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It’s really about whether the court will uphold trans people’s equal opportunity in public life, says an LGBTQ advocate.
Local government officials have reportedly told activists they have no intention of investigating Porter’s killing.
Iranian activists have warned that foreign intervention would only increase internal repression, says Narges Bajoghli.
“When you hear her voice, you can’t unhear it,” says Kaouther Ben Hania, the director of The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Powerful figures were “pouring rhetorical fuel on the flames of the very real fire," says journalist Jacob Soboroff.
Following the US attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland.
Trump ventures include cryptocurrencies, real estate, and a company trying to build a nuclear fusion plant to power AI.
“People fear that there’s going to be more bombings,” said Andreína Chávez, a Venezuelan reporter based in Caracas.
“It sounded like an earthquake, like the sky was falling down,” a journalist in Caracas said of the US strikes.
Zohran Mamdani’s supporters at his inauguration share their hopes for the new administration.
Popular organizations created sovereign food distribution systems in response to US sanctions, says Andreína Chávez.
An expert discusses how premiums will work, how to seek help, what to watch for in alternative plans, and more.
The pair also discussed phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which Israel has violated with near-daily attacks.
UN experts, doctors, and activists have raised alarm over the repression of Palestine Action political prisoners.
The new book focuses on her mother Mary Roy, and how the writer's life was shaped through her terror and inspiration.
Leqaa Kordia was arrested last year at a Gaza solidarity protest at Columbia University, but the charges were dismissed.
Jasper Nathaniel was aiding Palestinians in an olive harvest in the West Bank when a settler gang ambushed them.
The illegal move deepens Israeli occupation as deadly raids and settler attacks continue across Palestinian territory.
Scholar Mae Ngai says the moves reflect the administration’s bigger agenda: to make the US a white Christian nation.
The RSF is accused of attempting to cover up mass killings of civilians, and drone strikes plunge cities into darkness.
Trump declared a blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela amid a vast US military buildup.
“People are lining up and treating this the way they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says journalist Aram Roston.
“I am still healing from my physical injuries,” said Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in high school in 2019.
Reporter Mohammed Mhawish describes the surveillance, from cameras at checkpoints to drones flying into people’s homes.
Alejandro Velasco, a historian of modern Latin America, discusses the latest Venezuela developments.
“This is the first arrest of its kind I’ve seen,” says her attorney, Todd C. Pomerleau.
Supporters marched 103 miles to Frackville, Pennsylvania, where the well-known political prisoner is incarcerated.
A leaked DOJ memo directs the FBI to review records from the past five years, says Ken Klippenstein.
According to planning documents, 250 federal agents will aim to make 5,000 arrests in Louisiana over two months.
Green card and US citizenship processing will be paused for migrants from 19 non-European countries.
A human rights lawyer says the move validates fears that Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
The picket came soon after Starbucks reached a $38 million settlement with New York City over labor violations.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who allegedly shot two National Guardsmen, had previously worked in a “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan.
“What you have is a conglomerate of policy violence, and it’s deadly,” says Barber, who is organizing protests.
“It’s not just about Venezuela,” says scholar Alexander Aviña as US military activity across the Caribbean grows.
Two attendees of the UN climate summit break down the final deal and discuss the few positive outcomes.
Over 80 countries said they will meet in Colombia next year to develop a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels.
Calls grow at COP30 for stronger protections for refugees and migrants forcibly displaced by climate disasters.
Climate diplomacy researcher Lina Yassin discusses updates from COP30 as well as the ongoing crisis in Sudan.
Environmentalist and human rights leader Kumi Naidoo speaks about climate justice and violence in Gaza and Sudan.
Demonstrators denounced false solutions at the UN climate summit and called for respect of Indigenous sovereignty.
CECOT is “where people are sent for permanent punishment and separation,” says a human rights advocate.
“We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away," said Dr. Atul Gawande.
Epstein was a “dealmaker and a fixer at a very, very elite level,” says Murtaza Hussain of Drop Site News.
David Dayen of The American Prospect discusses what could be the end of the longest government shutdown in US history.
“This is climate obstruction at work,” says Nina Lakhani, senior climate justice reporter for The Guardian US.
Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.
“My community is under invasion from our own federal government. It has got to stop,” says Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.
Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts, gives an overview of Tuesday’s elections.
Two journalists trace how excess caution led the DOJ to refuse to prosecute Trump allies' 2020 election interference.