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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:truthout="http://www.truthout.org/"> <channel> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <atom:link href="https://truthout.org/articles/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <description>Fearless Independent Journalism</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:21:49 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3</generator> <image> <url>https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Truthout-T-logo-sq-1200x1200-e1521532408148-60x60.png</url> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height></image> <item> <title>Rubio Reportedly Gave Up MS-13 Informants in Deal With Bukele to Jail Deportees</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rubio-reportedly-gave-up-ms-13-informants-in-deal-with-bukele-to-jail-deportees/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:17:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MS-13]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nayib Bukele]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332655</guid> <description><![CDATA[The informants reportedly provided information on alleged ties between the gang and Bukele’s government.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration promised to transfer key MS-13 leaders who were acting as informants on the gang in March as part of a deal for the U.S. to imprison hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, this spring, new reporting finds. According to The Washington Post, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Salvadoran president Nayib…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rubio-reportedly-gave-up-ms-13-informants-in-deal-with-bukele-to-jail-deportees/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-20-rubio-bukele-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94008' /> </item> <item> <title>Activists Can’t Give In to Bad-Faith Smears on Pro-Palestine Speech and Slogans</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/activists-cant-give-in-to-bad-faith-smears-on-pro-palestine-speech-and-slogans/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shireen Akram-Boshar]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intifada]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[palestine solidarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332660</guid> <description><![CDATA[When movements let their messages be watered down, they risk the erosion of their ideas in popular consciousness.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As New York City’s November mayoral election approaches, front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy continues to face familiar attacks and Islamophobic smears. While Mamdani has attempted to focus his campaign on making New York City more affordable, establishment figures have largely focused on his relationship to the Palestine solidarity movement as a means to attack him. This was evident during…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/activists-cant-give-in-to-bad-faith-smears-on-pro-palestine-speech-and-slogans/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shireen Akram-Boshar]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Trump Wrongly Claims He Can Invoke Insurrection Act to Shut Down Courts</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wrongly-claims-he-can-invoke-insurrection-act-to-shut-down-courts/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:54:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insurrection Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[militarization of U.S. cities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. military]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332657</guid> <description><![CDATA[The president hinted that he may invoke the Insurrection Act to send the US military into San Francisco.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a Fox News interview this past weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that invoking the Insurrection Act would allow him to have “unquestioned power,” and even suggested that it could be used to suspend court cases — despite nothing in the statute indicating as such. Trump has sent National Guard troops to a number of U.S. cities, ostensibly to assist other federal agents carrying out…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wrongly-claims-he-can-invoke-insurrection-act-to-shut-down-courts/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1020-trump-insurrection-act-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='76667' /> </item> <item> <title>22 States Are in Recession or Heading Toward One. The Shutdown Could Worsen It.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/22-states-are-in-recession-or-heading-toward-one-the-shutdown-could-worsen-it/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:26:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332653</guid> <description><![CDATA[Moody’s Analytics looked at data predating the shutdown when the country's economic situation was already dismal.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>states accounting for roughly a third of the nation’s gross domestic product are currently in recession or on the verge of one as the federal government shutdown enters its fourth week, with congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump refusing to support an extension of key healthcare subsidies that are set to lapse at the end of the year. A recent analysis by Moody’s Analytics…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/22-states-are-in-recession-or-heading-toward-one-the-shutdown-could-worsen-it/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Military Is Still Holding 9,000 Palestinians in Prison</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/israeli-military-is-still-holding-9000-palestinians-in-prison/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:25:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prisoner]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332651</guid> <description><![CDATA[“The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial,” said human rights lawyer Sari Bashi.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer and former program director at Human Rights Watch. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime. The vast majority of people being held are…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/israeli-military-is-still-holding-9000-palestinians-in-prison/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/SEG2_Prisoners2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60718' /> </item> <item> <title>I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/i-am-one-of-20-million-in-us-with-long-covid-rfk-pulled-the-rug-from-under-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesse Hagopian]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:03:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ACT UP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COVID]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Long COVID]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Industry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332646</guid> <description><![CDATA[RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For more than three years, I’ve lived with long COVID. The dizziness never leaves. I can’t drive more than half an hour without starting to get nauseous. Any strenuous activity — mental or physical — leaves me with post-exertional malaise that feels like a hangover the next day. I’ve learned to adapt and find gratitude for many things, but life remains an exhausting calculus of rationing…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/i-am-one-of-20-million-in-us-with-long-covid-rfk-pulled-the-rug-from-under-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jesse Hagopian]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Anti-Vax Advocates Are Trying to Take Idaho’s Mandate Ban to National Level</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/anti-vax-advocates-are-trying-to-take-idahos-mandate-ban-to-national-level/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Audrey Dutton]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:02:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti vaxxers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COVID]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332643</guid> <description><![CDATA[Under the guise of human rights, proponents are pushing it as a model for attacking a tenet of modern public health.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media. “We did it, everybody,” says Leslie Manookian, the woman in the middle. She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho. The group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/anti-vax-advocates-are-trying-to-take-idahos-mandate-ban-to-national-level/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Audrey Dutton]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Democrat Says Trump Admin Still Lacks “Any Evidence” to Back Caribbean Strikes</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/democrat-says-trump-admin-still-lacks-any-evidence-to-back-caribbean-strikes/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:42:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Armed Services Committee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332639</guid> <description><![CDATA[The administration is now openly targeting Colombia while refusing to provide evidence to back their determinations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee has called for a hearing on the Trump administration’s strikes in the Caribbean after the White House officially escalated its aggression to target Colombia as well as Venezuela, completely bypassing Congress. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington) said in a statement that, over a month after the strikes first began, the Trump administration has…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/democrat-says-trump-admin-still-lacks-any-evidence-to-back-caribbean-strikes/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-20-smith-armed-services-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='64064' /> </item> <item> <title>Gaza Officials Say Israel Has Violated Ceasefire 80 Times in First 10 Days</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-officials-say-israel-has-violated-ceasefire-80-times-in-first-10-days/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:28:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332628</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel carried out a bombardment on Sunday after two Israeli soldiers were apparently killed in an explosion.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel has committed at least 80 violations of the ceasefire agreement since it began just 10 days ago, Palestinian officials have said, leaving hundreds of casualties as Israeli officials threaten to return to their extermination campaign now that the living Israeli captives have been returned. In a statement on Sunday, the Gaza Government Media Office said that Israel had killed 97…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-officials-say-israel-has-violated-ceasefire-80-times-in-first-10-days/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-20-israeli-strike-gaza-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='106292' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Says He’s Not a King. A Majority of Americans Believe He Wants to Be.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-hes-not-a-king-a-majority-of-americans-believe-he-wants-to-be/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:20:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[No Kings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[No Kings protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332641</guid> <description><![CDATA[Around 6 in 10 Americans say they are dissatisfied with the current state of democracy in the US.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump struck a dismissive and threatening tone over No Kings protests that took place on Saturday, suggesting that he may use federal resources to investigate the demonstrations. Over 7 million people took part in No Kings protests across the country, exceeding the previous No Kings protests in June by 2 million more participants. Some analyses suggest this weekend’s protests…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-hes-not-a-king-a-majority-of-americans-believe-he-wants-to-be/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1020-trump-no-kings-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77103' /> </item> <item> <title>From Judges to Journalists, Wisconsinites Show Up to No Kings Protests</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/from-judges-to-journalists-wisconsinites-show-up-to-no-kings-protests/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Madison Wisconsin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[No Kings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[No Kings protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332627</guid> <description><![CDATA[Protesters across southern Wisconsin called out Trump’s abuses, and vowed to defend democracy and human rights.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This past weekend, several large U.S. cities were the site of a second round of “No Kings” protests, held to express opposition to President Donald Trump over myriad issues — particularly his unilateral, autocratic approach to governance. While these cities had huge turnouts, protests in smaller localities had proportionally large crowds of their own, showcasing that the movement against Trump’s…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/from-judges-to-journalists-wisconsinites-show-up-to-no-kings-protests/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1020-madison-no-kings-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='188437' /> </item> <item> <title>Offering No Evidence, Trump Calls Colombian President “Illegal Drug Dealer”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/offering-no-evidence-trump-calls-colombian-president-illegal-drug-dealer/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:21:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cartels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gustavo Petro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332624</guid> <description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Hegseth also defended a bombing of another boat without providing evidence that it was moving drugs.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United States carried out another deadly attack on a boat it claimed was being used by a left-wing Colombian revolutionary group to transport drugs in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump alleged without evidence that Columbia’s president “is an illegal drug dealer.” Hegseth said the strike, which took place on Friday…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/offering-no-evidence-trump-calls-colombian-president-illegal-drug-dealer/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>NYC Public Schools System Defies Trump Anti-Trans Demands, Files Lawsuit</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/nyc-public-schools-system-defies-trump-anti-trans-demands-files-lawsuit/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:51:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bathroom bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Funding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332621</guid> <description><![CDATA[This defiance stands in sharp contrast to the elite institutions that have capitulated under federal funding threats.