europe Break Up? Trump Says He May Pull Out of NATO as Iran War Criticism Mounts; Ahead of Hungary Election, JD Vance Campaigns with Orbán in Show of Support for Far Right in Europe

Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2026

Headlines for April 09, 2026; 10 Minutes, 100 Airstrikes: Israel Rejects Ceasefire for Lebanon, Kills 250+ in Massive Attack; “The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power”: U. of Chicago Professor Robert Pape; Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2026

Headlines for April 08, 2026; “Sigh of Relief”: U.S. & Iran Agree to 2-Week Ceasefire, But Israel Keeps Bombing Lebanon; “Steal This Story, Please!”: Documentary on Amy Goodman & Democracy Now! in Theaters April 10

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2026

Headlines for April 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: “Hormuz Is Not a Tool to End the War But How Iran Wins the Aftermath”; Juan González: “Latinx Freedom” Conference Will Be Landmark Gathering in NYC April 9-10; “A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2026

Headlines for April 06, 2026; Israeli Peace Activist: Gaza, Iran & Lebanon Are All Part of “One Forever War” That Must End; “He Is Increasingly Desperate”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Expletive-Laced Threats Against Iran; Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch

Transcribed - Published: 6 April 2026

Headlines for April 03, 2026; Pam Bondi Fired as AG Despite Never Saying No to Trump: Law Prof. David Cole; David Cole: U.S. War on Iran Is “Blatantly Illegal” Under U.S. & Int’l Law; Arizona Sec. of State: Trump Is “Trying to Pick His Own Voters” by Restricting Mail-in Ballots; Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in ”ICE Dungeon”

Transcribed - Published: 3 April 2026

Headlines for April 02, 2026; “This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle; “Born in the U.S.A.”: Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban; Israel’s Death-by-Hanging Law Marks Further “Dehumanization of Palestinians”: B’Tselem

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2026

Headlines for March 31, 2026; “Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional”: Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court; U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker; The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2026

Headlines for March 30, 2026; No Kings: Rep. Omar, Sen. Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at Massive St. Paul Rally; “People Are Rising Up”: Voices of No Kings Protests from NYC to Denver; NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot; Report from Beirut: “Hearts Are Very, Very Heavy” After Israeli Strikes Target Journalists, Medics; “The Institutions Have Not Collapsed”: Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War

Transcribed - Published: 30 March 2026

Headlines for March 27, 2026; “No Kings”: March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History; “Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More; Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People; Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs “Pa’lante” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary

Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2026

Headlines for March 26, 2026; Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping; Meet Ryan Schwank, ICE Whistleblower Who Exposed Agency’s Unconstitutional Practices; “Torture & Genocide”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Denounces Israeli Abuse of Palestinians; Michael Stipe & Aaron Dessner Perform “No Time for Love Like Now” at Democracy Now! Celebration

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2026

Headlines for March 25, 2026; New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is “Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent”: Rep. Delia Ramirez; Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2026