The UN has recorded “unprecedented” levels of hunger in Sudan after a survey in a North Darfur locality revealed over half of children under 5 years old are suffering from acute malnourishment, with many on the brink of death. A UNICEF nutrition survey released this week found that 53 percent of children under 5 in North Darfur’s Umm Baru locality are acutely malnourished. Further…
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The Pentagon announced that it’s awarded Boeing with a nearly $8.6 billion contract to provide Israel with F-15 fighter jets this week, as Israel lists several dozen humanitarian groups that it’s banning from Gaza as part of its ongoing genocide, including Doctors Without Borders. The contract involves the design, manufacturing, and delivery of 25 new F-15IA jets, with the option for 25 more.
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President Donald Trump has boasted of a U.S. strike on a facility on Venezuelan land as reports emerge of a CIA-led attack, which experts say would be a war crime if confirmed. On Friday, Trump said in a radio interview that the U.S. had struck a “big plant or a big facility where the ships come from,” implying that the strike occurred in Venezuela but not explicitly saying so.
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UN experts have expressed “grave concern” for the lives of imprisoned pro-Palestine activists on hunger strike in the U.K., reminding U.K. authorities of their responsibility to protect the health of the activists after reports of neglect. The experts emphasized that the state has a “heightened, not diminished” responsibility to take care of people when they are on hunger strike.
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Human rights groups have reiterated that the “ceasefire” deal in Gaza hasn’t stopped Israel from continuing its genocide of Palestinians, killing hundreds in the 12 weeks since the agreement began. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said in a statement on Thursday that “the genocide in Gaza is not over.” “Since the ‘ceasefire’ was declared on 10 October 2025, Israel has been continuing…
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Police arrested activist Greta Thunberg in London on Tuesday while she was participating in a protest supporting imprisoned hunger strikers linked to proscribed group Palestine Action. Images of the arrest show Thunberg seated on the ground at the protest holding a sign that reads, “I support Palestine Action prisoners” and “I oppose genocide.” Police confronted her as she joined…
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The Pentagon has failed its annual audit for the eighth consecutive year, continuing its streak as the only federal agency to never pass an audit even as Congress grants it a record high budget of over $1 trillion for 2026. The Department of Defense identified issues with tracking funds for programs like its F-35 fighter jet program, the Pentagon’s most expensive project with a cost of over…
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The Department of Health and Human Services has cut millions in dollars in grants from a leading children’s health association after the group criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s unscientific policies. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was informed this week that the Trump administration was terminating seven grants awarded by federal agencies, The Washington Post first…
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The Trump administration has reportedly set a goal of yanking citizenship away from over a thousand naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026, in yet another escalation in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has hit back at the Trump administration’s “rogue” immigration enforcement campaign after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused her of lying about agents apprehending her son last week. In a post on X on Tuesday, DHS said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has “absolutely ZERO record of its officers or agents pulling over Congresswoman…
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New polling finds that a comfortable majority of Republicans say they would rather the U.S. fund health care programs at home than continue to send billions to Israel, in the latest show of the increasing divide between the public and U.S. political leaders on Israel policy. Polling conducted last month asked whether or not Republican voters believe that the U.S. should give Israel funding…
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” on Monday, in the latest escalation of his administration’s supposed campaign against drug trafficking. “[T]he potential for fentanyl to be weaponized for concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the United States,” the order says.
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Republican lawmakers are seizing on Sunday’s tragic mass shooting in Bondi Beach, Australia to call for Muslims in America to face collective punishment, in yet another example of the right’s ongoing campaign of Islamophobia. In a post on X on Sunday, just hours after the shooting was first reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) wrote that all Muslims should be deported.
