Headlines for February 5, 2025
Trump Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Entire Gaza Strip and for U.S. to “Take Over”, U.S. Ignores ICC Arrest Warrant Seeking Netanyahu’s Arrest for Crimes Against Humanity, “A Serious Violation of International Law”: Palestinians Reject Trump’s Gaza Takeover Bid, Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer, Killed in 2023 Israeli Strike, Finally Laid to Rest in Gaza City, Trump Places 10,000 USAID Workers on Leave and Orders Them to Return to U.S., Trump Orders U.S. WIthdrawal from U.N. Human Rights Council and U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Federal Workers Sue DOGE, Alleging Musk Illegally Compromised Personal Information, Democratic Lawmakers Protest Elon Musk’s “Hostile Takeover” of U.S. Government, Ukraine’s Zelensky Accepts Trump’s Bid to Trade U.S. Arms for Rare Earth Minerals, Senate Confirms Trump Loyalist Pam Bondi as Attorney General, Proud Boys Lose Trademark Rights to Historic Black Church It Attacked in 2020, ACLU Sues to Block Trump’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender
Youth, Senators Advance Nominations of RFK Jr. for Health Secretary, Tulsi Gabbard for Intelligence Chief, Hundreds of Women Raped and Burned to Death as M23 Rebels Seize Eastern DRC’s Goma, Philippine Congress Impeaches Vice President Sara Duterte over Corruption, Assassination Threats