Articles – Truthout https://truthout.org Fearless Independent Journalism Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:04:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Truthout-T-logo-sq-1200x1200-e1521532408148-60x60.png Articles – Truthout https://truthout.org 32 32 42 House Democrats Join GOP in Passing Warrantless Mass Surveillance Bill https://truthout.org/articles/42-house-democrats-join-gop-in-passing-warrantless-mass-surveillance-bill/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:04:34 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337417 Dozens of Democrats in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives helped the GOP send a key spying bill to the Senate on Wednesday, earning sharp condemnation from the diverse movement that has called for privacy reforms. The House voted 235-191 in favor of the bill released last week by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has been trying for months to get an extension of Section…

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]]> AOC Calls on Dems to “Play by Same Rules” Republicans Do on Gerrymandering https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-calls-on-dems-to-play-by-same-rules-republicans-do-on-gerrymandering/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:47:33 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337421 Following the calamitous U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that dismantled enforcement mechanisms for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) told reporters that, if Republicans continue trying to redistrict their states to gain a political advantage in the 2026 midterms, Democrats should respond in kind. Ocasio-Cortez has been a staunch proponent of…

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]]> Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory https://truthout.org/audio/hope-is-not-naive-rebecca-solnit-on-backlash-power-and-political-memory/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:17:57 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_audio_post&p=337415 “One of the greatest cures for despair and depression is to do something, and to do something with the people who care,” says Rebecca Solnit. In this episode of Movement Memos, host Kelly Hayes talks with Solnit about hope, backlash, political memory, and why history can help us understand our own power. Their conversation explores feminism, climate grief, authoritarianism, misogyny…

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]]> Iran Isn’t Begging for Negotiations. It’s Setting the Terms for Ending the War. https://truthout.org/video/iran-isnt-begging-for-negotiations-its-setting-the-terms-for-ending-the-war/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:22:15 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337411 Negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war are at an impasse as the conflict enters its third month. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday that Trump has told aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iranian ports to ramp up the pressure on Tehran. Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. “when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be…

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]]> Hegseth Dismisses Testimony of US Soldiers Who Said They Were Put in Danger https://truthout.org/articles/hegseth-dismisses-testimony-of-us-soldiers-who-said-they-were-put-in-danger/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:13:00 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337408 Accounts by U.S. soldiers who survived a deadly strike by Iran in Kuwait that contradicted the Pentagon’s narrative are “falsehoods,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suggested in a contentious hearing in the House on Wednesday. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-New York) asked Hegseth about a CBS report finding that soldiers were commanded to relocate to the U.S. base at a hub in the Port of Shuaiba about a…

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]]> CA Soon May Have Over 300 Data Centers. Locals Worry About Water Supply Threats. https://truthout.org/articles/ca-soon-may-have-over-300-data-centers-locals-worry-about-water-supply-threats/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:02:35 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337403 The new data center proposed for a quiet city about 115 miles east of San Diego came across people’s radars in different ways. For patrons of the deli on West Aten Road, it was the white “Not In My Backyard” signs jutting out of lawns. For local irrigation district workers, it was something called an “electric service application.” For Margie Padilla, it was a rant on Facebook.

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]]> Conservative SCOTUS Ruling Completely Demolishes Voting Rights Act, Kagan Says https://truthout.org/articles/conservative-scotus-ruling-completely-demolishes-voting-rights-act-kagan-says/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:43:50 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337407 The United States Supreme Court issued an opinion on Wednesday that critics say may have finally dismantled protections for nonwhite voters codified in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. By a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines, the conservative-led court found that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was being improperly used by lower courts to require states that have racially gerrymandered their…

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]]> “That’s Murder”: Democrat Grills Hegseth on Order to Commit War Crimes https://truthout.org/articles/thats-murder-democrat-grills-hegseth-on-order-to-commit-war-crimes/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:14:11 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337393 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was grilled about his pledge for the military to commit war crimes by showing “no quarter” to the U.S.’s enemies in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Massachusetts) brought up a statement Hegseth made in a press conference on March 13, just two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. “You said, ‘We will give them no…

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]]> For Decades, Trans People Have Helped Lead the Fight Against Sexual Violence https://truthout.org/articles/for-decades-trans-people-have-helped-lead-the-fight-against-sexual-violence/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:48:15 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337366 Over the past year, we have seen the Trump administration repeatedly use the specter of sexual violence to scapegoat immigrants and trans people — specifically women and transfeminine people. Both historically and currently, these groups are disproportionately likely to face sexual violence, but in the right-wing narrative, they have been reframed as its perpetrators. While breathtaking in its…

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]]> Chicago Teachers Are Organizing to Fight Beyond a Day of Action on May Day https://truthout.org/articles/chicago-teachers-are-organizing-for-may-day-to-fight-beyond-a-day-of-action/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:25:40 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337390 This May Day, workers, students, and families across the country are set to turn out in the thousands or even millions to make their voices heard against the growing power of the billionaire class. May Day, often referred to as International Workers’ Day, has a long legacy in the labor movement. In the late 1800’s — an era of extreme wealth concentration much like our own — American workers…

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]]> DOJ Indicts Comey for Posting “Threatening” Picture of Seashells on Instagram https://truthout.org/articles/doj-indicts-comey-posting-threatening-picture-of-seashells-on-instagram/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:18:05 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337399 The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed charges against former FBI Director James Comey, alleging that an image he shared on social media of seashells arranged in the shape of two numbers amounted to “serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President.” Comey posted the picture in May 2025, displaying shells he found on a beach during his family vacation. The shells made out the…

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]]> Politico Boss Reportedly Demands Allegiance to Israel From Editorial Staff https://truthout.org/articles/politico-boss-reportedly-demands-allegiance-to-israel-from-editorial-staff/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:00:10 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337382 The CEO for the parent company of Politico reportedly told editorial staff at the outlet this week that they should wholly embrace the company’s corporate “values,” which include support for Israel, or find work elsewhere, new reporting reveals. Jewish Insider reported on the meeting held this week between Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and Politico staffers and executives.

