Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark ...

This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.” As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges ...

Iran’s military says it targeted Israeli air bases and the Shin Bet headquarters in Tel Aviv, as drone and missile attacks from Iran and Hezbollah triggered air raid sirens across northern and central ...

In Gaza, Israeli forces have continued deadly attacks on Palestinians over the past 24 hours — in the latest violations of the U.S.-brokered October 10 ceasefire agreement. Palestinian reporters say ...

On Capitol Hill, Pentagon officials told lawmakers Wednesday that the cost of the first six days of the war against Iran exceeded $11.3 billion — a figure that does not include the costs of the ...

Israel is continuing its relentless bombardment of Lebanon, where authorities say more than 630 people — at least 91 of them children — have been killed over the past week. More than 816,000 people ...

Richard Kahn, the longtime accountant of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, appeared for a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Democratic Congressmember James Walkinshaw, ...

In New Hampshire, Democrat Bobbi Boudman won a special election for a state House seat on Wednesday, beating Republican Dale Fincher and flipping a Republican district President Trump carried easily ...

In immigration news, there are disturbing new details about Egyptian mother Hayam El Gamal and her five children, who’ve been imprisoned at the only U.S. family detention center for more than nine ...

Amy Goodman will join acclaimed Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui in conversation, in a panel entitled, Defending the Truth: Urgent Conversations on Journalism, Power, and Democracy The conversation ...

The United States and Israel are continuing large-scale bombings across Iran, where officials say nearly 1,350 civilians have been killed in 12 days of attacks. Among the dead are at least 40 people — ...

We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish ...