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Welcome to democracyow democracynow.org the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Senate Republicans have blocked
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another effort to stop President Trump's war against Iran. On Thursday, senators voted 47 to 50 to reject a war powers17 seconds
resolution that would have reigned in Trump's ability to strike Iran until Congress authorizes further military25 seconds
action. The vote came ahead of today's deadline under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which gives the33 seconds
president 60 days to carry out military strikes in response to an imminent threat if Congress has not voted to41 seconds
authorize a war. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsath48 seconds
told a Senate committee he believes the 60-day deadline quote pauses or stops in a ceasefire58 seconds
unquote. Meanwhile, Iranian President Massud Peshkan condemned the US naval bade of Iran's ports as an intolerable1 minute, 7 seconds
extension an intolerable extension of military operations and said it's doomed to fail. At the White House, President1 minute, 16 seconds
Trump on Thursday claimed Iran wanted to negotiate a deal so badly, adding,1 minute, 22 seconds
quote, "nobbody knows what the talks are except myself and a couple of other people." unquote. Lebanon's National1 minute, 31 seconds
News Agency reports Israeli attacks have killed more than 30 people in a single1 minute, 37 seconds
day in further violations of the US brokered ceasefire signed by Israel and Lebanon last month. Two children were1 minute, 47 seconds
among those killed in the attacks on southern Lebanon. They came as a Hezbollah drone injured 12 Israeli1 minute, 54 seconds
soldiers in northern Israel. On Thursday, Israel issued new forced evacuation orders for villages north of2 minutes, 2 seconds
a strip of occupied territory along the border Israel is calling a yellow line.2 minutes, 8 seconds
More than a million people have been displaced from their homes by Israel's attacks, about a fifth of Lebanon's population.2 minutes, 17 seconds
Israel's military's issued new maps of the Gaza Strip, showing it controls significantly more territory beyond what2 minutes, 24 seconds
it agreed to in the US brokered ceasefire last October. Reuters reports the restricted area marked on the maps2 minutes, 32 seconds
with an orange line makes up some 11% of Gaza's territory beyond a co so-called2 minutes, 39 seconds
yellow line, meaning Israel now claims control over 23 of Gaza. This comes as Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least2 minutes, 48 seconds
three Palestinians and wounded 10 others Thursday and Friday in Israel's latest violations of the ceasefire.2 minutes, 58 seconds
The Pulitzer Prizewinning Palestinian poet, Masab Abu Toha, said he was3 minutes, 4 seconds
heartbroken after Israel shot his 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young3 minutes, 12 seconds
children in a school shelter in the Jubalia refugee camp. Abu Toha says the bullet pierced her chest and exited3 minutes, 20 seconds
through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen, leaving her in critical condition. He writes, quote, "At the3 minutes, 29 seconds
moment
she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap
as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears." unquote.3 minutes, 41 seconds
Musab Abu Toha and his wife Maram have lost over a hundred relatives to Israeli attack since October 2023, including 313 minutes, 50 seconds
members of his family killed in a single air strike. On Thursday, the group Physicians for Human Rights Israel3 minutes, 57 seconds
petitioned
the Israeli Supreme Court demanding the release of 14 Palestinian
doctors from Gaza who've been detained without charge for more than a
year.4 minutes, 8 seconds
Among them, Dr. Husam Abu Safia, the detained head of Gaza's Camil Adwan4 minutes, 14 seconds
Hospital, who's reportedly been tortured and denied adequate food and medicine despite his deteriorating health.4 minutes, 24 seconds
Joining the call for the doctor's release is Muhammad Abu Salia, the director of Gaza's Alshifa Hospital, who4 minutes, 31 seconds
was imprisoned by Israel without charge for 7 months after his arrest in November 2023.4 minutes, 40 seconds
I was brutally arrested. I was handcuffed behind my back, blindfolded,4 minutes, 45 seconds
and
stripped naked. I was subject to a humiliating search and then the
