Articles – Truthout https://truthout.org Fearless Independent Journalism Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:16:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Truthout-T-logo-sq-1200x1200-e1521532408148-60x60.png Articles – Truthout https://truthout.org 32 32 ICE Arrests Palestinian Activist Who Leads Wisconsin’s Largest Islamic Group https://truthout.org/articles/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-who-leads-wisconsins-largest-islamic-group/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:34:50 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336771 A large and diverse crowd packed a community center on Milwaukee’s south side Thursday, calling for the release of Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee. Sarsour, who is of Palestinian descent, was detained by federal immigration agents Monday morning. His supporters are calling Sarsour’s arrest an targeted act of political retaliation designed to chill opposition to the…

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]]> Hegseth Says He’s Ending Ban on Troops Carrying Personal Firearms on Bases https://truthout.org/articles/hegseth-says-hes-ending-ban-on-troops-carrying-personal-firearms-on-bases/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:30:40 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336768 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that he is expanding troops’ ability to carry personal firearms on military bases, lifting a longtime ban amid widespread anxiety and low morale among military members due to the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran. “Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones. Unless you’re training, or unless you are a military policeman…

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]]> Freed After a Year in ICE Jail, Palestinian Protester Leqaa Kordia Speaks Out https://truthout.org/video/freed-after-a-year-in-ice-jail-palestinian-protester-leqaa-kordia-speaks-out/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:22:53 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336777 We speak with Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas. She was arrested in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to target student activists and others who advocated for Palestinian rights. Kordia was born in the occupied West Bank and lives in New Jersey. She was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza…

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]]> No Kings Must Mean No War: Foreign Policy Is Least Democratic Space in Politics https://truthout.org/articles/no-kings-must-mean-no-war-foreign-policy-is-least-democratic-space-in-politics/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:11:20 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336770 As I headed to my local “No Kings” protest on March 28, I tuned in to the livestream of the far right Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to listen to a man who is currently cheering on a war in order to rule as a monarch over my homeland. “Can you imagine Iran going from ‘Death to America’ to ‘God bless America?’” Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last shah, asked the CPAC crowd…

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]]> Trump’s New Pharma Tariffs Could Drive Up Medical Costs, Patient Advocates Warn https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-new-pharma-tariffs-could-drive-up-medical-costs-patient-advocates-warn/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:59:54 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336758 On Thursday, the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day, US advocacy groups sounded the alarm about his new tariffs targeting “patented pharmaceuticals and their ingredients under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to bolster American national security and public health.” The administration announced a year ago that the US Department of Commerce…

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]]> Turning Point USA Throws Weight Against Clean Energy in Local Arizona Election https://truthout.org/articles/turning-point-usa-throws-weight-against-clean-energy-in-local-arizona-election/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:03:06 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336756 In a country characterized by antiquated systems for regulating how electricity is produced and transported to homes and businesses, one utility in Arizona may be the most outdated. In 1903, almost a decade before Arizona became a state, a group of landowners around Phoenix secured a federal loan for a dam on the Salt River. The dam collected water to irrigate farms and produce hydroelectric power…

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]]> CA Should Send Prisoners Home Instead of Spending Millions on New Facilities https://truthout.org/articles/ca-should-send-prisoners-home-instead-of-spending-millions-on-new-facilities/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:01:53 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336761 For two years, I walked the lower yard track at San Quentin State Prison, watching construction crews tear down an old furniture factory to build a $239 million Scandinavian-styled learning center. They have now removed the fence blocking the incarcerated population’s view of the new facility. Last week marked the opening of the building, only for incarcerated people who have designated…

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]]> Austria Becomes Latest EU Country to Deny US Military Use of Its Airspace https://truthout.org/articles/austria-becomes-latest-eu-country-to-deny-us-military-use-of-its-airspace/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:31:03 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336752 Austria says it’s banned the U.S. military from using its airspace, adding to a growing list of countries denying requests from the U.S. military amid its joint war on Iran with Israel as President Donald Trump lashes out at allies for refusing direct participation in the atrocities. The Austrian Defense Ministry cited its wartime neutrality policy for the decision. “There have indeed been…

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]]> Israel’s Palestinian-Only Death Penalty Law Draws on Britain’s Colonial Playbook https://truthout.org/articles/israels-palestinian-only-death-penalty-law-draws-on-britains-colonial-playbook/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:49:22 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336747 The picture of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir jubilantly trying to open a champagne bottle on the Knesset floor over the passing of a death penalty law for Palestinians will be anchored in history as one of those photographs that needs no caption. It’s the image of a country that has never truly left the colonial moment into which it was born. It didn’t simply inherit…

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]]> Trump Ousts Pam Bondi, Who Leaves Legacy of Epstein Cover-Up https://truthout.org/articles/trump-ousts-pam-bondi-who-leaves-legacy-of-epstein-cover-up/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:38:37 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336743 President Donald Trump announced that he has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, who leaves behind a legacy of obstructing the release of the Epstein files and protecting the alleged sex abusers named within them. “Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Thursday afternoon.

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]]> Has the US Already Lost the War on Iran? https://truthout.org/video/has-the-us-already-lost-the-war-on-iran/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:13:48 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336737 President Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address Wednesday to discuss the war on Iran, his first since the United States and Israel launched attacks on February 28. Trump gave few clues about when or how the war could end, but he boasted about killing top Iranian leaders and degrading the country’s military. He threatened to bomb Iran “back to the stone ages, where they belong.”…

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]]> Buffalo’s Rohingya Community Demands Accountability After Disabled Refugee Dies https://truthout.org/articles/buffalos-rohingya-community-demands-accountability-after-disabled-refugee-dies/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:12:45 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336739 It has been more than a month since the body of a disabled Rohingya refugee was found on a Buffalo, New York, street five days after his release from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody. Friends and family members, along with local immigrant communities and elected officials across the state, are demanding answers. The death of 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam has shaken Buffalo’s…

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]]> Trump Says US Will Bomb Iran Into “Stone Ages,” Invoking Vietnam Carpet Bombing https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-us-will-bomb-iran-into-stone-ages-invoking-vietnam-carpet-bombing/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:58:41 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336734 President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth vowed to bomb Iran into the “Stone Ages” in concerning statements on Wednesday night harkening to Vietnam War-era atrocities, as the U.S. and Israel carry out strikes on life-supporting infrastructure in Iran. In his prime time remarks to the U.S. public on Wednesday night, Trump said that, over the next two to three weeks, the U.S.

