As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to the program would be...
“Israeli forces have signed a death warrant for Palestinian children in Gaza,” one rights group worker said. Israel killed at least 174 children in its ceasefire-shattering assault on Gaza on Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest 24 hours for children in Gaza’s history, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) has said. The death toll is...
The HHS web page that once featured the former surgeon general’s advisory on gun violence now reads “Page Not Found.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has apparently removed a page on its website describing gun violence in the U.S. as a public health crisis. The department made that designation in June 2024,...
Progressive lawmakers and rights groups reissued their urgent demands for an arms embargo to Israel on Tuesday, following a horrific Israeli assault on Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians. The attacks came after the Israeli military had slowed its massacres for weeks under the ceasefire agreement. “The Israeli apartheid regime has resumed its genocide, carrying...
On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the Trump administration would “absolutely” continue expelling Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S., despite a federal judge’s order temporarily halting the deportations. “These are foreign terrorists, that the president has identified them, and designated them as such, and we will continue to follow the Alien Enemies Act [AEA],”...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation I was jolted awake at 2 am this morning by the deafening sound of explosions and relentless bombardment here in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza where I live. The noise was so overwhelming, I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. I was in...
Israel has resumed its heavy bombing of civilians in Gaza, killing at least 404 Palestinians over the course of a single day. The attacks are a major violation — and potentially unilateral ending — of the already-fragile ceasefire and captive release deal. On Tuesday, Israel dropped a huge number of bombs across Gaza without any...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though...
This story was originally published by Prism. Despite legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting trans rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, some institutions are complying with the orders — a move some advocates say is premature and potentially illegal. Hospitals have canceled gender-affirming surgeries, colleges have curtailed DEI programs, and...
Trump’s call for the judge to be impeached came after his administration blatantly ignored one of the judge’s orders. In a Tuesday morning rant on Truth Social, President Donald Trump called for a federal judge to be impeached after the judge had issued orders — which were blatantly defied by Trump — halting some of...
A midwife in the Houston area on Monday became the first person to be criminally charged under Texas’ abortion ban, with Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton accusing Maria Margarita Rojas of providing illegal abortion care and practicing medicine without a license. If convicted, Rojas faces up to 20 years in prison under the state’s...
The new standards would require students to “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results.” The Oklahoma Board of Education has passed new curriculum standards that require educators to teach that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud or discrepancies — despite numerous judicial rulings and audits indicating that the election was legitimate. The new standards...
The Trump administration has vowed to continue its military strikes against the Houthi movement that controls much of Yemen, and says it will hold Iran responsible for any retaliation from its ally. Since Saturday, U.S. warplanes have launched dozens of large-scale attacks on multiple towns across Yemen, killing dozens of people. The strikes came after...
Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is,...
The outrages are raining down one after another: Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine is responsible for the war with Russia, which thus blames Ukraine for the deaths of its own people and implicitly supports Putin’s use of unrestrained military force. Trump’s proposal to forcefully relocate Palestinians from Gaza, which functions as an extension of ethnic cleansing....
