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Headlines for June 18, 2024; Ahead of Juneteenth, Maryland Pardons 175K Pot Convictions, Seeking to Remedy Harms of War on Drugs; Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Loses Univ. of Minnesota Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing Genocide

Headlines for June 17, 2024; Report from Rafah: UNICEF Decries Israel’s “War on Children” as Starvation & Deaths Mount in Gaza; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump’s First Return to Capitol Hill Since Jan. 6 Cements His GOP “Stranglehold”; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Only a Two-State Solution Can End “Nightmare” of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Arundhati Roy Faces Anti-Terror Prosecution in India as Modi Expands Crackdown on Critics

Headlines for June 14, 2024; Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate; Birding While Black: Christian Cooper on NYC Audubon Society’s New Name & Racist Central Park Incident; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Being a Queer Black Man in the Natural World

Headlines for June 13, 2024; Secret Recording of SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito Offers “Window” into His Conservative Ideology; ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage; From Gaza to Sudan, Number of Global Armed Conflicts Reach New Post-WWII High; Palestinian Diplomat: Gaza Ceasefire Only Possible Once Israel Commits to Ending the War

Headlines for June 12, 2024; Sarah Leah Whitson: U.S. Ceasefire Push in Gaza Is Welcome, But “40,000 Dead Palestinians Too Late”; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Convicted in Federal Gun Case, Faces Tax Evasion Trial Next; Bananas and Blood: Chiquita Ordered to Pay Colombian Families $38 Million for Backing Death Squads

Headlines for June 11, 2024; “Clear Shift” Toward the Far Right: Anti-Immigrant Nationalists Gain Ground Across Europe; Doctor Just Back from Gaza: The Health System Has Totally Collapsed Due to Israel’s Genocidal War; U.S. Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible” Not to See Echoes of Holocaust