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As the diarrhea-causing cyclospora parasite continues to spread through the U.S., now having sickened an estimated 11,500 Americans in at least nine states since May, it is becoming increasingly clear that the situation has been massively worsened by the actions of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) over the past 18 months.

We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law. Despite an International Criminal Court warrant out for his arrest, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently visited the White House to meet with President Donald Trump. While the United States is not a member state to the ICC, “It doesn’t mean that they have to extend protection to a fugitive from international law,” says Albanese, who joins widespread international calls for Netanyahu’s arrest. “The United States is actively contributing to make the international criminal law architecture that it has been building, from the Nuremberg trials up until now, crumble on our head.”

President Donald Trump has pardoned yet another person who has made significant donations to his past campaigns and to Republican Party causes, casting more doubts upon the legitimacy of his use of the constitutionally unchecked power.

The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog group.

Meanwhile, FIFA announced that it is planning to sell a major stake in the World Cup to a Kushner family firm.

The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a “duress” password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents, in a seemingly unprecedented line of prosecution as the Trump administration expands its methods of criminalizing those with left-wing beliefs. According to The Guardian, the defendant…

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Even terminally ill people must prove they are too sick to work to keep their Medicaid coverage.

Janine Jackson: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 addressed the rights of people with disabilities in their interactions with the federal government, including entities that receive certain federal contracts. Section 504 of that act prohibits organizations and employers from excluding or denying individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to receive program benefits and services.

The House Rules Committee has once again blocked the possibility of a full House vote on removing the unprecedented integration of the U.S. and Israeli military’s technological and industrial complexes from the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget for 2027.

A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. States are trying to make polluters pay.

“Yet again, the Trump administration has sold out our endangered wildlife to the highest bidder,” said one biodiversity advocate after the US Department of Interior, in a Friday news dump, issued two new policy changes that would weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and make it easier for corporate polluters to prioritize their own bottom lines over habitat protection. The US Fish and…

“One impact that often receives less attention is that environmental destruction is not only an ecological or economic loss. Ecosystems such as mangrove forests provide cultural, social, and spiritual value, support traditional livelihoods, and shape local identities,” she told Truthout.

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.

This trope has long been used to justify repression of anarchists, communists, liberals, immigrants, and unions.

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…

Common Dreams.

A doctor at Shahid Baqaei Hospital in Ahvaz in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province emphasized that the children being treated at the facility when the US military attacked the area on Wednesday were suffering serious illnesses, and had to be urgently evacuated while on ventilators and receiving chemotherapy.

A doctor at Shahid Baqaei Hospital in Ahvaz in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province emphasized that the children being treated at the facility when the US military attacked the area on Wednesday were suffering serious illnesses, and had to be urgently evacuated while on ventilators and receiving chemotherapy.

The Trump Administration’s War on Disabled People Continues to Escalate

Rubio has near total control of the nation’s finances, resources, and government, reported The New York Times.

Here’s what we know: On the morning of February 28, 2026, the first day of “Operation Epic Fury,” the United States bombed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, a small city in southern Iran. At least 168 people were killed — the majority of them girls between the ages of 7 and 12. More than 100 children and staff were wounded. By any measure, it was one of the deadliest single strikes on civilians in the history of U.S. military operations in recent decades.

As the Trump administration widens its crackdown on immigrant communities and progressive activists, federal task forces are playing an important behind-the-scenes role. Organizers warn that institutions like the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) are targeting vulnerable communities and sharing the kind of information that facilitates Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. But some say the current political climate also presents opportunities as appetites grow for local and state agencies to cut ties with the federal task forces endangering their communities.

The Trump administration is stonewalling the public about the US’s deadliest strike on civilians in decades.

The Trump administration is stonewalling the public about the US’s deadliest strike on civilians in decades.

Over 80 percent of this spending went toward Republicans or conservative causes, a new analysis finds.

Bahaa Abu Al-Ajeen, 32, set out with his 3-year-old son Rayan to check on their family home east of Deir al-Balah.

Excess deaths in France, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands last month surpassed 4,600.

“As our Declaration of Independence tells us, we are all made in the image of one almighty god,” Trump said during the speech, referring to a concept that appears in the Book of Genesis.

California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid dispersion and water mitigation testing.

On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump used his address Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to allege that there is “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land.”

On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump used his address Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to allege that there is “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land.”

On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump used his address Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to allege that there is “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land.”

As a veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, I visit high schools on a regular basis to talk about the military. I try to fill in the blanks that military recruiters intentionally ignore. I find that when asked, most students can say very little about the reasons why the U.S. fights. They often wrongly assume that the U.S. fights in self-defense or to protect democracy when in reality the U.S.

When the America 250 Civics Education Coalition launched last fall, it brought the U.S. Department of Education into partnership with several right-wing organizations with the aim of “renewing patriotism, strengthening knowledge and advancing a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the nation.” Primary sponsors of the coalition include the America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA, and Hillsdale College, as well as additional supporting partners such as the Heritage Foundation, Moms for Liberty, PragerU, and Priests for Life.

In a slop video shared by Freedom 250, an AI-generated John Adams spews the catchphrases of a 21st-century right-winger.

In a slop video shared by Freedom 250, an AI-generated John Adams spews the catchphrases of a 21st-century right-winger.

Community mobilization and mutual aid are models of resistance across the U.S. This ground-up organizing, rooted in a belief of universal human rights, now finds itself squarely in the crosshairs of the FBI’s extraordinary surveillance powers.

Democratic Party leadership has largely downplayed the idea of impeaching the president should they win in the midterms.

The election of three Democratic socialist candidates earlier this week in congressional races within New York City has many establishment Democrats worried — including, it appears, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Campaigners behind the one-time 5% billionaires wealth tax in California are calling out what they describe as trickery and deception by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who on Friday released a proposal for a national billionaire’s income tax even as he actively opposes the effort to tax the wealth of billionaires in the state that he and his party currently control.

What began as an effort to protect a coastal ecosystem has become a broad movement against corruption and neoliberalism.

“Newsom does not want to tax billionaires,” said the Billionaire Tax Now campaign, “but he wants you to think he does.”

The National App Workers Union is using creative tactics to build worker power and confront their employers.

Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a protest in Washington last June.

The Trump administration had demanded medical records of trans minors receiving care in NYC hospitals since 2020.

Reproductive health clinics have been closing at alarming rates since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections in 2022. Facing mounting social and economic pressures, at least 100 clinics closed between the fall of Roe v. Wade and June 2025, the latest data available.

In a Monday morning decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a formerly incarcerated individual, denying his right to sue the state of Louisiana for violating his Rastafarian beliefs by forcibly shaving his hair. The case is notable in that, while this iteration of the high court has made numerous decisions defending right-wing Christians’ purported First Amendment religious freedoms…

Of 358 human rights defenders killed in 2025, 84 were protecting land and the environment, according to a new report.

The UN Chief of Police Summit will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York City on July 7 and 8. The conference, dubbed “Investing in Peace,” will feature security ministers and police chiefs. Discussions will focus on “strengthening international peace, security, and development for all,” a UN writeup claims.

For nearly eight hours, a group of Haitian immigrants and asylum seekers had waited at the Manhattan immigration courthouse on Broadway last Tuesday before they found out it had all been for naught. They would have to come back another time to see the judge. One man rocked with his head between his hands as the judge explained that all the Haitian interpreters had dropped off their calls.

Since the beginning of June, immigration courts in New York have adopted a new style of hearing meant to speed up President Donald Trump’s deportation machine. Nicknamed the mega master hearing by the immigration legal community, the hearings adjudicate dozens of people in one day whose appointments have been advanced by months.

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off across North America, millions of soccer fans around the world are gathering in stadiums, homes, and cafés to watch the tournament. In Gaza, however, where war and its aftermath continue to shape daily life, the World Cup feels distant for many residents. Some are unable to watch matches due to electricity and internet outages, while others have lost the…

Until these programs are dismantled, US campuses are nothing more than Zionist re-education camps.

Immigrants taking part in the massive hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall — the privately operated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in Newark, New Jersey, where they are imprisoned — say they are continuing to face harsh retaliation in response to their resistance.

The president and his allies are also reportedly working on a resolution to “expunge” his past impeachments.

Last Monday, California Reps. Judy Chu, Jimmy Gomez, and Pete Aguilar visited Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center as the hunger strike in the immigration jail entered its second week. The Democrats met with three of the hunger strikers, who gave them a petition, signed by some 150 people inside the facility, speaking of inhumane conditions inside the jail and degrading treatment by staff. The Adelanto ICE jail is run by private prison company GEO Group.