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Today "Democracy Now!" looks at a new documentary that looks at the 17 African-American athletes who, along with noted track and fielder Jesse Owens, defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to participate in the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Germany.
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At least seven people have died, and more than 10,000 people have been forced to relocate to shelters, as evacuations and emergency rescues continue.
Hillary Clinton has announced former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as the head of her transition team.
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Bernie Sanders and his supporters have launched a new political organization called Our Revolution. But reports have emerged of political tumult within Bernie Sanders’s own team.
As the Obama administration begins a new push to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership, known as the TPP, more than 200 of the country’s leading economists and legal scholars have written a letter urging Congress to reject the 12-nation trade pact.
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The scandal dates back to at least 2011, and CEO John Stumpf admits he’s known about the practice since 2013. Wells Fargo has been fined $185 million.
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'I Called You to Help Me, But You Killed My Brother': Police Shoot Dead Unarmed African-American Man
Police in the San Diego, California, suburb of El Cajon shot and killed an unarmed African-American man Tuesday, after his sister called 911 to report her brother was having a mental health emergency.
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The Supreme Court blocked President Obama’s DAPA program on Thursday.
A long-awaited British inquiry into the Iraq War blames former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
On July 4, off-duty New York police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed Delrawn Small, an unarmed African American man.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today at a joint rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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"Democracy Now!" looks at how people who record police violence have themselves been targeted, harassed, arrested and even imprisoned.
