Democracy Now! television program for Thursday, October 23, 2025

Headlines:

“Starvation as a Weapon of War”: ICJ Orders Israel to Restore Access to U.N.-Led Aid Agencies; ; Mass Funeral Held in Gaza for Unidentified Palestinians Whose Bodies Show Signs of Torture; ; Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism; ; U.S. Lawmakers Call on Israel to Release 16-Year-Old Palestinian American Held Months Without Trial; ; Pentagon Says It Blew Up Two Boats Allegedly Carrying Drugs Near Colombia’s Pacific Coast; ; Trump Administration Announces New Sanctions on Russia’s Largest Oil and Gas Companies; ; Federal Government Shutdown Enters Its 23rd Day; ; Trump Administration Dispatches More Than 100 Federal Agents to San Francisco Bay Area; ; Protesters Confront Masked Federal Agents Carrying Out Arrests in Illinois; ; Protesters in New York March in Solidarity with Street Vendors Detained by Federal Agents; ; Cuban Man Deported to Eswatini Launches Hunger Strike; ; North Carolina Lawmakers Approve New Congressional Map; ; NYT: Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots; ; Peru’s Interim President José Jerí Declares 30-Day State of Emergency; ; National Trust for Historic Preservation Asks to Pause Construction of White House Ballroom