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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>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:51:05 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1</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>Slovenia Bans Israeli Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir for “Genocidal Statements”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/slovenia-bans-israeli-ministers-smotrich-and-ben-gvir-for-genocidal-statements/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:51:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bezalel Smotrich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Itamar Ben-Gvir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330083</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ben-Gvir and Smotrich incite “serious violations of the human rights of Palestinians,” the government said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slovenia has declared two top Israeli ministers personae non grata over “genocidal statements” and other violations of Palestinian human rights, barring them from entering the country in what Slovenian officials say is a first for a country in the European Union. Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon announced the sanctions on the pair on Thursday, saying that the government seeks to pressure the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/slovenia-bans-israeli-ministers-smotrich-and-ben-gvir-for-genocidal-statements/" 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/2025/07/2025_0718-bg-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='67160' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Threatens to Sue Wall Street Journal for Publishing Letter to Epstein</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-to-sue-wall-street-journal-for-publishing-letter-to-epstein/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330090</guid> <description><![CDATA[For decades, Trump had a strong friendship with Epstein, a disgraced financier and child sex trafficker.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump is threatening to sue The Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over a bombshell report detailing a cryptic birthday message he sent to disgraced financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein two decades ago. Trump lashed out at the conservative publication on Thursday, describing its reporting as “fake” and claiming that the letter to Epstein wasn’t…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-to-sue-wall-street-journal-for-publishing-letter-to-epstein/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0718-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='68663' /> </item> <item> <title>Organizers Call for Shutdown of Immigrant Jails as Trump Expands Incarceration</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-call-for-shutdown-of-immigrant-jails-as-trump-expands-incarceration/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:17:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alligator Alcatraz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[immigration jails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330082</guid> <description><![CDATA[Despite public outrage, Trump is doubling down on deportation policies designed to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The number of undocumented people held in immigration jails has exploded under President Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown. Despite polls showing growing public disgust with viral videos of heavily armed officers making violent arrests, the administration is doubling down on policies aimed at filling immigration jails and detention camps with up to 100,000 people at any given time — a massive…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-call-for-shutdown-of-immigrant-jails-as-trump-expands-incarceration/" 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/2025/07/GettyImages-2222319973-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='130659' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin Seeks 1-Day Sentence for Cop Convicted in Killing of Breonna Taylor</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-seeks-1-day-sentence-for-cop-convicted-in-killing-of-breonna-taylor/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:57:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Breonna Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Police]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Police Brutality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Police Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330075</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is effectively seeking impunity for the police in the killing that sparked nationwide protest.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Civil rights prosecutors in the Trump administration are pursuing a one-day jail sentence for Brett Hankison, the ex-police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor, effectively seeking to solidify impunity for police involved in the shooting that sparked nationwide protests against racist police brutality. Hankison was convicted by a federal jury in November for using…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-seeks-1-day-sentence-for-cop-convicted-in-killing-of-breonna-taylor/" 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/2025/07/2025_0718-breonna-taylor-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='105477' /> </item> <item> <title>Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes Bipartisan Bill Calling for Release of All Epstein Files</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/rep-ro-khanna-pushes-bipartisan-bill-calling-for-release-of-all-epstein-files/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:20:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Project 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ro Khanna]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russell Vought]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=330080</guid> <description><![CDATA[Khanna also responds to the stripping of $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about his bipartisan bill calling for the full release of federal documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal charges for sexual trafficking and abuse, which is also currently backed by nine Republicans and every House Democrat. Khanna explains why he’s calling for transparency and accountability regarding the Epstein case, and how Trump is…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/rep-ro-khanna-pushes-bipartisan-bill-calling-for-release-of-all-epstein-files/" 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/2025/07/Guest_Ro-Khanna2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='54167' /> </item> <item> <title>Voters Want a Third Party. They Just Don’t Want Musk in Charge of It.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/voters-want-a-third-party-they-just-dont-want-musk-in-charge-of-it/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[third parties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[third party]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330074</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nearly two in five Democratic-leaning voters would consider joining a non-Musk-led third party. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New polling this week indicates that there is a strong desire among U.S. voters for a third political party, to counter both the Republican and Democratic parties. However, when asked if they’d join a party created by billionaire Elon Musk, voters overwhelmingly rejected the idea. After hinting for several weeks that he’d start a new party after he and President Donald Trump had a public…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/voters-want-a-third-party-they-just-dont-want-musk-in-charge-of-it/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0718-musk-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='107954' /> </item> <item> <title>Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips, Flight Logs Reveal</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dozens-disappeared-on-el-salvador-deportation-trips-flight-logs-reveal/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:37:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CECOT]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[due process]]></category> <category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330073</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else,” said one immigrant rights advocate.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“These were disappearances,” said one immigrant rights expert of the revelation that dozens of people who have never been acknowledged by the Trump administration were listed on flight manifests for three deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador in March. 404 Media reported Thursday that in May, a hacker targeted the airline that operated the flights, which have been challenged in court…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dozens-disappeared-on-el-salvador-deportation-trips-flight-logs-reveal/" 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/2025/07/GettyImages-2218118898-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='126866' /> </item> <item> <title>5 House Democrats Join Most Republicans to Pass $832 Billion Military Bill</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/5-house-democrats-join-most-republicans-to-pass-832-billion-military-bill/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military Budget]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military Spending]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon budget]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330070</guid> <description><![CDATA["If we want to actually cut spending, this is a good spot to start,” said Pramila Jayapal, who voted against the bill.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. House passed legislation early Friday that would provide roughly $832 billion in funding for military programs for the coming fiscal year, a vote that came shortly after the chamber approved a $9 billion rescissions package that takes an axe to public media and foreign aid. Five House Democrats — Reps. Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/5-house-democrats-join-most-republicans-to-pass-832-billion-military-bill/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2222856986-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='58710' /> </item> <item> <title>Gaza Gov’t Media Office Says Israel Systematically Destroys Water Infrastructure</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-govt-media-office-says-israel-systematically-destroys-water-infrastructure/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tareq S. Hajjaj]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:45:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drinking Water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330063</guid> <description><![CDATA[The office says Israeli forces have destroyed 720 water wells, depriving more than 1.25 million people of clean water.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hungry, thirsty, and desperate for some relief, Sha’da Abu Jabal, 36, and her six-year-old son Ahmad headed to a water distribution point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, July 13. Each carried a jerrycan, hoping to return to their displacement center with clean drinking water. The mother and young son joined a long line of people waiting their turn…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-govt-media-office-says-israel-systematically-destroys-water-infrastructure/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tareq S. Hajjaj]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2215233235-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='181808' /> </item> <item> <title>“Our First Country Is Palestine,” Say Refugees in Syria’s Yarmouk Camp </title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/our-first-country-is-palestine-say-refugees-in-syrias-yarmouk-camp/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anagha Subhash Nair]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:39:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Assad]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bashar Al-Assad]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yarmouk]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330064</guid> <description><![CDATA[“It’s not possible to stay for hundreds of years as refugees; we need a just solution,” says a Palestinian from Yarmouk.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An arch crowns the entrance of a long, dusty, multi-laned street in the outskirts of Syria’s capital, Damascus. The text on the arch has been freshly painted — “Yarmouk camp” — with the Palestinian and Syrian Independence flags ensconced between the two words. The street is dotted with small businesses getting back on their feet after over a decade of war in Syria.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/our-first-country-is-palestine-say-refugees-in-syrias-yarmouk-camp/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Anagha Subhash Nair]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2206758673-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='98606' /> </item> <item> <title>Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/medicaid-is-giving-ice-access-to-data-of-79m-enrollees-including-ethnicity/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:08:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[police state]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330058</guid> <description><![CDATA[Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration is reportedly handing the personal information of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), giving vast power to the rogue agency as it ravages communities across the U.S. The data includes names, addresses, ethnicity and race, birth dates, and Social Security numbers of Medicaid enrollees, per an agreement signed between Centers…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/medicaid-is-giving-ice-access-to-data-of-79m-enrollees-including-ethnicity/" 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/2025/07/2025_0717-ice-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84329' /> </item> <item> <title>Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/texas-plays-cynical-racial-gerrymandering-game-to-save-house-majority-for-trump/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:17:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Floods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greg Abbott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Redistricting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330057</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a moment last week, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department appeared to throw a metaphorical life vest to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s public relations team. As search and rescue operations continued, the Republican governor was under fire for suggesting that survivors and the media were using the “word choice of losers” when asking him who was to blame for the state’s handling of the flash…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/texas-plays-cynical-racial-gerrymandering-game-to-save-house-majority-for-trump/" 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/2025/07/2025_0717-texas-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='82152' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders Introduces “Pensions for All Act” to Ensure Workers Can Retire</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-introduces-pensions-for-all-act-to-ensure-workers-can-retire/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:03:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shawn Fain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330048</guid> <description><![CDATA[Only 9 percent of Americans have pensions today, compared to 44 percent in 1975.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is taking on the “retirement crisis” in the U.S. with a new bill aimed at guaranteeing pensions or solid retirement plans for every worker in America. On Thursday, Sanders introduced the Pensions for All Act, which would require corporations to provide a retirement plan equivalent to or better than the pensions plan offered to members of Congress.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-introduces-pensions-for-all-act-to-ensure-workers-can-retire/" 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/2025/07/2025_0717-bernie-sanders-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93283' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Tax Law Seeks to Override Rules Protecting Children in Immigration Jail</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-tax-law-seeks-to-override-rules-protecting-children-in-immigration-jail/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Candice Norwood]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:23:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Child Detention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrant Detention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reconciliation Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330054</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tucked into the legislation are provisions that pave the way for migrant children to face longer periods in detention.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump’s so-called “one, big beautiful” tax and spending bill allocates $170 billion to fulfill the administration’s long list of immigration priorities, including hiring for law enforcement agents, border security personnel and immigration court judges. Also tucked into the massive, nearly 1,000-page legislation are provisions that pave the way for migrant children to face…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-tax-law-seeks-to-override-rules-protecting-children-in-immigration-jail/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Candice Norwood]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0717-migrant-child-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='55723' /> </item> <item> <title>Republicans Introduce Bill to Revoke the Charter of Largest US Teachers Union</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-introduce-bill-to-revoke-the-charter-of-largest-us-teachers-union/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:11:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADL]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Education Association]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330052</guid> <description><![CDATA[They cited the union's pledge to “defend democracy against Trump's embrace of fascism” and cutting ties with the ADL.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A group of congressional Republicans introduced legislation Wednesday that would revoke the federal charter of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the United States and an organization that has mobilized against the Trump administration’s far-right agenda — which includes an ongoing effort to dismantle the Department of Education. The bill…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-introduce-bill-to-revoke-the-charter-of-largest-us-teachers-union/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0717-nea-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='146996' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Strikes Catholic Church in Gaza That Got Nightly Calls From Pope Francis</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-strikes-catholic-church-in-gaza-that-got-nightly-calls-from-pope-francis/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330041</guid> <description><![CDATA[The church is among hundreds of religious sites Israel has attacked in its genocide.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel struck the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three in the religious site that Pope Francis called every night of the genocide up until the final days of his life. The parish priest for the Holy Family Catholic Church, Reverend Gabriel Romanelli, was injured in the strike. Romanelli used to speak with Pope Francis during his nightly calls…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-strikes-catholic-church-in-gaza-that-got-nightly-calls-from-pope-francis/" 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/2025/07/2025_0717-gaza--1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='149344' /> </item> <item> <title>Consensus Grows on Gaza Genocide, But Many Holocaust Scholars Remain Silent</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/consensus-grows-on-gaza-genocide-but-many-holocaust-scholars-remain-silent/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:41:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=330044</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israeli American historian Omer Bartov discusses these scholars’ betrayal of the notion of “never again.