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]]> Hundreds of Incarcerated Migrants Go on Hunger Strike in Remote Michigan Prison https://truthout.org/articles/hundreds-of-incarcerated-migrants-go-on-hunger-strike-in-remote-michigan-prison/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:14:19 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337391 Hundreds of immigrant men at North Lake Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, began a hunger strike on April 20 in an attempt to assert their rights to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation. Outside the prison, advocates from all over Michigan converged to offer solidarity to those inside and share the strikers’ demands with the wider public.

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]]> Fetterman Joins GOP in Defeating Senate Democrats’ Attempt to Block War on Cuba https://truthout.org/articles/fetterman-joins-gop-in-defeating-senate-democrats-attempt-to-block-war-on-cuba/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:11:34 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337386 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday defeated a Democrat-led bid to stop President Donald Trump from following through on his threat to wage war on Cuba, whose long-suffering people are reeling from the American administration’s tightened economic stranglehold. Upper chamber lawmakers voted 51-47 on a procedural motion to block further debate Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-Virginia) SJ Res. 124…

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]]> FCC Demands Review of All ABC Station Licenses Following Kimmel Joke on Trump https://truthout.org/articles/fcc-demands-review-of-all-abc-station-licenses-following-kimmel-joke-on-trump/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:27:33 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337383 On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered a review of all station licenses owned by ABC, an apparent escalation of the public feud between Donald and Melania Trump and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made at the president’s expense last week. The filing does not explicitly mention any names or specific television programming. Instead, it states that the FCC…

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]]> Pentagon Says It Gave Kid Rock a Helicopter Ride to Help Him Film Tour Promo https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-says-it-gave-kid-rock-a-helicopter-ride-to-help-him-film-tour-promo/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:07:56 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337375 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took Kid Rock on a joyride in a U.S. Army Apache helicopter on Monday in order to help him get footage to promote his tour — days after the conservative musician begged fans to buy more tickets for the “Freedom 250”-themed tour, with hundreds of tickets still available for shows just a few days away. In a post on social media, Hegseth said that he took Kid…

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]]> May 1 Marks a Crucial “War Powers” Deadline for Trump’s War in Iran https://truthout.org/articles/may-1-marks-a-crucial-war-powers-deadline-for-trumps-war-in-iran/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:42:43 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337376 As a crucial legal deadline for the U.S.’s unauthorized war in Iran approaches later this week, President Donald Trump may opt to ignore it altogether — and Republican leaders in Congress may allow him to. Trump launched the joint U.S.-Israel war in Iran almost two months ago. According to the War Powers Resolution of 1973, any military action taken by a president without congressional…

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]]> Netanyahu’s Testimony in Criminal Trial Cancelled Again for “Security Concerns”  https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahus-testimony-in-criminal-trial-cancelled-again-for-security-concerns/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:56 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337369 Testimony in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial was abruptly cancelled on Monday, lengthening a two-month delay in proceedings for the Iran war in the long-running trial that could result in prison time for the far right leader. Netanyahu’s defense team cited “security” concerns for the cancellation of his testimony, Israeli media reported, without further details.

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]]> Delay for Hep B Shots Could Result in Hundreds of Infant Infections — Studies https://truthout.org/articles/delay-for-hep-b-shots-could-result-in-hundreds-of-infant-infections-studies/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:24:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337372 Two new studies published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) demonstrate that delaying hepatitis B vaccines for newborns, as outlined in guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this year, will likely lead to hundreds of additional infections each year, resulting in millions of dollars in lifetime costs.

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]]> Trump’s Justice Department Is Moving to Make It Easier to Deport DACA Recipients https://truthout.org/video/trumps-justice-department-is-moving-to-make-it-easier-to-deport-daca-recipients/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:41:21 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337370 The Trump administration is continuing its attacks on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, that has given deportation relief and work permits to immigrants who came to the United States as children. The Board of Immigration Appeals — an administrative court within the Justice Department — recently ruled that DACA status is not enough to spare someone from deportation…

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]]> Far Right Israeli Settler Movement Enters Syria in a Push for “Greater Israel” https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-israeli-settler-movement-enters-syria-in-a-push-for-greater-israel/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:26:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337364 Syrian journalist Oudai Efnikher is deeply familiar with life under Israeli occupation. He was born in Kafer Hareb, a village in Syria’s Golan Heights, from which he and his family were expelled after Israel seized the territory during the 1967 Six-Day War. Now he is once again facing down Israeli forces, as they “take our land, kill our crops, and abduct our fathers.” “This is a slow…

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]]> UAE Says It’s Leaving OPEC, in Major Blow to the Cartel https://truthout.org/articles/uae-says-its-leaving-opec-in-major-blow-to-the-cartel/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:44:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337354 The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, known as OPEC, and OPEC+, in a major blow to the cartel amid an energy crisis caused by the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran. The country’s departure will take effect on May 1, it announced in a statement issued through its state news media. It will allow the country to…

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]]> I Will Choose Death Over Treatment Unless NY Changes Its Parole Laws https://truthout.org/articles/i-will-choose-death-over-treatment-unless-ny-changes-its-parole-laws/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:36:50 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337352 In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than Death,” which I’m told has been read by upwards of a million people to date. It describes what life was like in “the box” (the special housing unit, or SHU for short) in New York’s state prisons, and posited that if given the choice, I would have opted for a sentence of death…

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]]> The Supreme Court May Stop Thousands From Suing Monsanto for Giving Them Cancer https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-may-stop-thousands-from-suing-monsanto-for-giving-them-cancer/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:30:21 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337359 John Durnell just wanted to make things around his St. Louis neighborhood look a little nicer. So, on occasion, he’d spray a bit of Roundup in the obvious places — along weedy sidewalks and in public spaces he thought needed a little extra attention. Decades later, after multiple rounds of chemotherapy, Durnell is recovering from blood cancer that a Missouri jury found in 2023 was caused by…

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]]> Ron DeSantis Sends Gerrymandered Congressional Map to Florida Legislature https://truthout.org/articles/ron-desantis-sends-gerrymandered-congressional-map-to-florida-legislature/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:29:26 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337356 Gov. Ron DeSantis released his proposed newly redrawn map of the state’s congressional districts on Monday, one that aims to add four Republican leaning seat to the 20 (out of 28) already represented by Republicans in Florida. The governor released the map first to Fox News before sending to lawmakers an hour later. “They are erasing Democratic representation all across the state…

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]]> New HUD Proposal Targets Trans Housing Protections https://truthout.org/articles/new-hud-proposal-targets-trans-housing-protections/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:48:50 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337361 A newly proposed rule within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would target transgender people, allowing federally funded shelters and housing providers receiving funds from the government to discriminate on the basis of gender. The HUD proposal purportedly “harmonizes” the department’s existing Equal Access regulations with President Donald Trump’s anti-transgender…

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]]> Republican Senators Push for $400M in Taxpayer Funds to Build Trump’s Ballroom https://truthout.org/articles/republican-senators-push-for-400m-in-taxpayer-funds-to-build-trumps-ballroom/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:32:11 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337353 With just over seven months to go until the midterm elections, the US-Israeli war on Iran pushing gas prices past $4 per gallon, and the rising cost of living bringing consumer confidence to an all-time low, political observers marveled on Monday at Republican senators’ decision to center President Donald Trump’s demand for a new $400 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House as a…

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]]> Builder of Trump Ballroom Given $17M for Project Biden Admin Said Would Cost $3M https://truthout.org/articles/builder-of-trump-ballroom-given-17m-for-project-biden-admin-said-would-cost-3m/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:08:02 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337349 The Trump administration has covertly granted the private company building President Donald Trump’s ballroom project a no-bid federal contract for a project near the White House, and then quintupled its value from its original price estimate, new reporting shows. The New York Times reports that, in January, the Trump administration granted Clark Construction a contract to repair two fountains…

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]]> Trump Calls for ABC to Fire Kimmel Over Joke He Made Days Before WHCD Shooting https://truthout.org/articles/trump-calls-for-abc-to-fire-kimmel-over-joke-he-made-days-before-whcd-shooting/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:24:52 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337343 On Monday, first lady Melania Trump posted a demand on social media for television network ABC to “take a stand” against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes about her husband, President Donald Trump. The X post from Melania Trump — which claimed Kimmel’s rhetoric is both “hateful” and “violent” — comes just two days after a shooter nearly breached security at the White House Correspondents’…

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]]> Trump Administration Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads in Effort to Ramp Up Executions https://truthout.org/video/trump-administration-moves-to-bring-back-firing-squads-in-effort-to-ramp-up-executions/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:14:24 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337344 The Justice Department is bringing back the use of firing squads and lethal injection using pentobarbital as it seeks to expedite and expand federal death penalty convictions and executions. No federal executions have been carried out since 2020, when the first Trump administration broke with over a decade of precedent and executed 13 people on death row. The second Trump administration is now…

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]]> Top Biden Official: Israel Committed Genocide, But US Must Still Support It https://truthout.org/articles/top-biden-official-israel-committed-genocide-but-us-must-still-support-it/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:25:08 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337336 A top State Department official under Joe Biden has acknowledged that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza with the help of the U.S. — but says that it is still “critical” for the U.S. to continue backing the genocidal state despite laws explicitly prohibiting such a practice. Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who served in the role up until July 2023…

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]]> Supreme Court Upholds Gerrymandered Texas Congressional Map https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-upholds-gerrymandered-texas-congressional-map/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:15:34 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337339 Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use, after the U.S. Supreme Court formally overturned a lower court’s ruling Monday. In November, the high court allowed the map to be used temporarily. Monday’s ruling maintains that status quo permanently, ensuring the new lines will be used for the 2026 midterms and going forward. The ruling ends the lengthy legal battle over…

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]]> Boat Strike Death Toll Approaches 200 as Trump Administration Continues Murders at Sea https://truthout.org/articles/boat-strike-death-toll-approaches-200-as-trump-administration-continues-murders-at-sea/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:15:12 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337332 The murder spree being conducted by the U.S. government under the direction of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth climbed to an estimated 185 people on Sunday after the Pentagon announced another bombing of a boat it claims was trafficking illegal narcotics. “On April 26, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear…

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]]> Trump Uses Correspondents Dinner Shooting to Push for Ballroom Construction https://truthout.org/articles/trump-uses-correspondents-dinner-shooting-to-push-for-ballroom-construction/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:44:31 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337340 Following the shooting that took place outside the ballroom of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening, President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and several allies of the president renewed calls to build an extravagant ballroom at the White House, claiming the shooting demonstrated a need for greater security at the event. However…

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]]> US and Israel Claimed to Be Fighting for Iranian Minorities — While Bombing Them https://truthout.org/articles/us-and-israel-claim-to-be-fighting-for-iranian-minorities-while-bombing-them/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:37:37 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337326 Iranians of all stripes have been affected by the U.S.-Israeli war on their country, and the civilian cost of the conflict has yet to be fully understood. The United Nations Development Programme has raised the alarm about the “development in reverse” pushing more than 32 million people back into poverty globally, and economists have warned that 10 to 12 million Iranians…

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]]> Despite Ongoing Attacks, Here Are Some Key Wins for the Abortion Rights Movement https://truthout.org/articles/despite-ongoing-attacks-here-are-some-key-wins-for-the-abortion-rights-movement/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:48:05 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337330 In the relentless nightmare that is the post-Roe United States, it can be hard to find the bright spots for abortion rights. Maternal mortality rates in states with abortion bans are increasing. South Carolina, which already has a draconian six-week abortion ban in effect, is now debating whether to ban nearly all abortions in the state. The future of mifepristone access remains murky and tenuous…

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]]> Trump Administration Covering Up “Extensive” Damage Done to US Bases by Iran https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-covering-up-extensive-damage-done-to-us-bases-by-iran/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:38:40 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337327 In their initial retaliatory strikes of the war, Iranian forces caused far more extensive damage to U.S. military assets than Trump administration officials have admitted to in public and private, new reporting finds as Germany’s chancellor says the U.S. is being “humiliated” by Iran. In these strikes, Iran hit over 100 targets across 11 U.S. bases in the Middle East, striking “warehouses…

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]]> 8 in 10 Posts by Trump Calling Someone “Low IQ” Target a Person of Color https://truthout.org/articles/8-in-10-posts-by-trump-calling-someone-low-iq-feature-a-person-of-color/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:40:17 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337328 In a Truth Social post last week, President Donald Trump referred to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as a “low IQ person.” Trump repeated that line of attack in a separate post this past weekend, directed at former MAGA ally Candace Owens. His post included a doctored image of Time magazine labeling the conservative pundit as “Vile Person of the Year.” Trump’s use of the…

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]]> In Atlanta, AI Surveillance Expands as Cop City Reshapes Black Communities https://truthout.org/articles/in-atlanta-ai-surveillance-expands-as-cop-city-reshapes-black-communities/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:21:51 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337322 When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement. For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew…

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]]> Indigenous Leaders Warn AI Boom Repeates Patterns of Extraction https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-leaders-warn-ai-boom-repeates-patterns-of-extraction/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:49:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337320 Artificial intelligence, or AI, is helping Indigenous communities detect illegal logging, track wildfires, and monitoring of traditional lands. But the data centers powering AI are driving new threats, requiring water, energy, and critical minerals often extracted from Indigenous territories. Now, Indigenous leaders at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII…

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]]> Iranian Group Files US-Israeli War Crimes Evidence to International Criminal Court https://truthout.org/articles/iranian-group-files-us-israeli-war-crimes-evidence-to-international-criminal-court/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:44:15 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337318 The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Saturday that his organization has submitted evidence of U.S.-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court and other global bodies, seeking accountability for massive attacks on civilian infrastructure and other violations. “The ICC prosecutor announced that the documents provided by the IRCS are accepted as official evidence…

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]]> Palestinians in Gaza Want to Rebuild Food Systems. Israel Isn’t Letting Them. https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-in-gaza-want-to-rebuild-food-systems-israel-isnt-letting-them/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:46:05 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337287 Before the Israeli war began, Gaza’s agricultural sector was known for its abundant production of fruits and vegetables and was often called the “food basket” of the Strip. Despite extensive Israeli restrictions that hindered the sector’s growth — including limits on the entry of agricultural inputs and the export of goods — farmers in Gaza were still able to produce 25 varieties of fruits and…

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]]> New Mexico Becomes the Latest State to End Cooperation With ICE Under New Law https://truthout.org/articles/new-mexico-becomes-the-latest-state-to-end-cooperation-with-ice-under-new-law/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:38:23 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337211 Grassroots coalitions in a growing number of states are working to pass legislation to cut municipal or state ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The efforts are gaining momentum as the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda throws long-standing problems with the nation’s immigration regime into sharp relief. “We see a tremendous upswelling of this type of legislation…

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]]> Egyptian Family Re-Arrested Following 10 Months in ICE Detention https://truthout.org/articles/egyptian-family-re-arrested-following-10-months-in-ice-detention/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:35:16 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337312 An Egyptian family of six believed to be the longest held at the controversial South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, the nation’s only federal immigrant facility authorized to imprison parents with their children, were redetained Saturday after federal judges this week ordered their release. They are being sent to Egypt on a private plane, according to one of the family’s lawyers.

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]]> Republicans Race to Advance Trump’s Federal Reserve Pick https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-race-to-advance-trumps-federal-reserve-pick/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:44:12 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337309 In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell. The committee vote will take place on April 29, putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on…

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]]> Trump Admin Weakens Air Standards While Almost Half of US Kids Breathe Toxic Air https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-weakens-air-standards-while-almost-half-of-us-kids-breathe-toxic-air/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:38:56 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337301 Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. That’s 33.5 million children — 46 percent of the country’s kids — living in areas with failing grades for at least one measure of air pollution that is particularly harmful to developing lungs. The report also found that…

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]]> As a Teacher in Gaza, I Saw Education Bring Hope. Israel Has Extinguished It. https://truthout.org/articles/as-a-teacher-in-gaza-i-saw-education-bring-hope-israel-has-extinguished-it/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:36:01 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337174 I used to be an English teacher. My classroom walls seemed to breathe with the wind, and the light depended on the mercy of the sun; a very eco-friendly setup, if you think about it. Who needs electricity when the sun graciously decides to show up for class? For eight years, I taught in Beit Hanoun Prep School for young girls; a place where optimism stubbornly thrived in conditions that would…

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]]> As Opposition Grows, Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted an ICE Warehouse https://truthout.org/articles/as-opposition-grows-oklahoma-organizers-share-how-they-halted-an-ice-warehouse/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:33:37 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337279 The recent move from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to convert empty or surplus warehouses into large-scale ICE detention centers has produced a new terrain of struggle in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A notable departure from ICE’s existing detention system, which largely relies on contracts with county sheriff’s departments and privately run prison…

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]]> Trump’s Venezuela, Boat Strike Campaign Have Cost Nearly $5 Billion So Far https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-venezuela-boat-strike-campaign-have-cost-nearly-5-billion-so-far/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:50:33 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337296 The Trump administration’s operations in Latin America over the past seven months have cost nearly $5 billion, finds a new analysis — enough to fund Medicaid for half a million Americans for a year. Thus far, the combination of the military costs for the deadly raid of Venezuela and abduction of then-President Nicolás Maduro as well as the U.S.’s boat strike and surveillance campaign in the…

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]]> Musk and Silicon Valley Aren’t Libertarian. They Want to Fuse With the State. https://truthout.org/video/musk-and-silicon-valley-arent-libertarian-they-want-to-fuse-with-the-state/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:09:55 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337295 In the new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology that has coalesced around him. They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.” Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

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]]> Afghans Stranded in Qatar Express Betrayal at Trump’s Push to Send Them to DRC https://truthout.org/articles/afghans-stranded-in-qatar-express-betrayal-at-trumps-push-to-send-them-to-drc/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:57:16 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337289 The Trump administration is moving to force Afghans who worked alongside the U.S. military either back to the war-torn nation or to the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C), veterans and refugee advocates say. Those Afghans have been stranded at a former U.S. military base in Qatar since 2021, and fear imprisonment and execution by the Taliban’s government if they are pushed back to Afghanistan.