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President Donald Trump sparked disbelief and outrage on Monday when he appeared to revel in the tragic killing of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, blaming their deaths on the fact that the iconic director was critical of his presidency. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the couple’s deaths were “very sad,” but went on to say that Reiner was “tortured and struggling” and…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked outrage for using the horrific shooting at a Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach to further his agenda of blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state. Just hours after the shooting that killed 15 people and hospitalized 38, Netanyahu boasted that he had been warning Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for months that his policies…
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A progressive candidate has launched a primary challenge to a House Democrat from North Carolina, seeking a redo of the candidates’ 2022 contest that saw significant interference by the pro-Israel lobby and corporate interests. Nida Allam announced her campaign on Thursday, with backing from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and a slate of progressive groups on launch. She’s running on a…
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The House has voted on a bipartisan basis to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers after President Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year, in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members. In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon, the House passed the Protect America’s Workforce Act, which would nullify Trump’s orders in…
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Last year’s winner of the Eurovision Song Contest says they are returning their trophy to the contest’s governing body in protest of Israel’s inclusion in the 2026 competition, adding to a mounting pressure campaign to exclude the genocidal state. In posts on Instagram on Thursday, singer and musician Nemo Mettler, known as Nemo, said that although they are “immensely grateful” for the…
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Palestinians have been left to freeze as Winter Storm Byron rips through Gaza, causing flooding as Israel continues blocking crucial winter supplies like shelter from entering the enclave, the UN’s top expert for Palestine has warned. “Palestinians in Gaza are literally left ALONE, FREEZING and STARVING in the winter storm. I keep asking how we became such monsters, [i]ncapable of stopping…
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The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002, to ensure Trump and his administration’s top officials are never prosecuted, Reuters reports, citing a Trump administration official.
U.S. officials are also demanding that the ICC drop its investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over charges related to Gaza, as well as a probe into potential war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
These demands have been made known to the court by the U.S. government, Reuters reports.
“There is growing concern … that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump administration official told Reuters. “That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
The official said there is “open chatter” within the international legal community about the possibility of prosecuting Trump and other top officials in relation to international human rights violations.
The official did not specify why the administration would be afraid of such charges being issued.
Experts say that the Trump administration is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in its boat strike campaign and its military support of Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. Immunity could also effectively grant top Trump officials a blank check to violate international law without fear of being prosecuted as individuals. The ICC says it has not received requests to investigate the U.S. in relation to its boat strike campaign.
“This is rogue state behavior,” said Dylan Williams, the Center for International Policy’s vice president for government affairs, of the demands on social media. “Trump’s current sanctions on the ICC are already hurting the rule of law and human security.”
“Lawmakers should undo them legislatively and repeal the ‘Hague Invasion Act’ — or at least amend it to no longer shield the President and Defense Secretary,” Williams went on, referring to a 2003 law permitting the U.S. to use military force to extract any official from the U.S. or an allied country who is detained by the ICC in the Hague.
Rep. Sean Casten (D-Illinois) said the demands are evidence that the Trump admin sees the writing on the wall with regards to his actions.
“This is the behavior of a man who can hear the footsteps of the defense catching up to him. He’s panicking,” said Casten.
The Trump administration already sanctioned eight ICC judges and prosecutors over its probes into Israeli officials and U.S. troops earlier this year. Further sanctions would be a drastic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the ICC.
An amendment to the Rome Statute would be subject to the 125 states that are party to the statute, requiring a significant majority to pass. The U.S. is not a member, but many of its top allies, including the EU, have signed onto the treaty.
The U.S.’s existing sanctions have already taken a massive toll on the targeted judges, who say their personal lives have been effectively upturned by the sanctions, while human rights workers have been completely obstructed in their work to help prosecute people accused of some of the worst human rights violations across the world.
Canadian ICC judge Kimberly Prost, one of the four people sanctioned by the Trump administration in August, told Al Jazeera that she has lost access to all credit cards and bank accounts because of the administration’s financial restrictions. Though banks outside of the U.S. aren’t compelled to comply with the restrictions, Prost pointed out that international banks make business decisions based off of the sanctions, and “don’t want to be involved.”
“How do you order an Uber? How do you get a hotel? How do you do basic transactions?” Prost said. What the sanctioned individuals are “most shocked about is all the companies and services you depend on you don’t think about,” which has made life “very difficult.”
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The Venezuelan government has condemned the U.S.’s seizure of an oil tanker off its coast as “piracy,” as President Donald Trump says that the U.S. is keeping the oil. In a statement, the Venezuelan government said the seizure “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy.” It added that the move shows that the U.S.’s recent aggression “has always been about our natural…
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The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes. The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute…
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President Donald Trump has threatened Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying in an interview on Tuesday that Maduro’s “days are numbered” and refusing to rule out a ground invasion of the country. Speaking to Politico, Trump said “I don’t comment on that” when asked if the U.S. would soon strike Venezuela, or if the U.S. would send troops on the ground. He went on to repeat…
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The 2026 military funding bill released this week would require the U.S. to assess Israel’s weapons arsenal and suggest ways to undo any “gaps” that may be caused by arms embargoes imposed by other countries protesting Israel’s violence.