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In recent months, some of the nation’s most elite universities have folded under the Trump administration’s demands to ban transgender students from bathrooms, sports, and even recognition altogether. Hospitals, too, have caved to federal funding threats designed to force compliance with discriminatory policies. But one place has emerged as a bulwark of resistance: local school boards.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/nyc-public-schools-system-defies-trump-anti-trans-demands-files-lawsuit/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ Erin In The Morning]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240668777-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='95580' /> </item> <item> <title>Recognizing Palestinian Statehood Is the Floor. Liberation Must Be the Ceiling.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/recognizing-palestinian-statehood-is-the-floor-liberation-must-be-the-ceiling/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hend Salama Abo Helow]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:22:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[self-determination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sovereignty]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332599</guid> <description><![CDATA[One by one, nations formally recognized the State of Palestine. But what does that mean with Gaza reduced to rubble? ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I first opened my eyes to this world as a third-generation refugee, I was taught that the notorious Balfour Declaration had brought upon us this long, unrelenting history of suffering. Issued in 1917, the statement declared the British government’s support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. It blatantly denied our existence in our own homeland, instead granting the Jewish…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/recognizing-palestinian-statehood-is-the-floor-liberation-must-be-the-ceiling/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Hend Salama Abo Helow]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240179246-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94782' /> </item> <item> <title>Critics Alarmed as Trump Leverages Shutdown to Gut Special Education Office</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/critics-alarmed-as-trump-leverages-shutdown-to-gut-special-education-office/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina A. Samuels]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:15:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Health and Human Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disability rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Linda McMahon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Layoffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Project 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[special education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332615</guid> <description><![CDATA[Some believe the layoffs are a way to force the special education law to be managed by some other federal office.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group that works on behalf of millions of students with dyslexia and other disorders. Jacqueline Rodriguez, NCLD’s chief executive officer, recalled pressing McMahon on a question raised during her…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/critics-alarmed-as-trump-leverages-shutdown-to-gut-special-education-office/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Christina A. Samuels]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Hechinger Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2215809054-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='79243' /> </item> <item> <title>Will the Supreme Court Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katya Schwenk]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:14:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GEO Group]]></category> <category><![CDATA[government contractors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immunity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sovereign immunity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332572</guid> <description><![CDATA[A private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, the nation’s largest private prison company is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits and many others. This case — and another involving a military contractor — could deliver sweeping immunity to federal contractors, if they get the ruling they…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Katya Schwenk]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Lever]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2226391298-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='125586' /> </item> <item> <title>As WIC Funding Dwindles During the Government Shutdown, Parents Worry</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-wic-funding-dwindles-during-the-government-shutdown-parents-worry/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryce Covert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:13:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WIC]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even after the government eventually reopens, the assistance program’s future remains uncertain.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>April Perez was 22 years old when she had her first daughter. Enrolling in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC, was a lifesaver. “With her being my first child,” she said, “I was still finding my way through motherhood.” The program helped her access healthy foods for her family, get formula when she wasn’t able to produce enough…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-wic-funding-dwindles-during-the-government-shutdown-parents-worry/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Bryce Covert]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 74]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1451157675-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='118572' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Cuts and Climate Change Compound Worry in Alaska After Typhoon Disaster</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-cuts-and-climate-change-compound-worry-in-alaska-after-typhoon-disaster/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yereth Rosen]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:29:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Displacement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Extreme Weather]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Floods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Weather Service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332613</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Storms are going to get worse, and it’s not going to be livable,” said a tribal leader from the village of Akiak.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the latest catastrophic storm hit Western Alaska, displacing more than 1,500 people, killing at least one and leaving villages in ruins, residents face an existential crisis. Will the wide delta that fans out between the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers and has supported one of the circumpolar north’s largest Indigenous populations for millennia continue to be a place where Alaska’s…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-cuts-and-climate-change-compound-worry-in-alaska-after-typhoon-disaster/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Yereth Rosen]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Alaska Beacon]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/9364435-2048x1536-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='143553' /> </item> <item> <title>Senators Launch a Bipartisan Bid to Block Possible Trump War on Venezuela</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/senators-launch-a-bipartisan-bid-to-block-possible-trump-war-on-venezuela/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Powers Act]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332610</guid> <description><![CDATA[This comes as two survivors of the US’s most recent drone strike on a boat have reportedly been detained by US forces.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With President Donald Trump floating potential military action within Venezuela and authorizing operations by the Central Intelligence Agency after launching several deadly strikes on boats near the South American country, three lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Friday said they would force a new vote on blocking the White House from carrying out an attack there. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/senators-launch-a-bipartisan-bid-to-block-possible-trump-war-on-venezuela/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2234687117-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84175' /> </item> <item> <title>Vulnerable Renters Are Fearful as Emergency Housing Vouchers Wind Down</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/vulnerable-renters-are-fearful-as-emergency-housing-vouchers-wind-down/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexandra Martinez]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:10:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Affordable Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American Rescue Plan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Criminalization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[federal housing subsidies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HUD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Section 8]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332567</guid> <description><![CDATA[The end of a pandemic-era federal housing subsidy leaves tens of thousands across the US unsure where they’ll live next.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When 28-year-old Brianna Beadle finally secured an Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) in 2022, the single mother of five exhaled for the first time in years. After she’d been bouncing between a domestic violence shelter, short-term hotels, and her car, the voucher made a four-bedroom home in Pompano Beach, Florida, possible — a place where her kids could sleep, study, and heal. But now…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/vulnerable-renters-are-fearful-as-emergency-housing-vouchers-wind-down/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Alexandra Martinez]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Prism]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2211846708-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='97385' /> </item> <item> <title>Former Prisoner’s New Book Offers Rare Look into Nation’s Most Secretive Prison</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/writer-who-survived-adx-supermax-prison-describes-how-it-entombs-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:08:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anarchism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mutual Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Political Prisoners]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prison Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solitary Confinement]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332553</guid> <description><![CDATA[Having survived the most restrictive supermax prison in the country on a trumped-up charge, Eric King tells what he saw.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eric King has seen what hell looks like during his time in federal custody. While incarcerated, he was increasingly targeted for his anarchist political beliefs, often denied family visits, and restricted from receiving mail. In 2018, at FCI Florence, a lieutenant took him to a mop closet, where he was pushed and punched. King defended himself, after which he was slammed to the floor, stomped…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/writer-who-survived-adx-supermax-prison-describes-how-it-entombs-people/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1124822838-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77831' /> </item> <item> <title>The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Hochul or Trump — It’s Wall Street</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-biggest-threat-to-mamdanis-agenda-isnt-hochul-or-trump-its-wall-street/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Beyea Reagan]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:04:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[capital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Programs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social welfare programs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332581</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wall Street destroyed NYC's social welfare economy in 1975. Can mass movements stop it from defeating Mamdani's agenda?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If polls are to be believed, Zohran Mamdani is likely to win the mayoralty of New York City this November. An October 9 Quinnipiac University survey taken after Mayor Eric Adams dropped from the race shows Mamdani is up 13 points over his nearest competitor, disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Despite his youth and executive inexperience, Mamdani has all the advantages — a better ground game…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-biggest-threat-to-mamdanis-agenda-isnt-hochul-or-trump-its-wall-street/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Michael Beyea Reagan]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2235942454-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='122557' /> </item> <item> <title>Elected Officials in Chicago Look for Tools to Squeeze ICE Out of Public Spaces</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/elected-officials-in-chicago-look-for-tools-to-squeeze-ice-out-of-public-spaces/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:25:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332592</guid> <description><![CDATA[A county commissioner pledges to leave “no stone unturned” in the city's fight to slow ICE abductions.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Trump administration ratchets up its targeting of immigrant communities across the Chicagoland area, elected officials are looking for any tool they can find to protect their residents from militarized raids and roving bands of Border Patrol officers. Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans banned civil arrests at county courthouses across Chicago this week…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/elected-officials-in-chicago-look-for-tools-to-squeeze-ice-out-of-public-spaces/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2234389566-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='107549' /> </item> <item> <title>Mainstream Media Miss the Global Significance of Counterrevolution in Sudan</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/mainstream-media-miss-the-global-significance-of-counterrevolution-in-sudan/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Falcone]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rapid Support Forces]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332596</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a war against civilians and against a truly pro-democracy revolution, says Professor Khalid Mustafa Medani.