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Headlines for January 25, 2017; Winona LaDuke: Trump's Push to Build Dakota Access & Keystone XL Pipelines is a Declaration of War; "Water is Life, Water is Sacred": Standing Rock's Bobbi Jean Three Legs Speaks Out Against Trump; Thousands Take Part in Emergency Protests over Trump's Move to Revive Pipeline Projects; "I'm Afraid They Are Out to Kill": Water Protectors Testify to Police Violence at Standing Rock; Boycott the Banks: Actor Shailene Woodley Calls for Action Against Funders of Dakota Access Pipeline; Shailene Woodley on Malia Obama's Presence at Sundance Standing Rock Solidarity Event Against DAPL; A Complete Disregard for Democracy: Greenpeace Condemns Trump's Move on Pipelines & Silencing of EPA

President Donald Trump has signed two executive actions today to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

In this web exclusive, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept talks in depth about Trump’s team, from unofficial adviser Erik Prince to Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis to education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos.

Shortly before the start of Saturday’s historic Women’s March on Washington, Amy Goodman caught up with one of the march co-chairs, Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist from Brooklyn. After the march, Sarsour became the target of a series of Islamophobic attacks online.

Over 100,000 people gathered in San Francisco for a massive women-led march against Donald Trump. Speakers and performers included folk legend Joan Baez and Malkia Cyil of the Center for Media Justice.

Headlines for January 24, 2017; "Women Will Die Because of This": Planned Parenthood on Trump Signing Anti-Abortion Global Gag Rule; Outright Lies, Constant Tweets & "Alternative Facts": Inside Trump's Orwellian War with the Media; "Nobody Speak": New Documentary Probes Billionaire Peter Thiel's Destruction of News Outlet Gawker; "An Inconvenient Sequel": Al Gore on New Film, Trump, Climate Change & His Opposition to DAPL; As Trump Moves to Advance Dakota Access Pipeline, Former VP Al Gore Calls #DAPL "An Atrocity"

Headlines for January 23, 2017; Women's March on Washington: Historic Protest Three Times Larger Than Trump's Inaugural Crowd; Voices of the Women's March: Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Janet Mock & More; Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Ralph Nader & Others Respond to Trump's "America First" Inaugural Address

Headlines for January 20, 2017; Black Lives Matter Activists Chain Themselves Together to Block Inauguration Checkpoint; Michael Moore Addresses 25,000 Protesters in NYC: "There's More of Us Than There are of Them!"; Naomi Klein on Trump Election: "This is a Corporate Coup d’État"

Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett has died at age 71 of complications of interstitial lung disease in Manhattan. News of his death broke as thousands protested in Central Park against the inauguration of Donald Trump, a man he began covering in the 1970s.

Headlines for January 19, 2017; On Final Day of Obama Presidency, a Look at His Mixed Legacy & the Rise of Neo-Fascism in Washington; Rashid Khalidi: Obama's Condemnation of Israeli Occupation Doesn't Match His Last 8 Years in Office; Climate Denier Scott Pruitt Faces Protests at Senate Hearing as 2016 Is Declared Hottest Year Ever; Trump Picks Agribusiness & Chemical Industry Darling Sonny Perdue as Secretary of Agriculture; Dr. Sidney Wolfe on HHS Nominee Tom Price's "Cruel" Plans to Repeal the Affordable Care Act

In New York City, over 100 people set up a protest encampment outside the headquarters of financial giant Goldman Sachs, which they are calling "Government Sachs."

Headlines for January 18, 2017; Chelsea Manning's Attorneys: Obama's Commutation Will Help Save Life of Jailed Army Whistleblower; Jeremy Scahill on Obama's Commutation of Chelsea Manning & Continued Demonization of Edward Snowden; Oscar López Rivera to Be Freed as Obama Commutes Sentence of Puerto Rican Independence Activist; Activists Call on Obama to Pardon Leonard Peltier, Warning He'll Die in Prison Otherwise; Jeremy Scahill: Did Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lie to Senate About Ties to Anti-LGBT Foundation?; Scahill: Blackwater Founder Erik Prince, the Brother of Betsy DeVos, Is Secretly Advising Trump

The Intercept’s Matthew Cole reports that Rep. Ryan Zinke, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of the interior, committed travel fraud when he was a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, according to three former unit leaders and a military consultant.

Headlines for January 17, 2017; Trump Attacks Civil Rights Icon John Lewis on MLK Weekend; Watch Lewis Recall Bloody Sunday 1965; Insane Clown President: Matt Taibbi Chronicles Election of "Billionaire Hedonist" Donald Trump; Special Report: Obama's Controversial Policy of Immigrant Family Detention Could Expand Under Trump

Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa