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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Samantha Borek |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an observer and escort for people with immigration hearings in recent weeks. In this case, while accompanying a man named Edgardo, a group of ICE agents approached the two men, who were walking arm in arm.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Israel is intensifying its war on Iran, bombing the headquarters of the country’s national TV network on Monday and assassinating another top military leader. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also suggested killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with barrages of long-range missiles targeting Israel.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
President Trump has inflamed tensions over immigration raids in Los Angeles, which his top adviser Stephen Miller described as an insurrection.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Samantha Borek |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
In Los Angeles, mass street protests have broken out in response to immigration raids. Local police and Border Patrol are cracking down on protesters, while the Trump administration has called in the California National Guard. “They shot thousands of rounds of tear gas, flashbang grenades, all kinds of repressive instruments,” says Ron Gochez, community organizer with Unión del Barrio who helped organize some of the protests.
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3 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Samantha Borek |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen.
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3 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Protests are unfolding as agents arrest undocumented people at courthouses, workplaces and on the way to school. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! Published June 3, 2025 Protests over ICE raids are continuing across the United States as agents arrest immigrants at courthouses, from their workplaces, on the way to school and more.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
We speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa after she got extraordinary access to an ICE detention center in Colorado, where she interviewed the immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra. The undocumented mother of four was arrested by federal agents in Denver in March after she successfully fought multiple deportation efforts since 2009, including when she took sanctuary in a Denver church with her children in 2017.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Doctors have kept Adriana Smith on breathing machines for three months due to the state’s “heartbeat law.” By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! Published May 27, 2025 Image Credit: WXIA A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her family’s wishes because of the state’s “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
As a Republican-sponsored budget bill advances through Congress, we hear from Bishop William Barber about how the bill hurts low-income people. “It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor and the elderly and the youth of our country,” says Barber, citing the bill’s cuts to essential social services like Medicaid and paralleling those cuts to the government’s funding of defense and deportation initiatives.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
A damning new report reveals how Israel is systematically making Gaza unlivable. The independent news outlet +972 Magazine has spoken to Israeli soldiers who describe how they have been using bulldozers and explosives to intentionally flatten Gaza. In the southern city of Rafah, 73% of buildings are completely destroyed, with only about 4% of the infrastructure remaining undamaged.