field interrogation began in the Nedarium area. This involves beatings,
insults4 minutes, 54 seconds
with sand thrown on my head, putting dirt into my mouth, and severe beatings.5 minutes, 2 seconds
Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoodi has been freed after a year in Israeli prisons. He'd been held without charge5 minutes, 9 seconds
under
Israel's so-called administrative detention policy after he was
arrested at his home in Janine in the occupied West Bank in April of
2025.5 minutes, 19 seconds
Upon his release, Alamoodi showed signs of torture and severe malnutrition and says he lost half his body weight due to5 minutes, 27 seconds
systematic
starvation. In 2022, Ali al-Samoodi was shot in the shoulder by the
Israeli sniper that killed Al Jazzer journalist Shireen Abu Akla in
Janine.5 minutes, 41 seconds
Here in New York, students and alumni of Columbia University held a demonstration honoring the 2-year anniversary of5 minutes, 48 seconds
campus protest demanding administrators divest from companies linked to Israel.5 minutes, 53 seconds
The protest saw students take over a Colombia building and rename it Hen Hall in honor of Hendrajab, a six-year-old6 minutes, 1 second
girl murdered by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. This is Mariam Awan, an alumna of Colombia, arrested two years ago in the6 minutes, 9 seconds
police raid that ended the student occupation.6 minutes, 13 seconds
We
wanted to do it on um the anniversary of the occupation of Hins Hall in
order to show that the movement persists and that we retain the
institutional memory6 minutes, 22 seconds
of the violence that happened that day of um the way that the student body came together to to demand divestment at that6 minutes, 29 seconds
time.
It still echoes today. Even though there has been repression, there has
been a massive crackdown on freedom of speech at Columbia, um we we are
here to6 minutes, 36 seconds
show that we won't be silenced um and that we still remember everything that happened.6 minutes, 42 seconds
House lawmakers Thursday voted to reopen most of the Homeland Security Department, ending a record 76-day6 minutes, 49 seconds
partial
shutdown in the AY's longest in US history. The approved budget bill
signed into law by Trump excludes funding for Immigration and Customs6 minutes, 58 seconds
Enforcement, ICE, but reopens key parts of DHS, including the Transportation Security Administration, the TSA.7 minutes, 9 seconds
In Texas, Minubatra, a longtime court interpreter and the only licensed Punjabi Hindian Erdu interpreter in the7 minutes, 17 seconds
state,
has been released from an ICE jail after nearly two months in
detention. A judge's order mandating Botra's release stated the Trump7 minutes, 25 seconds
administration failed to explain why she'd been jailed in the first place and denied her due process. Botra has lived7 minutes, 31 seconds
in the United States for over 35 years after leaving India. President Trump has7 minutes, 38 seconds
withdrawn his nomination for Casey Means to become the next US surgeon general. Means is a wellness influencer, author,7 minutes, 46 seconds
entrepreneur, and antivaccine activist who along with her brother Cali Means is a key figure in the Make America Healthy7 minutes, 55 seconds
Again movement, that's MA, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.8 minutes, 1 second
Kennedy Jr. In her place, President Trump has nominated Nicole Sapphire to become surgeon general. She's a8 minutes, 8 seconds
radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New Jersey and a frequent contributor to Fox News. Maine Governor Janet Mills8 minutes, 17 seconds
has
officially suspended her campaign for the US Senate. Mills had been
competing for the Democratic nomination in June's primary with the
backing of8 minutes, 26 seconds
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats. But Governor Mills quit Thursday as a Senate candidate8 minutes, 33 seconds
after several polls projected she was losing badly to Graham Platner, a progressive populist who's backed by8 minutes, 41 seconds
labor unions and senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The winner of the Democratic primary will challenge8 minutes, 48 seconds
incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in November's election, which will determine the balance of power in8 minutes, 56 seconds
the Senate. This is Grant Platner speaking with MS Now Thursday. I also think, and I'll just be upfront,9 minutes, 2 seconds
