In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with South Carolina to defund Planned Parenthood by removing its health clinics from the state’s Medicaid program. Writing for the dissent, Justice ...

The Brooklyn-based Sufi-American musician Sonny Singh joins us in our Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his remarkable music. Singh gained fame as a member of Red Baraat and now records ...

A 20-year-old U.S. citizen from the Los Angeles area has been released from federal detention after he was violently arrested in a Walmart parking lot last week. Adrian Andrew Martinez was taken when ...

In Florida, another person has been reported dead in the custody of ICE. Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada, was found unresponsive at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in ...

The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a condemned Texas prisoner on Thursday, mere minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Ruben Gutierrez insists he was wrongfully convicted ...

The White House says it has reached an agreement with China to speed imports of rare earth elements, as the Trump administration seeks to unwind its trade war with Beijing. Earlier today China’s ...

In public health news, a U.S. vaccine advisory panel has recommended adults and children no longer receive flu vaccines containing trace amounts of the mercury-containing compound known as thimerosal.

In California, a bill introduced by two Bay Area lawmakers would force ICE agents and other federal agents to show their faces and identify themselves while making arrests. New York Congresswoman ...

On Capitol Hill, senior intelligence officials held a classified briefing Thursday for all 100 senators about President Trump’s airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. Notably absent from the briefing was ...

Doctors in Gaza say Israeli attacks have killed at least 72 people over the past 24 hours. Among the dead are six people killed by Israeli forces near an aid distribution point north of Rafah operated ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday he’s running for reelection in November as an independent. Adams will face front-runner Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who defeated former New ...

Senate Republicans are scrambling to save President Trump’s massive package of tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts to social programs, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” On Thursday, the Senate ...