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Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Florida Phoenix editor’s note: This report examines the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the federal right to abortion three years ago. Of all the outcomes Rachel Castor could have predicted from Idaho’s abortion...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Standing at the edge of the Aldwell Forest clearcut just above the Elwha River in Washington State, the Murphy Company’s devastation of the landscape slaps you in the face. Here on land owned by the state’s Department of...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. In April, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stood onstage at a major ed-tech conference in San Diego and declared with conviction that students across the U.S. would soon benefit from “A1 teaching.” She repeated it over and over...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Approximately one month ago — after years of harassment and intermittent demolitions — Israeli occupation forces arrived in the Palestinian village of Khallet al-Dabe’, one of the 12 communities that make up Masafer Yatta...
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Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Schools are scrambling to plan for what could become a massive budget hole after the Trump administration said Monday it would not release nearly $7 billion in...
Trump is using emergency powers to rush environmental review of a crude oil railway along the already-endangered river. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! In the last few months, we witnessed two violent attacks on pro-Israel events organized by American Jewish groups, by perpetrators who shouted “Free Palestine!” as they acted. The attacks — which killed two young Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., and...
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Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-214 on Thursday to pass President Donald...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put 144 employees on leave after they signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s “harmful” policies. EPA press secretary Brigit Hirsch accused the employees of “undermining, sabotaging, and undercutting the administration’s agenda.”...
The bill will accelerate depletion of Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds by a year, according to an analysis. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! U.S. President Donald Trump’s handpicked Social Security chief issued a statement Thursday applauding the passage of a Republican reconciliation bill that analysts...