September 22, 2026 at 8:12 AM EDT
Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon's Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant

Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon's Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant World leaders are in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week. It comes after months of climate-fueled extreme weather around the world, including heat waves in North America and Europe, wildfires in Africa, flash flooding in Asia and a record-breaking El Niño. Climate campaigner Bill McKibben says that while it's too late to prevent the climate crisis from unfolding, solar and wind energy are now cheap enough "to blunt its worst excesses."

September 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 22, 2026

Headlines for September 22, 2026 Iran War Dominates Talks as World Leaders Gather for U.N. General AssemblyU.N. Warns Fighting in Yemen Could Displace 230,000 People Paramount Settles Antitrust Lawsuits, Setting Up Megamerger with Warner Bros.TV Networks Suspend White House Pool Coverage After Trump Expels CNNIllinois Authorities Probe Case of U.S. Citizen Hospitalized After ICE DetentionNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Hosts Trump at Gracie MansionIsraeli Attacks Kill Four Palestinians in GazaCalifornia to Drop Felony Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Stanford University Students Jury Convicts Vermont Man in Shootings of Three Palestinian Students Sen. Bernie Sanders Delivers Major Foreign Policy Speech Ahead of U.N. General Assembly Iran War Dominates Talks as World Leaders Gather for U.N. General AssemblyU.N. Warns Fighting in Yemen Could Displace 230,000 People Paramount Settles Antitrust Lawsuits, Setting Up Megamerger with Warner Bros.TV Networks Suspend White House Pool Coverage After Trump Expels CNNIllinois Authorities Probe Case of U.S. Citizen Hospitalized After ICE DetentionNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Hosts Trump at Gracie MansionIsraeli Attacks Kill Four Palestinians in GazaCalifornia to Drop Felony Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Stanford University Students Jury Convicts Vermont Man in Shootings of Three Palestinian Students Sen. Bernie Sanders Delivers Major Foreign Policy Speech Ahead of U.N. General Assembly

September 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM EDT
"America, Who Hurt You?": Tony-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance

"America, Who Hurt You?": Tony-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance Sarah Jones has been described as "a one-woman global village" for her remarkable one-person, multi-character shows. The Tony- and Obie Award-winning writer and performer is best known for her Broadway hit Bridge and Tunnel. She is back in New York with her latest solo performance, America, Who Hurt You?, which is being presented by the National Black Theatre and the Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.

September 21, 2026 at 8:34 AM EDT
"Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again": U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned

"Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again": U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditions they faced in the Central African country. Samson Birhane, who is from Eritrea, and Ahmed Soliman, a gay asylum seeker from Egypt, were both deported by the Trump administration despite U.S. immigration courts granting them protections.

September 21, 2026 at 8:18 AM EDT
"War on the Press": Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage

"War on the Press": Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated when they attempted to enter White House grounds over the weekend. Trump's decision is "sending the message that if you write stories that are critical of the president, you're going to lose your access," says Katie Fallow, a deputy litigation director at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, where she focuses on threats to freedom of speech and of the press. "The real victims of this war on the press are members of the public, which are entitled to know about what their government is doing."

September 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 21, 2026

Headlines for September 21, 2026 Iran Warns U.S. Against Launching a Major New AttackYemen's Iran-Backed Houthis Launch Attack on Saudi Arabia's Capital RiyadhTrump Bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White HouseTrump Says Planned Triumphal Arch Near Arlington Cemetery Will Double as Military ComplexHundreds of Protesters Rally Outside Kennedy Center to Oppose Trump's TakeoverIsraeli Airstrikes Kill at Least Three Palestinians in GazaIsraeli President Pardons Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian AttackerEd Sheeran Addresses Gaza for First Time After Dropping Macklemore from TourU.S. Military Attacks Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing FourPower Grid Collapses in Cuba Again, Leaving Millions Without PowerCNN: AI Agent Provides U.S. Military with False Intel Report on Chinese Ship in the Middle EastICE Agent Shoots and Injures Venezuelan DoorDash Driver in Austin, TXAppeals Court Rejects Fast-Track Deportations to Third CountriesTrump Admin Starts Border Wall Construction in Texas's Big Bend RegionNAACP Sues to Block Armed Federal Agents at Polling PlacesUkrainian Drones Attack Moscow as Russians Cast Ballots for Kremlin-Approved CandidatesFar-Right Party Surges to First Place in German State Election as Left Party Wins in Berlin Iran Warns U.S. Against Launching a Major New AttackYemen's Iran-Backed Houthis Launch Attack on Saudi Arabia's Capital RiyadhTrump Bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White HouseTrump Says Planned Triumphal Arch Near Arlington Cemetery

