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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>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:26:45 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2</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>Tlaib and Sanders Introduce Bill to Tax Companies for Excessive CEO Pay</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tlaib-and-sanders-introduce-bill-to-tax-companies-for-excessive-ceo-pay/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:43:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rashida Tlaib]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tesla]]></category> <category><![CDATA[walmart]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331710</guid> <description><![CDATA[The proposal would raise an estimated $150 billion over a decade if current compensation patterns continue.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the world’s richest person, Tesla CEO and Republican megadonor Elon Musk, on the cusp of becoming the first trillionaire on the planet, two leading progressive lawmakers are calling on Congress to pass a bill to “rein in the obscene salaries of America’s top executives.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Monday introduced the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act with…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tlaib-and-sanders-introduce-bill-to-tax-companies-for-excessive-ceo-pay/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>UN Inquiry Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide and Calls for Arms Embargo</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/un-inquiry-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-and-calls-for-arms-embargo/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arria]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:36:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arms embargo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331708</guid> <description><![CDATA[The findings could be used by the International Court of Justice, which has a pending genocide case against Israel.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A United Nations commission of inquiry has determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. A 72-page report from the commission cites statements from Israeli officials and a pattern of conduct by the Israeli army as evidence of genocidal intent. The UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/un-inquiry-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-and-calls-for-arms-embargo/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Michael Arria]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>In the Aftermath of Israel’s Assault, Feminists in Iran Chart a Path Forward</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/in-the-aftermath-of-israels-assault-feminists-in-iran-chart-a-path-forward/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bahareh Badiei]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:16:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331700</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iranian feminists navigate Israeli attacks, authoritarianism at home, and appropriation of their liberation struggles.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we mark the third anniversary of Jina (Mahsa) Amini’s death in Iran and the uprising that sparked the global Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the voices that courageously challenged authoritarianism at home find themselves navigating an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. In response to the June 2025 war between Israel and Iran, mainstream media outlets — both Persian-language and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/in-the-aftermath-of-israels-assault-feminists-in-iran-chart-a-path-forward/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Bahareh Badiei & Ghoncheh Ghavami]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>US Acts as “Judge, Jury, and Executioner” in Venezuelan Boat Strikes</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/us-acts-as-judge-jury-and-executioner-in-venezuelan-boat-strikes/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:36:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug Cartels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=331693</guid> <description><![CDATA[Venezuelan historian Miguel Tinker Salas discusses the growing US military presence in the Caribbean.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, President Trump announced the U.S. bombed a boat in international waters, killing three people. The attack was the second to target what the Trump administration claims are drug smugglers from Venezuela. A previous strike on another boat killed 11 people. In a third incident, the U.S. Navy raided a fishing boat in Venezuelan waters, detaining nine fishermen for eight hours.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/us-acts-as-judge-jury-and-executioner-in-venezuelan-boat-strikes/" 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/2025/09/seg3-Split-Guest-Boat-CREDIT-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60241' /> </item> <item> <title>As Prisons Deal With Heat Waves, Climate Crisis Makes Abolition Even More Urgent</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-prisons-deal-with-heat-waves-climate-crisis-makes-abolition-even-more-urgent/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Blackwell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:16:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Excerpt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heat Waves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prison]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prison Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solitary Confinement]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331680</guid> <description><![CDATA[While the planet continues to warm, conditions in prisons, and specifically in solitary confinement, continue to worsen.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana almost two decades ago, guards in a New Orleans jail panicked. With no guidance from management or the state and a rapidly worsening storm building around them, they abandoned hundreds of incarcerated people in their cells while floodwaters rose, forcing them to drink the putrid water that seeped into their cells. Back then, it was an exception. Now…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-prisons-deal-with-heat-waves-climate-crisis-makes-abolition-even-more-urgent/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Christopher Blackwell, Deborah Zalesne, Kwaneta Harris, Terry A. Kupers]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout / Pluto Press]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1353775665-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='45502' /> </item> <item> <title>Judge Dismisses Terrorism Charges Against Luigi Mangione</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/judge-dismisses-terrorism-charges-against-luigi-mangione/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Queally]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:09:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Luigi Mangione]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UnitedHealthcare]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331684</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mangione is still facing murder charges, with federal prosecutors seeking the death penalty.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A judge in New York City on Tuesday threw out a pair of charges against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December of last year while he walked down a street in Manhattan. Judge Gregory Carro did not throw out the entirety of the murder charges against Mangione, but said two of the most serious charges — murder in the first degree as a crime of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/judge-dismisses-terrorism-charges-against-luigi-mangione/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jon Queally]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/what-trumps-executive-order-on-401ks-means-for-workers-who-hope-to-retire/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:06:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[401(k) Plans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crypto]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331683</guid> <description><![CDATA[More workers may lose their hard-won retirement savings now that Trump has pushed them toward crypto and private equity.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new Trump executive order has opened the door for 401(K) holders to invest in private equity, cryptocurrency, and other alternative assets. Why did Trump make this decision? Is this a beneficial “public policy” for common people preparing for retirement? Gerald Epstein, a leading expert on finance and financial crises, warns that Trump’s executive order on retirement accounts not only comes with…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/what-trumps-executive-order-on-401ks-means-for-workers-who-hope-to-retire/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>After Bombing 6 Countries This Year, Netanyahu Pins Israeli Isolation on Muslims</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/after-bombing-6-countries-this-year-netanyahu-pins-israeli-isolation-on-muslims/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:54:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></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=331667</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We’ll need to develop our weapons industry — we’re going to be Athens and super Sparta combined,” Netanyahu said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a rare admission on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is facing isolation on the world stage after nearly two years of its genocide in Gaza — but didn’t acknowledge his own government’s role in the situation. At the “Fifty States — One Israel” economic conference hosted by Israel’s Finance Ministry, Netanyahu blamed foreign countries and Muslims for Israel’…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/after-bombing-6-countries-this-year-netanyahu-pins-israeli-isolation-on-muslims/" 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/2025/09/2025_benjamin-netanyahu-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='83125' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s DOJ Has Demanded Voter Files From at Least 27 States</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-doj-has-demanded-voter-files-from-at-least-27-states/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eileen O’Connor]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:28:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voter files]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331675</guid> <description><![CDATA[The executive branch has no authority to run elections or compile a massive database of voters’ personal information.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Months of unprecedented actions signal that the Trump administration is pursuing a concerted strategy to undermine the next election. One part of that effort is an ongoing attempt to collect voter files from many states. In May, the Justice Department began demanding copies of states’ voter registration databases, including sensitive information such as driver’s license numbers and the last…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-doj-has-demanded-voter-files-from-at-least-27-states/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eileen O’Connor]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Brennan Center for Justice]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Bolsonaro’s Conviction for Coup Plot Is a Blow to the Global Far Right</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/bolsonaros-conviction-for-coup-plot-is-a-blow-to-the-global-far-right/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Fox]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:20:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331665</guid> <description><![CDATA[In holding the former president accountable, Brazil’s legal system has delivered a historic victory for democracy. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brazil’s Supreme Court’s decision to convict Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to carry out a military coup has been met with widespread celebrations across the country, along with dismay from the former president’s supporters. The September 11 decision revolved around Bolsonaro’s plan to overturn his 2022 electoral defeat and assassinate current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and two other…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/bolsonaros-conviction-for-coup-plot-is-a-blow-to-the-global-far-right/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Michael Fox]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Troops Deliberately Target Gaza Children, Say Volunteer Medical Workers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-troops-deliberately-target-gaza-children-say-volunteer-medical-workers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:53:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331669</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I have to document this,” said Dr. Mimi Syed, a US emergency physician. “I realized — these are war crimes.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>International medical professionals who volunteered in Gaza hospitals said they treated more than 100 Palestinian children who were shot in the head or chest by Israeli forces in what appears to be a pattern of deliberate targeting, according to an investigation published Saturday by a Dutch newspaper. De Volkskrant interviewed 17 doctors and a nurse from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-troops-deliberately-target-gaza-children-say-volunteer-medical-workers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/digital-tools-are-fueling-the-rise-of-new-time-exchange-solidarity-economies/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Fassler]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:52:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mutual Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solidarity Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[time bank]]></category> <category><![CDATA[time banking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Time Banks]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331657</guid> <description><![CDATA[Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Kent, Ohio, older white women and immigrant families are forging unexpected connections through a time exchange network. Through time exchanges — sometimes called time banking — members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need assistance themselves. It’s not barter, or charity; time banking emphasizes reciprocal exchange, recognizing that everyone has something to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/digital-tools-are-fueling-the-rise-of-new-time-exchange-solidarity-economies/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ella Fassler]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Judith Butler Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley Files Given to Trump Administration</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/judith-butler-among-160-named-in-uc-berkeley-files-given-to-trump-administration/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:54:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[University of Califonia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=331658</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We don’t have any rights to know the allegation against us,” says Butler amid the crackdown on Palestinian solidarity.