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, has tightened its siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher amid their civil war with the Sudanese Armed Forces. About 260,000 people are estimated to be trapped in the city in a siege that has lasted for over 550 days, leaving the city without access to food, water, internet, and health care. The city’s plight reflects the dire situation for tens of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/mainstream-media-miss-the-global-significance-of-counterrevolution-in-sudan/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Daniel Falcone]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2229261060-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='178880' /> </item> <item> <title>Court Dismisses Youth-Led Lawsuit Challenging Trump Orders Boosting Fossil Fuels</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/court-dismisses-youth-led-lawsuit-challenging-trump-orders-boosting-fossil-fuels/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Drugmand]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:18:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliana v. United States]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332597</guid> <description><![CDATA[The court recognized climate change as a “children’s health emergency” but said the young plaintiffs lacked standing.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. A federal district court in Montana Wednesday granted the Trump administration’s request to toss out a youth-led lawsuit challenging the administration’s efforts to increase the extraction and use of fossil…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/court-dismisses-youth-led-lawsuit-challenging-trump-orders-boosting-fossil-fuels/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Dana Drugmand]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Inside Climate News]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2225674207-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77731' /> </item> <item> <title>West Bank Death Toll Amid Genocide Tops 1,000 as Israeli Forces Kill Child</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/west-bank-death-toll-amid-genocide-tops-1000-as-israeli-forces-kill-child/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:16:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332591</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israeli forces shot and killed fourth grader Mohammad Bahjat Al-Hallaq while he was playing soccer with friends.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank amid the Gaza genocide has surpassed 1,000, according to the UN, after soldiers killed a young Palestinian child while he was reportedly playing soccer on Thursday. The UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported Friday that Israeli forces and settlers have killed 1,001…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/west-bank-death-toll-amid-genocide-tops-1000-as-israeli-forces-kill-child/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-17-israeli-soldier-west-bank-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='158232' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Settler Attacks in Occupied West Bank “Fit Into the Plan of the State”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/israeli-settler-attacks-in-occupied-west-bank-fit-into-the-plan-of-the-state/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:12:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332593</guid> <description><![CDATA[Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass discusses settler violence, Israeli prisons, and the Gaza ceasefire.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just days after the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, President Trump has issued new threats against Hamas, saying Thursday the United States would back a military intervention against the group if it fails to uphold the ceasefire agreement. “There is the fear all the time that the war will be renewed,” says Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/israeli-settler-attacks-in-occupied-west-bank-fit-into-the-plan-of-the-state/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/SEG1_Israhell-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='53809' /> </item> <item> <title>A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/a-us-strike-in-caribbean-leaves-survivors-reports-say/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:34:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332583</guid> <description><![CDATA[News of the strike comes as the US military’s top commander for Latin America has suddenly stepped down.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean has left survivors for the first time, reports say. Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday. However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/a-us-strike-in-caribbean-leaves-survivors-reports-say/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-17-war-plane-puerto-rico-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='116659' /> </item> <item> <title>As Federal Action Stalls, States Aim to Curb Private Equity Greed in Health Care</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-federal-action-stalls-states-aim-to-curb-private-equity-greed-in-health-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eileen Appelbaum]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:55:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332589</guid> <description><![CDATA[Research shows that private equity acquisitions raise costs and can lead to deterioration in patient care.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New legislation in California is poised to rein in the financialization of healthcare — part of a growing trend of states taking action while federal legislation struggles to move forward. On October 6, California enacted legislation (Senate Bill 351) that restricts financial firms’ ability to influence how physicians in practices they own treat patients. It prohibits the firms from setting…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-federal-action-stalls-states-aim-to-curb-private-equity-greed-in-health-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eileen Appelbaum]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Center for Economic and Policy Research]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1409407966-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62352' /> </item> <item> <title>Migrant Survivors of Domestic Violence, Human Trafficking Sue Over ICE Policies</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/migrant-survivors-of-domestic-violence-human-trafficking-sue-over-ice-policies/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mel Leonor Barclay]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:48:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Domestic Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Project 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332578</guid> <description><![CDATA[New Trump administration policies are illegally stripping away deportation protections, according to the lawsuit.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump administration policies have made it easier to detain and deport immigrants who have been victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and other crimes — and who have pending visa applications based on their cooperation with U.S. law enforcement. A lawsuit filed Tuesday says those policies violate federal law. The lawsuit was filed by Public Counsel on behalf of a coalition of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/migrant-survivors-of-domestic-violence-human-trafficking-sue-over-ice-policies/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mel Leonor Barclay]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2233441251-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84091' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Assault Has Left 20,000 Unexploded Bombs Across Gaza, Officials Estimate</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-assault-has-left-20000-unexploded-bombs-across-gaza-officials-estimate/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:23:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332571</guid> <description><![CDATA[The UN has recorded 324 deaths, including 91 children, to unexploded ordnance since October 7, 2023.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the ceasefire agreement tentatively holds and Palestinians return to their homes in hopes of rebuilding after Israel’s genocide, Gaza officials estimate that there are massive amounts of rubble and unexploded bombs that stand in the way of their efforts, potentially laying in wait to cause further harm. On Thursday, the Gaza Government Media Office reported that officials estimate that…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-assault-has-left-20000-unexploded-bombs-across-gaza-officials-estimate/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-16-gaza-unexploded-ordnance-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='161009' /> </item> <item> <title>Vance Downplays Young Republicans’ Hateful Texts as “Kids” Doing Stupid Things</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/vance-downplays-young-republicans-hateful-texts-as-kids-doing-stupid-things/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:00:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J.D. Vance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Young Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332575</guid> <description><![CDATA[The text messages contained jokes about gas chambers, slavery, and rape.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vice President JD Vance has sought to downplay reports that leaders of an organization called the Young Republicans sent thousands of virulently racist and sexist text messages— despite his recent calls for Democrats to tone down their rhetoric. Vance dismissed the conversations, which were published by Politico earlier this week, as an example of “kids” doing “stupid things…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/vance-downplays-young-republicans-hateful-texts-as-kids-doing-stupid-things/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1016-vance-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='55521' /> </item> <item> <title>Pentagon Targeted Colombians in at Least 1 Strike in Caribbean, Report Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-targeted-colombians-in-at-least-one-strike-in-caribbean-report-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:15:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gustavo Petro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332558</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon was reportedly unable to assess the precise identities of the people on the boat before striking.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At least one of the U.S. military’s strikes in the Caribbean last month targeted a boat carrying Colombian nationals, new reporting reveals, potentially signalling that President Donald Trump’s military actions in the region have a wider scope than has been previously reported. CNN reports that the strike on September 19, the third of the five publicly announced strikes in the Caribbean…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-targeted-colombians-in-at-least-one-strike-in-caribbean-report-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-16-f-35s-puerto-rico-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='37243' /> </item> <item> <title>More Than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents So Far This Year</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-170-us-citizens-have-been-held-by-immigration-agents-so-far-this-year/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Foy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:49:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332566</guid> <description><![CDATA[They’ve been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But that is far…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-170-us-citizens-have-been-held-by-immigration-agents-so-far-this-year/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nicole Foy & Sarahbeth Maney]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2238859233-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='143539' /> </item> <item> <title>When Ceasefire Finally Arrived Here in Gaza, What Poured Out of Me Was Grief</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/when-ceasefire-finally-arrived-here-in-gaza-what-poured-out-of-me-was-grief/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dalia Abu Ramadan]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:48:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332555</guid> <description><![CDATA[Now that the airstrikes have stopped, we face a new devastation, assessing our ruined homes and mourning our loved ones.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought that joy would keep me awake after the ceasefire in Gaza was confirmed in the hours before dawn on October 10, but instead, tears did. I opened my phone to check on my people, only to find sorrow spreading everywhere. After two years of endless war, what poured out of many of us was not joy — it was the grief we had buried too long. There was no true cry of joy around me as there…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/when-ceasefire-finally-arrived-here-in-gaza-what-poured-out-of-me-was-grief/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Dalia Abu Ramadan]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240212336-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='181806' /> </item> <item> <title>Reporters Walk Out of Pentagon, Refusing to Heed New Press Policy</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/reporters-walk-out-of-pentagon-refusing-to-heed-new-press-policy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:42:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Military]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332563</guid> <description><![CDATA[The only outlet to agree to the restrictive new rules is the far right One America News Network.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected the pledge; only the far-right outlet One America News has agreed to sign on. Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/reporters-walk-out-of-pentagon-refusing-to-heed-new-press-policy/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/seg-Pentagon-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='91310' /> </item> <item> <title>The IRS Is Installing Trump Loyalists to Probe Supposed “Antifa” Funding</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-irs-is-installing-trump-loyalists-to-probe-supposed-antifa-funding/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:46:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[antifa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump silencing dissent]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332560</guid> <description><![CDATA[Several Trump loyalists are being placed in key IRS roles, while other oversight roles are being weakened.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly changing how it operates in order to comply with a recent directive by President Donald Trump to target organizations his administration claims are funded by “antifa.” According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division (IRS-CI) is installing Trump loyalists in key roles and weakening the effectiveness…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-irs-is-installing-trump-loyalists-to-probe-supposed-antifa-funding/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1016-irs-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='134735' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Dept. of Labor Is Trying to Slash Protections for Home Health Workers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-dept-of-labor-is-trying-to-slash-protections-for-home-health-workers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:30:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Domestic Workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elder Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fair Labor Standards Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Home Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Home Health Aides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332551</guid> <description><![CDATA[Families and workers are waiting to hear whether a rule killing minimum wage and overtime protections will take effect.