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As nationwide protests against systemic racism and police violence stretch into their second month, President Trump has sent a team of federal agents to Seattle, following a controversial deployment of federal forces in Portland, Oregon.
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.
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"Democracy Now!" looks at the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a wide-ranging interview with Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, where she is the senior legal correspondent and Supreme Court reporter.
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Many observers have been shocked by the extreme brutality with which police departments have responded to the mostly peaceful protests. Activist Tamika Mallory says the militarized police response is not a new development.
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The movement to abolish prisons and police has existed for decades, but recent protests in defense of Black lives have sparked widespread conversation about what "defunding the police" would look like.
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Smith says "8 to Abolition," in contrast to "8 Can't Wait," is a set of "actionable items that you can do that strike at the heart of policing. It reduces points of contact with police."
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'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.
President Obama's plan to shield as many as five million immigrants from deportation was supposed to begin taking its first applications this week. But U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of Brownsville, Texas issued an injunction late Monday night follow...
As extreme cold temperatures blast the eastern third of the United States, the fossil fuel industry has seen a series of disasters in less than a week.
Leaked cables show that the Israeli spy agency Mossad contradicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's own dire warnings about Iran's ability to produce a nuclear bomb within one year.
Video has surfaced showing militants from the Islamic State destroying ancient artifacts at a museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
