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Truthout @truthout.org · 5h
ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers who cannot access the medical care they need, according to the reporting. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many people had miscarriages after October 2025.
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ICE Jail Policies for Pregnant People Built on Legacy of Eugenics, Critics Say
A record number of pregnant women and teenagers have been arrested by ICE. They cannot access medical care they need.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 5h
On Sunday, the United Kingdom’s Green Party passed a motion defining Zionism as a form of racism. Within hours of the vote, Israel’s foreign ministry responded, slamming the motion and barring Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel.
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Israel Bans Polanski After UK’s Green Party Votes to Classify Zionism as Racism
The Green Party motion also calls for a single state in historic Palestine with equal rights for all.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 6h
Trump’s boat-bombing spree continued on Sunday despite condemnation from around the world, claiming four more lives and bringing the death toll from the 13-month campaign to at least 238.
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Another Trump Administration Boat Strike Claims 4 More Lives
“Where is Congress to stop the horror?” asked Amnesty International USA.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 6h
Vice President JD Vance told reporters that he sees no problem with the campaign-style TV ads featuring Trump that are being produced using taxpayer dollars and airing ahead of the midterm elections. “They are not partisan; it’s not like we’re advocating for a particular candidate.”
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Vance Sees “Nothing Unusual” in Taxpayer-Funded Ads Promoting Trump
Some critics have decried the ads as likely illegal, and potentially an impeachable offense.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 6h
Cuba has announced that 158 new economic and social measures are being implemented in what has been described as “the most profound economic reform programme … since the 1959 revolution.”
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Cubans See Hope in Reforms But Worry Over How the US May Thwart Them
Residents of Havana discuss the obstacles facing the revival of the Cuban economy amid the US fuel blockade.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 7h
In a campaign speech in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, President Donald Trump suggested he would withhold federal funds from the state if voters elect Democratic politicians in this year’s midterm races.
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At Ohio Campaign Rally, Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid If Democrats Get Elected
“I’m not going to help” if an Ohio Democratic candidate for governor wins, Trump said.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 8h
A high-stakes legal showdown over climate change is taking place today at the U.S. Supreme Court, where attorneys representing two Colorado local governments will ask justices to allow Boulder’s lawsuit seeking monetary damages from Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil to proceed in state court.
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Case at Supreme Court Could Have Profound Consequences for Other Climate Suits
With help from the Trump administration, Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil have asked the court to quash the lawsuit.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 8h
On August 18, Trump’s USDA officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest. The rule protects forests from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development.
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Trump’s Repeal of Roadless Rule Would Declare Open Season on Protected Forests
A public policy expert described the move as “the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 9h
Brazil’s presidential election is headed to a runoff between leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro after neither candidate cleared 50%. Bolsonaro received 47% of the vote compared to Lula’s 45%. The second round of voting is on October 25.
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Far Right Makes Gains in Brazil in First Round of Presidential Race
“The momentum has been with the right since 2018,” says Brazilian philosopher Rodrigo Nunes.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10h
“It should help,” Trump said of the war on Iran. The president then blamed supposed media spin for Americans’ negative views of the war, admitting it could hurt Republicans in the midterms.
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Trump Says Iran War “Should Help” Republicans in Midterms, Blames Media for Negative Voter Perceptions
Recent polling shows more than 6 in 10 Americans want the war to end as soon as possible.
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 10h
See the moment when Border Patrol and militarized police cut down the sacred Grandmother Tree, a more than 200-year-old Cottonwood on private property and Indigenous territory. The tree sitter and many others are have been arrested, according to activists @ Tierra Libre anti-border wall camp
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/10/2026
Advocates say the case is an alarming example of the prevalence of unsubstantiated forensic science.
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Maryland Used Discredited Science to Convict a Woman of Murdering Her Newborn
Advocates say the case is an alarming example of the prevalence of unsubstantiated forensic science.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/10/2026
As mergers concentrate outlets in the hands of a few billionaires, the right’s grip on mainstream media grows tighter.
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Corporate Media Consolidation Is What Makes Trump’s War on the Press Possible
As mergers concentrate outlets in the hands of a few billionaires, the right’s grip on mainstream media grows tighter.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/10/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez appeared in court in a wheelchair Wednesday, the bullet still lodged in his spine.
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Austin Communities Rally Around Victim of ICE Shooting as He Faces Criminal Charges
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez appeared in court in a wheelchair Wednesday, the bullet still lodged in his spine.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/10/2026
Organizer Chris Dixon discusses how we can sustain our collective efforts over years of social and political struggle.
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A Lifelong Organizer Shares Lessons on Sustaining Activism for the Long Haul
Organizer Chris Dixon discusses how we can sustain our collective efforts over years of social and political struggle.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/10/2026
A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.
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Authoritarianism Leads Teachers to Self-Censor. Solidarity Lets Us Teach Truth.
A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
A landmark settlement confronts decades of pollution — but the corporate system keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.
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Corporations Are Dodging Accountability for PFAS Contamination Around the Globe
A landmark settlement confronts decades of pollution — but the corporate system keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
The movement against voter disenfranchisement follows a wave of youth protests that swept India this summer.