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thirty-two-year-old Long Island resident Kathleen Downes, creator of The Squeaky Wheelchair blog, is a licensed social worker who is involved in a host of local and national advocacy efforts. As someone with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, she needs help getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing, doing her hair, and preparing meals. Thankfully, she says, she receives a small amount of help…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-dept-of-labor-is-trying-to-slash-protections-for-home-health-workers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[Trump’s Department of Labor Is Trying to Slash Protections for Home Health Workers]]></truthout:fullTitle> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-95609640-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='79453' /> </item> <item> <title>Carbon Dioxide Levels Rose Record Amount in 2024, Experts Warn of Feedback Loop</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/carbon-dioxide-levels-rose-record-amount-in-2024-experts-warn-of-feedback-loop/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:30:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Meteorological Organization]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332547</guid> <description><![CDATA[Carbon dioxide emissions are “turbo-charging” the climate crisis, one official noted.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose by the largest amount ever recorded in 2024, the UN has reported, as researchers warn of the dangers of feedback loops that are pushing the climate crisis to new heights and many global powers do nothing to mitigate emissions. According to the latest bulletin by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/carbon-dioxide-levels-rose-record-amount-in-2024-experts-warn-of-feedback-loop/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-16-wildfire-amazon-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='140401' /> </item> <item> <title>UN, ICC Urged to Investigate Murder of Palestinian Journalist Saleh Aljafarawi</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/un-icc-urged-to-investigate-murder-of-palestinian-journalist-saleh-aljafarawi/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:47:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332549</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meta deleted his Instagram account after his death, destroying a critical historical record of the genocide.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, October 13, legal representatives for murdered Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi filed complaints and demands for investigation with the International Criminal Court and multiple UN committees and special rapporteurs, Sara Segneri, a partner at Confinium Strategies, announced this week on social media. The requests for investigations were sent to UN Special Rapporteur for…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/un-icc-urged-to-investigate-murder-of-palestinian-journalist-saleh-aljafarawi/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Carceral Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2231462030-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='155961' /> </item> <item> <title>Dollar Store Workers’ Fight Shows How to Build Power Even Without a Union</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dollar-store-workers-fight-shows-how-to-build-power-even-without-a-union/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesse Baum]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332541</guid> <description><![CDATA[Since the NLRB is not going to save dollar store workers, “we need to learn how to [organize] ourselves,” says a worker.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be shoplifter who was carrying a knife in 2019, the then-33-year-old kept his mouth shut. Later, when a co-worker asked him why he did nothing, Williams told him the truth. “I said, ‘No offense, but I only get paid one time, and that is to be a stocker,’” said Williams…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dollar-store-workers-fight-shows-how-to-build-power-even-without-a-union/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jesse Baum]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital & Main]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2228807330-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='69681' /> </item> <item> <title>Arizona AG Threatens Speaker Johnson With Lawsuit for Not Swearing In Grijalva</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-ag-threatens-speaker-johnson-with-lawsuit-for-not-swearing-in-grijalva/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:41:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adelita Grijalva]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category> <category><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kris Mayes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Johnson]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332544</guid> <description><![CDATA[“If I have to, I'll take him to court,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a CNN interview.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) has issued a stark warning to U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana): Seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona), or face a lawsuit. Johnson has thus far refused to seat Grijalva, who won a special election to represent the seventh congressional district of Arizona more than three weeks ago. It is atypical for a person who has won a…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/arizona-ag-threatens-speaker-johnson-with-lawsuit-for-not-swearing-in-grijalva/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1016-mayes-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='87720' /> </item> <item> <title>Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival</title> <link>https://truthout.org/audio/making-things-together-zines-strategy-and-survival/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:54:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_audio_post&p=332539</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“We can only be brave together,” says Mariame Kaba. In this episode of Movement Memos, host Kelly Hayes talks with Kaba and writer and organizer Red Schulte about political education, collective courage, and the mistakes we’ll make along the way. Music: Son Monarcas & Sarah, the Illstrumentalist Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/audio/making-things-together-zines-strategy-and-survival/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/mm_10_16_2025-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='75254' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Latest Caribbean Strike “Murder — Plain and Simple,” Amnesty Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-latest-caribbean-strike-murder-plain-and-simple-amnesty-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:19:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Regime Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332534</guid> <description><![CDATA[The strike comes as Trump has covertly authorized the CIA to conduct lethal operations in Venezuela.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration has covertly authorized the CIA to conduct lethal operations in Venezuela, reporting says, as Amnesty International USA condemns the administration’s latest strike as “murder.” The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Trump administration has given the CIA the authorization to “carry out lethal operations in Venezuela,” including operations to undermine…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-latest-caribbean-strike-murder-plain-and-simple-amnesty-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-15-trump-white-house-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='56331' /> </item> <item> <title>“No Kings” Protests Set to Sweep US Even as Trump Increases Attacks on Activists</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/no-kings-protests-set-to-sweep-us-even-as-trump-increases-attacks-on-activists/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:52:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[antifa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Republicans are already smearing the protesters, but their intimidation tactics are out of touch with reality.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wearing a high-visibility vest that said “Press,” award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was arrested in June by local law enforcement while livestreaming a “No Kings” protest against President Donald Trump in Georgia. While the charges against him were eventually dropped, Guevara was handed over to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite being authorized to live and work in the United…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/no-kings-protests-set-to-sweep-us-even-as-trump-increases-attacks-on-activists/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240700506-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='53890' /> </item> <item> <title>SCOTUS Case Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-case-could-destroy-voting-rights-act-and-cement-gop-control-of-house/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:16:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2026 midterms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midterms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights Act]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332529</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is dismantled, the impact will reshape political power across the US, experts say.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US Supreme Court will rehear a case on Wednesday that could strike a death blow to the Voting Rights Act and, in the process, virtually guarantee that Republicans hang on to power in the 2026 midterm elections and well into the future. At issue in the case, Louisiana v. Callais, is Section 2 of the VRA, which outlaws racially discriminatory redistricting. Max Flugrath…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-case-could-destroy-voting-rights-act-and-cement-gop-control-of-house/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240745555-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='106682' /> </item> <item> <title>Anti-Fascism Scholar Who Fled US After Death Threats Discusses MAGA’s Fascism</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/anti-fascism-scholar-who-fled-us-after-death-threats-discusses-magas-fascism/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[antifa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MAGA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rutgers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332527</guid> <description><![CDATA[If we don’t organize and take action in the streets, says Mark Bray, “we’re going to end up somewhere really bad.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe, the United States and beyond. Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group founded by Charlie…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/anti-fascism-scholar-who-fled-us-after-death-threats-discusses-magas-fascism/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/Guest-Mark-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='35205' /> </item> <item> <title>GOP Blocks Warren Bill to Stop Trump’s “Brazen” $20B Argentina Bailout</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gop-blocks-warren-bill-to-stop-trumps-brazen-20b-argentina-bailout/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chris Van Hollen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Javier Milei]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332515</guid> <description><![CDATA[“For Trump, the leader of Argentina is more important than American families struggling with rising costs,” said Warren.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republican Sen. Tim Scott (South Carolina) blocked a bill seeking to stop President Donald Trump’s unprecedented $20 billion bailout of Argentina and its far right government on Tuesday, with Democrats criticizing Republicans’ priorities as Americans languish under GOP cuts to social programs. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) tried to pass the No Argentina Bailout Act on Tuesday…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gop-blocks-warren-bill-to-stop-trumps-brazen-20b-argentina-bailout/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-15-trump-milei-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='80376' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Is Still Holding at Least 115 Health Care Workers Hostage, Org Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-still-holding-at-least-115-health-care-workers-hostage-org-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:35:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care Workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hostages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prisoner exchanges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332525</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel has reportedly disappeared over 400 health care workers from Gaza and the West Bank in the last two years.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More than two dozen Palestinian healthcare workers held hostage in Israel’s torture camps were supposed to be released on Monday, October 13, according to Healthcare Workers Watch-Palestine (HWW), an organization that tracks Israel’s attacks on Palestine’s healthcare system. “While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics,” the group said in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-still-holding-at-least-115-health-care-workers-hostage-org-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Carceral Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240459212-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93301' /> </item> <item> <title>From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/from-1920s-italy-to-1930s-palestine-to-1980s-ska-scenes-antifa-has-many-faces/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:47:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[antifa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mussolini]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War On Terror]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332519</guid> <description><![CDATA[A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United States is lurching toward neo-fascism with alarming speed, courtesy of President Donald Trump, who is using all the resources of the repressive apparatus of the U.S. state to stifle dissent and crush opposition to his extreme agenda. He is so keen on imposing his dystopian vision on the country that he has sought to criminalize anti-fascist struggle itself. How do we fight back?</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/from-1920s-italy-to-1930s-palestine-to-1980s-ska-scenes-antifa-has-many-faces/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2238474031-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='130470' /> </item> <item> <title>New Campaign Aims to Flood Churches and Christian Colleges With Pro-Israel Ads</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-campaign-targets-churches-and-christian-colleges-for-pro-israel-ads/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Cleveland-Stout]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:34:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332516</guid> <description><![CDATA[The campaign is part of a larger $3.2 million contract that also includes paying pastors to produce content. