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Morocco and Israel agree to normalize relations, and the U.S. becomes the first country in the world to recognize Morocco's sovereignty over occupied Western Sahara; Joe Biden picks retired General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon.

The World Food Programme accepts the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize as world hunger surges; Joe Biden's pick of Tom Vilsack to head the USDA raises alarm among progressives; Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's military offensive displaces tens of thousands.

A growing movement calls for a people's vaccine and suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access in poorer countries; The federal execution of Brandon Bernard is set for Dec. 10 over opposition from five jurors and a prosecutor in his case.

A Black mother attacked with her family by Philadelphia police speaks out; Why California's Proposition 22 is a major loss for worker rights and win for Uber and Lyft; The House votes to decriminalize marijuana, echoing ballot measures passed nationwide.

When it comes to ballot measures that passed in the 2020 election, “economic justice stuck out as an area where the wins were many,” says ACLU Political Director, Ronald Newman.

As President Trump pressures Georgia's governor to overturn the presidential election results, we look at the state's two Senate runoff elections that will decide who controls the upper chamber in the coming years.

As COVID deaths and hospitalizations reach record highs, we speak to one of the top infectious disease doctors, Dr. Paul Farmer, about the pandemic and his new book, "Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds," on his experience battling Ebola in West Africa.

Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, was one of four human rights defenders to win this year’s Right Livelihood Award on Thursday.

Nigeria admits its soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters in October; In India, an estimated 250 million people join a general strike as farmers protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to deregulate agricultural markets.

We speak with Briahna Joy Gray about Biden's proposed economic advisers and look at the role of investment giant BlackRock in his incoming administration; a major biography of Malcolm X wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

In Part 2 of our extended interview with Tamara Payne, co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” with her late father Les Payne, she shares details the award-winning book reveals.

As the CDC considers how to distribute coronavirus vaccines, we speak to two African American doctors who have spent years fighting racial disparities in healthcare; Marking World AIDS Day with professor Steven Thrasher.

Iran accuses Israel of assassinating its top nuclear scientist; Sister Helen Prejean on the DOJ’s expansion of the ways it can execute; Trump plans to carry out a slew of executions in his lame duck session, including the first woman in nearly 70 years.

Today, we re-air an exclusive Democracy Now! documentary from Western Sahara, which has been under Moroccan occupation since 1976. "Four Days in Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony."

Holiday special: Jodi Archambault & Allie Young on the Native vote and how COVID is devastating indigenous communities; Juan González on how the media missed the real story about the Latinx vote; Bree Newsome & Eddie Glaude on the 2020 election.