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10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the deadliest day for press in the country since 2001; the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opens in Montgomery, Alabama, remembering U.S. victims of white supremacy.

A Syrian researcher responds to U.S.-Russia tensions over an alleged chemical weapons attack; Trump hints he may reverse his campaign pledge and seek to rejoin the TPP; the Eviction Lab reveals nearly four Americans are evicted every minute.

Confirmation hearings begin today for Mike Pompeo, Trump's secretary of state pick, who could face resistance from Senate Democrats; political scientist Corey Robin discusses Paul Ryan's retirement from Congress & the teacher rebellions sweeping the U.S.

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces off with lawmakers for a marathon 5-hour hearing about privacy, data collection and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Extended discussion looking at how The Denver Post has launched a revolt against its owner: New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital.

No dia 19 de março o Democracy Now! colocou no ar uma entrevista exclusiva com o ex-presidente brasileiro Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

FBI raids office, home and hotel room of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump warns of forceful response to alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria; Facebook's Zuckerberg to testify on Capitol Hill; Denver Post rebels against its hedge-fund owner.

Musician Ahmed Gallab, aka Sinkane, recently stopped by the Democracy Now! studios to perform and talk about making music as a Sudanese-American artist in the age of Trump.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept on the crisis in Syria, the jailing of former Brazilian President Lula and why he thinks Israel has become an "apartheid, rogue, terrorist state."

Popular former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is ordered to report to jail; the U.S. inks a new arms deal with Saudi Arabia amid the country's bombing campaign in Yemen; a judge suspends the parole of an elderly former Black Panther.

The New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell, noting he had expressed remorse and was likely to lead a “law-abiding life,” but a judge will review their vote.

Trump plans to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border; a caravan of Central American migrants and asylum seekers vows to march on despite threats; an exposé in The Nation reveals "How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe."

Part 2 of our interview with Mark Hertsgaard, co-author of a major new exposé in The Nation: “How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe.”

Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers speak out on why they are walking out; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch on the Rev. Martin Luther King’s radicalism in his final years.

Is Sinclair turning into Trump TV? We speak to Andy Kroll of Mother Jones about the largest owner of local TV stations in the country. Then Rev. James Lawson and Michael Honey join us from Memphis on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK.