August 28, 2026 at 8:32 AM EDT
"Don't Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!" Amy Goodman's Personal Health Update

"Don't Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!" Amy Goodman's Personal Health Update Amy Goodman is back to hosting Democracy Now! after taking time off following a medical procedure to remove skin cells on her nose that tested positive for squamous cell cancer. "I think it's important that " we don't have to be picture-perfect on TV or video. We are not plastic; we are people. And people get by in all sorts of ways around the world," says Goodman. She reminds listeners and viewers to check in with the dermatologist: "A spot, a bump on their skin, a mole or a blemish anywhere, or just a rough spot, something scaly, might be cancerous."Amy Goodman is back to hosting Democracy Now! after taking time off following a medical procedure to remove skin cells on her nose that tested positive for squamous cell cancer. "I think it's important that " we don't have to be picture-perfect on TV or video. We are not plastic; we are people. And people get by in all sorts of ways around the world," says Goodman. She reminds listeners and viewers to check in with the dermatologist: "A spot, a bump on their skin, a mole or a blemish anywhere, or just a rough spot, something scaly, might be cancerous."

August 28, 2026 at 8:22 AM EDT
Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is "Glaring Example of Climate Injustice"

Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is "Glaring Example of Climate Injustice" We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region that swept away entire communities. Nepali authorities say they have rescued more than 3,700 people so far. Geologists say the flash floods were set off by a landslide and glacial avalanche so powerful it set off its own seismic signal. Climate scientists warn the region is warming much faster than the global average, leading to the rapid retreat of glaciers. "Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas," says Sunil Acharya, a climate and public policy specialist reporting from Kathmandu, Nepal. "This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change." "The number of people being killed, the number of properties being damaged has been way beyond what we can adapt to," says Acharya. The floods have "[washed] away hundreds of villages, a huge number of bridges and road infrastructure and also hydropower stations."We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region that swept away entire communities. Nepali authorities say they have rescued more than 3,700 people so far. Geologists say the flash floods were set off by a landslide and glacial avalanche so powerful it set off its own seismic signal. Climate scientists warn the region is warming much faster than the global average, leading to the rapid retreat of glaciers. "Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas," says Sunil Acharya, a climate and public policy specialist reporting from Kathmandu, Nepal. "This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change." "The number of people being killed, the number of properties being damaged has been way beyond what we can adapt to," says Acharya. The floods have "[washed] away hundreds of villages, a huge number of bridges and road infrastructure and also hydropower stations."

August 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM EDT
"Shut Down Dilley": Rep. Joaquin Castro on "Abusive" ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families

"Shut Down Dilley": Rep. Joaquin Castro on "Abusive" ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families Calls to shut down the ICE jail known as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas continue to grow following the detention and deportation of 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father Victor Martinez Nieto to Mexico. According to the family's lawyer, Nieto had begged officers to let his son go as they were arrested on their way to soccer practice in Austin last week. Nieto wanted Liam released to his mother, but ICE reportedly refused. The arrest happened just days before Liam was set to start kindergarten. Texas Democratic Congressmember Joaquin Castro previously attempted to visit Liam and his father at Dilley but was denied by ICE. Last month, Castro led a group of more than 110 Democratic House members in a nationwide call to end family detention and shut down Dilley. "You have kids as young as 2 months old who have been in prison there," says Castro. "And every child that's put in there -- every woman, every person -- there are American investors who are making money off of their imprisonment." Castro notes that children are not supposed to be held in detention centers for more than 20 days. "I've met with kids who have been there three months, seven months, 10 months. And so, this is really abusive, and it's traumatizing a lot of kids."Calls to shut down the ICE jail known as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas continue to grow following the detention and deportation of 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father Victor Martinez Nieto to Mexico. According to the family's lawyer, Nieto had begged officers to let his son go as they were arrested on their way to soccer practice in Austin last week. Nieto wanted Liam released to his mother, but ICE reportedly refused. The arrest happened just days before Liam was set to start kindergarten. Texas Democratic Congressmember Joaquin Castro previously attempted to visit Liam and his father at Dilley but was denied by ICE. Last month, Castro led a group of more than 110 Democratic House members in a nationwide call to end family detention and shut down Dilley. "You have kids as young as 2 months old who have been in prison there," says Castro. "And every child that's put in there -- every woman, every person -- there are American investors who are making money off of their imprisonment." Castro notes that children are not supposed to be held in detention centers for more than 20 days. "I've met with kids who have been there three months, seven months, 10 months. And so, this is really abusive, and it's traumatizing a lot of kids."

