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As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, "Democracy Now!" gets a response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization.
17:42
The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million as states continue to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen their economies and more than a dozen see a surge in new infections.
18:18
The growing controversy over police use of facial recognition technology has accelerated after a Black man in Michigan revealed he was wrongfully arrested because of the technology.
15:20
As the unprecedented global health emergency continues to unfold, a new United Nations report says humans must lower stress on the natural environment to prevent the next pandemic.
9:26
'I Felt Like I Was Going to Die:' Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Recalls 1965 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma
As the U.S. mourns the loss of civil rights icon and 17-term Democratic Congressmember John Lewis, "Democracy Now!" features his 2012 in-studio interview, when he tears up remembering the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery march he helped lead in 1965.
15:39
Under a new Trump administration policy, hundreds of people who came to the United States seeking asylum were secretly held in hotels for days on end before being expelled from the country, often with little or no paper trail.
20:38
In his eulogy at the funeral service for Congressmember John Lewis, President Barack Obama said expanded voting rights would be the greatest way to honor the civil rights icon’s legacy.
25:24
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, "Democracy Now!" speaks with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack.
At the second night of the Republican National Convention, speakers largely ignored the devastating public health and economic crisis facing the country as the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus nears 180,000.
Hurricane Laura has slammed ashore as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 mph to the Gulf Coast. The strongest storm to hit Louisiana in over a century, Laura made landfall near the border of Louisiana and Texas.
8:39
Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London could have far-reaching consequences for press freedoms.
16:43
Former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly criticized President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask while claiming that a vaccine would be available within weeks.