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United Nations definition of “genocide,” which includes an intent to destroy a group of people that makes it impossible for the group to reconstitute itself. “This is precisely what Israel is trying to do,” he says.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/consensus-grows-on-gaza-genocide-but-many-holocaust-scholars-remain-silent/" 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/2025/07/GUEST_Omer-Bartov-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='59873' /> </item> <item> <title>80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/80-years-after-the-trinity-nuke-test-were-still-living-an-atomic-nightmare/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Ross]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:42:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trinity Test]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330039</guid> <description><![CDATA[We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide. The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/80-years-after-the-trinity-nuke-test-were-still-living-an-atomic-nightmare/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eric Ross]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[TomDispatch]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0717-trinity-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='185337' /> </item> <item> <title>Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pushing-military-spending-and-neoliberal-austerity-french-pm-emulates-trump/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:14:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Austerity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[François Bayrou]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military Spending]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax Cuts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330036</guid> <description><![CDATA[Both the left and the far right in France see the government budget plan as something of a class war budget.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On July 4, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill“ Act into law, implementing his reactionary policy agenda. This megabill is the most sweeping legislation in modern U.S. history and elevates neoliberalism to a new stage with huge tax cuts for the rich and equally huge cuts to the social safety net, including food programs and Medicaid coverage. Indeed…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pushing-military-spending-and-neoliberal-austerity-french-pm-emulates-trump/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0717-france-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='88780' /> </item> <item> <title>FL Miccosukee Tribe Joins Environmental Groups Suing Over “Alligator Alcatraz”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fl-miccosukee-tribe-joins-environmental-groups-suing-over-alligator-alcatraz/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Miacel Spotted Elk]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:39:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alligator Alcatraz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330032</guid> <description><![CDATA[The tribe will keep fighting to “protect the land and save the land that saved us,” said the tribal council secretary.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park. In a motion to join a lawsuit, as one of the first tribes to potentially sue against the detention center, the case argues that the Department of Homeland…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fl-miccosukee-tribe-joins-environmental-groups-suing-over-alligator-alcatraz/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Miacel Spotted Elk]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0717-alligator-alcatraz-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='213961' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump DOJ’s Broad Requests for Voter Data Is Unprecedented, Critics Warn</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-dojs-broad-requests-for-voter-data-is-unprecedented-critics-warn/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voter Data]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330025</guid> <description><![CDATA[“This all is part of a bigger ploy to further undermine our voting in this country,” said Colorado’s secretary of state.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration has reportedly embarked on what local election officials and rights groups say is an unprecedented effort to collect data on voters across the U.S. and physically examine election equipment in states across the country, heightening concerns that the president is planning a reprise of his lawless attempt to subvert the 2020 contest. The Washington Post reported…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-dojs-broad-requests-for-voter-data-is-unprecedented-critics-warn/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Witnesses Say American Military Contractors Shot Tear Gas at Gaza Aid Seekers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/witnesses-say-american-military-contractors-shot-tear-gas-at-gaza-aid-seekers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:53:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]]></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=330022</guid> <description><![CDATA[One humanitarian group has called for Trump to be held responsible for complicity with GHF-enabled violence.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>American private military contractors used dangerous crowd control tactics on a crowd of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza on Wednesday, witnesses say, causing a deadly stampede and adding to the nearly 1,000 Palestinians who have been killed in relation to the U.S.- and Israeli-backed “humanitarian aid” scheme thus far. A crowd of thousands had gathered around a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/witnesses-say-american-military-contractors-shot-tear-gas-at-gaza-aid-seekers/" 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/2025/07/2025_0716-ghf-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='90509' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Rages Against “Weakling” MAGA Backers Who Still Care About Epstein</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-rages-against-weakling-maga-backers-who-still-care-about-epstein/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:33:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conspiracy theories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Epstein list]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330023</guid> <description><![CDATA[Several prominent right-wing voices are turning on Trump after his angry social media post.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a social media post on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump derided his own supporters for refusing to adhere to his demand to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein case. Epstein, a disgraced financier who was convicted of child sex trafficking, reportedly died by suicide in a jail cell in 2019. For years, Trump has benefited from the conspiracy theory that Epstein kept a “client list” of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-rages-against-weakling-maga-backers-who-still-care-about-epstein/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0716-trump-r-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='68487' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin’s Focus on Child Labor After California Raids Is a Bait and Switch</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admins-focus-on-child-labor-after-california-raids-is-a-bait-and-switch/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:33:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[child labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Project 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Farm Workers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330018</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration’s raids are part of the same immigration system that makes child labor conditions possible.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Federal immigration agents raided two cannabis farms in California last week, arresting more than 300 workers suspected of being in the United States without documentation. One farmworker, Jaime Alanís, fell 30 feet from a building to his death while attempting to flee the aggressive, chaotic raid at Glass House Farms in Ventura County. Alanís is the first known person to have died during an…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admins-focus-on-child-labor-after-california-raids-is-a-bait-and-switch/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>New Exposé Reveals How the US’s Largest Health Insurer Silences Its Critics</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/new-expose-reveals-how-the-uss-largest-health-insurer-silences-its-critics/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:06:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brian Thompson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UnitedHealth]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=330019</guid> <description><![CDATA[The New York Times’s David Enrich discusses UnitedHealth’s tactics, from disappearing videos to legal threats.