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Democracy Now!

  • "ICE Out": Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids

    Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ”ICE out.” The march was organized by faith and labor leaders and was accompanied by calls for an economic blackout. Seven hundred businesses reportedly closed in solidarity. Democracy Now!’s John Hamilton filed a report from the streets. John Reuss, an English teacher, said his students are afraid. “The fear is so tangible,” said Reuss. “If we do not shut it down right now, your city is next.”

  • "Trumped-Up Charges": Out of Jail, Nekima Levy Armstrong Faces Prosecution for Anti-ICE Church Protest

    Civil rights attorney, minister and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, who was arrested by federal officials for participating in an anti-ICE demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, was released from federal custody on Friday. “They have altered the facts, just as they altered my image as a way of trying to criminalize nonviolent, peaceful protests and lawful dissent against their unlawful and unjust actions,” says Armstrong, noting images posted by the Trump administration that digitally altered her to make it appear as if she was sobbing during her arrest.

  • RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers "Compassion," "Deep Empathy" of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds

    Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.”

  • "He Was Executed": Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti

    Protests have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday. Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene of Pretti's killing, where protesters clashed with federal agents. “We’ve seen everything from people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident. State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.”

  • Headlines for January 26, 2026

    Federal Immigration Agents Fatally Shoot 37-Year-Old ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Attorney General Bondi Demands Access to Minnesota’s Voter Rolls and Welfare Data, FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good, Israel Kills Three Palestinians in Gaza, Violating U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, U.K. Authorities Arrest 86 Protesters Demanding the Release of Palestine Action Prisoners, Venezuela Releases Dozens of Political Prisoners, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Measles Shots Should Be Optional, Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92

Fair Observer

  • The Prior Authorization Trap: How Paperwork Kills Patients and Burns Out Doctors

    The American healthcare system is an economic paradox — a complex machine that consumes more resources than any other in the developed world, but consistently delivers inferior results. Statistics from 2023 show that we spend roughly $13,432 per person annually. That’s over $3,700 more than any other high-income nation. This massive investment has failed to… Continue reading The Prior Authorization Trap: How Paperwork Kills Patients and Burns Out Doctors The post The Prior Authorization Trap: How Paperwork Kills Patients and Burns Out Doctors appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • How Chemical Weapons Allegations Could Change Sudan’s War Stances and the World’s Response

    For more than two years, the Sudanese civil conflict has been characterized by mass displacement, ethnic cleansing, starvation and the near collapse of the state itself. No side emerges with clean hands. Yet recently discovered evidence threatens to change the conflict’s international trajectory. Allegations of chemical weapons use: crossing a red line Evidence reviewed by… Continue reading How Chemical Weapons Allegations Could Change Sudan’s War Stances and the World’s Response The post How Chemical Weapons Allegations Could Change Sudan’s War Stances and the World’s Response appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • The Returning Nightmare: Europe’s Far Right and the Fading of Democratic Memory

    In April 1945, on a surviving piece of wall amid the ruins of Berlin, someone had written a chilling message: “We will return.” For decades, neither Nazism nor fascism managed to take root again in Europe. Yet today, the rapid rise of far-right parties across the continent suggests that the shadows of that dark era… Continue reading The Returning Nightmare: Europe’s Far Right and the Fading of Democratic Memory The post The Returning Nightmare: Europe’s Far Right and the Fading of Democratic Memory appeared first on Fair Observer.

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Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026

    In this week’s segment, we cover state repression and regime change efforts. While the corporate media parroted state narratives about a popular uprising in Iran, all evidence indicates that recent violence resulted from a U.S. and Israeli attempt at regime change. But we begin in Minnesota, […]

  • ICE Domestic Repression in Minnesota

    Mnar Adley is the founder and director of MintPress News, an independent media outlet. She joins us from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Donald Trump's ICE enforcement is used as domestic police repression against the entire population, but particularly against people of color.

  • U.S. and Israel Attempt Regime Change Against Iran

    Nina Farnia is an assistant professor at Albany Law School in New York. She is a legal historian, focusing on the role of modern imperialism in U.S. law and politics, and a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. Nina Farnia joins us from Albany to discuss violence in Iran which was […]

The Guardian

  • Bovino’s future in doubt as White House walks back initial claims about Alex Pretti – US politics live

    Trump strikes conciliatory tone with Minnesota governor Tim Walz after pair speak last night as Bovino is reportedly stripped of ‘commander at large’ title Melania Trump has called for “unity” in the wake of the fatal federal law enforcement shootings of US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and widespread peaceful protests this month.Asked about the tensions in Minneapolis on Fox News this morning, the first lady said:We need to unify. I’m calling for unity. I know my husband, the president, had a great call yesterday with the governor and the mayor, and they’re working together to make it peaceful and without riots. Continue reading...

  • Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde

    Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to knowWe in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot – such a lot – about what this US government and its hardcore fanbase thinks about us. So you know they’ll be super-relaxed and free-speechy about hearing some thoughts about how they look from the outside. Let’s use last Saturday as a single snapshot. In Minneapolis, they had the shooting by ICE agents of a protesting nurse who posed no threat – an event promptly, provably and blatantly lied about at the highest level by Donald Trump’s politburo. Then that evening in Washington, a lot of those same politburocrats […]

  • Alex Vindman, key Trump impeachment witness, launches Democratic bid for Senate

    Vindman, who served on national security council, will challenge Republican incumbent in Florida if nominatedUS politics live – latest updatesAlex Vindman, who became a key player along with his twin brother in Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced on Tuesday that he is running for the US Senate as a Democrat in Florida.Vindman, an army veteran, was serving on the national security council in 2019 during Trump’s first presidency. That year, Trump pressured Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden. Continue reading...

  • Fight over US healthcare subsides stuck on familiar snag: abortion

    Republicans refuse to move forward without further restrictions on abortion coverage – Democrats say that’s a non-starterWhen subsidies for US healthcare plans expired at the end of last year, millions of Americans saw their monthly premiums suddenly hit eye-watering, unaffordable levels. But the congressional fight over reviving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies has gotten stuck on a familiar snag in US politics: abortion.Congressional leaders said on Thursday they had reached a bipartisan deal to use a spending bill to overhaul elements of the US healthcare system, with a focus on corporate middlemen who have been accused of raising prescription drug prices, but the deal does not address the subsidies. The deal could also fall […]

  • ‘Abdication’: Trump formally takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time

    Experts are watching for how other countries will react as the ‘real economy’ shifts to cheaper, cleaner energyThe United States has officially exited the Paris climate agreement for the second time, cementing Donald Trump’s renewed break with the primary global venue to address global heating.The move leaves the US as the only country to have withdrawn from the pact, placing it alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries not party to the agreement. While it will not halt global climate efforts, experts say it could significantly complicate them. Continue reading...

The Marshall Project

Aeon

  • A lesson in coexistence

    The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)- by Toby GreenRead on Aeon

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The Conversation

Inter Press Service

  • Cuts Stall Clinical Trials, Scientists Warn US Risks Losing Its Research Edge

    Scientists across the U.S., including me, are stressed after a year marked by several changes and challenges, including cuts to science funding that have stalled clinical trials and studies that could improve and save lives. Without funding, scientists worry about how they will support ongoing research and train America’s future workforce, including the next generation of innovators.

  • Binalakshmi Nepram: Engineering Peace, Creating History

    It was Christmas eve: some two decades ago. Binalakshmi Nepram was a witness to the killing of a 27-year-old. In utter disbelief, she saw a group of three men dragging the victim from his workshop. Within minutes, he was shot dead. “Every day three or four people are shot dead in Manipur’s ongoing conflict. Thousands

  • A Not So Happy United States

    The United States is not so happy. Its population has received a lower happiness ranking compared to previous years. The factors contributing to this decline have significant implications for the United States, both domestically and internationally. As Dostoevsky noted, “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness”. According to Gallup’s 2025 World Happiness

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Yale Environment 360

  • Europe to Ramp Up Offshore Wind in Push for Energy Independence

    A group of European leaders pledged Monday to build 100 gigawatts of offshore wind, enough to power more than 50 million households. As Europe faces a hostile Russia and an increasingly bellicose U.S., experts see deepening risks in its reliance on imported fossil fuels.Read more on E360 →

Inside Climate News

  •  The ‘Biggest Tragedy’ of Trump’s Gutting of the National Park Service

    PENDLETON, Ore.—With the second coming of Donald J. Trump, the first Native American director of the National Park Service packed up his belongings in Washington, D.C., and retreated here to the sagebrush outback of eastern Oregon. Charles F. Sams III, whose Native name is Mocking Bird with Big Heart and who spent three and a

  • Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

    Researchers say a line has been crossed. For systems like coral reefs and ice sheets, the climate is already past safe. Scientists studying climate tipping points say the world should aim to limit warming to about 1 degree Celsius, warning that the 1.5-degree target enshrined in international climate agreements won’t protect coral reefs, polar ice

Amnesty International

Grist

Truthout

Labor Notes

  • Portland Grocery Workers Score Big First Contract Win

    Workers at the upscale grocery chain New Seasons have won a first contract, after more than three years of organizing. The contract covers 850 workers at the 10 stores in Portland, Oregon, that have joined the New Seasons Labor Union. The chain has 22 stores in Portland and Vancouver, Washington.

The World – PRI

  • Once dubbed ‘enemy aliens,’ Japanese American soldiers posthumously promoted

    During World War II, Japanese-Americans were dubbed "enemy aliens" — even if they fought for their country. Today, seven Japanese American soldiers are being promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony, eight decades after they died fighting for the US. Host Marco Werman has details.

  • Stunning purge of China’s military

    Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China's top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who specializes in Chinese defense policy at RAND, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the extent of the ongoing purge and what it tells us about the stability of Xi’s regime. 

  • Sabbath observance dwindling on the islands of Outer Hebrides

    The Outer Hebrides, off the north-west of Scotland, are a remote, beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring place. Also known as the Western Isles, they’re the UK’s last bastion of old-fashioned Christian Sunday observance, with strictures against working, shopping and even leisure activities on the Sabbath. But … things are changing. DW's Richard Baynes sent us this report from Stornoway, on […]

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