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of California, Berkeley has provided Trump officials with the names of at least 160 students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemitism on campus, in response to the administration’s sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism. The administration has already threatened to cut off federal funding from academic institutions and has targeted international students…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/judith-butler-among-160-named-in-uc-berkeley-files-given-to-trump-administration/" 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/2025/09/SEG3_UC3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='105832' /> </item> <item> <title>Fox Host Apologizes for Saying Unhoused People Should Receive “Lethal Injection”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fox-host-apologizes-for-saying-homeless-people-should-receive-lethal-injection/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:20:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331655</guid> <description><![CDATA[Despite his public call to “just kill” unhoused people, Brian Kilmeade continues to host “Fox & Friends.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After four days of backlash, Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade has apologized for saying that authorities should “just kill” people experiencing homelessness and mental health crises with “involuntary lethal injection” — but it appears that he will remain in his role at “Fox & Friends.” Kilmeade made his original comment during a “Fox & Friends” discussion on a woman who was stabbed and killed…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fox-host-apologizes-for-saying-homeless-people-should-receive-lethal-injection/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-15-brian-kilmeade-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='66400' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Military Raids “No Other Land” Co-Director Basel Adra’s Home</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-military-raids-no-other-land-co-director-basel-adras-home/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:18:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331651</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israeli soldiers descended on Adra’s home as he accompanied his brother, who was attacked by settlers, to the hospital.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli forces raided the home of Oscar-winning director Basel Adra on Saturday after settlers attacked his village and family in the occupied West Bank, sending one of his brothers to the hospital. On Saturday afternoon, Israeli settlers attacked Adra’s village, al-Tuwani, in Masafer Yatta. The settlers injured two of Adra’s brothers and one of his cousins, he said, when the group tried to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-military-raids-no-other-land-co-director-basel-adras-home/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-15-basel-adra-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62515' /> </item> <item> <title>GOP Aims to Permanently Gut Federal Land Protections via Arcane Oversight Rule</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gop-aims-to-permanently-gut-federal-land-protections-via-arcane-oversight-rule/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lois Parshley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[capitol hill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congressional Review Act (CRA)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CRA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331648</guid> <description><![CDATA[Republicans want to use the Congressional Review Act to advance Trump’s extraction agenda in Alaska and beyond.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple majority vote. Thirty years later, Republican lawmakers are wielding it to quietly upend how the country manages public lands. One of the act’s sponsors…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gop-aims-to-permanently-gut-federal-land-protections-via-arcane-oversight-rule/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Lois Parshley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>This Researcher Studied How Climate Change Hurts Children — Trump Shut Her Down</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/this-researcher-studied-how-climate-change-hurts-children-trump-shut-her-down/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Kutz]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331583</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jane Clougherty spent years studying how extreme weather affects kids’ health. Trump’s EPA cancelled her work.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jane Clougherty has dedicated the majority of her professional life to researching the health effects of air pollution and, more recently, extreme heat. But in May, she got an email from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that ground her potentially life-saving work to a halt. Sitting on her parents’ back porch in Boston, the Drexel University professor learned her research had been…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/this-researcher-studied-how-climate-change-hurts-children-trump-shut-her-down/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Kutz]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2230337485-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='61694' /> </item> <item> <title>New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-bill-would-allow-rubio-to-strip-us-citizens-passports-over-political-speech/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331644</guid> <description><![CDATA[The legislation would allow the Secretary of State to strip anyone's US passport with no legal due process. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech. The bill, introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), will come up for a hearing on Wednesday. According to The Intercept: Rubio has previously boasted of stripping…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-bill-would-allow-rubio-to-strip-us-citizens-passports-over-political-speech/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2234583045-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='76199' /> </item> <item> <title>Stephen Miller Vows to “Dismantle” the Left After Charlie Kirk Assassination</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/stephen-miller-vows-to-dismantle-the-left-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:49:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331640</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miller threatened to deploy RICO and terrorism charges to persecute progressive organizations and individuals. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vowed Friday that he and President Donald Trump would use this week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk to “dismantle” the organized left using state power. In a rant on Fox News, Miller — the architect of Trump’s mass roundups and deportations of immigrants — shouted that the best way to honor Kirk’s memory was to carry out a political purge…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/stephen-miller-vows-to-dismantle-the-left-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2232756062-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='75339' /> </item> <item> <title>15K Gaza Students Have Been Killed. Survivors Are Denied Their Education.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/15k-gaza-students-have-been-killed-survivors-are-denied-their-education/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hend Salama Abo Helow]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:48:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331536</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel has killed over 800 teachers and staff, along with 15,000 school-aged kids. Schools are in ruins.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To live in Gaza means nothing is guaranteed — neither your wealth, your buildings, your career, nor even your legacy. Only your mind and its principles endure. Growing up in a war-battered reality compelled us to cling to education, just as my father, a retired mathematics teacher, always told me: “I have not invested in entrepreneurs, but in one lasting, fruitful, and ever-present project — your…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/15k-gaza-students-have-been-killed-survivors-are-denied-their-education/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2234017735-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='169007' /> </item> <item> <title>Rising Tenant-Led Movement Aims to Bring Down Corporate Landlords</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rising-tenant-led-movement-aims-to-bring-down-corporate-landlords/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[landlords]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Organizing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tenants]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331609</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tenant union organizers from Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, and New York share hopeful news from the growing movement.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A cutting edge of mass organizing today lies with the tenant movement. Across the U.S., tenant unions have been exploding in growth and visibility. Thousands of tenants — from Los Angeles to Kansas City, from Chicago to Connecticut — have unionized in recent years. This is a bottom-up, multiracial, working-class movement that’s directly countering the catastrophe of the U.S. housing system and the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rising-tenant-led-movement-aims-to-bring-down-corporate-landlords/" 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/2025/09/DSC_4790-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='238773' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Health Care Funding Cuts Leave States With Impossible Budget Choices</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-health-care-funding-cuts-leave-states-with-impossible-budget-choices/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Armour]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big beautiful bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331560</guid> <description><![CDATA[Some state leaders are warning constituents to expect massive Medicaid rollbacks forced by Trump's federal budget. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack insurance, making the health fair a major source of free medical care in South Texas for more than 25 years. Until this year. The Trump administration’s plan to strip more…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-health-care-funding-cuts-leave-states-with-impossible-budget-choices/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Stephanie Armour, Christine Mai-Duc, Sam Whitehead, Arielle Zionts]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[KFF Health News]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Netanyahu Signs Settlement Agreement That Would Displace 7,000 Palestinians</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-signs-settlement-agreement-that-would-displace-7000-palestinians/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:23:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331630</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Israeli Prime Minister declared “there will be no Palestinian state” as he signed the plan.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a growing number of countries around the world recognizing Palestinian statehood, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday declared that “there will be no Palestinian state” as he signed an agreement to develop a key settlement in the West Bank — prompting calls for the international community to hold Israel accountable for its illegal occupation and apartheid policies in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-signs-settlement-agreement-that-would-displace-7000-palestinians/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2234185098-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='85830' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Army Conducts Mass Arrests in West Bank City, Detaining Over 1,000</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-army-conducts-mass-arrests-in-west-bank-city-detaining-over-1000/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Qassam Muaddi]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:35:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israeli Apartheid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331637</guid> <description><![CDATA[Images show hundreds of Palestinian men, seemingly grabbed at random, being marched through the streets of Tulkarem.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli forces arrested at least 1,000 Palestinians in a single day on Thursday during a wide-ranging raid on Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, Abdullah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem area, told local media. The raid came following a roadside bomb attack on an armored Israeli military vehicle earlier in the day, taking place near a checkpoint outside the city. The attack wounded two Israeli…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-army-conducts-mass-arrests-in-west-bank-city-detaining-over-1000/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Qassam Muaddi]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2234178050-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='139302' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-education-plan-seeks-to-make-cruel-domination-into-common-sense/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[George Yancy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:42:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331611</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>democracy has always been fragile, and we are now witnessing its dismantlement. The rising tide of political violence poses one threat to democracy in this country, but another quieter threat is also hard at work via the erosion of free speech and critical thinking, both of which are necessary for a flourishing democracy. Trump’s book bans and attacks on opposing political ideas…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-education-plan-seeks-to-make-cruel-domination-into-common-sense/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[George Yancy]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Targeting Venezuela, Trump Escalates US Campaign of Aggression in Latin America</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/targeting-venezuela-trump-escalates-us-campaign-of-aggression-in-latin-america/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Ng]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:38:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daniel Noboa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Javier Milei]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Regime Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331635</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US and Latin American right have long mobilized to remove challenges to their traditional privileges and control.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this month, the Trump administration bombed a civilian boat in the Caribbean, after sending warships to the region. “Instead of interdicting” the vessel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized, “we blew it up.” The attack drew harsh criticism from legal experts such as former Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth, who called it “a summary execution – the crime of murder.” U.S.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/targeting-venezuela-trump-escalates-us-campaign-of-aggression-in-latin-america/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jonathan Ng]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2227283732-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='101208' /> </item> <item> <title>Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/charlie-kirks-death-is-a-symptom-of-a-national-political-culture-in-crisis/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry A. Giroux]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:56:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331633</guid> <description><![CDATA[What we are witnessing is not an isolated act but the manifestation of a wider rot.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The cruel and horrendous killing of Charlie Kirk was both reprehensible and indefensible. Political assassinations, regardless of the source, are an act of violence against all Americans. Such violence is on the rise, and it is not limited to one ideology: In recent months we have seen attacks against both Republicans and Democrats coming from people with a range of political identities.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/charlie-kirks-death-is-a-symptom-of-a-national-political-culture-in-crisis/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Henry A. Giroux]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2234086021-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='101452' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Announces He Will Send National Guard to Occupy Memphis</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-announces-he-will-send-national-guard-to-occupy-memphis/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:59:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331616</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We will do everything in our power to prevent this incursion into Tennessee,” said one elected official. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump announced during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” that he is planning to send military troops to Memphis, Tennessee. During his appearance on September 12, Trump said his administration would deploy the National Guard “and anybody else we need” to the Tennessee city. Trump did not provide a timeline for the deployment. “By the way, we’ll bring in the military too…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-announces-he-will-send-national-guard-to-occupy-memphis/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-09-12-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='71198' /> </item> <item> <title>Report: Trump Administration Seeking to “Decimate” Asylum Seekers’ Rights at UN</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/report-trump-administration-seeking-to-decimate-asylum-seekers-rights-at-un/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asylum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Officials reportedly propose only allowing asylum seekers to seek protection in the first country they enter.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration is seeking sweeping changes to the rights of asylum seekers that experts say would “decimate” the global refugee system established after World War II, a new report finds. Reuters, citing internal documents from the State Department and an agency spokesperson, finds the administration is proposing a framework in which asylum seekers would be forced to apply for…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/report-trump-administration-seeking-to-decimate-asylum-seekers-rights-at-un/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-12-un-general-assembly-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='167090' /> </item> <item> <title>Senators: Pentagon Has Not Given “Any” Justification for Caribbean Boat Strike</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/top-senator-says-pentagon-has-no-evidence-to-legitimize-caribbean-boat-strike/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:22:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Defense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331602</guid> <description><![CDATA[“There is no evidence — none — that this strike was conducted in self-defense,” said Sen. Jack Reed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee has said that the Pentagon has provided Congress with “no evidence” to back its claims on the legitimacy of the boat strike in the Caribbean that killed 11 people who experts say were civilians. The Defense Department briefed congressional staff on the strike on Tuesday, CNN reports. The officials did not present any evidence backing the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/top-senator-says-pentagon-has-no-evidence-to-legitimize-caribbean-boat-strike/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-12-jack-reed-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='65913' /> </item> <item> <title>Ed. Department to Divert $350M in Grants From Colleges Serving Students of Color</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ed-department-to-divert-350m-in-grants-from-colleges-serving-students-of-color/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariana Figueroa]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:47:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Linda McMahon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331612</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Cutting this funding strips away critical investments … and will destabilize colleges in 29 states,” said one critic.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. Department of Education announced it will withhold $350 million of congressionally approved funds to minority-serving colleges and universities and divert the funds elsewhere, saying that the institutions’ admissions quotas are discriminatory. The move eliminated fiscal 2025 discretionary funding for institutions that serve students who are Asian, Black, Indigenous and Hispanic…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ed-department-to-divert-350m-in-grants-from-colleges-serving-students-of-color/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ariana Figueroa]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Stateline]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2218460859-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='65390' /> </item> <item> <title>Democratic Senators Call for JPMorgan CEO to Testify on Bank’s Epstein Ties</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/democratic-senators-call-for-jpmorgan-ceo-to-testify-on-banks-epstein-ties/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:37:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jamie dimon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JPMorgan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics and Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Senator Elizabeth Warren]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331600</guid> <description><![CDATA[“The American people deserve to know what happened at JPMorgan and other banks that financed Mr. Epstein,” they wrote.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democratic senators are calling for a congressional hearing on JPMorgan Chase and other banks’ ties to accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “The American people deserve to know what happened at JPMorgan and other banks that financed Mr. Epstein,” 10 Democratic members of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee wrote to Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-South Carolina).</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/democratic-senators-call-for-jpmorgan-ceo-to-testify-on-banks-epstein-ties/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-12-JPMorgan-Building-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='87479' /> </item> <item> <title>FDA Guidelines on COVID-19 Vaccines Are Throwing Those Most at Risk Into Despair</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fda-guidelines-on-covid-19-vaccines-are-throwing-those-most-at-risk-into-despair/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marianne Dhenin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:39:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331599</guid> <description><![CDATA[“There’s a lot of misinformation, and nobody seems to know what’s going on,” a resident of Missouri said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on August 27, 2025, it also imposed new restrictions on who is eligible to get them. The new restrictions have created widespread confusion and concern, as well as a series of shakeups in government and public health institutions. “The [FDA’s] new recommendations are acting as a bureaucratic deterrent against people…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fda-guidelines-on-covid-19-vaccines-are-throwing-those-most-at-risk-into-despair/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marianne Dhenin]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2207693716-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='48609' /> </item> <item> <title>Protests Topple Nepal Government Amid Anger Over Corruption and Inequality</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/protests-topple-nepal-government-amid-anger-over-corruption-and-inequality/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:38:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gen Z]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=331603</guid> <description><![CDATA[The country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime minister. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime minister. This week, protesters set fire to the Parliament and other government buildings, and at least 21 people were killed in a police crackdown. The protests continued even after the government lifted its ban on social media platforms and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/protests-topple-nepal-government-amid-anger-over-corruption-and-inequality/" 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/2025/09/SEG3_Nepal3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='80709' /> </item> <item> <title>State Department Warns “Foreigners” Not to Mock Kirk’s Killing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-warns-foreigners-not-to-mock-kirks-killing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Replacement theory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics and Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[RIght-wing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point Action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331580</guid> <description><![CDATA[A State Department official asked people to report “foreigners” who post on social media “making light of the event.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration and GOP officials have seized upon the murder of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk to attempt to target immigrants and crack down on free speech rights in the U.S. On September 10, Kirk was fatally shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University. Before any arrests were made, President Donald Trump blamed the “radical left” for Kirk’s killing…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-warns-foreigners-not-to-mock-kirks-killing/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-12-kirk-speaking-utah-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='118717' /> </item> <item> <title>11 Dems Join House GOP to Pass Bill to “Supercharge” Trump Anti-Migrant Agenda</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/11-dems-join-house-gop-to-pass-bill-to-supercharge-trump-anti-migrant-agenda/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:35:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Profiling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Miller]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331597</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics condemn the so-called Stop Illegal Entry Act as "dangerously overbroad” as well as "dehumanizing and horrific.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eleven Democrats voted with Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday to advance the so-called Stop Illegal Entry Act, which critics have condemned as “dangerously overbroad” as well as “dehumanizing and horrific.” The final vote was 226-197. The 11 Democrats who joined all GOP members present in backing the bill were Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (NC)…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/11-dems-join-house-gop-to-pass-bill-to-supercharge-trump-anti-migrant-agenda/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2224593933-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='117317' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Wants to Bury Slavery. My Family Went South to Unearth It. </title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wants-to-bury-slavery-my-family-went-south-to-unearth-it/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesse Hagopian]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:57:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[critical race theory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PragerU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331584</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump wants a populace unaware of the Black freedom struggle — because it is a guide for defeating his fascist plans.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump wants slavery buried — without even a headstone to mark that it existed. In August, he fumed that the Smithsonian was “OUT OF CONTROL” for showing “how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was.” He has always trafficked in historical distortion. But his latest denial of slavery’s horrors is an escalation: It seeks to put the truth in chains, shackling history in service…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wants-to-bury-slavery-my-family-went-south-to-unearth-it/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jesse Hagopian]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2232706795-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='67613' /> </item> <item> <title>Netanyahu Invokes 9/11 to Threaten Qatar as US Condemns Doha Strike</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-invokes-9-11-to-threaten-qatar-as-us-condemns-doha-strike/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:55:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331578</guid> <description><![CDATA[Netanyahu vilified Qatar for funding Hamas — under a deal that he approved of and encouraged.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has commemorated the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the U.S. by vowing more aggression against Qatar as condemnation of Israeli forces’ strike on Doha grows this week. In a filmed statement in English, Netanyahu likened the Doha attack to the U.S.’s 2011 assassination of Osama bin Laden — even though the Hamas political officials…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-invokes-9-11-to-threaten-qatar-as-us-condemns-doha-strike/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-11-netanyahu-waving-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='85369' /> </item> <item> <title>Senators Conclude Israel Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing After Trip to Palestine</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/senators-conclude-israel-carrying-out-ethnic-cleansing-after-trip-to-palestine/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:46:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chris Van Hollen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethnic Cleansing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Merkley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331571</guid> <description><![CDATA[Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley said it’s clear Israel’s goal is to make life “unsustainable” in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democratic senators have concluded that Israel is carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza in which the U.S. “is complicit” in a report released after their recent visit to Israel and Palestine. In their 19-page report, Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) say that their visit made clear that Israel is carrying out collective punishment against…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/senators-conclude-israel-carrying-out-ethnic-cleansing-after-trip-to-palestine/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-11-van-hollen-merkley-rafah-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='127038' /> </item> <item> <title>EPA Paved Way for Buildout of Fossil Fuel-Boosting Chemical Recycling Facilities</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/epa-paved-way-for-buildout-of-fossil-fuel-boosting-chemical-recycling-facilities/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:43:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Big Oil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plastics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Recycling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331539</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fossil fuel companies are working hard to push chemical recycling because plastic is one of Big Oil’s last lifelines. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Now, amid an unprecedented lobbying push and with corporate allies ensconced in key regulatory agencies, theindustries are clamoring for a nationwide buildout of chemical recycling…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/epa-paved-way-for-buildout-of-fossil-fuel-boosting-chemical-recycling-facilities/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Lever]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2174252997-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='215338' /> </item> <item> <title>This Back-to-School Season, Teachers and Parents Are Fighting Back Against ICE</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/this-back-to-school-season-teachers-and-parents-are-fighting-back-against-ice/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Educators]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrant Jails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Schools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331574</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is on the defensive as educators demand action to protect students from immigration police.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 38-year-old chiropractor while he was dropping his daughter off, they reportedly smashed out the windows of his car. The arrest, which happened on July 15, took place outside the child’s preschool in South Beaverton, Oregon. The father, originally from Iran, is married to a U.S. citizen who said he has applied for a green card to remain in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/this-back-to-school-season-teachers-and-parents-are-fighting-back-against-ice/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2229329769-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='158994' /> </item> <item> <title>Black Student Punched by Florida Cop During Traffic Stop Files Federal Lawsuit</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/black-student-punched-by-florida-cop-during-traffic-stop-files-federal-lawsuit/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:40:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consent decrees]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice (DOJ)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Police Brutality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Profiling]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331567</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I feared for my life,” said William McNeil Jr., whose video of Jacksonville police attacking him went viral. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, college student William McNeil Jr. sued the Florida sheriff’s deputies who attacked him during a traffic stop earlier this year, along with the sheriff and the city of Jacksonville, after prosecutors declined to file criminal charges. At a press conference held this week, McNeil said, “I hope my story gets heard today.” McNeil, who is 22, filmed the violent arrest with his…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/black-student-punched-by-florida-cop-during-traffic-stop-files-federal-lawsuit/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-11-mcneil-police-brutality-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='113842' /> </item> <item> <title>House Passes Repeal of 1991, 2002 Iraq War Authorizations in Bipartisan Vote</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-repeal-of-1991-2002-iraq-war-authorizations-in-bipartisan-vote/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:34:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-war]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Authorization for Use of Military Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Forever Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331558</guid> <description><![CDATA[Antiwar advocates have long called for the AUMFs to be repealed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The House passed legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorizations for Use of for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday, moving against two pieces of legislation that have vastly expanded the president’s ability to use military force in the U.S.’s “forever wars” in the Middle East. The amendment to the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-repeal-of-1991-2002-iraq-war-authorizations-in-bipartisan-vote/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-11-capitol-national-guard-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='114521' /> </item> <item> <title>Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Reach Gaza Despite Fear of More Attacks</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/global-sumud-flotilla-vows-to-reach-gaza-despite-fear-of-more-attacks/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:16:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></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=331566</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Solidarity work is an accumulative process that we have to build,” says Saif Abukeshek of the Global Sumud Flotilla.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We speak to two activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla as it prepares to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade. In recent days, two drone attacks on the flotilla ships, which are docked in Tunisia, have been reported. “We know who has interest in stopping these flotillas,” says Mariana Mortágua, a Portuguese parliamentarian who has joined the Global Sumud Flotilla and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/global-sumud-flotilla-vows-to-reach-gaza-despite-fear-of-more-attacks/" 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/2025/09/hd4-Flotilla-CREDIT-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='61595' /> </item> <item> <title>Inflation and Jobless Claims Are Rising. Economists Blame Trump’s Tariffs.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/inflation-and-jobless-claims-are-rising-economists-blame-trumps-tariffs/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:21:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331563</guid> <description><![CDATA[The cost of food and other household items saw a big jump in August alone.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New economic data released on Thursday revealed fresh signs of stress for the US economy and working families. A new Consumer Price Index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that overall inflation rose by 2.9% year-over-year in August, while core inflation — a measure that excludes commodities such as food and energy — rose 3.1%, the highest reading recorded since this past…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/inflation-and-jobless-claims-are-rising-economists-blame-trumps-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/2025/09/GettyImages-2234874171-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='83895' /> </item> <item> <title>People in NY Prison’s Mental Health Unit Kept in Solitary Confinement, Suit Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/people-in-ny-prisons-mental-health-unit-kept-in-solitary-confinement-suit-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HALT Solitary Confinement Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Brooks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solitary Confinement]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331554</guid> <description><![CDATA[In recent months, at least two people on the unit have attempted suicide and at least three have gone on hunger strike.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People in a New York prison’s mental health unit are kept in their cells 24 hours a day, with the exception of an occasional “callout,” and denied therapeutic services, according to a lawsuit filed this week by Disability Rights New York and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York against New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), among others.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/people-in-ny-prisons-mental-health-unit-kept-in-solitary-confinement-suit-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-11-marcy-protest-ny-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='114572' /> </item> <item> <title>Despite Kirk Shooter’s Unknown Identity, Trump Holds Left “Directly Responsible”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/despite-kirk-shooters-unknown-identity-trump-holds-left-directly-responsible/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:59:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331555</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics say Trump is exploiting the killing for his own purposes while fueling more political violence.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite the fact that the murderer of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk remained unidentified and still at large, President Donald Trump declared the “radical left” as “directly responsible” for the assassination in remarks from the White House on Wednesday night — comments that critics say shows Trump is more than willing to exploit the killing for his own purposes while sowing more, not less…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/despite-kirk-shooters-unknown-identity-trump-holds-left-directly-responsible/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2216875659-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84678' /> </item> <item> <title>US Mourns the Victims of 9/11, But What of the Victims of the “War on Terror”?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-mourns-the-victims-of-9-11-but-what-of-the-victims-of-the-war-on-terror/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maha Hilal]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guantánamo Bay]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War On Terror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331550</guid> <description><![CDATA[Twenty-four years into the global “war on terror,” we need rituals of public mourning to acknowledge its many victims.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a video reportedly from 2006, a young Iraqi child was captured asking a U.S. soldier why America killed his dad. The soldier being questioned responds that it wasn’t him who killed the young boy’s father. When the child continues his line of questioning, the soldier turns the question around, asking him “do you hate Americans?” and “do you want to shoot me?” Elsewhere, graffiti on a wall in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-mourns-the-victims-of-9-11-but-what-of-the-victims-of-the-war-on-terror/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Maha Hilal]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/photo-1-2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='192809' /> </item> <item> <title>Far Right Activist Charlie Kirk Shot and Killed at Utah University</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-and-killed-at-utah-university/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:21:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[School Shootings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331542</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Turning Point USA founder was extremely influential in the right-wing space.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died at 31, after being shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. President Donald Trump announced Kirk’s death in a post on Truth Social. Kirk’s spokesperson Andrew Kolvet also confirmed that he had died, per The New York Times. University officials said a suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting. However…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-and-killed-at-utah-university/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-10-charlie-kirk-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84532' /> </item> <item> <title>Billionaires Meet With Cuomo to Discuss How to Defeat Mamdani</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-meet-with-cuomo-to-discuss-how-to-defeat-mamdani/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:37:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Affordable Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eric Adams]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mayor of New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics and Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes on the rich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universal Pre-K]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331532</guid> <description><![CDATA[“The oligarchs are panicking,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Tuesday, billionaires met with disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to discuss how to beat Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who handily defeated Cuomo in New York City’s democratic mayoral primary in June. According to The New York Times, the group met to “plot” Mamdani’s defeat. “The oligarchs are panicking,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wrote on X…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-meet-with-cuomo-to-discuss-how-to-defeat-mamdani/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-10-mamdani-sanders-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='127217' /> </item> <item> <title>Report: US “Aid” Sites in Gaza Run by Members of Vehemently Islamophobic Gang</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/report-us-aid-sites-in-gaza-run-by-members-of-vehemently-islamophobic-gang/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:19:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331531</guid> <description><![CDATA[The group, Infidels Motorcycle Club, apparently view themselves as Crusaders of modern times.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Numerous members of a hateful anti-Islam biker gang that promotes violence against Muslims are serving as military contractors at the deadly U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, with many of them in leadership positions, a new investigation finds. At least 10 members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club are working in Gaza for contractor UG Solutions, BBC revealed.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/report-us-aid-sites-in-gaza-run-by-members-of-vehemently-islamophobic-gang/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-10-ghf-site-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='111727' /> </item> <item> <title>The US Bankrolled Israel’s Attack on Qatar, Jeremy Scahill Reminds Us</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/the-us-bankrolled-israels-attack-on-qatar-jeremy-scahill-reminds-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:52:55 +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[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=331526</guid> <description><![CDATA[“They tried to kill the very people that would have been sitting across the table in these negotiations,” says Scahill.