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Hundreds Arrested in New Delhi During Mass Protests Over Voter Roll Purges
The movement against voter disenfranchisement follows a wave of youth protests that swept India this summer.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
The US has been heavily intervening on behalf of right wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s elections.
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In Brazil’s Elections, Trump Seeks to Tighten Right Wing Grip on the Americas
The US has been heavily intervening on behalf of right wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s elections.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
The US Commerce Secretary is bullying California with an audit that could strip the state of control over its own coast.
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Trump’s “Drill, Baby, Drill” Regime Is Now Targeting California’s Coastline
The US Commerce Secretary is bullying California with an audit that could strip the state of control over its own coast.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.
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A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center
Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.
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Report: Trump Used Grok to Help Talk Him Into Illegal Invasion of Venezuela
The president reportedly used the AI chatbot for hours when Elon Musk visited the White House last December.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Half of the population of Doral, Florida is from Venezuela, yet the city voluntarily signed an agreement with ICE. Now that the mayor and other politicians are receiving backlash for signing the agreement, they are trying to falsely claim the state of Florida obligated the city to sign on.
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Florida City That Willingly Signed Deal With ICE Finds Itself in Crisis
Half the population of Doral, Florida, is from Venezuela. Why haven’t its leaders rescinded their deal with ICE?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
This week, Rebecca Cooke, a Democratic congressional candidate in Wisconsin, sent a “cease and desist” order to her Republican opponent due to his constant use of AI generated “deepfakes” featuring her likeness. “He’s been using AI to put words in my mouth because he has nothing else to run on.”
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Dem Candidate Sends “Cease and Desist” Order to Republican Over Deepfake Ads
Democrat Rebecca Cooke said the deepfakes produced by GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden “undermine our democratic process.”…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Trump’s Justice Department has entertained the idea of reframing former President Richard Nixon as a victim of “deep state” persecution in the Watergate scandal, with allies likening Nixon to Trump as an unfairly maligned figure.
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Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking Into Delegitimizing Watergate Prosecutors and Clearing Nixon
JD Vance has previously suggested the administration views both Trump and Nixon as victims of the “deep state.”…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
At a campaign rally in Florida, JD Vance said democratic socialist Angie Nixon was un-American, “When Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is, ‘Get the hell out of here,'” Vance said during the rally. “You don’t belong in America, if those are your views.”
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Vance Tells Florida Senate Candidate to “Get the Hell Out” of US Over Political Views
“This is my home,” Angie Nixon, the democratic socialist candidate targeted by Vance, said in response.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
On Friday, Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the Balad party, withdrew from Israel’s upcoming elections, in a maneuver that will likely cost the left-wing party its relevancy in the Israeli parliament after Israel’s Supreme Court advised him to withdraw.
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Israel’s Supreme Court Pushes Palestinian Candidate to Withdraw From Elections
Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the left-wing Balad party, withdrew from Israel’s upcoming elections on Friday.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Amid allegations of insider trading, bets on military operations, and deceptive marketing practices, some states are seeking to sue or ban prediction markets. But the federal government is suing states that seek to enforce their gambling laws against them.
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Kalshi Is Lobbying States to Fight Off Regulations for Prediction Markets
Prediction market companies say they offer regulated financial swaps. Many states argue they are gambling operations.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“They are looking for our thoughts... They want to see who I’m messaging. They want to see what WhatsApp groups I am part of.” -Jalal Shehadeh on searches of pro-Palestine folks' phones at the border truthout.org/articles/bor...
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
The company behind Trump’s meme coin has launched a competition giving participants an opportunity to attend “the most exclusive dinner in the world” — all they have to do is buy a digital token with no inherent value that has lost investors billions of dollars while further enriching the president.
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Trump Meme Coin Contest Over Dinner With the President Raises Ethics Concerns
The top 185 buyers of Trump’s meme coin, which has lost investors billions, are promised dinner with the president.
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Right before announcing retirement, an admin judge ruled Trump and Rubio can deport Salah Sarsour. But the fight's not over yet. A member of American Muslims for Palestine, Sarsour was arrested by ICE in March 2025, when Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil were also arrested for fascist spectacle.
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A Judge Ruled Trump Can Deport Salah Sarsour. But the Fight Is Not Over Yet.
Legal experts say far right groups conspired with the Trump administration in an effort to deport Palestine activists.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Jared Kushner’s private equity company reportedly has major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military, as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as a top negotiator for Trump on Gaza.
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Kushner, Key Trump Negotiator on Gaza, Owns Firm With Major Stake in Israeli Military
Kushner’s private equity company is the biggest shareholder in a Tel Aviv firm that invests heavily in arms makers.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
Jalal Shehadeh, a Miami-based attorney and Palestinian rights advocate, was held for several hours for a secondary inspection and had his phone seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after he refused to allow federal agents to search it.
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
“It’s actually the people who are building [AI] that are the existential risks to humanity. If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?”