August 28, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for August 28, 2026

Headlines for August 28, 2026 Death Toll from Glacier's Collapse on Nepal-Tibet Border Tops 500, Iran Sets Conditions for Reopening Strait of Hormuz on 6-Month Anniversary of Trump's "Excursion", Pentagon Faces "Beyond Critical" Shortage of Interceptors as Iran War Exhausts Supplies, Israel Strikes Lebanon, Killing Newlywed Woman, Gaza's Children Protest as Israel's Military Chief Declares Kite Flying a "Terrorist Act", U.S.-Born Children Are Sent to Haiti Aboard Second Deportation Flight in a Week, ICE Steps Up Raids on Haitian Community in Springfield, Ohio, ICE Agent Charged with Shooting Venezuelan Man in Minnesota Walks Free from Texas Jail, Trump Orders Lake Ontario to Be Renamed "Lake America" Amid Canada Trade War, Fired Stars and Stripes Journalists Sue Pentagon, Alleging Retaliation by Hegseth, U.S. Navy Mulls Plan to Name Aircraft Carrier After Donald Trump Instead of Black War Hero, DOJ Suggests Demolishing Kennedy Center as Trump Once Again Looks to Add His Name to the Building, Trump Discloses 1,000+ Stock Trades in June, Including Energy Companies That Profited from WarDeath Toll from Glacier's Collapse on Nepal-Tibet Border Tops 500, Iran Sets Conditions for Reopening Strait of Hormuz on 6-Month Anniversary of Trump's "Excursion", Pentagon Faces "Beyond Critical" Shortage of Interceptors as Iran War Exhausts Supplies, Israel Strikes Lebanon, Killing Newlywed Woman, Gaza's Children Protest as Israel's Military Chief Declares Kite Flying a "Terrorist Act", U.S.-Born Children Are Sent to Haiti Aboard Second Deportation Flight in a Week, ICE Steps Up Raids on Haitian Community in Springfield, Ohio, ICE Agent Charged with Shooting Venezuelan Man in Minnesota Walks Free from Texas Jail, Trump Orders Lake Ontario to Be Renamed "Lake America" Amid Canada Trade War, Fired Stars and Stripes Journalists Sue Pentagon, Alleging Retaliation by Hegseth, U.S. Navy Mulls Plan to Name Aircraft Carrier After Donald Trump Instead of Black War Hero, DOJ Suggests Demolishing Kennedy Center as Trump Once Again Looks to Add His Name to the Building, Trump Discloses 1,000+ Stock Trades in June, Including Energy Companies That Profited from War

August 27, 2026 at 8:49 AM EDT
"Platform Extractivism": Inside Venezuela's Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies

"Platform Extractivism": Inside Venezuela's Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies Julia'n Posada's upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a hyperinflation crisis, entire communities in Venezuela depended on data work, says Posada, a professor at Yale University. Paid as little as 50 cents per hour and monitored by surveillance algorithms, most workers did not even know who or for what end they were working for. "From the perspective of the worker, you would just see the tasks. " [T]he algorithm here is the manager."Julia'n Posada's upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a hyperinflation crisis, entire communities in Venezuela depended on data work, says Posada, a professor at Yale University. Paid as little as 50 cents per hour and monitored by surveillance algorithms, most workers did not even know who or for what end they were working for. "From the perspective of the worker, you would just see the tasks. " [T]he algorithm here is the manager."

August 27, 2026 at 8:28 AM EDT
Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are "the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself"

Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are "the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself" Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor -- an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers "are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself," says sociologist Antonio Casilli, the author of Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation and co-writer of the documentary In the Belly of AI. Casilli estimates that over 160 million people are involved in data work around the world.Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor -- an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers "are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself," says sociologist Antonio Casilli, the author of Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation and co-writer of the documentary In the Belly of AI. Casilli estimates that over 160 million people are involved in data work around the world.