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Global condemnation is mounting after Israel bombed Qatar’s capital Doha, attempting to take out senior Hamas leaders who had gathered to consider a U.S. proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. Hamas leadership survived the strike, which killed six. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, who has reported extensively on Gaza ceasefire negotiations and is one of the few Western…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/the-us-bankrolled-israels-attack-on-qatar-jeremy-scahill-reminds-us/" 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/2025/09/SEG1_Qatar6-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='79591' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Demolished 50 High-Rises in Two Days. Will My Apartment Building Be Next?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-demolished-50-high-rises-in-two-days-will-my-apartment-building-be-next/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dalia Abu Ramadan]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:46:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Displacement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331528</guid> <description><![CDATA[My bag is packed, but I have nowhere to flee. I live in fear as I watch residential towers fall around me. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every day we witness a new chain of brutal crimes committed by the Israeli occupation. Why does no one dare to stop it? How can a world stripped of humanity watch us burn alive? How are we expected to answer sudden phone calls ordering us to evacuate, threatening: “We will destroy everything around you”? Has everything we own become Israeli property to be demolished at will?</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-demolished-50-high-rises-in-two-days-will-my-apartment-building-be-next/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2233159256-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='91958' /> </item> <item> <title>Ben & Jerry’s Demands Out From Parent Firm, Citing Censorship on Social Issues</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ben-jerrys-demands-out-from-parent-firm-citing-censorship-on-social-issues/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ben and Jerry's]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pro-Palestine demonstrations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unilever]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War and Peace]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331521</guid> <description><![CDATA[Unilever, which bought Ben & Jerry’s in 2000, has repeatedly undermined the company’s pro-Palestine advocacy.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s published an open letter this week demanding that their parent company allow Ben & Jerry’s to operate independently, saying that the ice cream brand’s founding commitments to social justice are being undermined. In 2000, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield sold their company to Unilever, which is now spinning off the ice cream brand, along with other businesses…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ben-jerrys-demands-out-from-parent-firm-citing-censorship-on-social-issues/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-10-ben-and-jerrys-storefront-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='160613' /> </item> <item> <title>We Must Not Be Silent as Israel Routinely Kills Medical Workers and Journalists</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/we-mustnt-be-silent-as-israel-routinely-murders-medical-workers-and-journalists/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathy Kelly]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:15:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hussam Al Masri]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medical workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mohammed Saeed al-Bardawil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nazis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331519</guid> <description><![CDATA[Let us summon up even a fraction of the courage these slain Palestinians had and speak up while we still can.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In his last minutes of freedom before Israel Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Israeli tanks. His captors awaited him amid the rubble of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital. An artist swiftly created a dramatic poster showing Dr. Safiya striding through the ruins of the hospital he directed. The artist, David Solnit…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/we-mustnt-be-silent-as-israel-routinely-murders-medical-workers-and-journalists/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kathy Kelly]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2231726904-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='109653' /> </item> <item> <title>Another Gaza Flotilla Boat Attacked by Israeli Drone, Activists Say</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/another-gaza-flotilla-boat-attacked-by-israeli-drone-activists-say/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:06:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Famine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom flotilla]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331516</guid> <description><![CDATA[Footage of the two attacks shows a similar pattern of a flaming object striking the ships and causing a fire.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A second boat in the activist flotilla setting sail to Gaza has been attacked in as many days, with activists blaming Israel and vowing to continue their journey to break Israel’s near-total humanitarian aid blockade. On Tuesday night, a flaming object fell on the Global Sumud Flotilla’s (GSF) “Alma” boat, docked in Tunisian waters and sailing under the British flag.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/another-gaza-flotilla-boat-attacked-by-israeli-drone-activists-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/2025/09/2025_09-10-sumud-flotilla-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='140601' /> </item> <item> <title>DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is “Doxxing,” Vows Prosecutions</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-says-filming-posting-videos-of-ice-agents-is-doxxing-vows-prosecutions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:56:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[filming police]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE Raids]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS)]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331518</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recording on-duty law enforcement agents is protected by the First Amendment. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says filming and posting videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents constitutes “violence,” and has threatened to potentially charge people who take videos and photos of agents conducting immigration raids in their communities, despite First Amendment protections. DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-says-filming-posting-videos-of-ice-agents-is-doxxing-vows-prosecutions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-10-Filming-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='115255' /> </item> <item> <title>New Mexico Becomes First State to Provide Universal Free Child Care</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-mexico-becomes-first-state-to-provide-universal-free-child-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chabeli Carrazana]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Child Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oil and Gas Industries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oil and Gas Industry]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331515</guid> <description><![CDATA[The historic program, which starts November 1, will save families an estimated $12,000 per child every year.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In an unprecedented move, New Mexico is making child care free. Beginning in November, it will be the first state in the nation to provide child care to all residents regardless of income, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week. The state has been working to lower child care care costs since 2019, when it created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department and started to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-mexico-becomes-first-state-to-provide-universal-free-child-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chabeli Carrazana]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1500142798-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='78100' /> </item> <item> <title>How Should Activists Engage With Troops Deployed in Our Cities?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/how-should-activists-engage-with-troops-deployed-in-our-cities/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:12:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331513</guid> <description><![CDATA[Antiwar veteran and counter-recruiter Rory Fanning says solidarity is crucial as Trump moves to militarize US cities.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, Donald Trump declared that he was sending National Guard troops to Chicago. “We’re going in,” he told reporters, before adding, “I didn’t say when.” A day later, Trump seemed to pivot, floating the idea of sending troops to New Orleans instead — where, he noted, a Republican governor would welcome his interventions. Then, on Saturday, Trump escalated again: posting an AI-slop Apocalypse…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/how-should-activists-engage-with-troops-deployed-in-our-cities/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2232368365-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='182806' /> </item> <item> <title>Judge Rules Against Trump’s Attempt to Fire Fed Board Governor Lisa Cook</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/judge-rules-against-trumps-attempt-to-fire-fed-board-governor-lisa-cook/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Queally]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:20:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bill Pulte]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lisa Cook]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331511</guid> <description><![CDATA[The district court judge also granted Cook's request for a temporary injunction, allowing her to remain in her post.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A federal judge late Tuesday ruled against President Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook last month, determining that the president’s “for cause” argument was unconvincing as it was based on unsubstantiated accusations of wrongdoing and represented an executive overreach with worrying implications. Trump claimed his attempted removal of Cook…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/judge-rules-against-trumps-attempt-to-fire-fed-board-governor-lisa-cook/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jon Queally]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1258902794-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='45873' /> </item> <item> <title>A Year After the Uprising in Bangladesh, Activists Hold on to Hope Amid Backlash</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/a-year-after-the-uprising-in-bangladesh-activists-hold-on-to-hope-amid-backlash/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maya Bhardwaj]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Garment Workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331498</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh rose up against exploitation in 2024. Anti-fascists everywhere can learn from them. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artists, activists, and neighbors convened in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, this August to paint a mural of their fears, pains, and hopes over the past year, since uprisings in July 2024 reshaped Bangladeshi politics and life. Their experience offers important lessons for other anti-fascist activists who seek to emulate the successes, and avoid the pitfalls, of Bangladesh’s revolutionaries.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/a-year-after-the-uprising-in-bangladesh-activists-hold-on-to-hope-amid-backlash/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Maya Bhardwaj]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/photo-1-1-1200x900.jpeg' type='image/jpeg' length='172182' /> </item> <item> <title>Speaker of Israeli Parliament: Doha Strike “Message for the Entire Middle East”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/speaker-of-israeli-parliament-doha-strike-message-for-the-entire-middle-east/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:26:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[António Guterres]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331497</guid> <description><![CDATA[The politician posted a video of the strike in Doha, which marked a major escalation in Israel’s regional aggression.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The speaker of Israel’s parliament has suggested that the country is ready to attack its neighbors across the entire region following Israel’s unprovoked strike on Qatar on Tuesday. “This is a message for the entire Middle East,” Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana said in Arabic in a post on X. Accompanying the text was a video of the strike, showing a large explosion which resulted in a plume…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/speaker-of-israeli-parliament-doha-strike-message-for-the-entire-middle-east/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-09-amir-ohana-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84174' /> </item> <item> <title>Fulton County Judge Says He Will Drop Racketeering Charges in 61 Cop City Cases</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fulton-county-judge-says-he-will-drop-racketeering-charges-in-61-cop-city-cases/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:01:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Atlanta Public Safety Training Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cop City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment and Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racketeering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[RICO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stop Cop City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331480</guid> <description><![CDATA[The prosecutions were part of a yearslong effort to crush opposition to the construction of a police training center.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Fulton County judge says he will toss the racketeering charges against 61 people who were arrested in connection with the protests against the construction of the Atlanta police training facility, commonly known as “Cop City.” The Associated Press (AP) reports that Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said Republican Attorney General Chris Carr needed to obtain Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R)…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fulton-county-judge-says-he-will-drop-racketeering-charges-in-61-cop-city-cases/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1471709809-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='255922' /> </item> <item> <title>Top Dems Still Won’t Back Mamdani as He Holds Huge Lead in NYC Mayor’s Race</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/top-dems-still-wont-back-mamdani-as-he-holds-huge-lead-in-nyc-mayors-race/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:55:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eric Adams]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NYC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331494</guid> <description><![CDATA[A poll shows voters trust Mamdani most on issues across the board, including those the party fears will be liabilities.