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Social Security Works' Alex Larson: House Hearing Launches Latest GOP Effort to Cut Social Security Benefits

Georgia Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund's Kimberly Scott: Growing Resistance to Nationwide Revival of the Nuclear Power Industry

University of Georgia's Cas Mudde: Left Rising Alongside Far Right in Recent German Elections

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• UK police probe possible link to Iran in suspected attack on U.S.-run air base
• UN Security Council in dispute over arms embargo in Sudan
• Trump administration dramatically expands ICE immigration detention centers

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University of Pennsylvania Media Policy Professor Victor Pickard: White House Bans Three Media Outlets, Trump’s Latest Attack on the Constitution’s 1st Amendment

World Mental Health Coalition President Dr. Bandy Lee: Trump’s Mental Instability and Unilateral Presidential Powers Risk Global Catastrophe

Former NSA Executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake: Trump NSA Restructuring Plan is a Poor Substitute for Meaningful Reform

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Colombia's rural neglect has produced a continual security crisis
• Chicago is paying way above average to fix lead pipes
• New York City's Macombs Dam Park is a visual tale of two cities

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Journalist and author Sarah Kendzior: Trump’s Authoritarian Onslaught Designed to Overwhelm a Nation that Rejects His Tyranny

George Washington University's Dr. Lynn Goldman: Trump EPA Repeals Regulations Limiting Planet-Warming Emissions from Coal and Gas-Fired Power Plants

Center for Democracy and Technology's Miranda Bogen: AI Potential Danger Provokes Calls for Development Slow Down, Regulation

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• South America is reducing hunger faster than any other region in the world
• Controversial 900-mile oil pipeline across East Africa is nearing completion
• Montana / Wyoming pipeline project hit a regulatory roadblock

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Costs of War Project Director Stephanie Savell: 25 Years Later, Post-9/11 U.S. Wars Cost $8 Trillion, Caused More Than 4.5 Million Deaths Worldwide

Tongess Women for Forests activist Wanda Culp: Trump Regime Once Again Attempts to Eliminate Roadless Rule Protecting Nation’s Wilderness

Rethink Trade Director Lori Wallach: U.S.-Canada Trade War is 'The Most Stupid Trade Fight in History'

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• What happened to Al-Qaeda?
• Germany’s far-right party gains ground
• Nevada sues feds over Colorado River plan

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Ret. U.S. Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Poses a Clear and Present Danger

Latin American Perspectives' Steve Ellner: Brazen Neocolonial Piracy: U.S.-Venezuela 100-Year Oil Deal

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus: After Wave of Violent ICE Raids and Terror, Danbury CT Residents Protest and Resist

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. Congress has responsibility to reverse Puerto Rico's water crisis
• California weighs wealth tax as billionaires control one-third of America's wealth
• Vietnam has world's highest trade surplus with the U.S.

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Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israeli Settler & Military West Bank Violence Decried as Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing

Nation columnist and author Sasha Abramsky: Veteran Lawmakers Warn America Trump’s ‘Rolling Coup’ is Already Underway

Investigative journalist and author Greg Palast: U.S. Supreme Court Gives Trump an Interim Win in His Scheme to Restrict Mail-In Voting

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Taliban seeking regional and western nations' investment in Afghanistan
• Both Democrats and Republicans winning on data center opposition
• Manhattan Project may be source of high radiation in western New York

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Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Michael Sozan: Is America Sleepwalking into Trump’s Next Coup?

Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times Foreign Correspondent Chris Hedges: Trump and Rubio Revive McCarthy Era ‘Red Scare,’ Targeting U.S. Progressive Activists as Terrorists

Guttmacher Institute Federal Policy Advisor Anna Bernstein: Trump Admin Ends $68M in Federal Grants for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Greenland forces U.S. oil company to delay drilling in the Arctic territory
• Deadly Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus could be mutating in the DRC
• Maine legislature bans state, local law enforcement cooperating with ICE

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University of Wisconsin-Madison's former Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director Jennifer Loewenstein: Trump Flounders as Iran Takes Initiative in His Reckless and Destabilizing War

Jacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Progressive Democrats’ Primary Election Wins Stoke Corporate Democrat Backlash

The Sentencing Project's Senior Research Analyst Josh Rovner: Opposition to U.S. Youth Life Without Parole Sentences Drives Campaign for Reform

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• After US attack on Iran, did China's halving its oil purchases prop up global markets?
• Climate change bringing water to drought-stricken Sahel area in Sahara Desert
• Democrat wins could break GOP veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures

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American University's Dean emeritus William Leogrande: Cuba’s Economy Grinds to a Halt Amid Trump’s Economic Blockade, Triggering Humanitarian Crisis

Minnesota Reformer Editor-in-Chief J. Patrick Coolican: Local Nonviolent Organizing is Most Effective Defense Against Trump’s Midterm Election Subversion

University of Toronto Professor Jason Stanley: Yale University President Surrenders to Trump Regime’s Demands for Political and Ideological Alignment

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• In response to Trump's new tariffs, China expands export controls against U.S. and its allies
• Native American tribes, seven Western states at impasse on Colorado River water settlement
• Labor movement must organize Amazon to increase membership and improve workers' pay

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Eisenhower Media Network's Matthew Hoh: Without a Rational Strategy, Trump’s Iran War Continues with No End in Sight

Quincy Institute's Annelle Sheline: U.S. and Israel to Integrate Military Budgets to Shield Funding from Congressional Opposition

Institute for Policy Studies' Khury Petersen-Smith: New Progressive Blueprint: ‘Forging a Democracy that Works for All’

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Silicon Valley workers organizing against war production and war crimes
• 358 human rights defenders killed last year around the world
• Populist Clayton Tucker running for Texas agriculture commissioner

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.