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a major new New York Times exposé on health insurance behemoth UnitedHealth, deputy investigations editor David Enrich reveals how the largest insurer in the country works to intimidate and silence critics of its often predatory and exploitative treatment of patients. While “companies do this kind of stuff all the time,” Enrich says, UnitedHealth’s lawyers “were really going after some fairly…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/new-expose-reveals-how-the-uss-largest-health-insurer-silences-its-critics/" 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/2025/07/UnitedHealthDavidEnrich-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='113388' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin Welcomes Israeli Minister in DC as He Plots Gaza Concentration Camp</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-welcomes-israeli-minister-in-dc-as-he-plots-gaza-concentration-camp/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:35:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330013</guid> <description><![CDATA[Minister Israel Katz has said that international partners will manage the camp.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is set to fly out for a visit to the U.S. this week to meet with top-level Trump administration officials — a week after the official announced a plan to build a concentration camp in Gaza to confine Palestinians. Israeli outlets report, citing a statement from Katz’s office, that the minister is slated to set out for Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. In D.C.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-welcomes-israeli-minister-in-dc-as-he-plots-gaza-concentration-camp/" 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/2025/07/2025_0716-katz-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='56186' /> </item> <item> <title>Huckabee Attends Netanyahu Corruption Trial in Tel Aviv, in Unprecedented Move</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/huckabee-attends-netanyahu-corruption-trial-in-tel-aviv-in-unprecedented-move/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330004</guid> <description><![CDATA[The ambassador’s visit is a brazen attempt at intervention from a U.S. official in a foreign state’s domestic trial.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee paid a visit to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, marking an unprecedented move to shield the man charged with crimes both domestically and internationally. Huckabee called for the trial to be called off on social media. “I stopped by the trial of @IsraeliPM in Tel Aviv today. My conclusion?</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/huckabee-attends-netanyahu-corruption-trial-in-tel-aviv-in-unprecedented-move/" 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/2025/07/2025_0716-huckabee-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='73953' /> </item> <item> <title>US Set to Destroy 550 Tons of USAID Food Meant to Go to Malnourished Kids</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-set-to-destroy-550-tons-of-usaid-food-meant-to-go-to-malnourished-kids/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cruelty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DOGE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330016</guid> <description><![CDATA[One Democratic US senator condemned the plan to destroy the food as "disgusting.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration is planning to destroy 550 tons of emergency food relief intended for children in impoverished and war-torn regions. The food assistance that was part of the now-defunct USAID program is set to be incinerated on Thursday, The Atlantic reported, citing sources with knowledge of the government’s plans. The food comes in the form of high-energy biscuits that are…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-set-to-destroy-550-tons-of-usaid-food-meant-to-go-to-malnourished-kids/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0716-sudan-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='106849' /> </item> <item> <title>Public Media Defenders Mobilize as Senate GOP Set to Gut Over $1B in Funding</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/public-media-defenders-mobilize-as-senate-gop-set-to-gut-over-1b-in-funding/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:47:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Local Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[public broadcasting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330010</guid> <description><![CDATA["This is a coordinated, authoritarian attempt to silence dissent and dismantle the public good,” said Our Revolution.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is on the verge of stripping more than a billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which could decimate local news stations. On Tuesday, the chamber voted 50-50, with a tie broken by Vice President JD Vance to move forward with debate on the package, which is underway as of Wednesday morning. Three Republicans — Sens.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/public-media-defenders-mobilize-as-senate-gop-set-to-gut-over-1b-in-funding/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-dismantle-public-health-and-replace-it-with-a-police-state/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Wallace]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:55:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reconciliation Bill]]></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=329997</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the streets to town halls and the courts, it’s a race now. The Trump administration is fighting to remain a step ahead of the growing popular backlash to its draconian cuts to social programs that millions of Americans depend on — at least until the administration operationalizes enough of the police state it’s practicing on immigrants to put down any such objection.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-dismantle-public-health-and-replace-it-with-a-police-state/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Rob Wallace, Joe Sexauer, Rita Valenti]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Funding Cuts Force Food Banks to Ration Meals for Texas Flood Survivors</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-funding-cuts-force-food-banks-to-ration-meals-for-texas-flood-survivors/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayurella Horn-Muller]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flash Floods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food banks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hunger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[One Big Beautiful Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TEFAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330003</guid> <description><![CDATA[Texas already leads the nation in hunger rates with more than 5 million residents facing food insecurity.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Early in the morning on July 4th, as torrential rains battered central Texas, the dangers of flash floods became imminent. In Kerr County, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, leading to the deaths of 106 people. As the catastrophic deluge swept throughout the region, the death toll climbed to at least 132. Later that day, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-funding-cuts-force-food-banks-to-ration-meals-for-texas-flood-survivors/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ayurella Horn-Muller]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Only 3 Percent of Americans Say They’re Satisfied With Epstein Transparency</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/only-3-percent-of-americans-say-theyre-satisfied-with-epstein-transparency/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:48:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conspiracy theories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MAGA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=330005</guid> <description><![CDATA[For years, Trump benefited politically from conspiracy theories regarding the disgraced financier.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump is facing public pressure to release more files relating to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and child sex trafficker with ties to many wealthy and powerful figures, including Trump himself. For several years, conspiracy theorists, particularly those on the far right, have alleged that there is an Epstein “client list” naming people who were involved in his…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/only-3-percent-of-americans-say-theyre-satisfied-with-epstein-transparency/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0716-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='70863' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Journalists Investigating Killing of Musallet</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-settlers-attack-cnn-journalists-investigating-killing-of-musallet/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:16:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sayfollah Musallet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329999</guid> <description><![CDATA[Masked settlers followed the journalists’ car and smashed the windshield.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli settlers attacked and chased away CNN journalists in the occupied West Bank who were reporting on the Israeli killing of 20-year-old Palestinian American Sayfollah Musallet and speaking to his family, the journalists have reported. In a video report, the journalists said that they were driving to the site where settlers killed Musallet on Friday when masked Israeli settlers began…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-settlers-attack-cnn-journalists-investigating-killing-of-musallet/" 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/2025/07/2025_0715-settlers-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='127568' /> </item> <item> <title>Pentagon Signs Contract With Musk’s AI After It Called Itself “MechaHitler”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-signs-contract-with-musks-ai-after-it-called-itself-mechahitler/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:26:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329991</guid> <description><![CDATA[The AI bot praised Adolf Hitler as the best figure to combat “vile anti-white hate.