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]]> Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War https://truthout.org/articles/christian-nationalists-in-us-government-push-attacks-on-iran-as-holy-war/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:16:20 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336728 How Christian clergy talk about Jesus this Easter Sunday will tell you a lot about their politics. While parishioners in the U.S. are likely to be greeted by the traditional refrain, “He is risen,” at their April 5 Easter service, they’re just as likely to be met with the phrase, “Christ is King.” This rhetoric replaces the traditional understanding of Easter as a celebration of Jesus’s sacrifice…

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]]> Trump Slashed Medicaid. Now He Says US Can’t Fund It Because of His War on Iran. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-slashed-medicaid-now-he-says-us-cant-fund-it-because-of-his-war-on-iran/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:18:17 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336730 Two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio unironically advised Iran to spend its public funds “helping the people of Iran” instead of on weapons, President Donald Trump announced that the US government has “to take care of one thing: military protection” and isn’t able to provide people in the US with necessities like healthcare and childcare. “Oh wow, he actually admitted it…

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]]> Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions https://truthout.org/audio/rupture-and-repair-under-fascist-conditions/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:22:30 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_audio_post&p=336726 “We have a great opportunity in our movements to learn how to be opponents without being enemies,” says Tanuja Jagernauth. In this first of a two-part conversation, Jagernauth and host Kelly Hayes discuss the language people use to describe harm and conflict, the difference between disagreement and abuse, and how organizers can move through conflict with more clarity and care under fascist…

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]]> Faculty Fight Anti-Union Tactics at St. John’s University in New York https://truthout.org/articles/faculty-fight-anti-union-tactics-at-st-johns-university-in-new-york/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:19:29 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336723 Sixty-two years ago, St. John’s University (SJU) in New York City became the site of the first major faculty strike in U.S. history — a year-long conflict that followed the firing of 33 teachers, including three priests, without due process. Now, the struggle over labor conditions has forced the faculty to once again mobilize, a move precipitated by the current college administration’s abrupt…

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]]> Israel Strikes Pharmaceutical Factory in Tehran That Made Cancer Drugs https://truthout.org/articles/israel-strikes-pharmaceutical-factory-in-tehran-that-made-cancer-drugs/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:17:12 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336717 On Tuesday, Israel struck a major pharmaceutical factory in Tehran that is one of the country’s top producers of cancer drugs and anaesthetics, the Iranian government said. The facility belongs to Tofigh Daru Research and Engineering Company. It made drugs that are crucial for use in hospitals and operating rooms, officials said. “During the US and Zionist regime attacks on civilian…

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]]> Our Prison-Like Clinic System Is Thwarting Effective Opioid Addiction Treatment https://truthout.org/articles/our-prison-like-clinic-system-is-thwarting-effective-opioid-addiction-treatment/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:16:36 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336444 Indulge me. Imagine you take a medication that is vital to your health: as vital as oxygen or water. You can’t go a single day without it because you are completely dependent on it to think, to work, to take care of your family, to just be you. And if you miss a dose? A withdrawal hellscape awaits: extreme muscle and bone pain, intense cravings, vomiting, insomnia, severe anxiety, cramps…

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]]> Reproductive Health Care Restrictions May Exacerbate Health Care Shortages https://truthout.org/articles/reproductive-health-care-restrictions-may-exacerbate-health-care-shortages/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:54:52 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336713 When an Alabama clinic’s only OB-GYN left the state to provide abortion care in Colorado, the head of operations thought the facility would have to close. But Robin Marty, executive director at WAWC Healthcare in Tuscaloosa, hired a doctor in August who she called a “unicorn” — someone who’s from Alabama and, after training outside of the state, returned home to practice medicine.

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]]> Trump Attends Supreme Court Arguments After Slamming Justices Who Are “Disloyal” https://truthout.org/articles/trump-attends-supreme-court-arguments-after-slamming-justices-who-are-disloyal/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:08:40 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336711 In an unprecedented move, President Donald Trump attended oral arguments in the Supreme Court on Tuesday as justices weighed his executive order on birthright citizenship, sparking concern that he was trying to intimidate justices after months of criticism over their rulings. Trump’s motorcade arrived at the court around 10 am Eastern Time, and the president walked into the building…

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]]> Workers in Colorado Continue Historic Strike at US’s Largest Meat Processor https://truthout.org/video/workers-in-colorado-continue-historic-strike-at-uss-largest-meat-processor/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:01:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336709 More than 3,000 meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, have been on strike since mid-March, the first major labor strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry since 1985. Workers at JBS USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Brazilian-based multinational JBS, are protesting unfair and dangerous labor conditions, including low wages, lack of personal protective gear and discrimination against its majority…

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]]> Rubio Unironically Says Iran Should Spend Money on Its People, Not on Military https://truthout.org/articles/rubio-ironically-says-iran-should-spend-money-on-its-people-not-on-the-military/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:57:29 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336707 Secretary of State Marco Rubio lectured Iran in interviews this week, saying that the country should be spending money on supporting its people rather than on weapons and militaristic causes — an ironic statement coming from an administration that has gutted the U.S.’s social safety net while requesting a record-shattering Pentagon budget. “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their…

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]]> Trump Order Gives US Postal Service Unprecedented Control Over Mail Voting https://truthout.org/articles/trump-order-gives-us-postal-service-unprecedented-control-over-mail-voting/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:28:36 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336703 President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a second executive order on elections, this one giving the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented oversight over who is voting by mail, a move experts and state election officials said will quickly draw legal challenges. The order, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” says that states can send the U.S.