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]]> The First-Ever Conference to End Fossil Fuels Has to Address Militarism, Too https://truthout.org/articles/the-first-ever-conference-to-end-fossil-fuels-has-to-address-militarism-too/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:41:12 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337285 We cannot separate fossil fuels from the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on Iran. The volatility surrounding the Strait of Hormuz has shaken the global economy, restricting the passage of oil from the largest producers in the Gulf region. The economic costs of this illegal, unjust, and unpopular war are mounting alongside the heartbreaking human costs — including troops lost and thousands killed…

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]]> Trump’s Truth Social Posts Upended Iran War Negotiations — Report https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-truth-social-posts-upended-iran-war-negotiations-report/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:41:02 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337288 The United States military announced on Thursday that a third aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, the most the U.S. has sent to the region since the Iraq War. The U.S.S. George H.W. Bush carries over 80 aircraft and has more than 5,500 sailors and air crew on board. Officials would not elaborate on plans for the Bush, but analysts suggested its arrival to the area could mean an…

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]]> Lacking Proper Sanitation, Gaza’s Tent Camps Are Being Overrun by Rodents https://truthout.org/articles/lacking-proper-sanitation-gazas-tent-camps-are-being-overrun-by-rodents/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:04:09 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337271 In Gaza, displaced families are locked in a relentless battle. Since February 2026, a new terror has emerged: Predatory rodents are shredding the tents that residents spent years pleading for at aid organizations and have also begun attacking and biting humans. This has created a state of panic across the camps. Parents now take shifts through the night, standing guard to protect their sleeping…

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]]> Hegseth Says US Military Should Win Nobel Peace Prize “Every Single Year” https://truthout.org/articles/hegseth-says-us-military-should-win-nobel-peace-prize-every-single-year/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:44:49 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337276 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military should win the Nobel Peace Prize “every single year” because it wages war “the right way” — just seconds after bragging about his reshaping of the military to ensure that officers can carry out “maximum violence” under his chain of command. In a briefing on the Iran war on Friday, a TMZ employee asked Hegseth if he would consider…

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]]> Soldier Involved in Maduro Abduction Arrested for Profiting Off Polymarket Bets https://truthout.org/articles/soldier-involved-in-maduro-abduction-arrested-for-profiting-off-polymarket-bets/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:51:27 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337274 The US Justice Department announced Thursday that an American special forces soldier has been arrested and charged for pocketing over $400,000 by betting, on the basis of classified information, on the timing of the Trump administration’s illegal abduction of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty soldier in the US Army who was involved in planning and executing…

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]]> Texas Tech Establishes Draconian New Censorship Policies on LGBTQ Topics https://truthout.org/articles/texas-tech-establishes-draconian-new-censorship-policies-on-lgbtq-topics/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:50:50 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337272 A new memo at Texas Tech University establishes a sweeping and draconian censorship policy toward LGBTQ+ people, creating a campus equivalent of “Don’t Say Gay” in one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university. The memo bars professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core and lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university…

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]]> Critics Slam FCC Move to Update Ratings System to Include Trans Content Warnings https://truthout.org/articles/critics-slam-fcc-move-to-update-ratings-system-to-include-trans-content-warnings/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:45:30 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337277 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a request for public comment on Wednesday, asking parents to weigh in on changes to the current ratings system and whether updates are needed to inform viewers about content related to transgender people — a demand that could result in widespread censorship of LGBTQ voices and representation in media, critics have warned. The request from the…

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]]> Poll Finds Just 4 Percent of Democrats Support Increasing Military Aid to Israel https://truthout.org/articles/poll-finds-just-4-percent-of-democrats-support-increasing-military-aid-to-israel/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:03:51 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337265 New polling has found that just 4 percent of Democratic voters support increasing military aid to Israel, marking a massive rift with congressional Democrats at a time when other polling has found that disapproval of Congress has tied its all-time high. The Economist/YouGov polling released this week found that only 11 percent of American adults say that the U.S. should increase military aid…

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]]> Arizona GOP Bill Permits Prison Sentences for Protesters Who Damage Property https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-gop-bill-permits-prison-sentences-for-protesters-who-damage-property/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:56:22 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337267 A Republican lawmaker who watched as Trump supporters broke into and ransacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021 wants to send Arizona protesters to prison for rioting if they damage property. Under the proposal from state Sen. Mark Finchem, R-Prescott, Arizona’s legal definition of a riot would be changed to include when two or more people “recklessly use force or violence” in a way that damages…

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]]> Trump Envoy Says Italy Should Replace Iran in World Cup https://truthout.org/articles/trump-envoy-says-italy-should-replace-iran-in-world-cup/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:52:04 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337268 Paolo Zampolli, special envoy for global partnerships within the Trump administration, has personally asked both President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino to remove Iran from this summer’s World Cup tournament, to be replaced by Italy, Zampolli’s home country. Zampolli — who reportedly introduced Trump to his third wife, first lady Melania Trump — is a businessman and a…