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Pentagon announced that it signed a contract with Elon Musk’s AI firm with a value of up to $200 million on Monday — just days after the company unveiled an update to its chatbot, Grok, that unabashedly spewed antisemitic rhetoric and referred to itself as “MechaHitler” The company, xAI, announced a new product called “Grok for Government” that xAI says would be used for purposes like…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-signs-contract-with-musks-ai-after-it-called-itself-mechahitler/" 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/2025/07/2025_0715-xai-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='74595' /> </item> <item> <title>AG Pam Bondi Fires Top Department of Justice Ethics Official</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ag-pam-bondi-fires-top-department-of-justice-ethics-official/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:15:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joseph Tirrell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Whistleblower]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329998</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joseph Tirrell, who was Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics at the DOJ, shared his termination notice on LinkedIn.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired Joseph Tirrell, a career ethics official at the Department of Justice (DOJ) who was tasked with ensuring that employees at the department were adhering to ethical rules and obligations. Tirrell shared news of his firing in a LinkedIn post on Monday that included an image of his termination letter signed by Bondi. The letter did not include a reason for his…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ag-pam-bondi-fires-top-department-of-justice-ethics-official/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0715-bondi-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='37053' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-plans-to-hand-taxpayer-data-to-homeland-security-to-speed-up-deportations/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[William Turton]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:50:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DOGE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329993</guid> <description><![CDATA[The system, which would enable sharing of massive amounts of sensitive data, may be launched before the end of July.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data. ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport. Last month, in a previously undisclosed…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-plans-to-hand-taxpayer-data-to-homeland-security-to-speed-up-deportations/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[William Turton, Christopher Bing, Avi Asher-Schapiro]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2224533016-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='117643' /> </item> <item> <title>New Study Finds No Links Between Aluminum in Vaccines and Chronic Conditions</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-study-finds-no-links-between-aluminum-in-vaccines-and-chronic-conditions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Vaxxers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Measles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vaccinations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329992</guid> <description><![CDATA[The study examined over 1.2 million patients receiving vaccines over more than two decades.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A massive study examining over a million vaccine doses in Denmark finds no evidence that the use of aluminum, a common additive in vaccinations, increases the risk of developing dozens of chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases. The study also found no link between aluminium in vaccines and autism. The study, like countless others before it, contradicts years of conspiracy theories…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-study-finds-no-links-between-aluminum-in-vaccines-and-chronic-conditions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0715-vaccine-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='86045' /> </item> <item> <title>Rep. Maxwell Frost: Trump Admin Is “Trying to Ethnically Cleanse” the US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/rep-maxwell-frost-trump-admin-is-trying-to-ethnically-cleanse-the-country/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alligator Alcatraz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethnic Cleansing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrant Detention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maxwell Frost]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=329989</guid> <description><![CDATA[Democratic lawmakers are blasting the horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration jail in the Everglades.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Florida Democratic Congressmember Maxwell Frost joins us to discuss how he observed horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration detention jail in the Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” when he joined other lawmakers in a visit. “I saw myself in those cages. It was a lot of people my age that looked like me,” says Frost. “The administration is essentially trying to ethnically cleanse…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/rep-maxwell-frost-trump-admin-is-trying-to-ethnically-cleanse-the-country/" 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/2025/07/SEG2_Alligator-Alcatraz-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='124840' /> </item> <item> <title>Low-Income People Will Face Brunt of Trump’s Restart of Student Debt Collections</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/low-income-people-will-face-brunt-of-trumps-restart-of-student-debt-collections/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kalena Thomhave]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[colleges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[debt collectors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Debt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329984</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US government, which restarted collections efforts in May, can garnish wages, tax refunds, some pensions, and more.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After a pandemic-related pause of more than five years, the U.S. Department of Education has resumed debt collections on student loans in default, affecting more than 5 million borrowers. When a federal student loan goes into default, the full balance becomes immediately due, and the government can garnish wages and seize federal payments to collect what’s owed. Aisha Baruni…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/low-income-people-will-face-brunt-of-trumps-restart-of-student-debt-collections/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kalena Thomhave]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital & Main]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0715-college-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='65522' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders: Members of Congress Who Voted for “Big Beautiful Bill” Must Be Ousted</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-members-of-congress-who-voted-for-big-beautiful-bill-must-be-ousted/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:23:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2026 election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reconciliation Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329983</guid> <description><![CDATA[Democrats must make the bill “the defining issue of the 2026 campaign,” the Vermont senator said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called for every member of Congress who voted for Republicans’ reconciliation bill to be ousted from their seat, saying that the bill is “disastrous” and will only make the U.S. health care system even worse. “Our broken health care ‘system’ is the most expensive and inefficient in the world. Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will make it even worse…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-members-of-congress-who-voted-for-big-beautiful-bill-must-be-ousted/" 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/2025/07/2025_0715-bernie-sanders-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='55420' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel’s Decimation of Transportation Is Adding to Gaza’s Death Toll</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israels-decimation-of-transportation-is-adding-to-gazas-death-toll/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dalia Abu Ramadan]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:57:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329938</guid> <description><![CDATA[When movement is restricted and ambulances are scarce, the smallest wound can become a death sentence in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a late March morning in 2024 in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, 24-year-old Yasmin Siam felt sharp pain grip her stomach. Labor had begun. Time was slipping away. But there was no way to get her to a hospital. Ambulances had become rare after months of Israeli attacks — too few to answer every cry for help. Airstrikes were ongoing, and Gaza had fallen into total immobility. Cars were gone.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israels-decimation-of-transportation-is-adding-to-gazas-death-toll/" 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/2025/07/2025_0715-gaza-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='104472' /> </item> <item> <title>“Sappers” Are Working to Demine Ukrainian Fields at Great Personal Risk</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sappers-are-working-to-demine-ukrainian-fields-at-great-personal-risk/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Theia Chatelle]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:55:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Azov Battalion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Relief]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kyiv]]></category> <category><![CDATA[land mines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329806</guid> <description><![CDATA[Humanitarian volunteers are doing perilous work to remove land mines that Russian soldiers left behind in 2022.