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Headlines for April 14, 2026; Exclusive: Former American & Iranian Negotiators on Ceasefire Talks & How War Could End; President vs. Pope: Trump Posts Pic of Self as Jesus, Pope Says Warmakers Have “Hands Full of Blood” Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest intervie...

Headlines for April 13, 2026; Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf; Viktor Orbán’s Era Is Over: Hungarians Celebrate as Longtime Far-Right Leader Suffers Landslide Loss; Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi; Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Anti-War...

Headlines for April 10, 2026; “10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 From Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Attack; Will the U.S. and Europe Break Up? Trump Says He May Pull Out of NATO As Iran War Criticism Mounts; Ahead of Hungary Election, JD Vance Campaigns With Orbán in Show of Support For Far Right in Europe Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journa...

Headlines for April 09, 2026; 10 Minutes, 100 Airstrikes: Israel Rejects Ceasefire for Lebanon, Kills 250+ in Massive Attack; “The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power”: U. of Chicago Professor Robert Pape; Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy...

Headlines for April 08, 2026; “Sigh of Relief”: U.S. & Iran Agree to 2-Week Ceasefire, But Israel Keeps Bombing Lebanon; “Steal This Story, Please!”: Documentary on Amy Goodman & Democracy Now! in Theaters April 10 Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, r...

Headlines for April 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: “Hormuz Is Not a Tool to End the War But How Iran Wins the Aftermath”; Juan González: “Latinx Freedom” Conference Will Be Landmark Gathering in NYC April 9-10; “A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Go...

Headlines for April 06, 2026; Israeli Peace Activist: Gaza, Iran & Lebanon Are All Part of “One Forever War” That Must End; “He Is Increasingly Desperate”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Expletive-Laced Threats Against Iran; Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Go...

Headlines for April 03, 2026; Pam Bondi Fired as AG Despite Never Saying No to Trump: Law Prof. David Cole; David Cole: U.S. War on Iran Is “Blatantly Illegal” Under U.S. & Int’l Law; Arizona Sec. of State: Trump Is “Trying to Pick His Own Voters” by Restricting Mail-in Ballots; Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in ” ICE Dungeon” Democracy Now! is a daily independent news...

Headlines for April 02, 2026; “This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle; “Born in the U.S.A.”: Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban; Israel’s Death-by-Hanging Law Marks Further “Dehumanization of Palestinians”: B’Tselem Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodma...

Headlines for April 01, 2026; Another Vietnam? Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Iran, from Ending War to Sending in Ground Troops; War’s Environmental Fallout: U.N. Expert Decries Targeting of Oil Sites & Desalination Plants; “Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War; Immigrant Workers in Colorado Lead “Historic Strike” at JBS , Largest U.S. Me...

Headlines for March 31, 2026; “Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional”: ACLU at SCOTUS to Challenge Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban; U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker; The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman an...

Headlines for March 30, 2026; No Kings: Rep. Omar, Sen. Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at Massive St. Paul Rally; “People Are Rising Up”: Voices of No Kings Protests from NYC to Denver; NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot; Report from Beirut: “Hearts Are Very, Very Heavy” After Israeli Strikes Target Journalists, Medics; “Th...

Headlines for March 27, 2026; “No Kings”: March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History; “Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More; Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People; Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs “Pa’lante” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary Democracy Now! is a daily independe...

Headlines for March 26, 2026; Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping; Meet Ryan Schwank, ICE Whistleblower Who Exposed Agency’s Unconstitutional Practices; “Torture & Genocide”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Denounces Israeli Abuse of Palestinians; Michael Stipe & Aaron Dessner Perform “No Time for Love Like Now” at Democracy Now! Celebr...

Headlines for March 25, 2026; New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is “Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent”: Rep. Delia Ramirez; Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at De...

Headlines for March 24, 2026; “Israel First”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War; “Under the Rubble”: Pulitzer-Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now’s 30th Anniversary; Bruce Springsteen Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary; As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: A...

Headlines for March 23, 2026; Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Reveal Decline of U.S. Empire: Historian Alfred McCoy; “It’s a Disaster”: European Countries Refuse to Take a Stand Against U.S. Violations of Int’l Law; From Gaza to Iran, Rise of Conscientious Objectors Marks U.S. Soldiers’ “Shift in Consciousness” Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journ...

Headlines for March 20, 2026; Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa; Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon; Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump’s SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning jour...

Headlines for March 19, 2026; “Iran Is Playing the Long Game”: Prof. Vali Nasr on What to Expect from Protracted War in Middle East; The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili; From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journal...

Headlines for March 18, 2026; Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI; Trump’s Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes “Pressure from Israel”; “Warmongers Come for the Media”: Trump Threatens Media with “Treason” Charges over Iran War Coverage Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy...

Headlines for March 17, 2026; Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West; Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be “Suicide Mission” for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst; Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader; Prairieland Trial: Anti- ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targe...

Headlines for March 16, 2026; “A Sense of Despair”: Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After; Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank; “Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists A...

Headlines for March 13, 2026; Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon; Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support; Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli “War of Choice,” Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Go...

Headlines for March 12, 2026; “War on the Iranian People”: Nationalism Grows in Iran in Defiance of Deadly U.S. and Israeli Strikes; Amnesty Head Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the...

Headlines for March 11, 2026; “No Stupid Rules of Engagement”: Ahead of Iran War, Hegseth Halted Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths; Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate; “Killers of Roe”: Amy Littlefield Investigates the “Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights” in U.S. Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning j...