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Progressive state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani holds a “commanding” lead in New York’s upcoming mayoral election, according to the latest polling. But his continued momentum is still not enough for some top Democrats to get behind him, even as President Donald Trump openly colludes with his rivals. A New York Times/Siena poll published Monday has Mamdani, a democratic socialist state assemblyman…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/top-dems-still-wont-back-mamdani-as-he-holds-huge-lead-in-nyc-mayors-race/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2234061775-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62546' /> </item> <item> <title>DHS Launches Crackdown in Chicago Despite Objections From Mayor, Illinois Gov</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-launches-crackdown-in-chicago-despite-objections-from-mayor-illinois-gov/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:02:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[immigration raids]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J.B. Pritzker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS)]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331478</guid> <description><![CDATA[“People all across Chicagoland are coming together to reject Trump's impending occupation,” one advocate said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After weeks of threatening to invade Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched “Operation Midway Blitz” on Monday to abduct, detain, and deport some of the millions of immigrant community members in the city. The Trump administration is, once again, using crime as a pretext to carry out its anti-immigrant agenda. In this case, officials are claiming that Operation Midway…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-launches-crackdown-in-chicago-despite-objections-from-mayor-illinois-gov/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233493193-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='139956' /> </item> <item> <title>Flotilla Sailing to Gaza Attacked, With Footage Showing Large Explosion</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/flotilla-sailing-to-gaza-attacked-with-footage-showing-large-explosion/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:53:45 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Francesca Albanese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom flotilla]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331471</guid> <description><![CDATA[The group said the boat is a main one in the fleet, and was carrying Greta Thunberg at one point prior to the strike.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the main ships in a flotilla seeking to break Israel’s near-total humanitarian blockade on Gaza was bombed in Tunisian waters on Monday, causing a fire to break out. Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) said that their “Family Boat,” carrying the mission’s steering committee and sailing under the Portuguese flag, was struck by a drone. The flotilla, slated to set sail from Tunisia to Gaza…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/flotilla-sailing-to-gaza-attacked-with-footage-showing-large-explosion/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-09-global-sumud-flotilla-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60829' /> </item> <item> <title>Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Firms Have Doubled Since 2017, Now $35 Billion a Year</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/subsidies-for-fossil-fuel-firms-have-doubled-since-2017-now-35-billion-a-year/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:32:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Big Oil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carbon Capture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inflation Reduction Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[subsidies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax Breaks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331481</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oil and gas companies could gobble up billions in tax credits if lawmakers don't act, warn the authors of a new report.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry have more than doubled since 2017 to an estimated $34.8 billion each year, a new analysis from Oil Change International has found. The report’s authors say that amount could soar to hundreds of billions of dollars in the years to come if lawmakers fail to rein in subsidies for controversial carbon capture and hydrogen technologies.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/subsidies-for-fossil-fuel-firms-have-doubled-since-2017-now-35-billion-a-year/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2225117920-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='126599' /> </item> <item> <title>Farage’s Visit to DC Underscores Alliance Between Far Right and Tech Titans</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/farages-visit-to-dc-underscores-alliance-between-far-right-and-tech-titans/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Abramsky]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nigel Farage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Thiel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[silicon valley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UK]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331475</guid> <description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley is bankrolling the far right’s attacks on global democracy and getting anti-regulatory allies in return.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Throughout Donald Trump’s election campaign, a growing number of big-name Silicon Valley figures attached themselves to the MAGA bandwagon. They were drawn not just by the lure of access to power, but by Trump’s promises to free up social media, in particular, from any and all content restrictions; to promote cryptocurrencies; and to corrode regulatory oversight of the high-tech titans. Overseas…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/farages-visit-to-dc-underscores-alliance-between-far-right-and-tech-titans/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sasha Abramsky]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233530577-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='107935' /> </item> <item> <title>Largest US Bank Enabled Epstein’s Operation and Profited From Its Ties to Him</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/largest-us-bank-enabled-epsteins-operation-and-profited-from-its-ties-to-him/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:40:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jamie dimon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JPMorgan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wesley Snipes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=331472</guid> <description><![CDATA[JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for Epstein totaling more than $1.1 billion, a new exposé reveals.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amid growing pressure for the Trump administration to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files, a New York Times investigation reveals how the country’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, enabled Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation and profited from its ties to him. The exposé is based on more than 13,000 pages of legal and financial records. The Times reports JPMorgan processed more than 4,700…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/largest-us-bank-enabled-epsteins-operation-and-profited-from-its-ties-to-him/" 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/2025/09/SEG1_Epstein3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93790' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Vows to “Protect” Prayer in Public Schools, “Bring Back Religion” to US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-vows-to-protect-prayer-in-public-schools-bring-back-religion-to-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:41:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian Nationalists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics and Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[school prayer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transgender students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Washington D.C.]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331466</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump is “perpetuating the lie that America is a Christian nation and that religion is under attack,” critics said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a speech at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will soon issue new guidance about prayer in public schools, vowing to “bring back religion in America.” At Monday’s meeting of the Religious Liberty Commission, Trump told attendees, “As President, I will always defend our nation’s glorious heritage, and we will protect the Judeo…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-vows-to-protect-prayer-in-public-schools-bring-back-religion-to-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-9-religious-liberty-commission-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='75220' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Bombs Doha, Reportedly Targeting Hamas Negotiators Discussing US Proposal</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-doha-reportedly-targeting-hamas-negotiators-discussing-us-proposal/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:28:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331461</guid> <description><![CDATA[The strike came as Hamas officials were in Qatar to discuss a ceasefire proposal put forth by the Trump administration.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel struck the capital of Qatar on Tuesday, targeting senior Hamas political officials as they gathered in Doha to discuss the latest ceasefire proposal put forth by the U.S. Loud explosions were heard in the capital city, with pictures of smoke plumes rising. Israel took responsibility for the strikes, saying that they were targeting Hamas leaders. “The [Israel Defense Forces] and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-doha-reportedly-targeting-hamas-negotiators-discussing-us-proposal/" 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/2025/09/2025_09_09-doha-bombed-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60250' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin, GOP Continue to Weaponize Bible to Punish Poor, Defend Imperialism</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-gop-continue-to-weaponize-bible-to-punish-poor-defend-imperialism/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Theoharis]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:51:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian nationalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Thiel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331462</guid> <description><![CDATA[Willfully misinterpreting the Bible to justify what passes for “law and order” has only intensified in recent decades.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-gop-continue-to-weaponize-bible-to-punish-poor-defend-imperialism/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Liz Theoharis]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[TomDispatch]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2234330513-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='115979' /> </item> <item> <title>9/11-Era Terror Rules Could Empower Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, Experts Say</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/9-11-era-terror-rules-could-empower-trumps-immigration-crackdown-experts-say/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah Allam]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:49:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-Muslim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331459</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ohio case is a bellwether of the administration’s ability to merge federal powers of immigration and counterterrorism.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the weeks leading up to July 9, Ayman Soliman told friends he was terrified of losing the sanctuary he’d found after fleeing Egypt in 2014 and building a new life as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Soliman, 51, was to show up at 9 a.m. on that date for his first check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement since losing his asylum status. He’d been granted the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/9-11-era-terror-rules-could-empower-trumps-immigration-crackdown-experts-say/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Hannah Allam]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2234369282-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='82621' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders Calls Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Tesla Compensation Plan “Grossly Immoral”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-calls-elon-musks-1-trillion-tesla-compensation-plan-grossly-immoral/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wealth Inequality]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331447</guid> <description><![CDATA[“No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the working class struggles to survive,” he said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has denounced a plan by Tesla’s board to grant its CEO, Elon Musk, a compensation package worth $975 billion, which would make him the world’s first trillionaire. On Friday, Tesla’s board submitted a filing proposing a plan that would grant Musk over 423 million shares if Tesla hits $8.5 trillion in total value by 2035 — up from the company’s current value of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-calls-elon-musks-1-trillion-tesla-compensation-plan-grossly-immoral/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-08-sanders-fight-oligarchy-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='73816' /> </item> <item> <title>Spain Announces Measures Including Arms Embargo on Israel to Stop Gaza Genocide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/spain-announces-measures-including-arms-embargo-on-israel-to-stop-gaza-genocide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:09:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arms embargo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331451</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We cannot stop the Israeli offensive alone, but we will not stop trying," said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures — including a total arms embargo — aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to stop the genocide in Gaza.” Sánchez, who leads the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), announced the steps during a speech in which he first acknowledged the historical…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/spain-announces-measures-including-arms-embargo-on-israel-to-stop-gaza-genocide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>The Supreme Court Just Allowed ICE to Resume Its Worst Practices, Critics Say</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-just-allowed-ice-to-resume-its-worst-practices-critics-say/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:08:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Profiling]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331449</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly,” said the American Immigration Council’s policy director.