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country in the world. As United States-led ceasefire negotiations continue to stall, the amount of ordnance buried in Ukrainian soil is only increasing as the war drags on. In April 2025, I embedded with the Ukrainian Association of Humanitarian Demining (UAHD) at an undisclosed location on the outskirts of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sappers-are-working-to-demine-ukrainian-fields-at-great-personal-risk/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Theia Chatelle]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2N8A1611-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='119669' /> </item> <item> <title>Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein “List” Fallout</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-is-visibly-upset-with-his-maga-base-over-epstein-list-fallout/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:54:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conspiracy theories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MAGA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329982</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump has benefited for years from a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One week after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a document stating that there was never a Jeffrey Epstein “client list” — a supposed list of child sex predators and traffickers that is the center of a conspiracy theory that right-wingers have promoted for years — President Donald Trump, who benefited from that conspiracy theory, has expressed frustration that his MAGA base isn’t moving on.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-is-visibly-upset-with-his-maga-base-over-epstein-list-fallout/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0715-trump-bondi-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='74699' /> </item> <item> <title>“Tax-Dodging Consultant” Is Now the US Treasury’s Top Tax Policy Official</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tax-dodging-consultant-is-now-the-us-treasurys-top-tax-policy-official/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:54:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ken Kies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax Cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tax dodging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329953</guid> <description><![CDATA[As a lobbyist, Ken Kies secured tax giveaways for major corporations. Now, he’s helping implement the GOP budget bill.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A corporate lobbyist who for decades has helped major companies and rich Americans dodge taxes is now serving as the U.S. Treasury Department’s top tax policy official, a position in which he will write rules implementing the newly passed Republican budget law. That role is “enormously powerful,” The New York Times’ Jesse Drucker wrote in a Monday profile of Ken Kies, whom the GOP-controlled…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tax-dodging-consultant-is-now-the-us-treasurys-top-tax-policy-official/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0715-treasury-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='128729' /> </item> <item> <title>US Leaders Gave Up on Diplomacy With Iran. We Must Make Them Return to It.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-leaders-gave-up-on-diplomacy-with-iran-we-must-make-them-return-to-it/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hanieh Jodat]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:23:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antiwar Movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran Nuclear Deal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JCPOA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329932</guid> <description><![CDATA[Building an antiwar movement means preventing the systemic US aggression that creates the conditions for war.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The recent 12-day war between Iran and Israel, which started in the early hours of June 13 with an unprovoked attack by Israel on Iran’s soil, has left more than just casualties and destruction. It has also delivered a devastating blow to the already vulnerable belief that diplomacy could substantively guide the region toward peace and nuclear nonproliferation. But if we are willing to listen and…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-leaders-gave-up-on-diplomacy-with-iran-we-must-make-them-return-to-it/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Hanieh Jodat]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2223262532-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='147647' /> </item> <item> <title>Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dr-oz-tells-americans-who-are-concerned-about-medicaid-cuts-to-eat-less-cake/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:21:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big beautiful bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicaid cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mehmet Oz]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329934</guid> <description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mehmet Oz, the daytime television personality-turned-administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Trump administration, dismissed Americans’ concerns about huge cuts to Medicaid during an interview on Fox Business on Monday. Oz’s primary advice to viewers was to eat healthier foods and exercise more — tips that likely offer little comfort to millions of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dr-oz-tells-americans-who-are-concerned-about-medicaid-cuts-to-eat-less-cake/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0714-mehmet-oz-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='108286' /> </item> <item> <title>Family Demands US Investigate Fatal Beating of US Citizen in the West Bank</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/family-demands-us-investigate-fatal-beating-of-us-citizen-in-the-west-bank/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:38:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinians]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sayfollah Musallet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[settlers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329924</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sayfollah Musallet is at least the ninth US citizen to be killed by Israeli forces or settlers since 2022.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The family of 20-year-old U.S. citizen Sayfollah Musallet is being joined by a number of advocacy groups in demanding a full U.S.-led investigation into the young man’s fatal beating by Israeli settlers in the West Bank last week — and pushing back against the corporate media’s characterization of the brutal attack. “We demand the U.S. State Department lead an immediate investigation and hold…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/family-demands-us-investigate-fatal-beating-of-us-citizen-in-the-west-bank/" 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/2025/07/sayfollah-1-1200x765.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60111' /> </item> <item> <title>Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not Sanctions</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ex-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-deserves-nobel-prize-not-sanctions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:18:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Francesca Albanese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UN Special Rapporteur]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329926</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for the third time in less than six months, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine Francesca Albanese for her clear-eyed critiques of Israel’s genocide. In a July 9 press statement…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ex-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-deserves-nobel-prize-not-sanctions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Says Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions]]></truthout:fullTitle> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2221106905-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='112679' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Judicial Nominee Won’t Answer Question on Talk of Third Presidential Term</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-judicial-nominee-wont-answer-question-on-talk-of-third-presidential-term/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[22nd Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Emil Bove]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[third term]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump third term]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329925</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump nominee Emil Bove also faces questions relating to his staff suggesting that the DOJ should ignore court orders.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A judicial nominee selected by President Donald Trump is refusing to answer a question about the constitutional provision that prevents presidents from running for a third term in office. Emil Bove, a former criminal defense attorney for Trump who is currently the principal associate deputy attorney general within the Department of Justice (DOJ), was asked in a questionnaire given to him last…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-judicial-nominee-wont-answer-question-on-talk-of-third-presidential-term/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0713-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='61864' /> </item> <item> <title>Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/farmworker-dead-and-more-than-300-more-detained-in-california-ice-raid/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Farmworkers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration Raid]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=329921</guid> <description><![CDATA[Agents tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect farmworkers from arrest.