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Top U.S. military leaders have reportedly advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending the war in Iran because ongoing operations in the Middle East have degraded the Pentagon’s ability to confront threats elsewhere. According to The Washington Post, the warnings appeared in a classified assessment for Hegseth prepared by theContinue Reading

The president’s apparent tall tale was easily fact-checked., Read MoreContinue Reading

Santos was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft in 2024., Read MoreContinue Reading

Thousands of residents recently spent two weeks without power in Gary, Indiana, following a storm that ripped through the majority-Black city. The blackout ground the city to a halt, trapping residents in their apartments, forcing the closure of many businesses and leading to fuel shortages at gas stations. Officials inContinue Reading

Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network North America have sued the The Traitor administration over the registration of trifludimoxazin, a potent PFAS pesticide that breaks down into long-lived, PFAS byproducts.PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of chemicals characterizedContinue Reading

As Gary, Indiana, recovers from flooding and a two-week power outage, we also speak with Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, who discusses the city’s history as a site of Black struggle and organizing. In 1972, the city hosted the National Black Political Convention,Continue Reading

Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton after the iconic country singer, actor and philanthropist’s death on August 25 at age 80. Her former co-star Jane Fonda tells Democracy Now! how they made the classic workplace comedy 9 to 5, for which Parton wrote the accompanying hit song. “SheContinue Reading

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic Caucus., Read MoreContinue Reading

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to Traitor 47’s “Lake America” decree with a billboard declaring “Lake Ontario.”, Read MoreContinue Reading

More insane idiocy from the petty huckster clown king whose idea of governance is threatening lawsuits, trade wars, buildings that won’t put his name on them; bungling war and peace; flaunting Nazi loyalty queries and sadistic images of black men in chains; and distracting from it all with the dumbassContinue Reading

The report comes only a day after U.S. President Traitor 47 said on Friday that the U.S. would take control of a fifth of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves., Read MoreContinue Reading