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]]> Tlaib Introduces Bill to Ban ICE From Using Warehouses to Detain Immigrants https://truthout.org/articles/tlaib-introduces-bill-to-ban-ice-from-using-warehouses-to-detain-immigrants/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:46:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337249 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) introduced a bill on Thursday to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using warehouses and other similar buildings as detention centers, as the government gears up for a campaign of mass incarceration of immigrants that has been likened to the building of concentration camps. The bill, known as the “Ban Warehouse Detention Act…

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]]> Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Shifted From Spectacle to Bureaucratic Blitz https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-war-on-immigrants-has-shifted-from-spectacle-to-bureaucratic-blitz/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:09:10 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337247 In the face of deep public opposition, the notorious Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surges that culminated in the siege of Minneapolis have been deep-sixed, at least for now. Yet that doesn’t mean that the most anti-immigrant administration in modern U.S. history isn’t still looking for less dramatic (but at least as effective) methods to pursue its war against immigrants. In fact…

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]]> Work Rules for SNAP Benefits Don’t Lower Unemployment, Researchers Say https://truthout.org/articles/work-rules-for-snap-benefits-dont-lower-unemployment-researchers-say/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:08:39 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337261 A half-dozen cars had been in the queue for nearly four hours by the time the House of Hope mobile food pantry line began to move. Seventy or so more idled behind them by 11:30 a.m., when the food distribution began. The plan was to begin handing out boxes of groceries at 11, but the Facing Hunger Foodbank truck delivering the food blew a tire en route. No one complained.

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]]> Hundreds Protest Against Citizens Bank Over Ties to ICE Prison Partners https://truthout.org/articles/hundreds-protest-against-citizens-bank-over-ties-to-ice-prison-partners/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:41:32 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337262 On Thursday, hundreds of demonstrators from the Northeast region of the United States gathered outside the Citizens Bank annual shareholders’ meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, to protest against the company’s financial relationships with for-profit prison corporations that operate facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A group of organizations calling themselves the De…

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]]> Trump Shares Racist Podcast Transcript Full of Attacks on Immigrants https://truthout.org/articles/trump-shares-racist-podcast-transcript-full-of-attacks-on-nonwhite-immigrants/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:20:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337251 In a Truth Social post on Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump shared a transcript of a far right podcast that delved into racist viewpoints against nonwhite immigrants entering the United States. The podcast from host Michael Savage railed against immigrants from countries he deemed as undesirable, using those bigoted views to justify terminating the birthright citizenship clause of the…

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]]> Protest Targets Capital One to Demand Bank Ends Loans to Israeli Weapons Company https://truthout.org/articles/protest-targets-capital-one-to-demand-bank-ends-loans-to-israeli-weapons-company/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:16:58 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337248 On the morning of April 21, a dozen community members with the anti-imperialist campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) entered the Capital One corporate offices in Midtown, Manhattan, unfurling two banners that read: “Capital One Pays For Genocide” and “Eject Elbit Systems.” The group quickly installed a “soft blockade” with the banners, partially obstructing two hallways to bring…

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]]> Israel Kills Journalist in Lebanon After “Hunting” Down Her and a Colleague https://truthout.org/articles/israel-kills-journalist-in-lebanon-after-hunting-down-her-and-a-colleague/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:11:58 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337239 Israeli forces killed journalist Amal Khalil and wounded her colleague, Zeinab Faraj, on Wednesday, firing multiple strikes on the journalists in southern Lebanon in Israel’s latest attack on journalists covering its violence across the region. Khalil and Faraj were taking cover in a nearby house after an Israeli strike near their car, while they were out reporting on an Israeli strike on…

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]]> Prolonged Closure of Strait of Hormuz May Lead to Global Hunger Catastrophe https://truthout.org/video/prolonged-closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-may-lead-to-global-hunger-catastrophe/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:49:34 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337245 The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have raised fuel costs and caused shortages of key fertilizers around the world, wreaking havoc on the agricultural industry. Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London, says the effects could be felt for a long time, particularly in the Global South. “About a third of the world’s…

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]]> Senate GOP Blocks Sanders Amendment That Would Have Cut Drug Prices by Half https://truthout.org/articles/senate-gop-blocks-sanders-amendment-that-would-have-cut-drug-prices-by-half/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:57:30 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337237 Senate Republicans voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to reject an amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders that aimed to cut US prescription drug prices in half by mandating that Americans pay no more for medications than people in Canada and other wealthy nations. Just two Republicans, Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, voted with every present Democrat in…

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]]> US Expands “Economic Fury” Sanctions on Iran as Trump Declares Ceasefire https://truthout.org/articles/us-expands-economic-fury-sanctions-on-iran-as-trump-declares-ceasefire/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:06:11 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337228 The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it is expanding its sanctions regime, known as “Economic Fury,” against Iran on Tuesday, escalating the administration’s economic warfare against the country just hours before President Donald Trump announced an extension of the ceasefire in Iran. The administration said it is sanctioning 14 individuals and entities that it claims are involved in…

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]]> Heritage Foundation Wants to “Save the Family” by Further Undermining Child Care https://truthout.org/articles/heritage-foundation-wants-to-save-the-family-by-further-undermining-child-care/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:44:32 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337223 The Heritage Foundation, author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda, has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce. In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” which suggests that U.S.

