Democracy Now! Monday, December 22, 2025
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- U.S. Pursues Two Oil Tankers Near Venezuela, Ramping Up Pressure on Maduro
- Trump Appoints Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland
- WHO Declares Gaza No Longer Faces Famine, But Progress Remains Extremely Fragile
- Israel's Security Cabinet Approves 19 New Jewish Settlements in the Occupied West Bank
- U.S. Military Launches Airstrikes Against ISIS in Syria
- Russian Missile Strike on Odesa Kills 8 People as a Russian General Dies in Car Bomb Explosion
- Justice Department Under Fire over Incomplete and Heavily Redacted Release of Epstein Files
- GOP Congressmember Stefanik Drops Out of New York Governor's Race
- CBS News Cancels Segment from "60 Minutes" on Deportations to El Salvador's CECOT Prison
- ACLU Sounds Alarm over Surge of Deaths of Immigrants Jailed by ICE
- Pakistani Court Sentences Ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan and Wife to 17 Years in Corruption Case
- Tens of Thousands Join State Funeral of Assassinated Bangladeshi Student Leader
- Australian Prime Minister Booed at Memorial Service for Victims of Bondi Beach Massacre
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month. The news comes less than two weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to decide the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.
“During the first Trump administration, they had 25 [denaturalization] cases per year, and … for the 15 years before the first Trump administration, they had fewer than 15 cases per year,” says Mae Ngai, professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia University. “So this is an incredible escalation.”
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We get an update on the extraordinary case of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland father who first made headlines in March when he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and held in the notorious CECOT mega-prison. Ábrego García was returned to the United States after months of public outrage, but his ordeal continued as the Trump administration has threatened to deport him to Uganda, Eswatini and Liberia, despite having no ties to those African countries. Last week, a federal judge ordered him released from an ICE jail in Pennsylvania and blocked further arrests as a denial of due process.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Ábrego García’s attorneys, says the administration’s actions are primarily meant “to punish him” for standing up for his rights. “It’s also about the government using him, more or less at random, to stand for the principle that they get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want — and, specifically, courts can’t stop them.”
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The Trump administration on Thursday announced new measures to target hospitals and doctors providing care to trans youth. Under the new rules unveiled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, the government would strip federal funding for any hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. The new rules were announced a day after the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18 and subject providers to hefty fines and prison time.
“This is a drastic departure from any concern about science, concern about parents and their rights,” says Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “It is putting hospitals in an impossible situation, and just another example of this administration undermining and threatening all of our health and welfare.”
We also speak with Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist who works with transgender youth in New York City. He says the families he works with are “terrified right now,” but vows to continue his work. “I refuse to stop providing this care, knowing that I could potentially face 10 years in prison and a felony charge. I’m willing to go down that route, if necessary.”
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 19, 2025
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- Mexico's President Calls for Dialogue and Peace as Pentagon Strikes More Alleged Drug Boats
- Suspect in Brown University Shooting Found Dead as Investigators Link Him to MIT Murder
- Another Infant Freezes to Death in Gaza as Israel Continues to Violate Oct. 10 Ceasefire
- Steve Witkoff Hosts Gaza Talks in Miami as U.S. Further Sanctions ICC over Israel War Crimes Probe
- Palestine Action Members Hospitalized While on Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Detention in U.K.
- DOJ Races to Redact Documents Ahead of Deadline to Release Epstein Files
- ICE Entered NYC Shelters Without Judicial Warrants and Despite Sanctuary City Laws
- Milwaukee Judge Found Guilty of Felony Obstruction for Helping Immigrant Evade ICE
- HHS Moves to Slash Federal Funds to Hospitals That Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Minors
- Trump Signs Executive Order Speeding Reclassification of Cannabis
- Trump Appears to Fall Asleep Again in Public, Further Fueling Speculation About His Health
- Trump's "Presidential Walk of Fame" Now Features Bronze Plaques with Hyperpartisan Captions
- Trump's Hand-Picked Board Adds Trump's Name to John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Trump Media Company Announces Merger with Nuclear Fusion Firm Amid AI Data Center Boom
- Protests Erupt in Bangladesh After Student Leader Is Murdered by Masked Assailants
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, backed by the United Arab Emirates, is accused of attempting to cover up its mass killings of civilians by burning and burying bodies, according to a new report by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab. This comes as drone strikes have plunged several cities into darkness, including Khartoum and the coastal city of Port Sudan. “We have the expansion of the war through Darfur, El Fasher, now Western Kordofan, which is an extremely important region economically. … And now we have this potential of the expansion of this war to South Sudan,” says Sudanese scholar Khalid Mustafa Medani. “We have a humanitarian crisis that has expanded, but we also have a military stalemate.”
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Former immigration judge Tania Nemer, who was fired in February, is now suing the Trump administration, alleging that she was discriminated against despite strong performance reviews. Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges who have been fired or reassigned since Trump took office. The system is notoriously backlogged, with more than 3 million cases pending. “I was pulled away in the middle of the hearing,” she says.
Nemer filed a discrimination complaint with the Department of Justice, which officials dismissed, citing Article II of the Constitution on presidential powers. “I’ve been practicing employment law and representing federal employees for almost 30 years, and I have never seen a federal agency dismiss a complaint for this reason,” says Nemer’s attorney, James Eisenmann.
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President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says Trump’s aides should be “wondering about the man’s sanity” after Wednesday’s speech. “This is utterly divorced from reality.” Though Trump blames former President Biden for the poor economy, Baker notes that Trump had inherited an “incredibly strong economy by almost every measure imaginable.”
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Democracy Now! Thursday, December 18, 2025
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- House Rejects Resolutions Seeking Congressional Approval for Boat Strikes or Attack on Venezuela
- Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Record $901 Billion Military Spending Bill
- Israeli Army Shells Gaza Residential Area in Latest Violation of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire
- House Passes Healthcare Bill That Does Not Address Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums
- House Advances Bill That Would Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
- Trump Touts Economic Record in Primetime Address as U.S. Unemployment Ticks Higher
- Dan Bongino Announces Resignation as FBI's Second-in-Command
- Pentagon Opens Formal Inquiry into Sen. Mark Kelly, Who Told Service Members to Defy Illegal Orders
- Jack Smith Had "Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" Trump Conspired to Overturn 2020 Election
- Trump Attempts to Pardon Colorado Clerk Who Tampered with Voting Machines After 2020 Election
- White House Says It's Breaking Up National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Senate Confirms Billionaire Private Astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA Chief
- NYT: Trump Admin Ramping Up Efforts to Denaturalize Immigrants
- Minneapolis Police Chief Criticizes Federal Immigration Agents for Dragging Woman Down Street
- Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin Broke Law by Limiting Congressmembers from Visiting ICE Jails
- Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Human Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr Says Agency Is Not Independent
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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