16+ hour, 21+ min ago  (435+ words) Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akraminia: "Regarding the current situation, we have not considered the war to be over. From the day the fighting stopped and, in effect, a ceasefire or silence took place on the battlefield, since there is no trust…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (672+ words) At the United Nations, diplomats from dozens of countries on Monday demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, while a resolution calling for reopening the waterway was blocked by China and Russia. U. N. Secretary-General Ant'nio Guterres warned of a global…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (241+ words) AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! , democracynow. org. I'm Amy Goodman. At the Vatican, Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's opposition to capital punishment in a prerecorded video shared with De Paul University to mark the 15th anniversary of Illinois's abolition…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (497+ words) President Donald Trump: "I'm not a pedophile." Norah O'Donnell: "Do you think he was referring to you?" Norah O'Donnell: "Mr. President, these are the gunman's words." President Donald Trump: "And I was never " excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn't be…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (430+ words) Writer Jeff Sharlet responds to the shooting event at White House correspondents" dinner this weekend. We discuss the motivations of Cole Allen, the man accused of breaching security in an attempt to assassinate members of the Trump administration, as well…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (529+ words) We speak to Congressmember Ro Khanna about the apparent assassination attempt against President Donald Trump and members of his administration at the White House correspondents" dinner. "Political violence strikes at the very heart of democracy. We cannot have a democracy…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (574+ words) Israeli forces killed the prominent Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil on Wednesday despite a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Khalil and her colleague, photographer Zeinab Faraj, were reporting from southern Lebanon when an Israeli drone struck a car near them, killing…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (596+ words) In the new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology that has coalesced around him. They call Muskism "an operating system for the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (294+ words) Four people were arrested on Wednesday in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn after gathering in support of Carmella Charrington, a homeowner fighting eviction from her longtime family home. Charrington and local housing advocates say the sale of her property to…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (506+ words) President Donald Trump: "Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would I " why would I use a nuclear weapon when we've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it? No, I wouldn't use it. A…...