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]]> Democrats Demand Answers From Patel Over Drinking Allegations, Security Risks https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-demand-answers-from-patel-over-drinking-allegations-security-risks/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:41:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337230 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have sent a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel demanding answers regarding a recent article in The Atlantic that alleges he regularly engages in excessive partying, drinking, and travel at the expense of taxpayers. “A damning and explosive report recently revealed that the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are…

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]]> Indigenous Activists Decry “Data Colonialism” of AI Boom in Their Communities https://truthout.org/video/indigenous-activists-decry-data-colonialism-of-ai-boom-in-their-communities/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:38:22 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337225 The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth, an Indigenous-led environmental justice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects…

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]]> Israel Is Continuing to Seize More of Gaza Beyond the So-Called “Yellow Line” https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-continuing-to-seize-more-of-gaza-beyond-the-so-called-yellow-line/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:25:50 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337219 Israel’s gradual advancement of its “yellow line” to occupy more territory in the Gaza Strip is fueling concerns that it is seeking to effectively annex and colonize the majority of the territory without any formal agreement. The Guardian reported on Wednesday that Israel has been steadily pushing the truce line to take control of more Palestinian territory in the six months since a…

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]]> GOP Senator Suggests Trump Should “Finish” Iran With Nuclear Bomb https://truthout.org/articles/gop-senator-suggests-trump-should-finish-iran-with-nuclear-bomb/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:53:54 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337221 Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (Kansas) said in an interview on Wednesday that President Donald Trump faces issues on par with those of World War II with regard to the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, seeming to suggest that Trump should nuke Iran in order to prevent the country from ever having nuclear weapons. Marshall was asked by a Newsmax anchor if he believes that the U.S.

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]]> Pentagon Assessment Contradicts Trump’s Claims on Iran as Public Opposes War https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-assessment-contradicts-trumps-claims-on-iran-as-public-opposes-war/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:51:45 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337222 A Pentagon report that was recently shared with members of Congress contradicts many of President Donald Trump’s public claims regarding the U.S.’s war on Iran, according to a report by NBC News on Tuesday. Trump has frequently downplayed Iran’s military capabilities, and has called analysis suggesting that Iran is able to continue in the war “corrupt.” At times, he’s claimed that Iran’s navy…

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]]> 2 US Officials Who Died After Mexico Drug Lab Bust Were CIA Operatives https://truthout.org/articles/two-us-officials-who-died-after-mexico-drug-lab-bust-were-cia-operatives/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:46:00 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337212 Two U.S. officials who died in a car crash after a reported drug lab bust in Mexico on Saturday were operatives for the Central Intelligence Agency, reports have revealed, amid the Trump administration’s expansion of paramilitary and covert operations in Latin America. The officers died alongside two Mexican military officials on their way from a raid on a drug lab in the state of Chihuahua.

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]]> Trump Admin Sued for Approving First BP Project in Gulf Since 2010 Disaster https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-sued-for-approving-first-bp-project-in-gulf-since-2010-disaster/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:48:16 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337210 Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its approval of the first British Petroleum drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which occurred 16 years ago this week. The Habitat Recovery Project, Healthy Gulf, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity are plaintiffs in the case against the U.S.

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]]> New Flotilla Shows Palestinians in Gaza That the World Has Not Abandoned Us https://truthout.org/articles/new-flotilla-shows-palestinians-in-gaza-that-the-world-has-not-abandoned-us/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:22:08 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337208 When word of an upcoming maritime flotilla coming from countries thousands of kilometers away first began circulating, Palestinians were in the heart of this war, in one of its harshest moments, with famine silently tearing through Gaza — heavier even than the shelling itself. Despite my awareness of the Israeli occupation’s brutality and severity, and my knowledge that it does not really…

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]]> Pennsylvania Court Rules State Law Banning Funds for Abortion Is Unconstitutional https://truthout.org/articles/pennsylvania-court-rules-state-law-banning-funds-for-abortion-is-unconstitutional/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:57:28 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337213 Earlier this week, a Pennsylvania-based appellate court ruled that a state law banning the use of public funds for abortions was unconstitutional, as it improperly restricted residents with lower incomes who receive state health care services, such as Medicaid. Abortion is legal in Pennsylvania, with the state restricting the practice after 24 weeks of pregnancy. However…

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]]> Locked Up by Israel at 15, Palestine Activist Is Now Jailed by ICE https://truthout.org/articles/locked-up-by-israel-at-15-palestine-activist-is-now-jailed-by-ice/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:11:59 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337200 Nearly a dozen agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded Muslim community leader Salah Sarsour on March 30 after he left his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and serving as president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the city’s largest mosque and Muslim institution, Sarsour is a husband, father, and grandfather described as a pillar of…

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]]> Germany, Italy Block Measure to Suspend EU’s Trade Relationship With Israel https://truthout.org/articles/germany-italy-block-measure-to-suspend-eus-trade-relationship-with-israel/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:09:57 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337199 European Union (EU) foreign ministers blocked a push backed by multiple member states and UN human rights experts to suspend the EU’s special trade agreement with Israel in a meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday. The discussion on the measure was called by Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland, who pushed for EU leaders to consider suspending the agreement due to Israel’s genocide in Gaza…

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]]> RFK Jr. Won’t Commit to Following New CDC Nominee’s Vaccine Guidance https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-wont-commit-to-following-new-cdc-nominees-vaccine-guidance/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:47:02 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337192 In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to say whether he’d commit to accepting policy advice from the nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) if she contradicted his anti-vaccine views. The hearing was meant to discuss budgetary matters…

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]]> Israel Jails Soldiers in Jesus Statue Incident — After Dropping IDF Rape Case https://truthout.org/articles/israel-jails-soldiers-in-jesus-statue-incident-after-dropping-idf-rape-case/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:39:19 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337196 The Israeli military is removing and detaining the soldier who was shown sledgehammering the face of a Jesus Christ statue in a picture taken in a Christian village in southern Lebanon that generated controversy this week — just weeks after dropping charges against five soldiers who were allegedly caught on camera raping a Palestinian detainee. On Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released…

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]]> AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-renews-call-to-oust-trump-after-report-on-his-exclusion-from-situation-room/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:08:27 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337190 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is suggesting that a recent report on President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Situation Room (or lack thereof) during the extraction of U.S. military airmen in Iran should prompt his cabinet members to consider removing him from office. The Wall Street Journal report in question details that Trump, upon learning that the two airmen’s…

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]]> Deaths in ICE Custody Surge in 2026, Averaging 1 Every Week https://truthout.org/video/deaths-in-ice-custody-surge-in-2026-averaging-1-every-week/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:40:51 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337197 As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades. The causes of the deaths have varied, but they include at least one homicide. At least 17 people have died in ICE custody since January. “I have never seen anything like this, where I’m seeing…

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]]> Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Effort to Force Hospitals to Halt Trans Youth Care https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-effort-to-force-hospitals-to-halt-trans-youth-care/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:36:57 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337194 On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai issued a blistering 49-page written opinion vacating the Kennedy Declaration — the December 2025 declaration that threatened to revoke all federal funding, including Medicare and Medicaid, from any hospital or provider that offered gender-affirming care for transgender youth, a virtual death sentence for any hospital system.