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]]> Supreme Court Rules Colorado Conversion Therapy Ban Violates Free Speech Rights https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-rules-colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-violates-free-speech-rights/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:14:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336701 The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for youth violates the free speech rights of a Christian counselor, clearing the way for a practice that goes against the recommendations of every major medical association in the country. Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson condemned the ruling as “cruel” in a statement to the media Tuesday. “Today’…

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]]> Low-Income Moms Struggle to Keep Their Families Afloat Amid Gas Price Increases https://truthout.org/articles/low-income-moms-struggle-to-keep-their-families-afloat-amid-gas-price-increases/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:24:14 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336693 The rise in gas prices happened so quickly, single mom Luna Rosado has barely had time to adjust. Rosado fills her tank twice a week to commute to her two health care jobs and shuttle her three kids to school, basketball and soccer practice. This month, as costs have risen 30 percent after the start of war in Iran, she’s been paying about $40 more a week on gas. That’s $160 less a…

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]]> Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Are Threatening to Shutter Hospitals Across the US https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-medicaid-cuts-are-threatening-to-shutter-hospitals-across-the-us/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:22:40 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336698 The unprecedented Medicaid cuts that US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans approved last summer are putting hundreds of hospitals across the country at high risk of cutting services or permanently shutting their doors, a potentially devastating outcome for millions of poor Americans that was repeatedly predicted ahead of time. The advocacy group Public Citizen released a…

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]]> Advocates Condemn New Israeli Law Instituting Death Penalty for Palestinians https://truthout.org/articles/advocates-condemn-new-israeli-law-instituting-death-penalty-for-palestinians/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:02:45 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336695 Leading international human rights groups as well as organizations in Israel swiftly demanded the repeal of a law passed by the Israeli Knesset on Monday that makes death by hanging the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis — a law that one group called “discriminatory by design.” Those were the words of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel…

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]]> It’s Not Just Huerta. For Many Survivors, Silence Seems Like the Only Option. https://truthout.org/articles/its-not-just-huerta-for-many-survivors-silence-seems-like-the-only-option/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:40:23 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336663 Questions about Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the larger movement for the rights and dignity of farmworkers hang heavy on the hearts and minds of many this week, following The New York Times report published earlier this month. The report, which was published on March 18, investigated extensive allegations of sexual assault and abuse against United Farm Workers of America (UFW) co-founder…

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]]> Trans People Behind Bars Share How They Are Navigating the Dangers of Visibility https://truthout.org/articles/trans-people-behind-bars-share-how-they-are-navigating-the-dangers-of-visibility/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:36:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336675 Today is International Trans Day of Visibility, a day to celebrate the resilience and accomplishments of transgender people worldwide. The extraordinary accomplishments — in law, art, and beyond — of incarcerated trans people tend to receive far too little celebration. Yet many trans people in prison keep fighting for their communities, in environments where they often face violence…

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]]> A Shady Nonprofit Pushes Back on Pennsylvania’s Proposed Minimum Wage Hike https://truthout.org/articles/a-shady-nonprofit-pushes-back-on-pennsylvanias-proposed-minimum-wage-hike/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:07:41 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336681 Almost as soon as the state House passed a bill which would raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, an organization called the Employment Policies Institute began reaching out to members of the media in Pennsylvania to share its view. One press release included a quote attributed to Rebekah Paxton, identified as the group’s research director. “Today’s vote ignores the well…

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]]> Israel Admits It Used Faked Photo to Say Slain Journalist Was Part of Hezbollah https://truthout.org/articles/israel-admits-it-used-faked-photo-to-say-slain-journalist-was-part-of-hezbollah/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:40:49 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336674 In a remarkably frank statement on Sunday, Israeli forces openly admitted to using a faked picture of a journalist they killed in Lebanon as supposed evidence that he was affiliated with armed groups. On Saturday, Israeli forces killed three journalists who were reporting on Israel’s expanded bombardments and ground invasion of Lebanon. They were in a clearly marked press car on their way to…

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]]> Thousands of Iranians Who Live on Kharg Island Face Possibility of US Invasion https://truthout.org/articles/thousands-of-iranians-who-live-on-kharg-island-face-possibility-of-us-invasion/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:33:56 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336682 Over the past month of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, Donald’s Trump mission has creeped from vowing that he’s “not putting troops anywhere” to backing himself into an escalation that makes the chance of ground invasion far more likely. As many as 17,000 American troops could be gathering in preparation for an operation to land on, and potentially even seize, any number of Iranian islands in…

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]]> The EPA Is Routinely Failing to Require Warnings on Cancer-Linked Pesticides https://truthout.org/articles/the-epa-is-routinely-failing-to-require-warnings-on-cancer-linked-pesticides/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:29:38 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336678 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is failing to put warnings on pesticides linked to cancer — even when the agency itself determined a product’s ingredients are carcinogenic, according to two new analyses of federal data. The EPA has put cancer warnings on 1.4% — 69 of 4,919 — of pesticide labels for products that contain an active ingredient that the agency itself has designated…

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]]> US Killed Children in Iran Using New Missile That Explodes Into Pellets https://truthout.org/articles/us-killed-children-in-iran-using-new-missile-that-scatters-pellets-explosively/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:21:49 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336673 The U.S. hit a school and sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, on the first day of its war on the country, using a new, untested weapon made by Lockheed Martin that unleashes an explosive barrage of metal pellets on its target, new reporting finds. The U.S. strike on February 28 hit a building where dozens of young girls were doing their regular sports training, as well as an adjacent elementary…

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]]> Trump Convenes “God Squad” Committee in Move That Could Annihilate Whale Species https://truthout.org/articles/trump-convenes-god-squad-committee-in-move-that-could-annihilate-whale-species/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:03:29 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336672 On March 31, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will convene a rare meeting of the Endangered Species Committee. Sometimes referred to as the “God Squad,” the panel could effectively roll back existing environmental protections by exempting companies from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), paving the way for oil and gas projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

