A British court has acquitted the only soldier to face trial over the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry in 1972. The outcome is no vindication of “Soldier F” or of the British establishment, whose long cover-up made a successful prosecution so challenging.
Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser http://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/24/stuart_stevens_republican_schism
“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser, is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.
Headlines for October 24, 2025 http://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/24/headlines
U.N. Urges Israel to Open Rafah Border Crossing to Allow Aid into Gaza; Trump: “Israel’s Not Going to Do Anything with the West Bank”; Israeli Minister Smotrich Resorts to Stereotypes When Talking About Saudi Arabia; “We’re Going to Kill Them”: Trump Claims Broad Authority to Launch Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats; Trump Suspends Canada Trade Talks over Ad Criticizing Tariffs; Civil Rights Groups Demand ICE Stop Jailing Pregnant Immigrants Amid Reports of Medical Neglect; States Prepare to Cut Off Food Assistance as Government Shutdown Enters 24th Day; New York AG Letitia James Faces Arraignment in Federal Court as Trump Seeks “Retribution”; Trump Administration Opens 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Drilling; Trump Pardons Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Who Aided Trump Family’s Crypto Firm; White House Releases List of Donors to Trump’s Ballroom as Demolition Crews Raze East Wing; Trump Reverses Plans to “Surge” Federal Forces to San Francisco at Request of CEO “Friends”
As Israel Pushes to Annex West Bank, Norwegian Refugee Council Condemns Growing Settler Violence http://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/24/west_bank_jan_egeland
Israel’s Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the West Bank, prompting rare criticism from the Trump administration, which says it does not support annexation. We get a report on the state of illegal settlement activity in the Palestinian territory from the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Jan Egeland, who has just returned from the occupied West Bank. “I think the settler movement felt they had a free hand to do whatever they wanted on the West Bank, and it happened in the shadows of the war in Gaza,” he says about the growth in settlements and widespread impunity for settlers. “Every single day, Palestinian houses are demolished. Every single day, their communities are attacked. Every single day, people are beaten up, thousands of olive trees are uprooted. I mean, it’s happening as we speak.”
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