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Ava DuVernay is the Oscar nominated and Bafta winning director of drama and documentaries such as Selma and 13th. Her latest film Origin is based on the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, which compares discrimination in the United States, India and Nazi Germany.

Besides his announcement on aid to Gaza, Joe Biden came out swinging at Donald Trump last night in his annual State of the Union address to Congress. Facing accusations from Trump that he’s too old and incapable, the President took aim at the man he would only refer to as “his predecessor”.

Growing calls for Israel to allow desperately-needed aid into Gaza appear to be falling on deaf ears.

The Israel-Gaza conflict has impacted the US Presidential race where, despite a comfortable win for Joe Biden in Michigan’s Democratic primary, he faced a significant protest vote.

Voters in South Carolina are choosing the Republican candidate they want to run for the presidency.

Immigration is set to be a key battleground in this year’s US presidential election.

US Senator Bernie Sanders tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why the US should stop its funding for Netanyahu’s “horrific war against the Palestinian people”, why a second Trump victory could foment right-wing movements across the world with disastrous consequences, and why taking on the ruling class is a necessary but “long, long process”, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Anti-gun campaigners are trying new ways to reach politicians with a phone call campaign called The Shotline.

For nearly 60 years the director Martin Scorsese has chronicled American life, and the violence and greed under its surface.

Joe Biden is fighting back after a prosecutor issued a scathing report saying he “wilfully retained” classified documents, but won’t face charges because of his poor memory.

The ‘January 6th’ attack on the US Capitol in 2021 was not an ‘insurrection’ but a ‘riot’, lawyers for Donald Trump have told the US Supreme court.

Iraq has warned of disastrous consequences for the region, after the US launched air strikes on 85 targets used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. It said 16 people were killed in Iraq, some of them civilians. The strikes were in retaliation for a drone attack which killed three US troops last Sunday. And…

We spoke to the retired US General, and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Wesley Clark. We asked him what action he thinks the US should take.

President Biden has been meeting members of his national security team to discuss the Jordan attack. The Pentagon said the United States would take “all necessary actions” to protect American troops.

Donald Trump’s shadow is looming over a major row in the US Senate where Republicans have been blocking tens of billions of dollars in crucial military aid for Ukraine – by tying it to tougher security measures along America’s border.