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]]> Trump Touts “Hand-Carved” Columns on Ballroom as War Costs US 10k Jobs a Month https://truthout.org/articles/trump-touts-hand-carved-columns-on-ballroom-as-war-costs-us-10k-jobs-a-month/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:54:08 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336667 As major firms have blared dire warnings about the effects of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran on the economy and the growing affordability crisis, President Donald Trump on Sunday bragged to reporters about plans for his $400 million gilded White House ballroom on Air Force One. Holding up printed renderings of the ballroom, Trump bragged for several minutes about the extravagant-looking…

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]]> Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Targeted in Assassination Plot https://truthout.org/video/activist-nerdeen-kiswani-speaks-out-after-being-targeted-in-assassination-plot/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:13:02 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336669 New York police say they foiled an assassination attempt against Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani. She describes the terror of finding out about the plot and why it reflects the “impunity” with which Zionist groups have targeted pro-Palestine voices. “It really made me feel even more vulnerable than I already do as a Palestinian activist,” says Kiswani, co-founder of the group…

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]]> Pope Leo Says God “Does Not Listen to the Prayers of Those Who Wage War” https://truthout.org/articles/pope-leo-says-god-does-not-listen-to-the-prayers-of-those-who-wage-war/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:38:46 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336662 Pope Leo XIV used his Palm Sunday sermon to take what appears to be a shot at U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In his sermon, excerpts of which he published on social media, the pope emphasized Christian teachings against violence while criticizing anyone who would invoke Jesus Christ to justify a war. “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to…

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]]> Millions Join “No Kings” Protests in One of Largest US Rallies https://truthout.org/articles/millions-join-no-kings-protests-in-one-of-largest-us-rallies/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:02:05 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336659 Millions of American across all 50 states on Saturday rallied against President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda during nationwide No Kings protests. The flagship No Kings rally in Minneapolis, which organizers Indivisible estimated drew over 200,000 demonstrators, featured speeches from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)…

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]]> A Texas City Faces Water Crisis as Big Oil and Gas Use Most of It https://truthout.org/articles/a-texas-city-faces-water-crisis-as-big-oil-and-gas-use-most-of-it/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:31:21 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336657 When Thiago Campos bought the Mr. Fancy Pants Carwash business in Corpus Christi, Texas, three years ago, he wasn’t thinking about drought. He was familiar with varnishes and waxes and enjoyed figuring out which kind of soap would best remove local dirt. “I’m a chemical engineer,” Campos said. “I felt like the carwash matched my skill set.” But Mr. Fancy Pants, with its two locations…

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]]> With Gaza Still Under Blockade, Recycling Has Become a Matter of Life and Death https://truthout.org/articles/with-gaza-still-under-blockade-recycling-has-become-a-matter-of-life-and-death/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:41:36 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336587 Gaza has long been described as an “open-air prison.” The more I reflect on the term, the more it feels like a painful truth rather than mere hollow rhetoric. A suffocating blockade has been imposed for decades, with two border crossings sealed shut depending on the political climate and circumstances, often leaving no feasible exit for patients seeking medical referrals or students hoping to…

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]]> How Maryland’s Medical Examiner Helped Conceal Suspicious Deaths https://truthout.org/articles/how-marylands-medical-examiner-helped-conceal-suspicious-deaths/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:39:13 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336655 Nearly 20 years ago, I stepped into the downtown Baltimore office of an obscure state official named Dr. David Fowler. He was lanky, affable, with an Afrikaner accent that alluded to his South African roots. He was also the state’s chief medical examiner, the man who determined the fate of all cases of suspicious deaths across the state. I had no idea at the time, but roughly two decades…

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]]> Inside the Grassroots Campaign That Pushed a Drone Company Out of Brooklyn https://truthout.org/articles/inside-the-grassroots-campaign-that-pushed-a-drone-company-out-of-brooklyn/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:50:08 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336630 On the morning of February 11, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit landlord responsible for developing the Brooklyn Navy Yard, convened a closed-doors meeting. One item of business concerned the lease of Easy Aerial, an AI drone manufacturer with material ties to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Israeli military, and one of 550 businesses housed…

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]]> “Price Tag” Attacks Part of Effort to Expand Israeli Settlements in West Bank https://truthout.org/articles/price-tag-attacks-part-of-effort-to-expand-israeli-settlements-in-west-bank/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:03:12 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336652 Al-Funduqumiya, West Bank — On March 21, a Palestinian vehicle collided with an ATV near the village of Beit Imrin in the West Bank, killing the ATV driver. Had it not been for the fact that the driver of the ATV was 18-year-old Yehuda Sherman of the illegal Israeli outpost of Shuva Yisrael Farms, the incident would likely have been handled as an ordinary traffic accident. Instead…

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]]> Trump Admin Touts ACA Fraud Fixes While Pushing New Barriers to Coverage https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-touts-aca-fraud-fixes-while-pushing-new-barriers-to-coverage/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:23:35 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336650 Complaints about enrollment fraud in Affordable Care Act health insurance coverage have bedeviled the federal marketplace for years. Now, the Trump administration is claiming wins in reducing the problem while simultaneously saying more controls are needed. It has proposed a sweeping set of ACA regulations for next year, including stepped-up requirements for some applicants to prove…

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]]> Houthis Strike Israel, Expanding Trump’s Illegal War on Iran https://truthout.org/articles/houthis-strike-israel-expanding-trumps-illegal-war-on-iran/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:36:24 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336648 The Houthis on Saturday took credit for launching a ballistic missile at Israel, opening a new front in the war U.S. President Donald Trump illegally started with Iran nearly one month ago. As reported by Axios, the attack by the Houthis signals that the Yemen-based militia is joining the conflict to aide Iran, which has been under aerial assault from the U.S. and Israel for the past four…

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]]> Teaching LGBTQ History Is Required in California But Many Teachers Still Hesitate https://truthout.org/articles/teaching-lgbtq-history-is-required-in-california-but-many-teachers-still-hesitate/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:06:37 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336646 Olive Garrison has been teaching high school history in Bakersfield for the past eight years. Born and raised in the Central Valley city, Garrison has incorporated LGBTQ history into lessons, from the Lavender Scare, a moral panic in which thousands of gay workers in the 1940s and ’50s were driven out of government service jobs, to the struggles of queer Americans during the Great Depression.