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A newly-created firm called Show Faith by Works is embarking on a “geofencing” campaign to target Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-Israel advertisements. The pastors and congregations themselves are seemingly unaware of this campaign, and some have concerns with Israel’s methods to target Christians. According to the firm’s filing under the Foreign Agents…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-campaign-targets-churches-and-christian-colleges-for-pro-israel-ads/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nick Cleveland-Stout]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Responsible Statecraft]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2234416449-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='162036' /> </item> <item> <title>Mamdani Vows to Make NYC a “Sanctuary City” for Trans People in New Campaign Ad</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/mamdani-vows-to-make-nyc-a-sanctuary-city-for-trans-people-in-new-campaign-ad/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:04:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2025 elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332518</guid> <description><![CDATA[“New York will not sit idly by while trans people are attacked,” Mamdani said in his new campaign ad.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a campaign ad this week honoring transgender trailblazers in the city and vowing to make New York City a sanctuary for trans people. The ad marks a notable departure from the Democratic Party’s current tone on trans rights. Since the party’s 2024 presidential loss to Donald Trump, strategists have increasingly peddled the myth that…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/mamdani-vows-to-make-nyc-a-sanctuary-city-for-trans-people-in-new-campaign-ad/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1015-mamdani-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='122415' /> </item> <item> <title>After Visits With Loved Ones, Some in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/after-visits-with-loved-ones-some-in-ice-custody-face-invasive-strip-searches/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Morrissey]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:25:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CoreCivic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrant Jails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Migrant Jails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strip Search]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strip Searches]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332512</guid> <description><![CDATA[“It’s one of the most humiliating things one can go through,” said one woman jailed at Otay Mesa Detention Center.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Venezuela following her immigration court hearing, her friends visited her at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego to help lift her spirits. The woman, who is in her early 20s, didn’t know that she would have to strip completely naked in front of a facility guard afterward before returning to her housing unit. Capital &</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/after-visits-with-loved-ones-some-in-ice-custody-face-invasive-strip-searches/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kate Morrissey]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital & Main]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2240147412-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='112052' /> </item> <item> <title>Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook Defamation Challenges</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-alex-joness-sandy-hook-defamation-challenges/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:12:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alex Jones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[defamation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[defamation lawsuit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[InfoWars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Shootings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sandy Hook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Onion]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332509</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his legal filings, Jones vastly downplayed his blatant lies regarding the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from far right podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was seeking an appeal of a $1.4 billion judgment against him after he lost a defamation lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting of 2012. Jones and his legal team submitted a writ of certiorari to the high court last week, arguing that his past…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-alex-joness-sandy-hook-defamation-challenges/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1014-jones-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='49786' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Says It’s Halving Aid Into Gaza After Receiving Last 20 Living Captives</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-says-its-halving-aid-into-gaza-after-receiving-last-20-living-captives/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:54:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332500</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel says Hamas hasn’t returned captives’ bodies — while still blocking entry of machinery that can clear rubble.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say — a move Israel has attempted to justify by blaming Hamas for supposedly violating the deal that Palestinians have said Israel is working to sabotage. UN officials said they were notified by the Israeli military that it would only allow 300 aid trucks into the famine-stricken…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-says-its-halving-aid-into-gaza-after-receiving-last-20-living-captives/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-14-palestinians-aid-truck-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='104411' /> </item> <item> <title>By Enabling Police Surveillance, Elected Officials Fuel Trump’s Agenda</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/by-enabling-police-surveillance-elected-officials-fuel-trumps-agenda/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Vogel]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:35:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flock Safety]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[license plate readers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Safety]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332505</guid> <description><![CDATA[Illinois officials have quietly constructed a statewide surveillance apparatus that fuels ICE’s deportation machine.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a remarkable series of avoidable mistakes, elected officials in Illinois have demonstrated to the rest of the country the impossibility of meaningful regulation of police use of surveillance technology. In May of this year, 404 Media published evidence that Illinois automated license plate reader data was being accessed on behalf of federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/by-enabling-police-surveillance-elected-officials-fuel-trumps-agenda/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ed Vogel]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2210307397-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='123340' /> </item> <item> <title>As SCOTUS Enters a New Term, These Cases May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-scotus-enters-a-new-term-these-cases-may-grant-trump-unbridled-authority/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:28:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Separation of Powers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unitary Executive]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332502</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Supreme Court’s new term, which began last week, presents the court with a monumental opportunity to hand Donald Trump unbridled executive authority and eviscerate the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution. The court appears poised to rubber stamp many of Trump’s worst abuses, from the imposition of massive tariffs to seizing control of federal agencies created by Congress.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-scotus-enters-a-new-term-these-cases-may-grant-trump-unbridled-authority/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2203340837-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='71486' /> </item> <item> <title>154 Freed Palestinian Prisoners Reportedly Being Forced Into Exile by Israel</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/154-freed-palestinian-prisoners-reportedly-being-forced-into-exile-by-israel/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332491</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Exiling Palestinian prisoners is the continuation of captivity by other means,” one legal expert said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel is reportedly forcing over 150 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the ceasefire deal into exile, in a move that experts say is a violation of international law. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office says that at least 154 Palestinians released on Monday will be exiled and deported to an unknown country, per Al Jazeera. Almost all had been residents of the occupied…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/154-freed-palestinian-prisoners-reportedly-being-forced-into-exile-by-israel/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-14-palestinians-prison-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84070' /> </item> <item> <title>Goldman Sachs: Consumers Are Carrying Largest Burden From Trump Tariffs</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/goldman-sachs-consumers-are-carrying-largest-burden-from-trump-tariffs/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:15:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prices]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332499</guid> <description><![CDATA[Up to 55 percent of the cost is being shifted onto consumers, according to a new analysis from the Wall Street bank.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New research from investment bank Goldman Sachs affirms, as progressive advocates and economists warned, that US consumers are bearing the brunt of President Donald Trump’s trade wars. As reported by Bloomberg on Monday, economists at Goldman released an analysis this week estimating that US consumers are shouldering up to 55% of the costs stemming from Trump’s tariffs…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/goldman-sachs-consumers-are-carrying-largest-burden-from-trump-tariffs/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2218068571-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77084' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Lawmaker Who Was Expelled for “Recognize Palestine” Sign Speaks Out</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/israeli-lawmaker-who-was-expelled-for-recognize-palestine-sign-speaks-out/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:54:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hostages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Knesset]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332497</guid> <description><![CDATA[Global demonstrations -- not Trump or Netanyahu -- are the real reason why we have a ceasefire now, says Ofer Cassif.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset on Monday, he was briefly interrupted by two lawmakers who waved signs reading “Recognize Palestine.” The two Knesset members, Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif with the Hadash-Ta’al alliance, were expelled from the chamber. “Yesterday, there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood,”…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/israeli-lawmaker-who-was-expelled-for-recognize-palestine-sign-speaks-out/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/seg-Trump-Ofer-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84956' /> </item> <item> <title>Report: DHS Cut FEMA-Based Security Funds to Muslim Groups</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/report-dhs-cut-fema-based-security-funds-to-muslim-orgs/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:43:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Emergency Management Agency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom of religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious bias]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332494</guid> <description><![CDATA[“These actions violate the constitutional rights of all Americans,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell of CAIR.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new report suggests that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked funding for Muslim organizations that were seeking federal grants for increased security to combat hate crimes at their centers. Under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocates hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to religious organizations that…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/report-dhs-cut-fema-based-security-funds-to-muslim-orgs/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1014-fema-building-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='92102' /> </item> <item> <title>When ICE Came to Our Chicago Neighborhood, We Were Ready to Respond</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/when-ice-came-to-our-chicago-neighborhood-we-were-ready-to-respond/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Community organizing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MOBILIZATION]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rapid-response network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rogers Park]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332492</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Rogers Park, a result of months of work building solidarity and networks.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was still groggy, drinking my morning tea, when my phone started buzzing with alerts about ICE hitting a corner within walking distance of my home. At first, it was unclear if they had taken a street vendor who was familiar to many of us. Soon, we learned that the vendor was still there, but that two other neighbors had been seized. That series of texts would soon activate a neighborhood.