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]]> Hungarian Prime Minister-Elect Says Country Will Arrest Netanyahu If He Visits https://truthout.org/articles/hungarian-prime-minister-elect-says-country-will-arrest-netanyahu-if-he-visits/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:44:49 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337182 Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said that his government will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he steps foot in the country, joining roughly a dozen other European countries now off-limits for the man wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity in Gaza. Magyar, who takes office next month, said that he is ending the country’s…

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]]> Southern Poverty Law Center Says It Faces Federal Criminal Investigation https://truthout.org/articles/southern-poverty-law-center-says-it-faces-federal-criminal-investigation/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:17:07 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337186 The Southern Poverty Law Center is the target of a federal investigation, potentially over the use of paid informants to gather intelligence on extremist groups, the organization said in a statement Tuesday. Bryan Fair, the interim CEO of the Montgomery-based civil rights organization, said he does not know all the details of the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice but believes it’…

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]]> Labor Sec. Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid Accusations of Impropriety https://truthout.org/articles/labor-sec-chavez-deremer-resigns-amid-accusations-of-impropriety/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:02:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337184 On Monday, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced her resignation from the department, amid multiple allegations against her and her family members regarding sexual misconduct, abuse of employees, and inappropriate communications with workers. The scandal likely runs deeper than her family circle, as several other aides within the department have resigned as a result of an internal…

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]]> Trump Administration Is Using Christianity to Justify Murder and Empire https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-is-using-christianity-to-justify-murder-and-empire/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:32:13 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337177 As a philosopher, I am known for bringing a deeply uncomfortable truth to bear upon the hegemonic, hierarchical, and privileged embodied reality of whiteness. My aim has been to shape a critical discourse and produce a body of philosophical writing that reveals the ways in which whiteness functions as a mask, as a veil, to cover over the history of its violence. It does this through acts of denial…

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]]> Judge Orders Release of Mother and 5 Children Held in ICE Jail for Nearly a Year https://truthout.org/articles/judge-orders-release-of-mother-and-5-children-held-in-ice-jail-for-nearly-a-year/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:30:47 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337179 A lawyer for a family that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas at the insistence of the Trump administration demanded the family’s release late Monday after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.” “A federal court has determined [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]’…

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]]> Palantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi Germany https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-posts-manifesto-lamenting-post-war-neutering-of-nazi-germany/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:18:21 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337168 Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto on social media that calls for tech companies like itself to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist and white supremacist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state. The post contains 22 points it says were summarized from a 2025…

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]]> Netanyahu Says Israel Is Refuge for Christians After Bombing Countless Churches https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-says-israel-is-refuge-for-christians-after-bombing-countless-churches/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:31:19 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337163 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel is the only place where Christians can thrive in the Middle East, after bombing countless churches and Christian sites across the region and amid outrage over a picture of an Israeli soldier taking a sledgehammer to the face of a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon. In a statement posted to X, Netanyahu said that he condemns…

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]]> A Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break. It Promises to Create 1 Job. https://truthout.org/articles/a-data-center-is-getting-a-77-million-tax-break-it-promises-to-create-1-job/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:15:58 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337166 On a February morning in 2024, a little-known agency in Rockland County held a public hearing on a proposed subsidy for the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center in Orangeburg, near the New Jersey border. In return for nearly $77 million in tax breaks, the project promised to create exactly one permanent job. No one showed up. After 20 minutes of silence, an agency official called the…

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]]> Top Biden Official Supports Trump Iran Attack, Says Biden May Have Done The Same https://truthout.org/articles/top-biden-official-supports-trump-iran-attack-says-biden-may-have-done-the-same/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:31:01 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337149 A top official from the Biden administration has said that he is supportive of President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran from June of last year and suggested that Joe Biden may have done the same if he had been elected to a second term in office. Amos Hochstein, senior energy adviser to Biden within the State Department, said that the Biden administration had modeled similar scenarios to last…

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]]> International Law Is Being Used to Restrain Iran, Enable US and Israel https://truthout.org/video/international-law-is-being-used-to-restrain-iran-enable-us-and-israel/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:51:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=337155 While many Western countries have condemned Iran’s restrictions on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a breach of international law, reaction has been relatively muted about the “clearly unlawful” war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran, says law professor Maryam Jamshidi. “This says a lot about the ways in which international law is being deployed in this moment as a way…

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]]> WI GOP Gov Candidate Mocks Dem Over Her Factual Observations on Climate Crisis https://truthout.org/articles/wi-gop-gov-candidate-mocks-dem-over-her-factual-observations-on-climate-crisis/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:13:40 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337146 A Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor scoffed at the concerns of a Democratic state lawmaker regarding the climate crisis, following an atypical series of hail and tornado storms that hit the state last week. On Tuesday, April 14, Wisconsin State Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski (D) shared a video of her watching a storm from the front deck of her home. Godlewski…

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]]> Israel Continues to Kill Aid Workers in Gaza 7 Months Into the Ceasefire https://truthout.org/articles/israel-continues-to-kill-aid-workers-in-gaza-seven-months-into-the-ceasefire/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:13:35 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=337154 Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving a truck for the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) on April 6 when the Israeli army killed him in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Aslan was the main driver in a WHO convoy that was transporting injured Palestinian patients from Gaza to Egypt and other countries. The convoy already had its coordinated permit from the Israeli army to move, as per protocol.

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