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]]> European Progressives Have Chance to Turn Far Right Losses Into Long-Term Defeat https://truthout.org/articles/european-progressives-have-chance-to-turn-far-right-losses-into-long-term-defeat/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:26:02 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336627 For years now, hard right, anti-immigrant, and in some cases overtly fascist political parties have been on the march in Europe, veering from one electoral triumph to the next. When large numbers of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war began arriving in Europe in 2015, right populist groupings seized on the humanitarian crisis to cultivate a narrative that the whole continent would inevitably…

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]]> Israel Is Dropping 2,000-Pound Bombs on Densely-Populated Tehran, Reports Say https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-dropping-2000-pound-bombs-on-densely-populated-tehran-reports-say/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:55:03 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336634 Israeli forces are using extremely destructive 2,000-pound bombs on residential areas in Tehran, reports say, slaughtering dozens and violating international law barring the use of such weapons in areas where a disproportionate amount of civilians may be harmed. A series of strikes in Resalat in eastern Tehran killed between 40 and 50 civilians, completely destroying three residential…

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]]> Judge May Reconsider Dismissing Maduro’s Case Due to US Blocking His Legal Funds https://truthout.org/articles/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:17:06 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336633 U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is blocking funds for their legal defense, in violation of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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]]> Some States Are Boosting Reproductive Health Access, Maternal Health, Child Care https://truthout.org/articles/some-states-are-boosting-reproductive-health-access-maternal-health-child-care/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:49:29 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336631 The Republican-majority U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to uphold a Trump administration policy banning abortion care and counseling for veterans at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Last year, the Trump administration overturned a Biden-era policy that made abortion procedures and counseling in cases of rape, incest or a medical emergency available at VA facilities.

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]]> Jeremy Scahill Debunks Trump’s Lies About US Strategy and Negotiations With Iran https://truthout.org/video/jeremy-scahill-debunks-trumps-lies-about-us-strategy-and-negotiations-with-iran/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:04:24 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336628 Drop Site News’s Jeremy Scahill joins Democracy Now! to discuss the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including President Donald Trump’s lies about U.S. strategy and negotiations with Iran, possible avenues of U.S. escalation and what Scahill has learned about Iranian strategy in conversations with Iranian officials. “They want to cause enough pain to the world economy … [so] that any nation that thinks…

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]]> Hegseth Prays for “Overwhelming Violence” in Iran in the “Name of Jesus Christ” https://truthout.org/articles/hegseth-prays-for-overwhelming-violence-in-iran-in-the-name-of-jesus-christ/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:51 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336623 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth asked Pentagon officials to pray for “overwhelming violence” against enemies in Iran and elsewhere in the “name of Jesus Christ” at a Christian worship service on Wednesday. The remarks, made at Hegseth’s monthly worship service — the first he’s held since the U.S. and Israel began their war on Iran — reinforced public concerns over his Christian nationalist…

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]]> Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices https://truthout.org/articles/some-states-are-targeting-a-tactic-corporations-use-to-raise-your-grocery-prices/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:27:10 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336624 One online grocery shopper got charged $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins, while another — buying from the same store at the same time — got charged $4.89. A consumer watchdog detected this price discrepancy during an investigation last September in Seattle. The grocery app Instacart used an artificial intelligence-powered algorithm that charged customers differently for each item by as much as…

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]]> Top House Dems Delay Iran War Powers Vote as Trump Threatens Ground Invasion https://truthout.org/articles/top-house-dems-delay-iran-war-powers-vote-as-trump-threatens-ground-invasion/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:40:39 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336621 Backlash is continuing to grow after US House Democratic leaders made the decision to push off a war powers vote on President Donald Trump’s Iran war for more than two weeks, even though they may have the votes to pass it immediately. With Trump appearing poised to make the deathly unpopular decision to deploy ground troops into Iran within days, momentum around an act to restrict his…

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]]> Iranians Grapple With Grief While Observing Their New Year During War https://truthout.org/articles/iranians-grapple-with-grief-while-observing-their-new-year-during-war/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:19:19 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336619 For millennia, Iranians have marked the first day of spring, which usually falls on March 20 or 21 according to the Persian solar calendar, as the beginning of their new year. The 13 days of festivities that typically follow are known in Iran as Nowruz, meaning “new day” in the Persian language. But as Iran continues to be bombed by the United States and Israel in a war of aggression that is now…

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]]> Trump Isn’t Just Bullying Journalists. He’s Subverting the First Amendment. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-isnt-just-bullying-journalists-hes-subverting-the-first-amendment/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:19:48 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336614 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr made a social media post on March 15 that free speech advocates say will go down in history as a blatant attempt at wartime censorship. Instead of warning consumers about current efforts by billionaire oligarchs to consolidate cable news broadcasters under their control, the FCC chair threatened the broadcasters by suggesting they…

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]]> Report: Many Middle East US Bases “All But Uninhabitable” Due to Iran Strikes https://truthout.org/articles/report-many-middle-east-us-bases-all-but-uninhabitable-due-to-iran-strikes/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:54:49 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336611 The appearance of triumph and U.S. might has been of paramount importance to President Donald Trump and his administration amid their war on Iran, with much of their pro-war propaganda centered around a vision of the U.S. military as infallible. But the U.S. has suffered major losses in the war thus far, the extent of which were reportedly revealed in a New York Times article on Wednesday.

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]]> Measles Outbreak in Texas Immigration Jail Spills Into the Public https://truthout.org/articles/measles-outbreak-in-texas-immigration-jail-spills-into-the-public/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:06:20 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336608 An explosion of reported measles cases in Texas’ federal detention facilities broke through to the public last month, infecting at least four El Paso residents who worked in one of the centers and potentially exposing the highly contagious disease to the wider population, according to emails obtained by The Texas Tribune through record requests. The emails also reveal that as they grappled…

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]]> US, Israel Vote Against UN Resolution Condemning Translatlantic Slave Trade https://truthout.org/articles/us-israel-vote-against-un-resolution-condemning-translatlantic-slave-trade/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:28:45 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336602 The U.S. and Israel were two of only three countries to vote against a resolution in the UN to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations. The resolution strongly condemns slavery and the trafficking of Africans and recognizes the impacts of the “abhorrent regimes of slavery and colonialism” and contemporary colonialism of Africa.