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/when-ice-came-to-our-chicago-neighborhood-we-were-ready-to-respond/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Organizing My Thoughts]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/558582462_1283064333862192_3088287027063671015_n-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='183007' /> </item> <item> <title>Trans Activist and Movement Leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trans-activist-and-movement-leader-miss-major-griffin-gracy-dies-at-78/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Orion Rummler]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:40:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Trans Legislation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Trans Women]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Miss Major]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prison Industrial Complex]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332488</guid> <description><![CDATA[A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a legendary transgender activist, was known for many things in her community. As a caretaker, she was known for getting Black trans women off the street and housed when they faced poverty and violence. As a fierce advocate for trans rights, she was known for demanding that LGBTQ+ people focus on protecting the most vulnerable among them, like women being policed and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trans-activist-and-movement-leader-miss-major-griffin-gracy-dies-at-78/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Orion Rummler]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2159982228-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='171707' /> </item> <item> <title>3,700 Nonprofits Sign Open Letter Condemning Trump for Targeting Free Speech</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/3700-nonprofits-sign-open-letter-condemning-trump-for-targeting-free-speech/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:01:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[first amendment rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nonprofits]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332486</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Weaponizing the executive branch” to punish free speech “is illegal and wrong,” an open letter from the groups said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of nonprofit organizations have penned an open letter condemning President Donald Trump for signing a memorandum indicating his intention to target the free speech of social justice groups under the guise of combating political violence. The organizations — more than 3,700 in total — noted that the murder of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk in September played a key…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/3700-nonprofits-sign-open-letter-condemning-trump-for-targeting-free-speech/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1014-trump-nonprofits-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='54829' /> </item> <item> <title>Major News Outlets Refuse to Sign “Unconstitutional” Pentagon Press Policy</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/major-news-outlets-will-refuse-to-sign-unconstitutional-pentagon-press-policy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Defense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Military]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332484</guid> <description><![CDATA[The policy would bar reporters from seeking or reporting information not explicitly authorized by the Trump admin.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>News outlets that cover the US Department of Defense have until 5:00 pm Tuesday to sign an agreement put forward by the Pentagon last month that bars journalists from reporting any information that hasn’t been explicitly authorized by the Trump administration — but several major organizations were resolute in stating they would not be agreeing to the terms. Outlets including the New York…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/major-news-outlets-will-refuse-to-sign-unconstitutional-pentagon-press-policy/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2228936854-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='113327' /> </item> <item> <title>Scientists Warn Planet Has Passed “Tipping Point” as Warm-Water Coral Reefs Die</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/scientists-warn-planet-has-passed-tipping-point-as-warm-water-coral-reefs-die/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Simon]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:58:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[coral bleaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coral Reef]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marine life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ocean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tipping points]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332480</guid> <description><![CDATA[Coral ecosystems support a quarter of marine species. Scientists say a clean energy transition can save remaining reefs.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Global temperature rise may feel like it’s gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. These changes are what scientists call tipping points. When a tipping point is reached, an Earth system abruptly and dramatically changes, often irreversibly, like the Amazon rainforest turning into a savanna — a point of no return that is already perilously close.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/scientists-warn-planet-has-passed-tipping-point-as-warm-water-coral-reefs-die/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Matt Simon]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2152127685-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='131741' /> </item> <item> <title>Ed Dept Restores Funding for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss After Outcry</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ed-dept-restores-funding-for-students-with-hearing-and-vision-loss-after-outcry/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jodi S. Cohen]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:09:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disabled students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332477</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration targeted the programs in its attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it. But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness, the department has instead rerouted the grants to a…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ed-dept-restores-funding-for-students-with-hearing-and-vision-loss-after-outcry/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jodi S. Cohen & Jennifer Smith Richards]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2198541114-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='111688' /> </item> <item> <title>Lawsuits Claim Pfizer Failed to Warn of Brain Tumor Risk From Birth Control Shot</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/lawsuits-claim-pfizer-failed-to-warn-of-brain-tumor-risk-from-birth-control-shot/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Santoro]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:29:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pfizer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical companies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[preemption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tumors]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332419</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Pfizer is successful, consumers may find it harder to hold drug makers accountable for inadequate warning labels.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was early 2012 when doctors found a tumor in Kim Franzi’s brain. It was a meningioma — a typically slow-growing, non-cancerous tumor that originates in a layer of tissue between the brain and skull. Franzi underwent a risky two-day brain surgery to remove the mass, which doctors warned could leave her paralyzed or prove fatal. The operation was successful, but more than 13 years later…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lawsuits-claim-pfizer-failed-to-warn-of-brain-tumor-risk-from-birth-control-shot/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Helen Santoro]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Lever]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1357993769-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='47583' /> </item> <item> <title>Advocates Call for Israel to Release Palestinian Doctor Abu Safiya</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/advocates-call-for-israel-to-release-palestinian-doctor-abu-safiya/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:04:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beit Lahia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prisoner exchanges]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332473</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was seized by the Israeli military in December 2024 after it raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As families on Monday celebrated the return of about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and 20 living Israeli hostages after the two-year Israeli bombardment that has killed more than 67,000 people and left rubble across Gaza, advocates demanded the return of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was captured nearly a year ago and has reportedly been imprisoned in a detention center known for torturing detainees.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/advocates-call-for-israel-to-release-palestinian-doctor-abu-safiya/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2185714439-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='172414' /> </item> <item> <title>Oil Pipeline Threatens Catastrophe for Tribes in Michigan – Again</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/oil-pipeline-threatens-catastrophe-for-tribes-in-michigan-again/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:25:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anishinaabe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Enbridge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food sovereignty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[great lakes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[oil pipeline]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ojibwe]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332471</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline burst. Tribes are concerned about another one built without their permission 72 years ago.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This Indigenous Peoples Day, the approximately 2,700 Ojibwe tribal members of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan are marking the holiday amid fear that their region could face another environmental catastrophe like the one that occurred in 2010, when Enbridge’s Line 6B oil pipeline burst and spilled over a million gallons of tar sands crude oil, contaminating the Kalamazoo River…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/oil-pipeline-threatens-catastrophe-for-tribes-in-michigan-again/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-103143567-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94648' /> </item> <item> <title>Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/native-survival-depends-on-protecting-both-tribal-and-us-citizenship-rights/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnnie Jae]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:49:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[indigenous people]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples’ Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Native sovereignty]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332427</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump's attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indigenous Peoples’ Day has always been an act of celebration, resistance, and truth. When we gather and organize for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we affirm that we are still here. It is a reminder that our stories did not begin with Columbus, and they do not end with the myth of American exceptionalism and conquest. But today, it carries an urgency we can’t ignore. In the current political climate…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/native-survival-depends-on-protecting-both-tribal-and-us-citizenship-rights/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Johnnie Jae]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2220129370-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='247725' /> </item> <item> <title>Youth Climate Leaders Test New Legal Strategy to Counter Fossil Fuel Expansion</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/youth-climate-leaders-test-new-legal-strategy-to-counter-fossil-fuel-expansion/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Rusch]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:29:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332415</guid> <description><![CDATA[They lost their case for a constitutional right to climate protection. Now they’re suing the government again.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miko Vergun, a plaintiff in the landmark 2015 federal youth climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States, which questioned the constitutionality of 50 years of government support for fossil fuels, wasn’t surprised on the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term when he issued three executive orders meant to clear the way for the drilling of more oil and gas and the mining of more coal in the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/youth-climate-leaders-test-new-legal-strategy-to-counter-fossil-fuel-expansion/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Rusch]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1258643969-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='206051' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Administration Carries Out Mass Layoffs at CDC, Decimating the Agency</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-carries-out-mass-layoffs-at-cdc-decimating-the-agency/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:28:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Layoffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332460</guid> <description><![CDATA[Health officials and experts warn the layoffs leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration has carried out mass layoffs of federal public health officials that experts warn will leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks. As reported by The New York Times, the layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) carried out on Friday night were deep and wide-ranging, and included employees and leaders “in offices addressing…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-carries-out-mass-layoffs-at-cdc-decimating-the-agency/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2235727101-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='214026' /> </item> <item> <title>Palestinians in Gaza March North Again, Returning to Homes Turned to Rubble</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-in-gaza-march-north-again-returning-to-homes-turned-to-rubble/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tareq S. Hajjaj]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:27:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332462</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Gazans attempt to rebuild, the effects of the genocide are still being felt amid heightened social unrest. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was the moment everyone in southern Gaza had been waiting for: the chance to return to their homes, or what remained of them, in Gaza City and northern Gaza. On October 10, as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, throngs of people began the march back north, moving up the coastal al-Rashid road in a sight reminiscent of Gazans’ historic return…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-in-gaza-march-north-again-returning-to-homes-turned-to-rubble/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tareq S. Hajjaj]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2239677760-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='180942' /> </item> <item> <title>Tylenol Claims Are a Microcosm of Trump and RFK’s Wider Attack on Public Health</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tylenol-claims-are-a-microcosm-of-trump-and-rfks-wider-attack-on-public-health/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lizzie Chadbourne]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:24:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[acetaminophen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MAHA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neurodivergent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Patriarchy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332444</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump and RFK’s false claims about autism and Tylenol aren’t an aberration --- they’re part of a consistent strategy.