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave its approval for federal immigration agents to stop and detain anyone in the Los Angeles area based on factors including “the type of work one does,” a person’s use of Spanish or accented English, or their “apparent race or ethnicity” — allowing what critics called “blatant racial profiling” to be used to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass detention and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-just-allowed-ice-to-resume-its-worst-practices-critics-say/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Chicago Hospital’s Closure Is a Canary in Coal Mine for Corporatized Health Care</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/chicago-hospitals-closure-is-a-canary-in-coal-mine-for-corporatized-health-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Romina Guevarra]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:02:45 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331442</guid> <description><![CDATA[The August shuttering of Weiss Memorial Hospital is just the latest casualty of private equity-backed hospital closures.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Predictably, Weiss Memorial Hospital, which has served the diverse and vulnerable populations of the northside Chicago neighborhood of Uptown for decades, closed its doors on August 8, 2025. Weiss Memorial Hospital was the first (and only) community safety-net hospital (a hospital whose stated mission is to serve low-income communities) in this neighborhood. The hospital closed despite impassioned…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/chicago-hospitals-closure-is-a-canary-in-coal-mine-for-corporatized-health-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Anna Romina Guevarra & Gayatri Reddy]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[Chicago Hospital's Closure Is a Canary in the Coal Mine for Corporatized Health Care]]></truthout:fullTitle> </item> <item> <title>Israel Destroys Gaza Human Rights Group’s HQ, Days After It Was Sanctioned by US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-destroys-gaza-human-rights-groups-hq-days-after-it-was-sanctioned-by-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:02:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331435</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US State Department sanctioned the Palestinian Center for Human Rights just four days before the strike.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli forces bombed and leveled the building housing the headquarters of a top Palestinian human rights group on Monday, just days after the organization was sanctioned by the Trump administration for its participation in an International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Israeli officials. On Monday, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued a warning that Israeli forces would be…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-destroys-gaza-human-rights-groups-hq-days-after-it-was-sanctioned-by-us/" 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/2025/09/2025_09_08-gaza-city-tower-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='129736' /> </item> <item> <title>Chief Justice Roberts Lets Trump Keep Fired Commissioner off FTC</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/chief-justice-roberts-lets-trump-keep-fired-commissioner-off-ftc/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:26:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chief justice john roberts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Trade Commission]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FTC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gender affirming care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics and Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SCOTUS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of the United States]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Children]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331436</guid> <description><![CDATA[A lower court had ordered Trump to reinstate fired Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling that ordered President Donald Trump to reinstate fired commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In March, the White House sent Slaughter, a President Joe Biden appointee, a letter stating that she had been removed from the commission because her “continued service on the FTC is…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/chief-justice-roberts-lets-trump-keep-fired-commissioner-off-ftc/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2231277563-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='119523' /> </item> <item> <title>Labor Department, IRS, ATF, and Other Agencies Joined ICE in US’s Largest Raid</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/labor-department-irs-atf-and-other-agencies-joined-ice-in-uss-largest-raid/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:16:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hyundai]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE Raids]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=331437</guid> <description><![CDATA[Over 500 officials participated, arresting 475 people. Witnesses say agents threatened and tear-gassed workers.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We get an update on the largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history that unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant. Hyundai is investing over $12 billion in a record-setting economic development deal with the state, and the South Korean…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/labor-department-irs-atf-and-other-agencies-joined-ice-in-uss-largest-raid/" 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/2025/09/SEG1-ICE-Raid-Hyundai-Plant-2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='86007' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Arms Maker Reportedly Shuts Down UK Branch After Repeated Protests</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-arms-maker-reportedly-shuts-down-uk-branch-after-repeated-protests/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:40:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arms manufacturers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elbit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine Action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331427</guid> <description><![CDATA[Palestine Action has repeatedly targeted Elbit facilities with protests and shutdowns.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Major Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has reportedly shut down a U.K. facility after it was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action activists, in a major victory for the group that was recently banned by the U.K. government. The Guardian reported on Saturday that one of the company’s Bristol facilities, in Aztec West, appears abandoned, with no staff other than a security guard…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-arms-maker-reportedly-shuts-down-uk-branch-after-repeated-protests/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-08-evict-elbit-protest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='112137' /> </item> <item> <title>New York AG Will Defend Her State’s Abortion Shield Laws From Texas Challenge</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-ag-will-defend-her-states-abortion-shield-laws-from-texas-challenge/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shefali Luthra]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:19:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion Access]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Letitia James]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roe v. Wade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331426</guid> <description><![CDATA[Letitia James’s intervention increases the likelihood SCOTUS will weigh in on shield laws and telehealth abortions.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday that she will defend her state’s abortion protections in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas. James’ involvement sets up the first interstate fight over abortion laws since the fall of Roe v. Wade, opening the door for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a key legal mechanism that has helped people in states with bans access abortion.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-ag-will-defend-her-states-abortion-shield-laws-from-texas-challenge/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shefali Luthra]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[19th News]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Forces Bomb, Loot, Vandalize Our Homes in Gaza. We Long for Normal Life.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-bomb-loot-vandalize-our-homes-in-gaza-we-long-for-normal-life/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:18:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nuseirat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331431</guid> <description><![CDATA[When a home is destroyed, entire worlds of safety, love, and identity crumble with it.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your home is not just a building. It is a space carefully crafted by your family — a place that witnessed your first steps, heard your whispers, and held your laughter and tears. It is the place where your childhood lives. Every room tells a tale. A nook holds old toys. There’s a window where the morning sun kissed your face, and the threshold you crossed thousands of times.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-bomb-loot-vandalize-our-homes-in-gaza-we-long-for-normal-life/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>DOJ Board Says Millions of Immigrants Can Be Jailed During Removal Proceedings</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/doj-board-says-millions-of-immigrants-can-be-jailed-during-removal-proceedings/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:15:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Board of Immigration Appeals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DACA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[One Big Beautiful Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Temporary Protected Status]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TPS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Barr]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331428</guid> <description><![CDATA[The ruling would force immigrants to litigate their cases — a process that could take years — while being detained.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that people who enter the country without authorization must be detained throughout their removal proceedings, a process that can take years. The decision stems from the case of Jonathan Javier Yajure Hurtado, a Venezuelan citizen who entered the United States in 2022. In 2024, he was granted Temporary Protected Status…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/doj-board-says-millions-of-immigrants-can-be-jailed-during-removal-proceedings/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-8-ICE-protest-DOJ-building-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='156092' /> </item> <item> <title>Is Oregon Paving the Way for Universal Health Care in the US?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/is-oregon-paving-the-way-for-universal-health-care-in-the-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Foster]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:12:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[universal health care]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331415</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oregon is on the verge of enacting single-payer health care, but continued organizing is needed to secure victory.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111, amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state. Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning, Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027. In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration, which will leave roughly…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/is-oregon-paving-the-way-for-universal-health-care-in-the-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kevin Foster]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Waging Nonviolence]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2212595808-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='162144' /> </item> <item> <title>Activists Work to Push Companies Complicit in Genocide Out of Brooklyn Navy Yard</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/activists-work-to-push-companies-complicit-in-genocide-out-of-brooklyn-navy-yard/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Mogul]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:11:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BDS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331423</guid> <description><![CDATA[The campaign targets Easy Aerial and Crye Precision, two companies that provide products to the Israeli military.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel’s genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago — in which case, they are absolutely aware. The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/activists-work-to-push-companies-complicit-in-genocide-out-of-brooklyn-navy-yard/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Joseph Mogul]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2191224359-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='190340' /> </item> <item> <title>Tens of Thousands March to White House to Protest Trump’s Occupation of DC</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tens-of-thousands-march-to-white-house-to-protest-trumps-occupation-of-dc/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Common Dreams Staff]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:10:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Washington D.C.]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331421</guid> <description><![CDATA[The massive display of resistance took place as the president threatened to expand his crackdown to Chicago.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The heart of Washington, D.C., pulsed with defiance on Saturday as tens of thousands of demonstrators surged down 16th Street toward the White House. It was the city’s first major organized protest since President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency and unleashed federal troops onto its streets. Banners waved and voices rose in unison at the “We Are All D.C.” march, a massive show of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tens-of-thousands-march-to-white-house-to-protest-trumps-occupation-of-dc/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Common Dreams Staff]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233385387-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='170479' /> </item> <item> <title>Authoritarian Wave in US Shows Democracy’s Fragility, South African Scholar Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/authoritarian-wave-in-us-shows-democracys-fragility-south-african-scholar-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[George Yancy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:09:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[whiteness]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331408</guid> <description><![CDATA[The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is not only an attack on the importance of education as a space for cultivating critical thought — it is also a direct attack on Black people. Trump’s attacks are buttressed by his commitment to an authoritarian playbook that wallows in weaponizing differences against the backdrop of creating historical myths — in this case about…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/authoritarian-wave-in-us-shows-democracys-fragility-south-african-scholar-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[George Yancy]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2220169393-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='153164' /> </item> <item> <title>Harvard Dominates Headlines, But Other Schools Are Quietly Battling Trump</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/harvard-dominates-headlines-but-other-schools-are-quietly-battling-trump/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[October Krausch]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:36:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331404</guid> <description><![CDATA[Faculty at state schools are waging collective action in the face of both federal and state attacks. Will it be enough?