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]]> Amid War, the Middle East Remains a Key Center of the Global Economy https://truthout.org/video/amid-war-the-middle-east-remains-a-key-center-of-the-global-economy/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:27:44 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336604 The U.S. is threatening to intensify its bombardment of Iran as the country’s leadership rejects a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the war. Iran has issued a number of demands, including recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil…

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]]> The US-Israeli War on Iran Is Incentivizing Nuclear Proliferation https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-incentivizing-nuclear-proliferation/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:53:25 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336601 Speaking before a Friends of Ireland luncheon while wearing a lucky green tie for St. Patrick’s Day, President Donald Trump announced, “the war is proceeding very, very strongly. We’re doing very, very well in Iran, knocking the hell out of ‘em and you have to do that. We can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. They were two weeks away in my opinion, two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.”…

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]]> Trump Admits Iran War Is Unconstitutional: “You’re Supposed to Get Approval” https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admits-iran-war-is-unconstitutional-youre-supposed-to-get-approval/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:30:32 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336598 President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that he is avoiding using the word “war” in reference to the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran in order to avoid accountability from Congress — effectively openly admitting that his war on Iran is unconstitutional. “I won’t use the word ‘war’,” he said in an address to Republicans at a fundraising dinner. “They don’t like the word ‘war’ because you’…

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]]> War Is Exacerbating Iran’s “Water Bankruptcy” https://truthout.org/articles/war-is-exacerbating-irans-water-bankruptcy/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:37:49 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336597 Last week, following attacks on critical energy and water facilities escalating, the Israeli-U.S. war in Iran entered a new stage. “Now the war on infrastructure has started,” said Kaveh Madani, a water researcher at the United Nations University and former deputy vice president of Iran. On March 18, Israel struck the South Pars gas field in Iran, the largest natural gas field in the world.

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]]> Sanders and AOC Introduce Bill to Pause New AI Data Centers Nationwide https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-and-aoc-introduce-bill-to-pause-new-ai-data-centers-nationwide/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:16:47 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336595 Two of the leading progressives in the US Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced legislation on Wednesday that would impose a nationwide moratorium on the construction of new artificial intelligence data centers amid mounting concerns over their insatiable consumption of power and water resources, impacts on the climate, and other harms. Sanders’ (I-Vt.)…

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]]> Trump DHS Slammed After Data Reveals It Tried to Deport Nearly 300 Veterans https://truthout.org/articles/trump-dhs-slammed-after-data-reveals-it-tried-to-deport-nearly-300-veterans/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:10:28 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336584 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to deport nearly 300 veterans and their family members in Donald Trump’s first year back in office, according to new data released by Democratic lawmakers, despite protections offered to those officers when they joined the military. Between Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, and January 26, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

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]]> Minnesota Sues Trump Admin for Withheld Evidence in Good, Pretti Killings https://truthout.org/articles/minnesota-sues-trump-admin-for-withheld-evidence-in-good-pretti-killings/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:35:21 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336582 The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District…

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]]> Florida Passes Its Own Version of the SAVE America Act https://truthout.org/articles/florida-passes-its-own-version-of-the-save-america-act/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:02:27 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336580 A signature piece of voting legislation championed by President Donald Trump may not have much of a future in the U.S. Senate, but in Florida, the future is here. Earlier this month, Republican lawmakers in Trump’s home state approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s voter registration system, one that mirrors the core idea behind the federal SAVE America Act: requiring proof of citizenship…

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]]> Pope Leo: Aerial Bombing Should Have Been Banned Forever After 20th-Century Wars https://truthout.org/articles/pope-leo-aerial-bombing-should-have-been-banned-forever-after-20th-century-wars/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:28:18 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336574 Pope Leo XIV has said that aerial bombings should have been banned forever after the wars of the 20th century, carving out the strong anti-war stance amid a backdrop of a U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that has received international condemnation for its wanton civilian slaughter. The pope made his remarks in an address to the staff of Italian carrier ITA Airways on Monday, where he tied papal air…

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]]> Trump Administration Will Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Block 2 Offshore Wind Farms https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-will-pay-nearly-1-billion-to-block-2-offshore-wind-farms/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:18:06 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336577 The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast, the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind. The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, with the United States paying $928 million to reimburse…

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]]> Raskin: DOJ Records Suggest Trump Leveraged Classified Docs for Financial Gain https://truthout.org/articles/raskin-doj-records-suggest-trump-leveraged-classified-docs-for-financial-gain/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:17:10 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336576 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is demanding “urgent answers” from Attorney General Pam Bondi over a memo suggesting that President Donald Trump may have used the classified documents he improperly removed from the White House at the end of his first term for his own financial gain. In his letter, Raskin said the memo in question — which…

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]]> Delia Ramirez Calls for Dismantling “Agency of Terror” as New DHS Head Sworn In https://truthout.org/video/delia-ramirez-calls-for-dismantling-agency-of-terror-as-new-dhs-head-sworn-in/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:19:17 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336572 Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Representatives. He joins the Trump administration amid a partial government shutdown, with Democrats demanding reforms to immigration enforcement before fully…

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]]> Trump Declares Iran War “Has Been Won” as Pentagon Deploys 3,000 Paratroopers https://truthout.org/articles/trump-declares-iran-war-has-been-won-as-pentagon-deploys-3000-paratroopers/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:10:25 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336566 President Donald Trump dubiously claimed on Tuesday that the U.S. and Israel have already “won” their war on Iran, blaming the media for the continuation of the war as news emerges that the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops to the Middle East. “We’ve won this war. The war has been won,” Trump said in remarks to the media on Tuesday, parroting the same claims of victory he’s asserted for…

