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The Real News Podcast
Daily Reports, specials, and podcasts by The Real News Network (TRNN). TRNN makes media connecting you to the movements, people, and perspectives that are advancing the cause of a more just, equal, and livable planet. TRNN is a nonprofit media organization. We do not accept advertising revenue or corporate sponsorship.
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The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 29, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastResisting ICE
ICE agents are detaining thousands of people a day from communities across the country. But people are resisting. And it’s having an impact. Millions have…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 27, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastA civil rights icon’s advice for combatting Trump, ICE, and fascism today | The Marc Steiner Show
While each period is historically unique, veterans and scholars of the civil rights movement say there are some important similarities between the era of Jim…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThis government shutdown is not like the others: Furloughed federal workers explain
The federal government shutdown is now in its fourth week. Over 700,000 federal employees have been furloughed, with nearly as many continuing to work without…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 22, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 21, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastNebraska inmate punished for speaking on wife’s podcast
Calling from a prison phone in Nebraska, Nicholas Ely joined his wife, Julie Montpetit, for an episode of Montpetit’s podcast, “More Than an Inmate’s…
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Their kids were all killed by police. Now, they’re leading a movement
In the USA, so many Black parents have seen their children killed by police that, now, growing numbers of those same parents are building a grassroots movement…
The Real News Podcast'This is what Antifa looks like': Baltimore's "No Kings" protests
TOWSON, MD: What brought millions of Americans out to over 2,500 "No Kings" protest sites across the US on Saturday,? Were these protests really "Hate America"…
The Real News Podcast‘Mike Johnson can kiss my ass!’: Voices from the DC “No Kings” protest
WASHINGTON, DC: Amid threats of police crackdowns and accusations from Republican officials that protesters “hate America,” millions of people defiantly turned…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 20, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 20, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music
On October 18, 2019, protests erupted in Santiago, Chile, over a hike in the cost of public transportation. But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than…
The Real News Podcast31,000 workers ON STRIKE at Kaiser Permanente
Around 31,000 registered nurses and front-line healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike, demanding better wages, working hours, and proper…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastWill Texas State University fire a tenured professor based on a Nazi apologist’s doctored video?
“In Texas, a socialist professor is now in the fight of his life against MAGA’s New McCarthyism,” scholar and author Bill V. Mullen writes in Jacobin. “Tom…
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How ICE creates the chaos ICE, cops, and the military are called in to ‘fix’
President Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target “the worst of the worst” criminals, yet the government’s own data reveals…
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Indigenous Peoples' Day | Stories of Resistance
It was once called Columbus Day, and it still is in many parts. A day to celebrate the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who supposedly “discovered”…
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‘A soul-sucking, desolate hell’: How I survived America’s most secretive supermax prison
Eric King is a father, poet, activist, and anarchist who was imprisoned in 2014 for acts of solidarity with the Ferguson, MO, uprising in the wake of the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 10, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastHow can anyone still deny Israel is committing genocide in Gaza?
Intent to destroy all or part of a group is required to meet the criteria of genocide, and Israeli officials have made their intentions towards the people of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 6, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 5, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastGaza flotilla capture inspires global solidarity protests and strikes
Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in recent days. They've marched in dozens of cities. They're demanding respect and safety for the flotilla…
The Real News PodcastMicrosoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt
In a stunning and massive development, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is terminating parts of the Israeli military’s access to proprietary…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastEcuador’s Indigenous movement launches ‘indefinite national strike’
In Ecuador, the country's largest Indigenous movement has been leading mass protests in the streets for nearly two weeks against President Daniel Noboa’s…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 2, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastBreaking down the GOP government shutdown
Seven years ago, during Donal Trump’s first presidential term, the US endured the longest government shutdown in its history: 35 days. Now, in the first year…
The Real News PodcastUS veterans’ final message from the Global Sumud Flotilla before being intercepted by Israel
Peace activists sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla reported Wednesday evening that Israeli naval ships had begun intercepting vessels in their…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastFederal whistleblowers illegally fired after exposing ‘chaos’ at Trump’s HUD
Last week, The Real News Network published a bombshell interview with two federal whistleblowers working in the Department of Housing and Urban Development…
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Trump’s loophole for mass-jailing immigrants: The US Marshals
There are two primary federal agencies tasked with immigration detention: ICE, which is well known, and the US Marshal Service. Under the Trump administration…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastGlobal Sumud Flotilla sails to Gaza despite Israel’s threats
The Global Sumud Flotilla has embarked on the most dangerous leg of its mission to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver life-saving aid to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 29, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, September 29, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Harriet Tubman showed how to act bravely in dark times
Harriet Tubman is an icon for freedom. She first fled slavery with two brothers on September 17, 1849. By the following year, she was returning to save others…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 26, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Jimmy Kimmel is back, but Trump's war on free speech is just beginning
By pressuring broadcast giant ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show—a decision that ABC reversed this week—the Trump administration has taken its…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 25, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 25, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, September 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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CA to close infamous Norco prison—this abolitionist coalition wants to shut down more facilities
After years of pressure from community members and a coalition of over 80 organizations, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has…
The Real News PodcastEXCLUSIVE: Federal whistleblowers expose how Trump’s HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans
Whistleblowers working in the federal government are going public to expose an emergency situation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 22, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, September 22, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastPaulo Freire and education for freedom | Stories of Resistance
Brazilian educator Paulo Freire inspired and he resisted. He was imprisoned and exiled during the Brazilian dictatorship and he carried his teachings around…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 19, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 19, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Argentine students continue to march against the crimes and disappearances of the past
High school students are still marching in Argentina to remember the disappeared—kids like them who were kidnapped, detained, tortured and disappeared nearly a…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, September 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Trump’s incarceration nation: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the beginning
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has halted the imminent closure of the infamous "Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp in Florida; now, the future of the…
The Real News PodcastSanitizing MLK’s legacy begins by forgetting his life outside the South
In our mythological retelling of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. vanquished the racist apartheid system of Jim Crow in the American South…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…