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI Company CEOs, AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says
Instead of being held liable through existing laws, AI companies are making “a ploy for regulatory capture.”…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
CBS has become the latest news outlet to announce that it is using data from Kalshi — the outlet’s “prediction market sponsor” — in coverage of the midterm elections alongside polling data.
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CBS Touts Integration of Kalshi, Their “Prediction Market Sponsor,” Into Election Coverage
The outlet is the latest of a long list to partner with the “prediction market” company.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Senator Bernie Sanders and 30 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that recent actions from the White House “point toward an apparent effort to interfere with, and potentially undermine, Brazil’s general election in October.”
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US Congressional Dems Accuse Trump of Trying to Interfere in Brazil’s Elections
In a letter, they demanded that Washington commit to recognizing the certified election results.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Shehadeh is one of several Palestinian rights advocates who have been detained and had their personal devices searched by CBP while returning to the U.S. from international travel since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023."
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis resident who was killed by an ICE agent in early January during the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge, has filed two lawsuits against the U.S. government and specific individuals involved in the events they allege led to her death.
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Renee Good’s Family Sues Trump Officials Over Fatal ICE Shooting
Good “was killed on a public street” while “watching masked, armed men terrorizing her community,” one lawsuit states.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
A Time reporter asked Trump if Americans “misunderstood” his initial claims that the war would last “four to six weeks.” Trump brushed off the concern as manufactured by news media, saying, “No, I think the press fed it to them.”
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Trump Bashes Press for Reminding Americans He Initially Said Iran War Would Last Weeks, Not Months
New polling indicates that a majority of Americans support ending the war as soon as possible.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Casar urged all Democrats to reject campaign cash from billionaires whose wealth stems from the AI, following news that the president of OpenAI abandoned plans to donate millions more to a super PAC that has funneled money to members of both parties.
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Reject AI Billionaire Cash, Progressive Caucus Leader Casar Tells Democrats
Super PACs bankrolled by AI companies and billionaires have become some of the biggest spenders in the 2026 midterms.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Tennessee woman Christa Pike has been hospitalized after surviving two lethal injection doses administered by state officials on Wednesday evening, marking the second botched execution in the state this year.
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Christa Pike Hospitalized After 2 Failed Lethal Injection Attempts by Tennessee Official
This represents the second failed attempt at an execution via lethal injection in Tennessee this year alone.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich are to lead a new military task force to develop new weapons and troops systems despite the fact that none of them have ever served in the U.S. military.
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Hegseth Gives Musk, Luckey, and Gingrich Key Roles Shaping the Future of US Weapons, War
The appointments are a major conflict of interest, as Musk and Luckey have billion-dollar military contracts.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Central to the push to reopen the rape case was Cornell’s independent student newspaper, which published an editorial shortly after Jane Doe’s September lawsuit — “Cornell Won’t, We Will.” The piece named the 7 men accused, and went on to condemn the university for its treatment of the case.
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Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case in Spotlight
“We have the right to demand safety from our university administrators,” said one student journalist.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
As we head toward the midterms, the right-wing agenda is clear: undermine and sabotage the voting process by any means possible.
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Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November
“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration openly bragged about reductions in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries in an Islamophobic post on social media, touting its discriminatory and white supremacist policies as it moves to increase immigration from white populations.
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White House Openly Brags About Islamophobic Efforts to Cut Legal Immigration
The White House’s bigotry was celebrated by many on the right, who called for further cuts.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
Far right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet have voted to designate the U.S.’s leading Muslim civil rights group as a “domestic terrorist organization,” threatening to shutter and impose severe penalties on the group and its state affiliate.
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DeSantis Administration Votes to Designate Major Muslim American Group as “Terrorist” Organization
Florida Republicans have spent months maneuvering to grant DeSantis the authority to ban the group.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
A new report details the widespread damage to civilian infrastructure in Iran amid the U.S.-Israeli war, adding to war crimes allegations as the U.S. openly targets civilian sites and threatens genocide against the country’s 92 million residents.
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Report: Nearly 1,300 Schools, 210 Health Centers Damaged in Iran Amid US Assault
The war has knocked out six hospitals, including a children’s cancer hospital that was temporarily rendered inoperable.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
An audio recording of a private conversation between U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton and conservative donors last week reveals that he may view President Donald Trump as a “drag” on his and other Republicans’ campaigns. Republicans in general have seen their numbers slip since the convention.
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Ken Paxton Caught on Tape Saying Trump’s Midterm Convention Dragged Republicans Down. Polls Show He Might Be Right.
“Everybody’s numbers dropped” after Trump’s midterm convention event, the Senate candidate from Texas was heard saying.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
The attorneys general from Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that have allowed providers in those states to send abortion medication to people in states with abortion bans.
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Republican Attorneys General Sue Abortion “Shield Law” States in Supreme Court
The AGs also filed a separate lawsuit in a Louisiana district court against individual providers in three states.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration’s abduction and deportation machine is multifaceted. There are clear-cut components — agents, shackles, and jails — and less obvious, although no less essential, ones — cars and parking spaces.
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Activists Are Targeting One of ICE’s Key Staging Grounds — Parking Spots
Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine.
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