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump and RFK’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) commission has come for us, and public health in the U.S. is already suffering. A closer look at the recent debacle in which the Trump administration baselessly claimed that autism is caused by taking acetaminophen during pregnancy offers a microcosm through which to understand the Trump administration’s larger public health agenda — a…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tylenol-claims-are-a-microcosm-of-trump-and-rfks-wider-attack-on-public-health/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Lizzie Chadbourne]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2236788562-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='56174' /> </item> <item> <title>From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/from-ai-to-tiktok-to-tv-this-pro-israel-billionaire-is-expanding-power-in-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:14:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Larry Ellison]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[media consolidation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TikTok]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332456</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.” ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Larry Ellison’s name isn’t always mentioned alongside more public-facing megabillionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg. But as he vaults to the top of the U.S. power elite after a string of high-profile corporate deals, that’s about to change. Ellison, the founder of the tech giant Oracle, is quickly emerging as the new face of oligarchic power in the U.S.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/from-ai-to-tiktok-to-tv-this-pro-israel-billionaire-is-expanding-power-in-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2194585061-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='98863' /> </item> <item> <title>ICE Is Putting Pregnant Immigrants — and Their Children — at Risk</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-putting-pregnant-immigrants-and-their-children-at-risk/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mel Leonor Barclay]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:17:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332407</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the lead up to her son’s birth, Jacqueline made plans to call 911 for an ambulance to pick her up from her North Florida home and transport her to a hospital about an hour away. The second-time mom and Guatemalan immigrant, who has lived in the country for a decade, would have relied on her husband to drive her to the hospital. But a few months ago he was deported…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-putting-pregnant-immigrants-and-their-children-at-risk/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mel Leonor Barclay & Shefali Luthra]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-500414664-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='82551' /> </item> <item> <title>Senators Warn Trump Administration Is Developing Secret Watchlist of Americans</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/senators-warn-trump-administration-is-developing-secret-watchlist-of-americans/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Klippenstein]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:16:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332453</guid> <description><![CDATA[One called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 “a greater infringement on freedoms than the Patriot Act.” ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration is drawing up “secret lists of terrorist groups inside the United States,” Senator Elissa Slotkin said on the floor of Congress yesterday — the first such reference to the effects of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). The directive, as I’ve reported, lays out Donald Trump’s policies with regard to equating “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist”…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/senators-warn-trump-administration-is-developing-secret-watchlist-of-americans/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ken Klippenstein]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Ken Klippenstein]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2228095944-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='75334' /> </item> <item> <title>MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” for Higher Education</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/mit-becomes-first-school-to-reject-trumps-loyalty-oath-for-higher-education/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:10:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332457</guid> <description><![CDATA[Eight other schools have been invited to sign the pledge, which critics have called a funding “extortion” agreement. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first university to reject President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which critics have called an “extortion” agreement for federal funding. MIT and eight other schools — the University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/mit-becomes-first-school-to-reject-trumps-loyalty-oath-for-higher-education/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2209865594-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='165233' /> </item> <item> <title>ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-targeting-day-labor-centers-in-la-that-hold-contracts-with-the-city/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maegan E. Ortiz]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE Raids]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332445</guid> <description><![CDATA[Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In September, the United States Supreme Court paused a temporary restraining order intended to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from terrorizing Los Angeles with roving patrols, giving ICE the green light to target people because of the color of their skin or the language they speak. But even while the restraining order was in effect starting in July…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-targeting-day-labor-centers-in-la-that-hold-contracts-with-the-city/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Maegan E. Ortiz]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2232619972-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='163037' /> </item> <item> <title>Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/italys-second-general-strike-for-gaza-brought-2m-workers-into-the-streets/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Montanari]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:03:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flotilla]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Giorgia Meloni]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332455</guid> <description><![CDATA[The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seemed impossible for Italy to strike for Palestine more successfully than it did the first time, yet it happened: 2 million people returned to the streets on October 3, blocking everything again. The second general strike was called by Si Cobas labor union on September 18, and circulated broadly after September 22, the date of the first strike. After Israel attacked the Global Sumud…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/italys-second-general-strike-for-gaza-brought-2m-workers-into-the-streets/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Laura Montanari]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2 Million Workers into the Streets]]></truthout:fullTitle> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/Rome-giorgio-Image-2025-10-03-at-14.46.14-1200x900.jpeg' type='image/jpeg' length='136262' /> </item> <item> <title>Despite Ceasefire, Netanyahu Vows Return to “Hard Way” If Hamas Isn’t Disarmed</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/despite-ceasefire-netanyahu-vows-return-to-hard-way-if-hamas-isnt-disarmed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:45:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332428</guid> <description><![CDATA[Netanyahu made his threat in an address just before the first phase of the ceasefire went into effect.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just before the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire agreement went into effect on Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a return to Israel’s slaughter if Hamas isn’t disarmed, a provision not part of the current deal for a partial withdrawal and captive exchange. In a televised address delivered just before the ceasefire went into effect, Netanyahu said that the next…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/despite-ceasefire-netanyahu-vows-return-to-hard-way-if-hamas-isnt-disarmed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-10-netanyahu-news-conference-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60755' /> </item> <item> <title>More Than Half of Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-senate-democrats-help-gop-pass-925-billion-pentagon-bill/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military Spending]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NDAA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332441</guid> <description><![CDATA[It also contains anti-trans riders and no limits on domestic deployment of US troops, points out journalist Erin Reed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senate Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP late Thursday to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit. The final vote on the Senate’s $925 billion version of the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-senate-democrats-help-gop-pass-925-billion-pentagon-bill/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1879671632-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='111993' /> </item> <item> <title>US Sending 200 Troops to Israel, Establishing CENTCOM “Coordination Center”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/u-s-sending-200-troops-to-israel-establishing-centcom-coordination-center/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CENTCOM]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332408</guid> <description><![CDATA[The troops are reportedly in Israel to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Central Command is reportedly establishing a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel, staffed with hundreds of troops, to monitor the newly implemented ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials have said. U.S. outlets have reported that the military is slated to send 200 troops to Israel for the effort, with some having already been sent. The troops are there, officials said…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/u-s-sending-200-troops-to-israel-establishing-centcom-coordination-center/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-10-us-troops-helicopter-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='72584' /> </item> <item> <title>23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/23-unions-plan-to-strike-together-if-kaiser-fails-to-address-workplace-crises/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Walicek]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:37:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care Workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[kaiser permanente]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332393</guid> <description><![CDATA[Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Our patients deserve the best, not mediocrity.” This phrase has been emblazoned across graphics on the social media feeds of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP), an American Federation of Teachers affiliate, Local 5017. The roughly 6,000 health care professionals of the OFNHP are locked in a contract fight with their employer, Kaiser Permanente…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/23-unions-plan-to-strike-together-if-kaiser-fails-to-address-workplace-crises/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tyler Walicek]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2236560486-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='140017' /> </item> <item> <title>Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Sending National Guard Troops to Chicago</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-blocks-trump-from-sending-national-guard-troops-to-chicago/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:14:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[April Perry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brandon Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J.B. Pritzker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[militarization of U.S. cities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332425</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop,” Judge April M. Perry said during a hearing.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Illinois-based federal judge has ruled, for now, that the Trump administration cannot deploy the National Guard to Chicago, saying that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable.” Judge April M. Perry issued her decision on Thursday evening, stating that the administration, “their officers, agents, assigns entered, and all persons acting in concert with them…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-blocks-trump-from-sending-national-guard-troops-to-chicago/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1010-protesters-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='130018' /> </item> <item> <title>2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is Aligned With US Imperialism, Says Historian</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/2025-nobel-peace-prize-winner-is-aligned-with-us-imperialism-says-historian/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:13:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Right Wing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332423</guid> <description><![CDATA[María Corina Machado has voiced support for sanctions against Venezuela and praised right-wing Latin American leaders.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqualified by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, with fellow opposition leader Edmundo González standing in for her. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council ultimately declared Maduro the winner…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/2025-nobel-peace-prize-winner-is-aligned-with-us-imperialism-says-historian/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/seg-Machado-Greg-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='63455' /> </item> <item> <title>“You Whisper to Us”: Racial Justice Activists and Artists Honor Assata’s Legacy</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/you-whisper-to-us-racial-justice-activists-and-artists-honor-assatas-legacy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:11:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Assata Shakur]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black freedom movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Liberation Army]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Panther]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obituary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[revolutionary]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332412</guid> <description><![CDATA[Assata Shakur's passing unleashed a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for us all.