Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Homelessness among newborns, infants, and toddlers skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023, impacting 446,996 newborns, infants, and toddlers, according to a new report. SchoolHouse Connection, in partnership with...
Downing Street has said the small boats situation in the English Channel is “deteriorating”, ahead of a key UK-France summit next month on border security. Meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada, Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to “work closely” to tackle crossings, a No 10 spokesperson said....
Jeremy Bowen International Editor World leaders ‘obligated’ to save lives in Gaza, says head of ICRC Gaza has become worse than hell on earth, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has told the BBC. In an interview at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva, the organisation’s president Mirjana Spoljaric said “humanity is...
May be? It may be the worst scandal since Woodrow Wilson, and over the same type of incapacity. Watergate was a criminal conspiracy to cover up a dirty political campaign trick. Bidengate involves the hijacking of the presidency itself, with a conspiracy that involves senior leaders of a major political party and Cabinet officials, not...
Good Lord. Just remember when you listen to these tapes of Joe Biden’s deposition with Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigators, courtesy of Axios, when these interrogatories took place. Biden got deposed in October 2023, three months before the Democrat primaries began. The White House still claimed that the man you hear on these tapes was...
We all know now that students’ ability to learn suffered significantly during the pandemic. Some kids struggled to pay attention and some just dropped out entirely, never to return. National test scores since then show that most students haven’t recovered even five years later. Nevertheless, I guess I’d had it in the back of my...
Reportedly, House Democrart caucus leader Hakeem Jeffries has quietly ordered his fellow Democrats to ixnay on the ipstray to El-ay Alvador-say. Perhaps Jeffries belatedly figured out that turning an illegal alien with one restraining order for domestic violence and clear connections to criminal activity into a progressive martyr for open borders wasn’t playing well. Or...
Meta warned Wednesday that European users could face a “materially worse” experience following a key regulatory decision by the European Commission. Meta recently introduced a “consent or pay” model which leaves users to choose between paying for a monthly subscription or letting Meta combine data it has collected on Facebook and Instagram. Last week, the...
The rate of hamstring injuries in the Premier League is set to decrease this season compared to the 2023/24 campaign, although data shows players are being ruled out for longer. Marcus Rashford’s injury is the 124th of its kind this season. With an average of four hamstring injuries recorded every game week – and with...
EPA A leading health think tank says urgent and emergency care in England is performing “far worse” than before the pandemic. The Health Foundation argues that the NHS was “in distress” this winter with A&E waiting times reaching a record high. The group says it would be wrong just to blame relatively high levels of...
We’re not backing down in the face of Trump’s threats. As Donald Trump is inaugurated a second time, independent media organizations are faced with urgent mandates: Tell the truth more loudly than ever before. Do that work even as our standard modes of distribution (such as social media platforms) are being manipulated and curtailed by...