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Headlines for November 19, 2024; Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov’t Is Using COP29 as Chance to “Enrich the Regime”; Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power; Nuclear Revival? Diné Activist Warns Against New Uranium Mining as AI, Bitcoin Energy Needs Soar

Headlines for November 18, 2024; Live from COP29: Climate Justice Activists Demand Action as Trump’s Return Looms Over U.N. Summit; “The Finance COP”: Activists at U.N. Climate Talks Push Rich Countries to Pay for Green Transition; Crackdown in Azerbaijan: COP29 Host Country Arrests Climate Activists & Journalists Ahead of Talks; Trump Picks Climate-Denying Oil & Gas Magnate as Energy Sec. He Once Drank Fracking Fluid on Live TV

Headlines for November 15, 2024; “He Will Make America Sick”: Trump Picks Vaccine Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Head HHS; A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts; Historian Enzo Traverso: Israel Is Using the Memory of the Holocaust to Justify Genocide in Gaza

Headlines for November 14, 2024; Trump Picks Far-Right Loyalist Matt Gaetz to Be AG as He Moves to Weaponize DOJ Against “Enemies”; Report from Gaza: Palestinians Feel They Are Being “Slowly Exterminated” in Israel’s Genocide; Iraqis Tortured at Abu Ghraib Win $42 Million Judgment Against U.S. Military Contractor CACI

Headlines for November 13, 2024; ACLU Attorney Lee Gelernt on How Rights Groups Are Preparing to Fight Trump’s Mass Deportations; Immigrant Activist to Biden: Close Deportation Cases Now to Take a Weapon Away from Trump; Trump Taps Fossil Fuel Ally Lee Zeldin to Head EPA, Push “Anti-Environmental Agenda”; Head of U.N. Climate Summit in Azerbaijan Caught on Tape Pushing Oil & Gas Deals

Headlines for November 12, 2024; “Hatemonger”: Stephen Miller to Hold Key Post as Trump Pushes Mass Detention & Deportation; As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans; “American Coup: Wilmington 1898”: PBS Film Examines Massacre When Racists Overthrew Multiracial Gov’t

Headlines for November 11, 2024; “Hate Has No Place Here”: Black Americans Slam Racist Texts Promoting Slavery After Trump’s Election; “A Campaign of Genocide”: Noura Erakat Speaks to Ta-Nehisi Coates About Israel’s War on Gaza; “Complete Charade”: Qatar Withdraws from Ceasefire Talks, Middle East Prepares for Trump Presidency; Mouin Rabbani on What Really Happened in Amsterdam Between Israeli Soccer Fans & Local Residents

Headlines for November 08, 2024; Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights; “Open Celebration of the Oligarchy”: Both Dems & GOP Sucked Up to Billionaires in 2024 Election; End the Arms: Humanitarian Chief Jan Egeland Urges U.S. to Stop Arming Israel Before Trump Takes Office

Headlines for November 07, 2024; Democrats Abandoned the Working Class: Robin D.G. Kelley on Trump’s Win & Need for Class Solidarity; Fatima Bhutto: Kamala Harris’s Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is a Betrayal of True Feminism; “Communities Were Destroyed”: Mass Deportations of 1930s & ’50s Show Harm of Trump Plan, If Implemented