A provision in the “must-pass” National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill for 2026, released by lawmakers on Monday, requires the Secretary of Defense to “conduct a continual assessment of” the “impact on Israel’s defense capabilities” from arms embargoes and other restrictions placed on arms exports to Israel.
The department must then report on “resulting gaps or vulnerabilities in Israel’s security posture” against “adversaries” like Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, the bill text says.
Then, officials must conduct an assessment to identify any of Israel’s military “needs” and actions that the U.S. could take to “mitigate such gaps in defensive capabilities.” Such actions could include “addressing barriers” to arms deliveries, expanding cooperation with Israel to develop military technology, and sending weapons directly.
The Defense Secretary, along with the Secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence, must ensure that the report on the subject is updated at least once every 180 days, the bill says.
The remarkable measure comes as a response to at least two dozen countries that have restricted or ended weapons transfers to Israel since its genocide began on October 7, 2023. It also comes after countless experts, including watchdogs within the State Department, have said that continuing to send weapons is illegal under domestic and international law.
Many of these arms embargoes have had little difference on Israel’s ability to carry out its genocide in Gaza and its multi-front aggression otherwise; research has shown that the U.S. provides Israel with 66 percent of its foreign weapons supply, while Germany provides 33 percent and Italy provides 1 percent. Some suspensions, however, may be affecting Israel’s capabilities, like the U.K.’s ban on certain F-35 parts.
The bill is expected to come to a vote on Wednesday and will likely pass with widespread bipartisan support. It also establishes a “U.S.-Israel Defense Industrial Base Working Group” with the goal of incorporating Israel in the U.S.’s technology and industrial bases.
Republican leadership for the House Armed Services Committee boasts that the budget “provides unprecedented levels of support for the security of Israel,” and says that its measure to oppose arms embargoes “combats antisemitism.”
“These measures are not in America’s interest and would not be supported by the typical American voter if they were walked through them,” Josh Paul, a former arms transfer expert who resigned from the State Department over the genocide in Gaza, told Politico.
Indeed, new polling out on Monday found widespread support for barring some or all weapons transfers to Israel. According to Yale’s Youth Poll, strong majorities of voters ages 18 to 34 support a full or partial weapons embargo on Israel, with roughly 7 in 10 supporting the proposal among those under 30, and 56 percent support among those aged 30 to 34. A plurality of voters within the 18 to 34 age range supported a full embargo, with 46 percent of those under 30 saying they think the U.S. should stop all military aid to Israel.
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A group of genocide prevention experts has accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of “outright genocide denial” after she baselessly claimed that “made up” social media content is to blame for young people’s opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In a statement Monday, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said that Clinton sought to sweep aside young…
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A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year. Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union collaborated on an experiment with 437 shoppers across four U.S. locations…
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The 2026 military funding bill released this week would require the U.S. to assess Israel’s weapons arsenal and suggest ways to undo any “gaps” that may be caused by arms embargoes imposed by other countries protesting Israel’s violence. A provision in the “must-pass” National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill for 2026, released by lawmakers on Monday, requires the Secretary of Defense to…
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Israeli authorities are reportedly conducting widespread surveillance and recording in a U.S. base set up in southern Israel in October to monitor the Gaza ceasefire. The Guardian reports that foreign diplomats and other visitors to the base like humanitarian officials are sometimes told to avoid sharing sensitive information for fear that it will be exploited by Israel…
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Ultranationalist Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, wore golden noose-shaped lapel pins to a meeting on Monday in order to show their “commitment” to advancing a widely condemned bill to mandate the death penalty for “terrorists” who kill Israelis. The pins resemble the yellow ribbon pins that Israeli leaders have worn throughout their genocide to to…
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Sudanese paramilitary forces bombed a kindergarten and the hospital where victims were brought for treatment in southern Sudan on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, including 33 children. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out three drone strikes in the town of Kalogi, in South Kordofan, officials say. The paramilitary reportedly struck the school twice, the second time to kill civilians…
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