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Closed-door committees are forming to investigate whether public universities in North Carolina have fully eliminated diversity practices. Campuses in Utah are being held to neutrality pledges. Accreditation is changing across the Southeast as university systems join a new state-run scheme spearheaded by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. A major political struggle is being waged on university…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/harvard-dominates-headlines-but-other-schools-are-quietly-battling-trump/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[October Krausch]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2208552109-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='122053' /> </item> <item> <title>Chicago Prepares Itself for Looming Militarized Federal Assault</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/chicago-prepares-itself-for-looming-militarized-federal-assault/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:03:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331419</guid> <description><![CDATA[As federal agents amass at a nearby naval station, protesters and local leaders have vowed to resist Trump's “invasion.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois’ elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump’s militarized “invasion” of the country’s third-largest city. Trump has threatened to not only send immigration enforcement agents but also deploy…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/chicago-prepares-itself-for-looming-militarized-federal-assault/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2232663637-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='212134' /> </item> <item> <title>Meet the Billionaire Oligarchs Enabling Trump’s Deportation Machine</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/meet-the-billionaire-oligarchs-enabling-trumps-deportation-machine/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:32:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GEO Group]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palantir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Prisons]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331374</guid> <description><![CDATA[A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate leaders profiting off ICE’s escalated assault on immigrants.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this year, the U.S. Congress approved a massive increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including $45 billion for immigrant detention and $30 billion for recruitment and training, bonus pay, and additional facilities and vehicles. ICE’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year will be around $28 billion, up from $8 billion, making it “the highest funded law enforcement…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/meet-the-billionaire-oligarchs-enabling-trumps-deportation-machine/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Little Sis]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2201916821-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77049' /> </item> <item> <title>Experts Blame Trump’s Tariffs for Cratering Job Creation</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/experts-blame-trumps-tariffs-for-cratering-job-creation/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331417</guid> <description><![CDATA[The new jobs report showed a grim outlook for the economy, with particularly dire impacts on manufacturing.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, imposing levies as high as 50% on the United States’ trading partners, have not proven compatible with his campaign promise to turn the US back into a “manufacturing powerhouse,” as Friday’s jobs report showed. The overall analysis was grim, with the economy adding just 22,000 jobs last month, but manufacturing employment in particular has declined…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/experts-blame-trumps-tariffs-for-cratering-job-creation/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2232224357-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='81107' /> </item> <item> <title>RFK’s Policies May Increase Risk of Parkinson’s and Other Chronic Diseases</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rfks-policies-may-increase-risk-of-parkinsons-and-other-chronic-diseases/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Alan King]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:04:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NIH]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331399</guid> <description><![CDATA[His stated goal to protect the public from harmful chemicals is set back by his support for massive funding cuts.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The anti-vaccine policies of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy have rightfully caused great distress among many parents, public health professionals and primary care physicians, given the efficacy of vaccines in preventing measles, mumps, polio, influenza, and COVID-19, among many debilitating infectious diseases. In contrast to these policies, Kennedy’s apparent aim of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rfks-policies-may-increase-risk-of-parkinsons-and-other-chronic-diseases/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jonathan Alan King]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Facing Defunding, Indigenous Cultural Workers Say They Cannot Be Suppressed</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/facing-defunding-indigenous-cultural-workers-say-they-cannot-be-suppressed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marianne Dhenin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[defunding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DOGE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DOGE cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[federal budget cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Cultures]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Resistance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331346</guid> <description><![CDATA[The proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities threatens Indigenous libraries and arts programs. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration’s efforts to reshape federal cultural institutions as part of a broader attack on what the president characterizes as “woke” or diversity, equity, and inclusion policies have left many Indigenous arts and culture institutions in a challenging position, according to leaders at those institutions as well as culture workers and advocates who spoke to Truthout.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/facing-defunding-indigenous-cultural-workers-say-they-cannot-be-suppressed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marianne Dhenin]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2229403021-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='181627' /> </item> <item> <title>State Department May Bar Iranian UN Delegation From Shopping at Costco</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-may-bar-iranian-un-delegation-from-shopping-at-costco/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:43:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331402</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US has already imposed severe restrictions on Iranian diplomats’ movement for the UN general assembly meeting.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. is reportedly weighing banning Iranian diplomats from visiting wholesale stores like Costco when they’re in New York this month for the UN General Assembly meeting, a newly leaked memo shows. According to The Associated Press, one State Department proposal for limiting the Iranian delegation’s movement would include barring them from member clubs like Costco and Sam’s Club unless…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-may-bar-iranian-un-delegation-from-shopping-at-costco/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-05-iran-un-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='156187' /> </item> <item> <title>ICE Is Incarcerating Immigrants at Angola, Louisiana’s Max Security Prison</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-incarcerating-immigrants-at-angola-louisianas-max-security-prison/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:19:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Angola]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Landry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kristi Noem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louisiana State Penitentiary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solitary Confinement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS)]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331396</guid> <description><![CDATA[Angola sits on the grounds of a former slave plantation and is notorious for violating incarcerated people’s rights.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is incarcerating immigrants at Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, Gov. Jeff Landry (R) and Trump administration officials announced Wednesday. Fifty-one immigrants are currently incarcerated at Angola, in a solitary confinement unit once dubbed the “Dungeon.” Officials closed the unit in 2018, but over the summer…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-incarcerating-immigrants-at-angola-louisianas-max-security-prison/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/2025-9-5-Noem-Angola-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='107893' /> </item> <item> <title>RFK Jr. Faces Widespread Calls to Resign in Wake of Heated Senate Hearing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-faces-widespread-calls-to-resign-in-wake-of-heated-senate-hearing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:47:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331401</guid> <description><![CDATA[Democrats see RFK Jr. as a weakness in Trump’s cabinet — and a clear and present danger to public health.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remained combative during an extraordinary Senate Finance Committee hearing on September 4 as Democrats grilled him about creating “chaos” at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the committee’s ranking Democrat, said Kennedy fired career scientists at the CDC and replaced them with “cranks” and “conspiracy…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-faces-widespread-calls-to-resign-in-wake-of-heated-senate-hearing/" 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/2025/09/GettyImages-2233024483-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='66566' /> </item> <item> <title>The World Has Failed to Stop Israel. Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-world-has-failed-to-stop-israel-our-only-choices-now-leave-or-die/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahad Ali]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:31:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Displacement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331400</guid> <description><![CDATA[I soon face the possibility of never being able to return to Gaza City.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Israeli army launches the first phase of its latest military operation in Gaza City — aimed at fully occupying the area and displacing its roughly 1 million residents to the south — the city has descended into unending hell. Night after night, relentless and terrifying explosions rob us of sleep. Entire neighborhoods are being invaded and demolished, forcing families to flee toward an…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-world-has-failed-to-stop-israel-our-only-choices-now-leave-or-die/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shahad Ali]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233131947-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='46231' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Accuses Foes of Mortgage Fraud, Doesn’t Look Into His Own Cabinet Members</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-accuses-foes-of-mortgage-fraud-doesnt-look-into-his-own-cabinet-members/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Faturechi]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adam Schiff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bill Pulte]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerome Powell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lee Zeldin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Letitia James]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lisa Cook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lori Chavez-DeRemer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mortgage fraud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sean Duffy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331397</guid> <description><![CDATA[At least three of Trump’s cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration has vowed to go after anyone who got lower mortgage rates by claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. President Donald Trump has used it as a justification to target political foes, including a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, a Democratic U.S. senator and a state attorney general. Real estate experts say claiming primary residences on…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-accuses-foes-of-mortgage-fraud-doesnt-look-into-his-own-cabinet-members/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott, Alex Mierjeski]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2230612668-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='41293' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Administration Sanctions 3 Major Palestinian Human Rights Groups</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-sanctions-3-major-palestinian-human-rights-groups/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Criminal Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=331389</guid> <description><![CDATA[The groups said the US is “dismantling the international legal order” in order to maintain Israel’s impunity.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. State Department is facing heavy criticism after it announced on Thursday it is imposing sanctions on three major Palestinian human rights groups over their participation in the International Criminal Court’s case (ICC) against top Israeli officials. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he’s adding Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-sanctions-3-major-palestinian-human-rights-groups/" 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/2025/09/2025_09-05-marco-rubio-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='53120' /> </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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