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“Sappers” Are Working to Demine Ukrainian Fields at Great Personal Risk

Humanitarian volunteers are doing perilous work to remove land mines that Russian soldiers left behind in 2022.

By: Theia Chatelle ,; Truthout

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A boy carries a woman as people run through an alley in the immediate aftermath of an Israeli bombardment in Gaza City, Palestine, on May 30, 2025.

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Human Rights

Israel’s Decimation of Transportation Is Adding to Gaza’s Death Toll

When movement is restricted and ambulances are scarce, the smallest wound can become a death sentence in Gaza.

By: Dalia Abu Ramadan ,; Truthout

President Donald Trump joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi delivers remarks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on March 24, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

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Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein “List” Fallout

Trump has benefited for years from a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list.”

By: Chris Walker ,; Truthout

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine Francesca Albanese speaks during a "Stop Genocide, Free Palestine" meeting in Madrid, Spain, on June 23, 2025.

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Human Rights

Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not Sanctions

The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

By: Marjorie Cohn ,; Truthout

Protesters rallied at the federal building and then marched downtown to oppose any U.S. war with Iran on June 28, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan.

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War & Peace

US Leaders Gave Up on Diplomacy With Iran. We Must Make Them Return to It.

Building an antiwar movement means preventing the systemic US aggression that creates the conditions for war.

By: Hanieh Jodat ,; Truthout

Congolese refugees look through a corrugated metal fence at the final batches of food delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in a storage and food delivery area at the Musenyi refugee site in Giharo, on May 7, 2025.

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Human Rights

US Aid Has Always Been a Tool of Control. Under Trump, It’s a Tool of Death.

The president’s cuts to USAID are starving the nations that were made dependent on aid by previous administrations.

By: Suad Abdel aziz ,; Truthout

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Israeli security forces stand guard as Israeli settlers tour the Palestinian side of the old city and market of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on July 12, 2025. Shops are forced to close, and Palestinians are prevented from reaching their homes due to the presence of settlers.

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Human Rights

Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Journalists Investigating Killing of Musallet

Masked settlers followed the journalists’ car and smashed the windshield.

By: Sharon Zhang ,; Truthout

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations at the U.S. Capitol on June 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

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Politics & Elections

AG Pam Bondi Fires Top Department of Justice Ethics Official

Joseph Tirrell, who was Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics at the DOJ, shared his termination notice on LinkedIn.

By: Chris Walker ,; Truthout

People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California, on March 1, 2025.

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The US Public Loves the National Park Service. Trump Is Destroying It Anyway.

Trump is pushing for cuts that could require 350 of the 433 sites run by the National Park Service to shut down.

By: Katie Rose Quandt ,; Truthout

The Cade Loop off Texas State Highway 39 is shown in Ingram, Texas, on July 5, 2025.

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Environment & Health

Trump Revoked Rules Meant to Protect Against Disasters Like Texas Floods

A commonsense rule created building requirements for projects receiving federal funds. Trump revoked it twice.

By: Schuyler Mitchell ,; Truthout

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Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

By: Kate Zen &; Chanelle Gallant ,; Truthout

More than 400 waste collection workers walked off the job after their contract with waste management company Republic Services expired on July 1, 2025.

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Economy & Labor

Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide

As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.

By: Mike Ludwig ,; Truthout

President Donald Trump bangs a gavel after signing his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2025.

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Economy & Labor

Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.

Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.

By: C.J. Polychroniou ,; Truthout

Police stand guard as they clear a pro-Palestinian encampment after students occupied the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall at the University of California, Irvine, on May 15, 2025.

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Education & Youth

US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology

From Gaza to the US, military-grade surveillance tools are being deployed to monitor and punish student dissent.

By: Elham Azad ,; Truthout

Donald Trump

Pentagon Signs Contract With Musk’s AI After It Called Itself “MechaHitler”

“Food, medicine, and basic survival are used as leverage for imperial interests. Rather than being guided by human need, aid is distributed, withheld, or rerouted based on political agendas.”

– Suad Abdel aziz, from US Aid Has Always Been a Tool of Control. Under Trump, It’s a Tool of Death.

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Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All

A protest co-led by the California Nurses Assn. called on Rep. Young Kim to vote against President Donald Trump's spending bill that would slash spending on healthcare and other federal safety net programs while extending tax cuts outside Kim's field office in Anaheim, California, on July 1, 2025.

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Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Journalists Investigating Killing of Musallet

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AG Pam Bondi Fires Top Department of Justice Ethics Official

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“Sappers” Are Working to Demine Ukrainian Fields at Great Personal Risk

Israel’s Decimation of Transportation Is Adding to Gaza’s Death Toll

Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein “List” Fallout

Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not Sanctions

US Leaders Gave Up on Diplomacy With Iran. We Must Make Them Return to It.

US Aid Has Always Been a Tool of Control. Under Trump, It’s a Tool of Death.

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Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Journalists Investigating Killing of Musallet

AG Pam Bondi Fires Top Department of Justice Ethics Official

The US Public Loves the National Park Service. Trump Is Destroying It Anyway.

Trump Revoked Rules Meant to Protect Against Disasters Like Texas Floods

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide

Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.

US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology

Donald Trump

Pentagon Signs Contract With Musk’s AI After It Called Itself “MechaHitler”

Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake

Trump Judicial Nominee Won’t Answer Question on Talk of Third Presidential Term

Trump Plan to Expand Land for Arctic Drilling Is an Ecological Disaster

Trump Pretends “Big Beautiful Bill” Credit Downgrade Has Somehow Been Fixed

6 in 10 Americans Back Medicare for All — Poll

Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order, In-Line With SCOTUS Limits

Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All

6 in 10 Americans Back Medicare for All — Poll

As We Defend Medicaid, We Can’t Lose Sight of the End Goal: Free, Universal Care

I Got Cancer at 35. The Health Insurance System Delayed My Treatment for Months.

Behind UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Is a Larger System of Corporate Rule

Universal Health Care Was Big on the 2020 Democratic Platform. Where Is It Now?

Medicare Advantage Plans Disadvantage Many Elderly and Disabled People

Medicare Is in Desperate Need of Modernization and Expansion — Not Privatization

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Pentagon Signs Contract With Musk’s AI After It Called Itself “MechaHitler”

Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake

Trump Judicial Nominee Won’t Answer Question on Talk of Third Presidential Term

Trump Plan to Expand Land for Arctic Drilling Is an Ecological Disaster

Trump Pretends “Big Beautiful Bill” Credit Downgrade Has Somehow Been Fixed

6 in 10 Americans Back Medicare for All — Poll

Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order, In-Line With SCOTUS Limits

6 in 10 Americans Back Medicare for All — Poll

As We Defend Medicaid, We Can’t Lose Sight of the End Goal: Free, Universal Care

I Got Cancer at 35. The Health Insurance System Delayed My Treatment for Months.

Behind UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Is a Larger System of Corporate Rule

Universal Health Care Was Big on the 2020 Democratic Platform. Where Is It Now?

Medicare Advantage Plans Disadvantage Many Elderly and Disabled People

Medicare Is in Desperate Need of Modernization and Expansion — Not Privatization