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Trump Admin Breaks and Enters Venezuela’s Embassy, Arrests Activists
After more than a month of living in the Venezuelan embassy, DC police and secret service broke open the doors to arrest for activists who had been staying in the embassy to protect it against…
Schumer to send Biden’s $106 billion supplemental package request to Senate floor
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will bring the Biden administration’s $106 billion national security funding request to the floor for a vote as early as next week, Schumer said in a Dear Colleague letter…
How Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide Will Help All Americans
The racial wealth gap has grown in the last three decades—Dedrick Muhammad puts solutions on the table that help all Americans Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…
Escape Prisoner Richard Renzo – Blotter
On Monday, November 27, 2023, 6th district officers arrested the offender Richard Renzo (AKA Richard White) at 800 Market St at 3:09 a.m., for a grand larceny warrant out of New York City. He is…
Hamas terrorists use Israeli hostage release in game of psychological warfare
JERUSALEM – On Sunday evening, when Israeli newscasters announced that 4-year-old Avigail Idan was among the third batch of hostages being released by Hamas from Gaza, it seemed as if the entire Jewish state breathed…
What Would US Socialism Look Like? with Bhaskar Sunkara (2/2)
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin and author of The Socialist Manifesto, explains what socialism could actually look like in the United States Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/why-socialism Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Baby Sumatran rhino born in Asia brings hope to critically endangered species
A critically endangered Sumatran rhino was born in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the second Sumatran rhino born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that currently numbers…
Health Insurance Abuses Continue in Spite of ACA – RAI with Wendell Potter (5/7)
We revisit Wendell Potter’s whistleblowing testimony that exposed how the insurance industry is more interested in pleasing Wall Street than in people’s care, and asked him if these abuses continued after the passing of the…
Apartment Tenants in Baltimore Link Up to Fix Deteriorating Living Conditions
Activists from the Bolton House Tenant Coalition urge Baltimore mayor Jack Young and city councilman Eric Costello to alleviate the deteriorating conditions at the Bolton House apartment complex Subscribe to our page and support our…
Delaware County’s top prosecutor becomes fifth Democrat to run for Pennsylvania attorney general
Jack Stollsteimer, the top prosecutor in heavily populated Delaware County, will run for Pennsylvania attorney general in 2024, he announced Monday, seeking an office that played a critical role in court defending Joe Biden’s 2020…
Brazilian Students Stage New Mass Protests Against Bolsonaro’s Education Reform
As President Jair Bolsonaro’s approval ratings plummet, students make a massive show of force, opposing his plans to drastically cut education budgets. Mike Fox reports from Brazil Subscribe to our page and support our work…
NY politician demands resignation of college president who justified Hamas terror attack
A New York politician is calling for the resignation of a university president who he accused of finding “moral equivalence between Hamas’ terrorist slaughter of innocent women and children with the contested political agenda of…
Pope in ‘good, stable’ condition, on antibiotic IV for lung inflammation
Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics to treat lung inflammation, the Vatican said Monday. The health update came after the pontiff canceled his weekly window appointment to greet people in St. Peter’s Square, sparking concerns for…
Texas Pipeline Bill Criminalizes Water Protectors
Since the 2016 protests at Standing Rock, ND, the fossil fuel industry has been pressuring state legislatures to pass laws criminalizing protests against pipeline construction. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….
North Korea is building border guard posts following spy satellite launch, South Korea says
North Korea is building new guard posts along its border where dismantled ones previously stood, and is deploying troops and heavy weaponry there following the launch of a military spy satellite last week, South Korea…
Last Slave Ship Found on Alabama Coast Validates Descendants’ Stories
The slave trade was abolished in 1808, but this ship, the Clotilda, sailed in 1860 and was sunk by its owner once he won his bet and sold his human cargo. Historian Sylviane Diouf discusses…
Rising Seas Could Generate 187 Million Climate Refugees by 2100
Dr. Roger Cooke explains that, according to a new study, sea levels could rise by over 2 meters by the end of the century Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Netanyahu Government Falls – Will New Elections Change Anything?
Lia Tarachansky unpacks the power struggle between former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and his former ally Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and the split between right-wing secularists and ultra-Orthodox Jews Subscribe to our page and support…
A Dead Republican Strategist’s Work Could Destroy Voting Rights in America
A Common Cause court case opposing Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina revealed that Trump officials lied about the 2020 census citizenship question in order to maintain “White” and “Republican Power” Subscribe to our page and…
Experts weigh in on whether DeSantis’ Iowa strategy will be enough to topple Trump: ‘Hail Mary’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently earned two key Iowa endorsements as he continues to push campaign resources into the state, a move that political experts tell Fox News Digital is an “all in” strategy as…
Facial Recognition Technology Ban for Police Is Important, but Not Enough
San Francisco, the ‘Silicon Valley’ city where facial recognition technology has been developed, is one of the first cities to recognize the risk to city residents of false recognition and over-reliance on technology Subscribe to…
Biden sits down for interview with host whose show wished Farrakhan a ‘Happy Birthday’
President Biden sat down for an interview this past week with a radio host who has promoted the words of infamous antisemite Louis Farrakhan and whose show wished him “Happy Birthday” on social media earlier…
Opposition Demand for Maduro’s Resignation a Non-Starter, Says Norwegian Source
An unnamed Norwegian source with inside knowledge of the talks between the Venezuelan opposition and government in Oslo said the opposition “needs to be more realistic.” We discuss the talks with Norwegian Venezuela specialist Eirik…
Col. Larry Wilkerson on Mueller and Courage to Impeach Trump
Chuck Schumer to Nancy Pelosi, democrats are cowardly, incompetent and without courage to begin impeachment proceedings says Col. Larry Wilkerson Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content…
Mueller’s Statement: Why is it Unconstitutional to Indict a Sitting President?
Mueller says a legal analysis of a DOJ Policy prevented him from charging the president. Professor Doug Colbert says one objective for Mueller was to put some distance between himself and Attorney General Barr’s representation…
Marijuana Activist Faces 10 Years in Prison for Using Facebook Live
A 20-year-old student activist was charged with felony wiretapping for using Facebook Live while in the office of Rep. Andy Harris, known for pushing back against the legalization of marijuana in DC Subscribe to our…
The New Authoritarians
David Renton discusses his new book The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right. Although the new wave of right-wing politicians is not fascist, it is dangerous and must be studied closely in order for the…