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The recent passing of Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader Assata Shakur unleashed more than a sense of loss. It sparked a sense of pride in her defiance, a sense of gratitude for the movements and organizations that sustained her and a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for the rest of us. The collective grief is still fresh following Assata’s…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/you-whisper-to-us-racial-justice-activists-and-artists-honor-assatas-legacy/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1066615210-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='141512' /> </item> <item> <title>Critics Slam DOJ’s “Politically Motivated” Charges Against NY AG Letitia James</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/critics-slam-dojs-politically-motivated-charges-against-ny-ag-letitia-james/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Letitia James]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lindsey Halligan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332409</guid> <description><![CDATA[The charges come weeks after Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi target James for prosecution.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Virginia-based federal grand jury has charged New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) with mortgage fraud, weeks after President Donald Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi push Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to target her for prosecution. James’s office had sued Trump while he was a private citizen between his two presidential terms, alleging that his company had…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/critics-slam-dojs-politically-motivated-charges-against-ny-ag-letitia-james/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1010-james-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='85595' /> </item> <item> <title>Why Hasn’t Trump’s EPA Released the Toxicity Report on This “Forever Chemical”?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/why-hasnt-trumps-epa-released-the-toxicity-report-on-this-forever-chemical/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Lerner]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:11:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drinking Water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[forever chemicals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332396</guid> <description><![CDATA[PFNA is in the drinking water systems of 26 million people and could cause developmental, liver, and reproductive harms.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This spring, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency completed a report on the toxicity of a “forever chemical” called PFNA, which is in the drinking water systems serving some 26 million people. The assessment found that PFNA interferes with human development by causing lower birth weights and, based on animal evidence, likely causes damage to the liver and to male reproductive systems…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/why-hasnt-trumps-epa-released-the-toxicity-report-on-this-forever-chemical/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Lerner]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1127491114-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='85799' /> </item> <item> <title>Activists Who Want to Dismantle Public Schools Now Run the Education Department</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/activists-who-want-to-dismantle-public-schools-now-run-the-education-department/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan O’Matz]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:38:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian nationalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Linda McMahon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Moms for Liberty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Project 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Schools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[school privatization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332348</guid> <description><![CDATA[Top adviser Lindsey Burke is lead author of the education section in Project 2025’s agenda for Trump’s administration.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door. She calls it “the final mission.” But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down. Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe”…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/activists-who-want-to-dismantle-public-schools-now-run-the-education-department/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Megan O’Matz & Jennifer Smith Richards]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2221173196-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='90485' /> </item> <item> <title>RFK Jr. Says Trump Admin Will “Make the Proof” on Bogus Tylenol Claims</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-says-trump-admin-will-make-the-proof-on-bogus-tylenol-claims/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tylenol]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332391</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We are doing the studies to make the proof,” the health secretary said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted on Thursday that the studies he’s cited to justify his baseless and dangerous claims about Tylenol use and autism are “not proof” to back the Trump administration’s guidance — but added that officials are working to retroactively “make the proof.” During a meeting of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, RFK Jr. listed a few studies that he argued…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-says-trump-admin-will-make-the-proof-on-bogus-tylenol-claims/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-09-rfk-jr-cabinet-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89528' /> </item> <item> <title>Republicans Pushed Hundreds of Bills This Year to Curtail Local Governments</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-pushed-hundreds-of-bills-this-year-to-curtail-local-governments/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Davis]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:23:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[preemption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332377</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Trump wages war on US cities, GOP-led states have swiftly passed an array of laws threatening their autonomy.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, President Donald Trump escalated his plans to send National Guard troops into blue cities — fighting in court to deploy them to Portland and sending others to Chicago ostensibly to fight crime and support federal immigration agents. He has repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if courts rule against him. While images of soldiers on city streets offer a visible show of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-pushed-hundreds-of-bills-this-year-to-curtail-local-governments/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Joshua Davis]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1059945238-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='138955' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Brags That He “Took the Freedom of Speech Away” From Protesters</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-brags-that-he-took-the-freedom-of-speech-away-from-protesters/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:51:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[antifa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332384</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump bragged about his administration seeking to ban flag burning, which is protected speech.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump bragged that his administration “took the freedom of speech away” from protesters who burn the American flag during a rant against anti-fascists on Wednesday. While speaking about “antifa-inspired terror” in a meeting on the anti-fascist movement, Trump touted his recent executive order instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to find ways to prosecute people who burn the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-brags-that-he-took-the-freedom-of-speech-away-from-protesters/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-09-trump-roundtable-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='55439' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin Acted on 80 Percent of Industry’s Regulatory Requests in 8 Months</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-acted-on-80-percent-of-industrys-regulatory-requests-in-8-months/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Bienkowski]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:29:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332386</guid> <description><![CDATA[Researchers and watchdog groups say the level of industry influence in this administration is unprecedented.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US manufacturers who late last year asked the incoming Trump administration for a “regulatory reset” have seen roughly 80% of their specific regulatory requests acted on in just the first eight months of Trump taking office. The fast action across various agencies comes after 100 manufacturing industry groups sent a letter to then President-elect Donald Trump last December complaining of a…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-acted-on-80-percent-of-industrys-regulatory-requests-in-8-months/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brian Bienkowski]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The New Lede]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2239375228-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='99594' /> </item> <item> <title>Critics Say Report Proves Trump Is Directing DOJ to Prosecute Political Enemies</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/critics-say-report-proves-trump-is-directing-doj-to-prosecute-political-enemies/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332382</guid> <description><![CDATA[The WSJ reports a Truth Social post was actually intended to be a direct message sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Critics of President Donald Trump are warning that a new report from the Wall Street Journal has provided clear evidence that the president is waging a campaign of “selective and malicious” prosecutions of his political opponents. As the Journal reported on Wednesday night, Trump last month posted a message on his social media platform, Truth Social, calling for the prosecution of New York…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/critics-say-report-proves-trump-is-directing-doj-to-prosecute-political-enemies/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2235636295-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='99623' /> </item> <item> <title>The Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Not a Peace Agreement. What Will Happen Next?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/the-gaza-ceasefire-deal-is-not-a-peace-agreement-what-will-happen-next/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:56:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332379</guid> <description><![CDATA[Palestinian and Israeli analysts weigh in on how to interpret the hostage-ceasefire deal.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal for Gaza. The 20-point roadmap includes a swap of captives and a phased Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, though details on many of the planks remain sketchy. Democracy Now! spoke with Palestinian and Israeli analysts on how to interpret the peace plan. “We’re now at a fork in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/the-gaza-ceasefire-deal-is-not-a-peace-agreement-what-will-happen-next/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/SEG2-Guests-Split-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='74745' /> </item> <item> <title>Palestinians Rejoice as Trump Announces Ceasefire Deal, With Uncertainty Looming</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-rejoice-as-trump-announces-ceasefire-deal-with-uncertainty-looming/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:16:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332376</guid> <description><![CDATA[“My greatest wish now is for real safety to return — for no more people to die here,” one Palestinian said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal to bring about a temporary pause to Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and the release of Israeli and Palestinian captives, officials have announced. The deal was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social Wednesday evening, after he first unveiled a heavily criticized 20-point plan to “end the Gaza Conflict”…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-rejoice-as-trump-announces-ceasefire-deal-with-uncertainty-looming/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_10-09-gaza-children-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='109357' /> </item> <item> <title>Polling Shows Americans Reject Trump’s Threat to Militarize US Cities</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/polling-shows-americans-reject-trumps-threat-to-militarize-us-cities/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:35:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insurrection Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[militarization of U.S. cities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332374</guid> <description><![CDATA[A majority of voters, 58 percent, said presidents should only send military forces to cities that face external threats.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two sets of recent polling data demonstrate that Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s actions in office so far — particularly his mobilization of the National Guard in U.S. cities. A Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday found that Americans largely disapprove of troops being deployed to U.S. cities when there isn’t an external threat. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans, 58 percent…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/polling-shows-americans-reject-trumps-threat-to-militarize-us-cities/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/2025_1009-trump-polls-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62799' /> </item> <item> <title>Rutgers Unions Stand in Solidarity With Colleague Targeted by Turning Point</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rutgers-unions-colleague-targeted/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rutgers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332370</guid> <description><![CDATA[Professor Mark Bray, author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” says he has received death threats.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Rutgers teachers’ unions are standing in solidarity with History Professor Mark Bray, who has been targeted by Turning Point USA’s student chapter at Rutgers. The group has falsely claimed that Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus,” and launched a campaign to have him fired. “Antifa,” which is short for antifascist…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rutgers-unions-colleague-targeted/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The ACAB Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-1481222917-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='177727' /> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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