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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent early Tuesday morning, July 7, as the 35-year Houston resident was on his way to pick up his construction crew for work. DHS claims Araujo, who was born in Mexico and had no criminal record, attempted to weaponize his van against federal agents, an allegation his family vehemently rejects. No video of the shooting has been released.

More than a thousand people marched in Houston Wednesday to demand a full and transparent independent investigation into Araujo’s killing and compensation for his family, and for an end to ICE ambush attacks on the city. Araujo’s son Ronaldo Salgado told reporters: “He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”

Nationwide more than 10,000 people have been arrested by ICE in the last five days – a surge that has gone largely unreported as DHS has shifted tactics away from massive federal troop deployments. Where’s the outrage from Trump’s so-called “opposition” in Congress? Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek break down the federal government’s latest extrajudicial killing by untrained masked agents on taxpayer salaries.

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“We are ready to go back to work and Mass General Brigham is locking us out.”

Nurses who participated in Massachusetts’s biggest healthcare workers strike in state history detail the union busting efforts by MGB. More than 4,000 nurses walked off the job on Wednesday to demand better pay, benefits, and safer working conditions.

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It's been over a thousand days since Israel began its livestreamed genocide in Gaza, and global politics is still shifting as a result. Candidates who refuse AIPAC money are toppling Democratic incumbents across the US, support for Israel has become a political liability and the establishment's answer has been a full-blown red scare.

Rania Khalek speaks with Palestinian novelist, poet, and activist Susan Abulhawa, author of “Mornings in Jenin,” to discuss how Palestine has become the litmus test of American politics, how AIPAC was dragged out of the shadows, and why she believes the cultural boycott and solidarity movement must stop centering Israeli feelings. She addresses Netanyahu's cynical claims about protecting Christians in Lebanon, Iran's demonstration that the empire can be defeated, and how accusations of antisemitism are weaponized to shield a state committing genocide.

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China has officially rolled out its new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law. While Beijing maintains the law is a crucial step toward national integration and common prosperity, corporate media and human rights groups have been quick to sound the alarm, alleging “forced assimilation” of minority cultures, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang.

Zoon Ahmed Khan, analyst and fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, joins Amanda Yee to situate the Ethnic Unity law within China’s development and poverty alleviation efforts, while also addressing critics’ accusations that the law erases minority languages and allows Beijing to target diaspora communities overseas.

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Will Trump bankrupt Europe by demanding more and more military spending?

Belgian MP and leader of the Workers’ Party of Belgium Peter Mertens wraps up the NATO summit in Ankara, which generated $50 billion in weapons contracts.

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