Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against vaccinations, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrawing U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization. The group — known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance...
Has anyone checked in with Scott Pelley this afternoon to see if he needs smelling salts? How about Bill Owens? Two months ago, both men erupted in anger when Paramount’s board decided to settle an election fraud lawsuit from Donald Trump over the deceptively edited interview of Kamala Harris by 60 Minutes during the general...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Organizers say about 5 million people participated in “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump and his administration’s abuses of power in hundreds of towns and cities across the United States on Saturday, June...
Hegseth said the anti-protest crackdown in LA is the beginning of a “new phase” of militarization against Americans. President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops to crack down on protests against neighborhood raids in Los Angeles is going to cost over a hundred million dollars, the Pentagon has said — money that could have instead been...
A bit of Hollywood news this afternoon. Last December the NY Times published a big story about the behind the scenes drama that happened on a movie set between star Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni. Lively filed a lawsuit accusing Baldoni and the producer of inappropriate behavior and also of allegedly hiring a crisis...
An estimated 250 million bees escaped from an overturned truck in the US state of Washington on Friday, sparking warnings from authorities for the public to avoid the swarm of stinging insects. Emergency officials were helped by several master bee-keepers after the truck, which had been hauling roughly 70,000 lb (31,750 kg) of active honey...
In March, Greenpeace lost a trial in North Dakota and a jury determined they should pay Energy Transfer, the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline, a total of $667 million in damages. Greenpeace said at the time that even half that amount could potentially bankrupt them. Last week, Greenpeace asked a judge to reduce...
Mid Devon District Council has been charging thousands of social housing tenants the wrong rents for over twenty years in what a government regulator has judged are “serious failings” that have resulted in dozens of evictions. A judgement by the Regulator of Social Housing found that Mid Devon District Council had incorrectly applied the Rent...
One of the many, many proofs that the media does a horrible job of keeping Americans informed is that most people never had a good sense of just how feckless Biden’s Gaza policies were. To be fair, most people’s opinions were driven by ideological/sympathetic commitments that existed prior to any of Biden’s actions, but even...
“It’s always in you, as a football coach and manager that I was previously before going into that, it’s always in you. “Whether I could have got back in, it was up in the air really. Brendan Rodgers, who I’ve got a really good relationship with and respect him so much, he’s taught me so...
Debbie Jackson BBC Scotland News The foal is now a week old and has been named Solomon A donkey foal at a popular farm park has ended up with two mums after a “one in a million” birth. Staff at Dalscone Farm in Dumfries now have a unique family-of-three after a series of events left...
Kate McGough Education producer Kate McGough / BBC Planned changes to school uniform policy will affect over four million pupils across England, according to new estimates from the Department for Education (DfE). The government says seven in 10 secondary schools and 35% of primary schools in England will have to reduce the number of compulsory...
The week started with a bang. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, it ends with — well, not a whimper, but only a tired lament from Bill Maher about Larry David’s intellect. For a man who got called a Nazi stooge by his (former?) friend in the pages of the New York Times, it seems like he’s...
Across the United States — from Nampa, Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California — nearly 255,000 people have turned out in recent weeks for “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies headlined by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive duo that has railed against President Donald Trump and the corporate-dominated systems that...
Dominic Hughes Global health correspondent Getty Images Escherichia coli bacteria – also known as E. coli, the bug that causes food poisoning – is one of the bacteria that is showing greater resistance to front-line antibiotics More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of...