|
The president and the first lady were set to tour areas devastated by flooding in Central Texas, as the Trump administration has faced scrutiny over its level of preparedness and its disaster response.
|
|
(Top headline, 9th story, link)
Related stories:
MEET THE NEW NATIONAL POLICE FORCE...
'STINGRAY' SURVEILLANCE DETECTED AT PROTESTS...
MAYOR WARNS RESIDENTS: STAY INSIDE...
BISHOP TELLS WORSHIPPERS TO AVOID MASS...
SCENES OF CHAOS AFTER SNATCHING IN SAN FRAN...
MAN GRABBED INSIDE SURGERY CENTER; HEATED CONFRONTATION...
ICE employees burned out and morally conflicted...
Hunting for clergy to work in Gitmo...
|
|
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump's second term in the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
|
|
We speak with United Nations expert Francesca Albanese, one day after the Trump administration announced it is imposing sanctions on her over her advocacy for Palestinian rights. Albanese has served as the U.N. special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 2022. She recently released a report highlighting dozens of companies aiding Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and fueling its genocidal war machine in Gaza, including U.S. tech giants. Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized Albanese's work as "political and economic warfare" against the United States and its allies.
"It seems that this administration is quite allergic to justice," says Albanese, speaking to Democracy Now! from Slovenia. "It's trying to distract us from where our focus should be: What's happening to the Palestinians in the little that remains of their tormented land, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem."
|
|
Momentum has been building behind a bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on countries that purchase Russian oil, as Republicans work behind the scenes to win President Trump's support.
|
|
President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for a second straight day Tuesday, as Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, claimed Israel and Hamas were nearing a breakthrough on a ceasefire agreement. Israeli media are reporting Netanyahu is under "extreme" pressure to reach a 60-day ceasefire deal, but Netanyahu's "interests and the interests of his government remain to make this a perpetual, ongoing war," says Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy. The U.S.-Israeli proposal would see 10 living Israeli hostages released, along with the bodies of deceased hostages, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Hamas negotiators are also seeking the withdrawal of Israeli forces, guarantees for an end to the war, the resumption of humanitarian aid shipments overseen by the U.N. and the International Committee of the Red Cross, and an end to the operations of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
|
|
In an effort to fulfill the Trump administration's daily immigration arrest "quotas," federal agents and deputized local law enforcement are racially profiling and snatching people off the streets without due process. These arrests, carried out by armed and masked agents, are sowing terror and confusion in communities across the United States. Stephano Medina, a lawyer with the California Center for Movement Legal Services, shares how ICE regularly denies that it has taken people into custody, leading to family members scrambling for information about their loved ones. "It's arrest now, ask questions later," adds Dominique Boubion, an attorney representing Andrea Velez, a U.S. citizen who was taken by ICE last month in what Velez has since described as a "kidnapping."
|
|
