Monday marked the deadliest day for US troops this year in Afghanistan after seven soldiers perished in two separate incidents. Five US service members were killed in a helicopter crash outside Kandahar city. Hours earlier, two US soldiers were sh...

A leaked audio recording has emerged of the statement Army whistleblower Bradley Manning delivered at his pre-trial hearing in military court late last month. Manning acknowledged he gave hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks,...

With the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez after a two-year fight with cancer, Democracy Now! hosts a roundtable discussion on a revolutionary leader whose democratic-socialist policies not only transformed his country, but helped s...

Military prosecutors have decided to bring the maximum charges against Manning after he admitted during a pre-trial hearing last week to the largest leak of state secrets in US history. In a bid to secure a reduced sentence, Manning acknowledged o...

The White House called campaigner Derek Khanna just hours after his appearance on Democracy Now! this morning to say it is reversing its position on the ban against cell phone unlocking in the US, which could subject users to up to five years i...

In what's being described as a Kafkaesque decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled a group of human rights organizations and journalists cannot challenge the government's warrantless domestic surveillance program because they can't prove they are ...

As protests grow in the West Bank over the death of a Palestinian inside an Israeli prison, we speak to a pair of Israeli and Palestinian fathers who've responded to personal tragedies with activism for peace. Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan united...

Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous describes his recent trip to Bahrain, where the Sunni monarchy continues its crackdown on a two-year old uprising. Since February 2011, at least 87 people have died at the hands of US-backed force...

Medical examiners in California say they have positively identified the body of former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, the man authorities say killed four people over the past two weeks in a campaign of terror against the LAPD. Dorn...

The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting today after North Korea conducted its third-ever nuclear test in defiance of UN orders. According to international monitors, the underground explosion was roughly twice as large a...