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on Thursday led to an hourslong standoff between protesters and federal border agents, who blocked the roads with military-style vehicles and tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect dozens of farmworkers from arrest. The Department of Homeland Security said over 300 immigrants were detained in dual raids…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/farmworker-dead-and-more-than-300-more-detained-in-california-ice-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/2025/07/SEG3-ICE-Raids-Farmworkers-4-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93631' /> </item> <item> <title>1,500 Deaths in Europe’s Heat Wave Were Due to Climate Crisis, Study Shows</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/1500-deaths-in-europes-heat-wave-were-due-to-climate-crisis-study-shows/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:01:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[climate study]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heat Deaths]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heatwaves]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329919</guid> <description><![CDATA[“The influence of climate change has [temperatures] up by several degrees,” the study's lead author said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Human-caused climate change was responsible for around 1,500 deaths during this year’s atypical heat wave across Europe, a newly published rapid study of mortality data suggests. The study, conducted by scientists at Imperial College of London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, examined 2,300 heat-related deaths across 12 European cities during the heat wave from June 23…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/1500-deaths-in-europes-heat-wave-were-due-to-climate-crisis-study-shows/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0714-water-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='87834' /> </item> <item> <title>Climate Erasure Replaces Climate Denial Under Trump Administration</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/climate-erasure-replaces-climate-denial-under-trump-administration/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Yoder]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Denial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Climate Assessment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scientific analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329915</guid> <description><![CDATA[The days of loudly debating the science have mostly given way to an effort to withhold the raw information itself.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For 25 years, a group of the country’s top experts has been fastidiously tracking the ways that climate change threatens every part of the United States. Their findings informed the National Climate Assessments, a series of congressionally mandated reports released every four years that translated the science into accessible warnings for policymakers and the public. But that work came to a halt…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/climate-erasure-replaces-climate-denial-under-trump-administration/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kate Yoder]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1281561891-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='137539' /> </item> <item> <title>Funding Cuts to Corporation for Public Broadcasting May Gut Tribal Media</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/funding-cuts-to-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-may-gut-tribal-media/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kolby KickingWoman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indian Country]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Native American]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[public broadcasting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rescissions Act of 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rural communities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329910</guid> <description><![CDATA[Without the funding, many communities, especially rural communities, could become isolated as public media stations and radio may go off the air.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Six months into President Donald J. Trump’s second tenure in office, much of the congressional attention was focused on the passage of the “One, Big, Beautiful bill,” which the president signed into law on July 4. The legislation narrowly got through both chambers of Congress and was a major victory for Trump and fellow Republicans. Lawmakers now return their attention to other…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/funding-cuts-to-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-may-gut-tribal-media/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kolby KickingWoman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ICT]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1169475494-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='120613' /> </item> <item> <title>Far Right Dark Money Elections Group Raised $3.9M in First Full Year</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-dark-money-elections-group-raised-3-9m-in-first-full-year/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Armiak]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Campaign Finance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dark Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[January 6]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329861</guid> <description><![CDATA[Voter suppression advocate Cleta Mitchell formed the group in 2023 to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insurrectionist and voter suppression advocate Cleta Mitchell formed a new dark money group in 2023 to channel funds to organizations that promote the Big Lie of a stolen 2020 election and spread misinformation about the threat of widespread noncitizen voting. Housed in the offices of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the Foundation for Accountability Integrity &</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-dark-money-elections-group-raised-3-9m-in-first-full-year/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[David Armiak]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Exposed by CMD]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2151626191-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='116339' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Plan to Expand Land for Arctic Drilling Is an Ecological Disaster</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-plan-to-expand-land-for-arctic-drilling-is-an-ecological-disaster/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariah Meek]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:22:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arctic Drilling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329821</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump has announced he will open millions of acres of National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska up to oil and gas companies.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, but despite its industrial-sounding name, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, or NPR-A, is much more than a fuel depot. Tens of thousands of caribou feed and breed in this area…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-plan-to-expand-land-for-arctic-drilling-is-an-ecological-disaster/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mariah Meek]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Conversation]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1487928387-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='187369' /> </item> <item> <title>FEMA Missed Thousands of Texas Flood Victims’ Calls After Noem Fired Contractors</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fema-missed-thousands-of-texas-flood-victims-calls-after-noem-fired-contractors/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:20:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kristi Noem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas floods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329907</guid> <description><![CDATA[The DHS Secretary moved forward with the layoffs immediately after the disaster, as the demand for help was highest.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week. According to a Friday report from The New York Times, more than two-thirds of phone calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from flood victims went unanswered after Noem allowed hundreds of contractors to be laid off on July 5…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fema-missed-thousands-of-texas-flood-victims-calls-after-noem-fired-contractors/" 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/2025/07/GettyImages-2224699643-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='95924' /> </item> <item> <title>LA Judge Orders ICE to Cease Indiscriminate Raids and Racial Profiling</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/la-judge-orders-ice-to-cease-indiscriminate-raids-and-racial-profiling/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:52:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Profiling]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329904</guid> <description><![CDATA[The judge found ICE patrols have been “indiscriminately rounding up numerous individuals without reasonable suspicion.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the Trump administration to stop carrying out indiscriminate immigration raids in the city and its surrounding areas, citing its use of “unconstitutional tactics,” including racial profiling and denying the right to an attorney. Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California wrote that there is a…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/la-judge-orders-ice-to-cease-indiscriminate-raids-and-racial-profiling/" 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/2025/07/GettyImages-2224603707-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='104137' /> </item> <item> <title>US Aid Has Always Been a Tool of Control. Under Trump, It’s a Tool of Death.