I don't believe a single US Democratic senator should vote for a nominee out of the Trump administration moving forward.9 minutes, 9 seconds
I think we need to use all of the power we have around funding and the power of the purse to stop paying for these kinds9 minutes, 16 seconds
of
stupid wars. Stop paying for agencies like ICE. Stop paying for the
things that the Trump administration is doing that are materially
hurting our democracy and hurting working people.9 minutes, 28 seconds
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has unveiled its new affordability agenda to fight the skyrocketing cost of living9 minutes, 37 seconds
crisis
facing millions of people in the United States. The legislative package
proposes policies for cheaper prescription medication, groceries,9 minutes, 46 seconds
housing, utility bills, gas, and child care. It would also ban companies from using personal data and AI to set9 minutes, 53 seconds
prices, guarantee full-time workers paid vacation time, increase overtime wages,9 minutes, 58 seconds
and abolish super PACs. This is Congress member Greg Casar of Texas, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.10 minutes, 5 seconds
Donald Trump calls affordability a hoax,10 minutes, 9 seconds
says surging gas prices are quote a small price to pay, and says we don't have the money for health care and child10 minutes, 16 seconds
care because he needs it for war. Every single day, Republicans in the building behind us make their rich friends richer10 minutes, 25 seconds
and richer by making it harder for working people to get by. And today, we say with one voice, we do not have to live like this.10 minutes, 36 seconds
A new investigation by ProPublica has found the Trump administration's advancing a proposed rule change to SSI,10 minutes, 44 seconds
the supplemental security income program that could slash or terminate benefits for an estimated 400,00010 minutes, 51 seconds
disabled
adults, including people with Down syndrome and dementia. The proposal
specifically targets people with disabilities living with their parents11 minutes
or
family members who receive food assistance through SNAP. That's the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The efforts were initiated
last11 minutes, 9 seconds
year
by top White House officials and the so-called and now defunct
Department of Government Efficiency or Doge led by billionaire Elon
Musk. Here in New York,11 minutes, 20 seconds
Mayor Zoran Mdani refused to meet privately with King Charles on Wednesday as he joined the British monarch at a11 minutes, 26 seconds
wreath
laying ceremony honoring 9/11 victims. Mdani was asked by reporters
what it would take for him to agree to a private meeting with the king.11 minutes, 36 seconds
If I was uh to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the cohenor diamond.11 minutes, 45 seconds
The
105karat diamond was taken by the British from India in the 19th
century is currently housed in the Tower of London placed on11 minutes, 54 seconds
the crown made for Queen Mother Elizabeth. Meanwhile, the White House posted a photo of President Trump and12 minutes, 1 second
King Charles with the caption, "Two kings," during the monarch's visit this week. Since Trump's return to office,12 minutes, 10 seconds
protests have erupted nationwide under the slogan, "No kings."12 minutes, 16 seconds
And the anti-war and solidarity activist John Miller has died at the age of 70 from heart failure. In 1991, John12 minutes, 25 seconds
co-founded
the East Tyour Action Network, ETA, which worked to support
self-determination for East Teour and an end to US support for
Indonesia's12 minutes, 34 seconds
occupation. On Thursday, the government of Timor Lehche, that's East Timour,12 minutes, 39 seconds
released a statement calling John Miller a longtime friend of the Timurice people, stating that his voice in12 minutes, 46 seconds
defense of the Timurice people, as well as his warm friendship and continued support in their struggle, will never be forgotten.12 minutes, 55 seconds
And those are some of the headlines. This is Democracy Now! democracynow.org,13 minutes, 1 second
the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman in New York, joined by Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez in Chicago. Hi, Juan.13 minutes, 10 seconds
Hi, Amy and welcome to all of our listeners and viewers across the country and around the world.13 minutes, 16 seconds
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