Israeli forces have raided what they say are the offices of several Palestinian NGOs in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials say a child was injured from Israeli gunfire, while others suffered from tear gas inhalation. At least one journalist was reportedly detained in the raids, which come four years after the forced closure of multiple NGOs that the Israeli government designated as “terrorist” organizations. “This is part of the whole propaganda show that this government is ...
We speak with the Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney about his new documentary Musk , an expansive, nearly four-hour examination of the world’s first trillionaire and how he has amassed unprecedented power in business, technology and politics. The film traces Elon Musk’s early ventures and the rise of SpaceX and Tesla, examining the role of government support in their growth. It also explores his acquisition of Twitter, now X; his alliance with President Donald Trump and the MA...
The Trump administration on Friday placed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court that target the institution as a whole. This comes on top of earlier sanctions against individual ICC judges and personnel. The administration has been escalating attacks on the ICC since the court issued arrest warrants in 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. It announced the sanctions just hours after former ICC Judge Navi Pillay — t...
We speak with tech journalist Paris Marx about his new book, Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires . In the book, Marx exposes the deceptive ways tech companies are taking resources from vulnerable communities in order to build massive AI data centers. “We have seen the tech companies that, back in 2019, 2020, wanted us to see them as climate leaders … completely throw their targets out the window in order to pursue generative AI and this data center buildout,”...
A leader of Yemen’s Houthi movement has warned the U.S. will face a “swift and...
In Houston, Texas, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said his office will investigate an...
In Ukraine, 600,000 people are without electricity after deadly Russian missile and drone strikes pummeled...
Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry , draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle the rise and fall of the tech worker movement, its early victories, and the repression and slide to corporate control that followed. “Over the course of the 2010s, what we saw was that the tech industry wasn’t quite the industry that it had promised to its workers ...
Israel’s military has leveled 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns it occupies in...
On Monday, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided the Washington, D.C., home of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. Omar has faced years of racist targeting from President Trump over her ethnicity and immigrant background. She immigrated to the United States as a refugee from Somalia when she was a child. Omar is the first Somali American elected to federal office, the first woman of color to represent Minnesota and, along with Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, one of the first ...
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided the Washington, D.C., home of Democratic...
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on Gaza killed four Palestinians and left nine others...
The U.N. reports at least 139 people are dead and 84 others remain missing after...
Fighting continues to escalate in Yemen between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces. On Tuesday,...
In Maine, Republican Senator Susan Collins faced off against her Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in...