Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife and met his newborn son after being released from over 100 days in ICE detention. After flying from Louisiana to New Jersey, Khalil told reporters, “If they threaten me with detention, even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Palestine.” Khalil was the first arrested, on March 8. He is a legal permanent resident of the United States with a green card. His wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, a U.S. citizen, was eight months pregnant at the time. Mahmoud played a prominent role in the Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University last spring. Watch a special report from Democracy Now! from the Newark Airport.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-20 Friday

• Headlines for June 20, 2025
• Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It Joins Israel's War on Iran
• "Harming Young People": Chase Strangio on SCOTUS Trans Heathcare Ban & End of LGBTQ Suicide Hotline
• I Was Detained, Deported from L.A. Airport for My Reporting on Gaza Campus Protests: Australian Writer
• "More Choices and More Power": How the Ranked-Choice Ballot Is Changing NYC Elections

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-19 Thursday

• Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
• Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
• "Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired New Song

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As New Yorkers head to the polls in the primaries for local elections this Tuesday, voters can use ranked-choice voting for up to five of their preferred candidates. We look at how the system works and especially what it could mean for two candidates who have cross-endorsed each other: Democratic Socialist State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and City Comptroller Brad Lander. “It creates a coalition that will combine the forces of both of their supporters and give them a better chance of defeating Andrew Cuomo, who is the front-runner,” says John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, which is closely following NYC’s mayoral election. He also describes the coalition of groups known as the DREAM coalition, which stands for “Don’t Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor,” and the scandals that drove the former New York governor to resign. Tarleton’s recent piece is headlined “Zohran Mamdani’s Path to Victory.”

Democracy Now! 2025-06-18 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 18, 2025
• Tehran Professor Reports from Iran State TV Building Bombed by Israel as Trump Threatens Khamenei
• "A Moment of Immense Danger": U.S. Inches Toward Direct Involvement in Israel's War with Iran
• Mosab Abu Toha: As Attention Shifts to Iran, Israel Ramps Up Killings, Starvation & Annexation in Gaza
• "What Authoritarians Do": NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrests Him in Courthouse

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-17 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 17, 2025
• Preemptive Strike or Act of War? Israel Attacked Iran Amid Sinking Global Support for Assault on Gaza
• "We Loved Her": MN AG Keith Ellison Mourns His Friend Melissa Hortman, Slams Republican Rhetoric
• Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump's Deportations, Israel's War on Iran & Gaza

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Watch our full interview with Patricia Torres Ray, former Minnesota state senator and former colleague of Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman. We discuss the impact of the shooting attack on her colleagues, their work, political violence in the United States, the detention last week of Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California, and the arrest of poet Isabel Lopez at Saturday’s No Kings protest in Minneapolis after she defended herself.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-16 Monday

• Headlines for June 16, 2025
• Israel & Iran at War: Trump Is "Only World Leader Who Can Stop the Cycle of Escalation"
• No Kings: Millions Across U.S. Protest Trump's Power Grab, Overshadowing His Military Parade
• "An Outstanding Leader": Minnesota Mourns Assassinated Lawmaker Melissa Hortman as Suspect Is Arrested

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-13 Friday

• Headlines for June 13, 2025
• Israel Attacks Iran, Killing Top Military Leaders, Scientists; Hits Nuke Sites in Expanding Conflict
• "We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State": Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump's Authoritarianism
• "Millions of Lives at Risk": USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-12 Thursday

• Headlines for June 12, 2025
• Ex-U.S. Diplomat Joins March to Gaza, Says Biden Official Matthew Miller Has "Blood on His Hands"
• Block the Bombs: Rep. Delia Ramirez Pushes Bill to Halt U.S. Weapons Sales to Israel over Gaza
• "The Beginning of Fascism": Rep. Delia Ramirez Says Trump's Immigrant Crackdown Is Crushing Democracy
• The U.S. Accepts "Fruits of Migrant Labor" But Not Immigrants' Humanity: Day Laborer Organizer in L.A.

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