September 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM EDT
"We Are the 99%": 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street's Impact Is Still Being Felt

"We Are the 99%": 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street's Impact Is Still Being Felt Fifteen years ago this week, thousands of activists marched on the Financial District in New York City. They formed the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, launching a movement focused on economic inequality that spread across the nation and globe under the slogan, "We are the 99%." Protesters would go on to sleep in Zuccotti Park for nearly two months before police raided the encampment.

September 18, 2026 at 8:27 AM EDT
"Hope Is the Thing with Feathers": Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump

"Hope Is the Thing with Feathers": Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump "If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere," says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. "That’s what music is for. " We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation."

September 18, 2026 at 8:12 AM EDT
"Inequality Emergency": Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza

"Inequality Emergency": Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza As world leaders prepare to head to New York for the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, Democracy Now! speaks with Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International. "We live in a very different world from 1945," when the U.N. was formed, says Behar. "You cannot continue with the veto power." And with António Guterres soon stepping down, Behar stresses that the United Nations' next secretary-general must be a woman -- "a fundamental shift we need to make."

September 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 18, 2026

Headlines for September 18, 2026 U.N. Fact-Finding Mission Finds Evidence U.S. Committed War Crimes in Iran, Iran Strikes More Ships in Strait of Hormuz as Trump Dismisses Soaring Gas Prices, Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis Grows as Houthis Battle Saudi-Backed Forces, “Drop the Genocide 20”: Progressives Target Biden Admin Officials Who Aided Israel’s Assault on Gaza, Russia Bombs Civilian Sites as Ukraine Continues Drone Attacks on Russian Oil Facilities, Congress Approves New Sanctions on Russia and Iran, White House Withdraws Nomination of Lance Schroyer to Lead ICE, ICE Is Heavily Redacting Documents Needed to Prove Immigration Status, ICE Stops Tracking Data on Miscarriages of Women and Girls in Its Custody, ICE Agent Accused of Shooting a Man and Lying About It is Arrested in Minnesota, Trump Administration Accelerates Mass Deportation of Haitians After Ending Protected Status, Amnesty International Warns “Third Country” Deportees in Equatorial Guinea Face Abuse and Torture, Hundreds of South Korean Auto Workers Swept Up in ICE Raid Sue Trump Administration, Photos Show Trump with Poster Reading “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED”U.N. Fact-Finding Mission Finds Evidence U.S. Committed War Crimes in Iran, Iran Strikes More Ships in Strait of Hormuz as Trump Dismisses Soaring Gas Prices, Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis Grows as Houthis Battle Saudi-Backed Forces, "Drop the Genocide 20": Progressives Target Biden Admin Officials Who Ai

September 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM EDT
"Call It Evil": Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era

"Call It Evil": Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era. Neiman argues that evil -- far from being an outdated religious concept -- is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world. The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil, part of how people are “brainwashed " by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, fools,” she says.

September 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM EDT
"Fast Food Nation," Mystery Meat & Trump's Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser

"Fast Food Nation," Mystery Meat & Trump's Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser Amid growing concerns over food safety in the United States, President Donald Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in with other cuts to make ground beef. Imported beef and pork were once labeled with their country of origin, but Congress voted in 2015 to end that requirement, so customers at the grocery store will have no way to identify this “mystery meat,” which is coming mostly from Brazil. President Trump’s proclamation in August came just a day after he met in the White House with Joesley Batista, whose family controls the Brazilian company JBS, the largest beef producer in the world. JBS is notorious for food safety violations and admitted in 2017 to bribing thousands of Brazilian officials for favorable treatment.