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]]> Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump’s Immigration Crackdown https://truthout.org/articles/disabled-organizers-are-facing-down-trumps-immigration-crackdown/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:21:18 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336569 Since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office last year, the number of people in immigration detention has almost doubled from 40,000 to about 75,000. Disabled people face an increased threat of violence and detention from law enforcement, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents who have been deployed to terrorize communities and…

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]]> Farmers Describe Torture From US-Ecuadorian Joint Military Operation https://truthout.org/articles/farmers-describe-torture-from-us-ecuadorian-joint-military-operation/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:30:08 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336565 Just a day after President Donald Trump suggested that he’d use his crushing economic blockade in a bid to “take” Cuba, an administration official said much more American warfare is on the horizon across Latin America. It’s called “Operation Total Extermination,” according to Joseph M. Humire, the acting assistant secretary of war for homeland defense and Americas security affairs…

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]]> Pentagon Revises Restrictions on Journalists — by Essentially Kicking Them Out https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-revises-restrictions-on-journalists-by-essentially-kicking-them-out/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:55:47 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336567 The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has established a new policy that essentially boots journalists out of the Pentagon building — less than a week after a federal judge ruled that a separate attempt by the agency to restrict journalists was unconstitutional. The DOD announced on Tuesday that it is closing the workspace in the Pentagon that has for years been used by journalists…

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]]> Trump’s Iran War May Mark the Beginning of the End for Dollar-Backed US Empire https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-iran-war-may-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-dollar-backed-us-empire/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:17:03 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336561 In recent decades, imperialism has been somewhat out of fashion as a subject of analysis in academic circles. Yet in the past several months, President Donald Trump had reminded everyone that U.S. imperialism is indeed alive and kicking. In fact, imperialism never went away, as leading radical economist Costas Lapavitsas points out in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows. Lapavitsas…

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]]> US, Israeli Attacks Have Damaged Nearly 500 Schools, 300 Health Centers in Iran https://truthout.org/articles/us-israeli-attacks-have-damaged-nearly-500-schools-300-health-centers-in-iran/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:25:55 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336553 The U.S. and Israeli bombardments of Iran have devastated tens of thousands of civilian facilities, the Iranian Red Crescent Society says, killing over a thousand civilians so far and damaging infrastructure considered completely off limits in war time like schools and hospitals. Over 82,000 civilian structures have been damaged by U.S. and Israeli bombardments, the group reported this week.

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]]> GOP Senator: Postwar Plan for Iran Is “Hope for the Best and See What Happens” https://truthout.org/articles/gop-senator-postwar-plan-for-iran-is-hope-for-the-best-and-see-what-happens/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:46:42 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336556 United States Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) indicated on Tuesday that the U.S.’s plan for Iran — as President Donald Trump wages an illegal and unprovoked war on the country — is to “hope for the best and see what happens.” Earlier this month, Trump suggested that he intends to have final say on who will control Iran after the war’s conclusion — blatantly contradicting his past claims that he…

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]]> Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest https://truthout.org/articles/climate-fueled-heat-waves-are-creating-a-water-crisis-in-the-southwest/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:25:00 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336551 Tucson, Arizona — Deadly heat waves have become the summertime norm in Arizona and much of the Southwest in recent years. But this year, those heat waves are coming months before the height of summer. As an atmospheric “heat dome” planted itself over much of the U.S. West, temperatures outside Phoenix reached 101 degrees on the first day of spring, making Arizona the hottest place on Earth.

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]]> Gavin Newsom Says He “Reveres the State of Israel,” Regrets Apartheid Label https://truthout.org/articles/newsom-says-he-reveres-the-state-of-israel-says-he-regrets-apartheid-label/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:03:31 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336543 California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for saying in a recent interview that he “reveres” Israel, just weeks after he labeled it as an apartheid state. “I revere the state of Israel. I’m proud to support the state of Israel,” Newsom said in an interview with Politico released on Tuesday, when asked whether he considers himself a Zionist. Newsom said that he is opposed to…

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]]> Rage Against ICE in Minnesota Was Born Out of Heartbreak https://truthout.org/articles/rage-against-ice-in-minnesota-was-born-out-of-heartbreak/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:01 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336546 The resistance to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis was a courageous response to our nation’s ongoing moral crisis in immigration policy. Acts of civil disobedience over the last couple months have raised public consciousness of corporate collusion with state violence, encouraged people to take risks in defense of their neighbors, and even elevated the role of love in resistance.

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]]> Black Seniors Without Birth Records Could Be Disenfranchised by SAVE America Act https://truthout.org/articles/black-seniors-without-birth-records-could-be-disenfranchised-by-save-america-act/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:29:27 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336548 When Courtney Patterson was born on his family’s farm in Lenoir County, North Carolina, 80 years ago, he was fortunate that a country doctor recorded his birth, ensuring that he would have a document later. “But many other people who grew up with me didn’t even have that,” Patterson recalled. Babies were usually delivered at home by midwives who were illiterate. On the rare occasions a doctor…

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]]> Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating” https://truthout.org/articles/trump-votes-by-mail-in-florida-special-election-despite-calling-it-cheating/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:32:48 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336544 President Donald Trump utilized mail-in voting for a special election in Florida this week, despite years of falsely claiming that the method is rife with fraud and shouldn’t be trusted. Voting records from Palm Beach County, Florida, indicate that Trump voted by mail for the election taking place on Tuesday. Mail-in ballots were due by this Sunday, meaning Trump cast his ballot sometime…

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]]> German President Says Trump’s War on Iran Should Cause Permanent Rupture With US https://truthout.org/articles/german-president-says-trumps-war-on-iran-should-cause-permanent-rupture-with-us/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:55:10 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336533 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has issued a rare condemnation of the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s “disastrous” war on Iran, saying that it causes an irreparable rupture with the U.S. akin to Germany’s rupture with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. In remarks to German diplomats in Berlin, Steinmeier said that the war “violates international law” and that the U.S.

