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"This is proof of how low our society has sunk," says Sarit Michaeli from the Israeli rights group B'Tselem. democracynow.org/2026/4/2/israe…

"This war is already lost," says journalist Spencer Ackerman. "Iran has so thoroughly outfoxed the United States that you heard Trump say he is willing to walk away from a conflict he began without reopening the Strait of Hormuz." democracynow.org/2026/4/2/iran_…

"The Justice Department is supposed to be independent of the president," says legal expert David Cole. "It’s critical that [the Justice Department] be acting in the name of the law and in the name of justice, and not in the name of partisan politics and doing the master’s bidding." democracynow.org/2026/4/3/david…

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"The strike is mostly led by immigrant workers," union leader Kim Kordova says of the historic JBS strike in Colorado. "This workforce is made up of workers that speak around 57 different languages from all over the world, doing this really important work, feeding our communities." democracynow.org/2026/4/1/meatp…

Trump Admin Waives Protections for Endangered Species to Allow Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

Venezuelan Man Sues U.S. for Illegally Sending Him to Notorious Prison in El Salvador democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

U.S. Expels Immigrants to Uganda, Expanding “Third Party” Deportation Program democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in Latest Shakeup of Top Brass democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

White House to Ask Congress for Record-Shattering $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

France Detains EU Parliamentarian and Israel Critic Rima Hassan over Social Media Post democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

One crew member has been rescued after an F-15E Strike Eagle, a U.S. fighter jet manufactured by Boeing, was shot down over Iran. Search operations are reportedly underway for a second crew member.

U.K. Palestinian Solidarity Activists Found Guilty of Breaching Police Rules for Protest democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

Israel Continues Deadly Attacks on Palestinians Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

Israel Says It Struck 3,500 Targets in Lebanon in One Month of War democracynow.org/2026/4/3/headl…

“The detention center conditions and the ICE agents’ methods brought to my mind a lot of bad memories from the West Bank,” says Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian activist just released from immigration detention after more than a year. democracynow.org/2026/4/3/leqaa…

“This is clearly an attempt for the president to pick his own voters,” says Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. democracynow.org/2026/4/3/adria…

“The U.N. Charter absolutely prohibits one country from aggressively attacking another country, using force against another country, unless that country has attacked us — and Iran had not attacked us.” democracynow.org/2026/4/3/david…

“She came in and did the master’s bidding, and she did it poorly,” says Georgetown law professor David Cole. democracynow.org/2026/4/3/david…

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, recently freed after more than a year at an immigration jail in Texas, describes the brutal conditions inside. "ICE dungeons are … built to break people mentally, to break people down, to make you give up, to make you beg to be deported."