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Headlines for February 18, 2026; Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber; “Extremely Dangerous Situation”: Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict; CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress; Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against I...

Headlines for February 17, 2026; “Keep Hope Alive”: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President; Bernie Sanders on Jesse Jackson: One of the Most Significant Political Leaders of “Last 100 Years”; Jesse Jackson’s Legacy: From Marching with MLK to Building the Rainbow Coalition; When ICE Agents Lie: DOJ Drops Charges Against 2 Minneapolis Men Falsely Accused of Att...

Headlines for February 16, 2026; Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up; “The Alabama Solution”: Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons 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...

Headlines for February 13, 2026; House Passes “Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever” in Latest Push to Help Trump Take Over Elections; “Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice; “Policy of Aggression”: Cuba’s U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winn...

Headlines for February 12, 2026; “Massive Cover-Up”: Rep. Jayapal Slams AG Pam Bondi over Epstein Files & Spying on Lawmakers; Netanyahu Seeks to Kill U.S.-Iran Talks to Start Another War: Mouin Rabbani; Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Speaks Out on Jailing of Screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Iran; “I Was Just So Disgusted”: Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Anti...

Headlines for February 11, 2026; “De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE , CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics; Impeach the President: Rep. Al Green Denounces Trump’s Racist Obama Video & Attacks on Black History; “Devastating”: Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Am...

Headlines for February 10, 2026; Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence; Rep. Joaquin Castro Slams ICE “Prison” Where Children as Young as 2 Months Old Are Held; “I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journ...

Headlines for February 09, 2026; Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis; As Black History Month Turns 100, Trump Refuses to Apologize for Video Depicting Obamas as Apes; JD Vance Is Booed at Olympics While Thousands Protest U.S. Sending ICE Agents to Games in Italy; “The War Hasn’t Ended”: Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks, Dise...

Headlines for February 06, 2026; Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files; “Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper; Can U.S. & Iran Lower Tensions? Officials Begin New Talks Amid Trump Threats of Military Strikes; Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate “Blocked” Human Rig...

Headlines for February 04, 2026; “No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting; Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard at FBI Election Raid in Georgia? Ex- DOJ Attorney Speaks Out; A New Nuclear Arms Race Could “Spiral” as Last U.S.-Russia Treaty Expires: Dr. Ira Helfand; “Geopolitics of the Weak”: Colombian Senator Urges “Collective Action” Against U.S...

Headlines for February 03, 2026; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs Local Police to Investigate “Rogue, Reckless” ICE Agents; Philly City Council Considers ” ICE Out” Legislation, as DA Krasner Decries “Wannabe Nazi” ICE Agents; Immigrant Rights Leader in Maine Says ICE Raids Caused Panic & “Wave of Fear”; ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis De...

Headlines for February 02, 2026; “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Georgia Fort & Don Lemon Arrested for Covering St. Paul Church Protest; “Leave Our City Now”: Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE ; “Billionaire Boys Club”: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity; FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of “Trump’s Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms”: Ari Berman Demo...

Headlines for January 30, 2026; “Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World; “Cold-Blooded Murder”: Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Admin; 350,000 Haitians in U.S. “at Risk of Losing Everything” After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status; “Prevent the Bloodshed”: Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on Iran Protests & U.S. Threats...

Headlines for January 29, 2026; “Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX; “Not Going to Bully Me”: Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection; ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy...

Headlines for January 28, 2026; ICE “Wartime” Recruiting Effort Targets Gun & Military Lovers Using White Nationalist Messaging; Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked by Man at Minneapolis Town Hall After She Called for Noem’s Impeachment; “The Border Is the Entire Country”: How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities; Abolish ICE : Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Oma...

Headlines for January 27, 2026; “Feels Like a Cover-Up”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown; Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes Without a Warrant? Inside Trump’s Attack on the 4th Amendment; From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalis...

Headlines for January 26, 2026; “He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti; RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers “Compassion,” “Deep Empathy” of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds; “Trumped-Up Charges”: Out of Jail, Nekima Levy Armstrong Faces Prosecution for Anti- ICE Church Protest; ” ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike...

Headlines for January 23, 2026; “Emperor” Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance; Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul; ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in “Day of Truth and Freedom”; “Kings and Pawns”: Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About Americ...

Headlines for January 22, 2026; “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order; “Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community; Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against “Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime” Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Ju...

Headlines for January 21, 2026; Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official; As Trump Threatens to Take Greenland, Oxfam Warns of Rising Authoritarianism & Billionaire Boom; NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy...

Headlines for January 20, 2026; ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown; “Not Above the Law”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin Decries Violent ICE Activity in Minnesota; A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond; “No Going Back”: Trump Escalates Threats to Take Greenland & Tariff European Allies D...

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Headlines for January 16, 2026; ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report; “Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota; Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Speaks Out as New Ruling Could Lead to His Rearrest, Deportation; “All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Lo...

Headlines for January 15, 2026; FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump; “This Regime Will Fall”: Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship 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 i...

Headlines for January 14, 2026; “Federal Invasion”: Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids, Arrests; Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check; ” ICE Is OK with Renee Good’s Killing”: Journalist Ken Klippenstein on ICE Tactics & Recruitment; ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase; Supreme Court Appea...