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]]> Iranian Government Dismisses Trump’s Claim That US-Iran Negotiations Have Begun https://truthout.org/video/iranian-government-dismisses-trumps-claim-that-us-iran-negotiations-have-begun/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:03:48 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336539 “This is about how far Israel can extend its dominion, how much of a hard-power, dominant hegemon it can be in the region.” Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project says that U.S. involvement in the ongoing war on Iran is being driven by Israel’s expansionist ambitions in the Middle East. “Israel is still on the impunity high from its Gaza genocide, which has led us here.” Levy…

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]]> US Concentration Camps Exist to Expand the Power of Trump’s Authoritarian Regime https://truthout.org/articles/us-concentration-camps-exist-to-expand-the-power-of-trumps-authoritarian-regime/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:44:36 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336537 The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, U.S.

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]]> Office of Refugee Resettlement Has Become an Arm of Immigration Enforcement https://truthout.org/articles/office-of-refugee-resettlement-has-become-an-arm-of-immigration-enforcement/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:18:28 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336531 Carlos arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children. By that point, his 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter had been in a federal shelter in Texas for nearly a year after crossing the border to be with him. “I feel like I’m suffocating inside this shelter, trapped with no way out,”…

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]]> Twin Cities Win JFK Library Award for Resisting ICE Crackdown https://truthout.org/articles/twin-cities-win-jfk-library-award-for-resisting-ice-crackdown/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:30:58 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336530 On Thursday, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced that the people of Minnesota’s Twin Cities will receive the Profiles in Courage Award for their resistance to President Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown earlier this year. The annual award — named for a book written by President John F. Kennedy listing figures who displayed courage and political integrity throughout U.

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]]> Judge Calls Murder Charge in Georgia Abortion Case “Extremely Problematic” https://truthout.org/articles/judge-calls-murder-charge-in-georgia-abortion-case-extremely-problematic/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:11:30 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336528 A state judge in Georgia on Monday set a bail payment at just $1 for a woman who was charged with murder earlier this month after she took abortion pills to end a pregnancy — a charge about which Judge Steven G. Blackerby of State Superior Court expressed extreme skepticism. “I think that charge is extremely problematic,” Blackerby said during a hearing that the woman, Alexia Moore…

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]]> Omar Condemns Cuba Oil Blockade as “Economic Warfare” Amid Third Total Blackout https://truthout.org/articles/omar-condemns-cuba-oil-blockade-as-economic-warfare-amid-third-total-blackout/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:22:35 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336512 The U.S.’s oil blockade on Cuba, a small island country already suppressed from decades of a comprehensive U.S. embargo, amounts to “economic warfare,” the purpose of which is to “suffocate” the country, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Saturday as Cuba was plunged into its second nationwide blackout in a week. “We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed…

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]]> Some Adults Are Delaying Treatment Until Medicare Following ACA Subsidy Loss https://truthout.org/articles/some-adults-are-delaying-treatment-until-medicare-following-aca-subsidy-loss/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:19:45 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336505 John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare. He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insurance premium payment tripled this year to $2,460, about a third of his income, he said. And with a $2,700 deductible, he’d be on the hook for most of the diagnostic exam…

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]]> ICE Raids and Medicaid Cuts Put Both Caregivers and Their Patients at Risk https://truthout.org/articles/ice-raids-and-medicaid-cuts-put-both-caregivers-and-their-patients-at-risk/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:16:33 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336508 Sixty-five-year-old Kristy Madden works to coordinate government-funded assistance for disabled people and others in need of in-home care. But while she loves her job, she worries that, if the Trump administration has its way, access to this essential aid may be eliminated. “I have muscular dystrophy (MD) and live with my younger sister who also has MD,” Madden says.

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]]> Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Pushing Systemic Change in Elected Office https://truthout.org/articles/formerly-incarcerated-women-are-pushing-systemic-change-in-elected-office/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:07:54 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336498 The first bill that Tarra Simmons passed restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated Washingtonians. That was in 2021, the year after she was elected Washington’s first formerly incarcerated state representative. “That was my freshman bill,” she told Truthout. The following year, the state passed her bill to expand housing assistance vouchers from three to six months for people…

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]]> Trump Pushes False Narrative in Ordering ICE Agents to “Help” TSA at US Airports https://truthout.org/articles/trump-pushes-false-narrative-in-ordering-ice-agents-to-help-tsa-at-us-airports/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:59:47 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336517 On Monday, at the order of President Donald Trump, ICE agents were deployed to over a dozen airports across the United States, purportedly to help handle Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) duties amid a continued Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. The shutdown is the result of disagreements on funding the department, with Democrats demanding reforms to Immigration…

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]]> Israeli Settlers Rampage Through Multiple West Bank Towns, Unleashing Terror https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-settlers-conduct-multi-town-pogrom-across-west-bank-unleashing-terror/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:02:59 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336500 Israeli settlers have rampaged through multiple towns in the occupied West Bank for two nights in a row, unleashing a campaign of destruction and terror on Palestinian residents with the backing of the Israeli and U.S. governments. On Saturday, Israeli settlers attacked at least six communities, including Jenin in the north and Masafer Yatta in the south. Settlers set homes and cars on fire…

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]]> Israeli Defense Minister Cites Destruction of Gaza Cities as “Model” for Lebanon https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-defense-minister-cites-destruction-of-gaza-cities-as-model-for-lebanon/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:19:47 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336490 Israel is planning to use Gaza as a “model” for its expanding assault on Lebanon, its defense minister said on Sunday as he pledged to begin the demolition of homes in border villages. In a statement Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to “immediately destroy all the bridges over the Litani River that are…

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]]> Trump Admin Rejects Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Proposal for Removal to Costa Rica https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-rejects-kilmar-abrego-garcias-proposal-for-removal-to-costa-rica/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:19:16 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=336496 The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend. Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, which will accept him as a refugee, and is fighting his removal to another third…

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]]> Applications for Conscientious Objector Status Have Spiked Since Iran War Began https://truthout.org/video/applications-for-conscientious-objector-status-have-spiked-since-iran-war-began/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:18:38 +0000 https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=336499 With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has received a massive increase in inquiries from soldiers seeking to submit conscientious objector applications. Prysner cites a “shift in consciousness” among…

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