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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 19, 2025
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Democracy Now Video Dec 19, 2025

Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 19, 2025

First We End the War, Then We Restart the Factories
Scheer Post Dec 19, 2025

First We End the War, Then We Restart the Factories

While industrialisation remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars, and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.

Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again
Democracy Now Dec 19, 2025

Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again

We get an update on the extraordinary case of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland father who first made headlines in March when he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and held in the notorious CECOT mega-prison. Ábrego García was returned to the United States after months of public outrage, but his ordeal continued as the Trump administration has threatened to deport him to Uganda, Eswatini and Liberia, despite having no ties to those African countries. Last week, a federal judge ordered him released from an ICE jail in Pennsylvania and blocked further arrests as a denial of due process. Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Ábrego García’s attorneys, says the administration’s actions are primarily meant “to punish him” for standing up for his rights. “It’s also about the government using him, more or less at random, to stand for the principle that they get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want — and, specifically, courts can’t stop them.”