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09/10/2025

Jordanian-American Omar Yaghi, Son of Palestinian Refugees, Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to a trio of researchers including Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, for pioneering work on porous molecular structures that can be used to trap greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Yaghi was bo...

09/10/2025

2025 Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Hungarian Novelist László Krasznahorkai

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai. The Nobel Committee called him “a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess.”

09/10/2025

Tennessee Lawmaker Justin Pearson Launches Primary Challenge to Incumbent Rep. Steve Cohen

In Tennessee, Democratic state Representative Justin Pearson announced Wednesday he will launch a primary challenge against Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Memphis. Pearson was a member of the “Tennessee Three” who were expelled by Republicans from the Tennessee General Assembly after p...

09/10/2025

WaPo: One-Quarter of FBI’s Agents Assigned to Immigration Enforcement

In immigration news, The Washington Post reports nearly a quarter of the FBI's roughly 13,000 agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40% in the largest FBI field offices. Data show agents have been pulled from investigations into cybercrimes, ...

09/10/2025

Rutgers University history professor Mark Bray says his family is moving from New Jersey to Spain after receiving death threats, including at their home address.

Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism and terrorism at Rutgers and is the author of the 2017 book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.”

His planned departure from the U.S. comes after the Rutgers chapter of the campus conservative group Turning Point USA circulated a petition labeling him “Dr. Antifa” and calling for him to be fired.

In an interview with Newsweek, Bray said the harassment campaign was "reflective of the broader trend" under the Trump administration, which is "moving the country in a markedly authoritarian direction."

09/10/2025

Former FBI Director Comey Pleads Not Guilty to Charges He Lied to Congress

Former FBI Director James Comey appeared in federal court in Virginia Wednesday, where he pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to Congress. The trial is set to begin on January 5, and federal prosecutors expect it to last two to three days. Comey's lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald said he would ask the ju...

09/10/2025

The Trump administration is aggressively attempting to use every legal artifice it can to exert authoritarian control.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resi...

09/10/2025

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory.

Jewish American activist David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, says he faced additional abuse in Israeli prison because of his background.

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09/10/2025

Antifa Expert to Flee with Family to Spain Following Death Threats

Rutgers University history professor Mark Bray says his family is moving from New Jersey to Spain after receiving death threats, including at their home address. Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism and terrorism at Rutgers and is the author of the 2017 book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook...

09/10/2025

Trump Holds Roundtable on Antifa, Claims to Go After Its “Funders”

President Trump led a roundtable on antifa Wednesday, hosting far-right activists posing as “independent journalists.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State. This follows President Trump's executive order last month designating a...

09/10/2025

About a quarter of the FBI’s roughly 13,000 agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40% in the largest FBI field offices, according to The Washington Post. The agents have been pulled from investigations into cybercrimes, drug trafficking, terrorism, counterintelligence and more.

09/10/2025

Pastor Shot in Head by “Less Lethal” Round at Chicago-Area ICE Protest Joins Lawsuit

A pastor is one of several plaintiffs suing the Trump administration after he was shot directly in the head by a pepper ball fired by ICE agents on a roof during protests at the Broadview ICE facility just outside Chicago. Video of the assault shows Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Churc...