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-aid-has-always-been-a-tool-of-control-under-trump-its-a-tool-of-death/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Suad Abdel aziz]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:59:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Starvation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US foreign policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329860</guid> <description><![CDATA[The president’s cuts to USAID are starving the nations that were made dependent on aid by previous administrations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A shipment of U.S. wheat intended to feed millions of starving Yemeni civilians has become a stark symbol of how the Trump administration weaponizes humanitarian aid not only to punish geopolitical enemies, but also to stage a hollow performance of compassion while doing so. Earlier this year, a U.S. cargo ship carrying thousands of tons of wheat departed for Yemen…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-aid-has-always-been-a-tool-of-control-under-trump-its-a-tool-of-death/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Suad Abdel aziz]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2214126997-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='132212' /> </item> <item> <title>The US Public Loves the National Park Service. Trump Is Destroying It Anyway.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-public-loves-the-national-park-service-trump-is-destroying-it-anyway/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Rose Quandt]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:49:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DOGE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Doug Burgum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Parks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Privatization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reconciliation Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329803</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump is pushing for cuts that could require 350 of the 433 sites run by the National Park Service to shut down. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there is one thing Americans love, it’s our national parks. A record-setting 331 million people visited the 63 national parks in 2024 — a number roughly equivalent to the entire U.S. population. Park visitors spend tens of billions each year on lodging, restaurants, and travel expenses, significantly boosting local economies. The National Park Service is the most popular government agency…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-public-loves-the-national-park-service-trump-is-destroying-it-anyway/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Katie Rose Quandt]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2202144780-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='149804' /> </item> <item> <title>Farmworker Falls to His Death During Violent California ICE Raid</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/farmworker-falls-to-his-death-during-violent-california-ice-raid/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:52:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Farmworkers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Farm Workers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329900</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Other workers, including U.S. citizens, remain unaccounted for,” reported the United Farm Workers. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Mexican farmworker who reportedly fell from a greenhouse while trying to hide during a Trump administration raid on a Southern California farm has died from his injuries, the United Farm Workers union announced Friday. Federal authorities including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, many clad in military-style gear, stormed farms in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties on…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/farmworker-falls-to-his-death-during-violent-california-ice-raid/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2224606482-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='133740' /> </item> <item> <title>The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-planning-to-use-ai-to-deny-medicare-authorizations/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Novick]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:08:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329879</guid> <description><![CDATA[The government plans to partner with private companies to automate prior authorizations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump Administration is bringing prior authorizations (PAs), the mandatory preapproval before insurance covers health care services, to Traditional Medicare. The government plans on using contracts with perverse incentives for companies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out the work. On June 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Center announced…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-planning-to-use-ai-to-deny-medicare-authorizations/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brandon Novick]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Center for Economic and Policy Research]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2222937846-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77493' /> </item> <item> <title>18 States Now Have Laws Blocking Cities From Enacting Paid Leave Standards</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/18-states-now-have-laws-blocking-cities-from-enacting-paid-leave-standards/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Claire Vollers]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:05:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paid Leave]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paid Sick Leave]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329877</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nearly 73 million workers fall under such laws, according to a new report.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Across most of the South and Midwest, state laws bar local governments from requiring employers to provide paid sick leave, effectively stripping cities of the power to enact their own labor protections. Nearly 73 million workers live in the 18 states that now have such preemptive laws, according to a new report from A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization focused on workplace rights…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/18-states-now-have-laws-blocking-cities-from-enacting-paid-leave-standards/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Anna Claire Vollers]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Stateline]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2056671466-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='185281' /> </item> <item> <title>Public Support for Immigration Reaches Record High Amid Mass Deportation Efforts</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/public-support-for-immigration-reaches-record-high-amid-mass-deportation-efforts/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:04:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329891</guid> <description><![CDATA[A new poll finds only 38 percent of Americans support deporting all undocumented immigrants, a 9 point drop from 2024.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Americans’ support for immigration in the United States is at a record high despite the fact that American voters mere months ago elected a president who ran on enacting the largest deportation operation in the country’s history. A new poll from Gallup shows that 79% of Americans think that immigration is a good thing for the country, which is the highest number ever recorded in Gallup’s 24…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/public-support-for-immigration-reaches-record-high-amid-mass-deportation-efforts/" 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/2025/07/GettyImages-2224602611-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='91983' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Revoked Rules Meant to Protect Against Disasters Like Texas Floods</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-revoked-rules-meant-to-protect-against-disasters-like-texas-floods/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greg Abbott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Weather Service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas floods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329894</guid> <description><![CDATA[A commonsense rule created building requirements for projects receiving federal funds. Trump revoked it twice.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump traveled to central Texas on July 11, one week after flash floods ravaged the region. With 120 people confirmed dead and another 170 still missing, the Trump administration and Texas Republican state leaders are facing intense scrutiny for management and budgetary decisions that could have potentially mitigated the devastation. Officials at the National Weather Service have…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-revoked-rules-meant-to-protect-against-disasters-like-texas-floods/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2223781700-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='255913' /> </item> <item> <title>Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Zen]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:38:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Trafficking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Migrant Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex Work]]></category> <category><![CDATA[solidarity]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329786</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense. “I’m scared to go to work,” a migrant massage worker in New York City told Red Canary Song…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kate Zen & Chanelle Gallant]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2219519292-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='69809' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Pretends “Big Beautiful Bill” Credit Downgrade Has Somehow Been Fixed</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-pretends-big-beautiful-bill-credit-downgrade-has-somehow-been-fixed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerome Powell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Moody's]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Credit Rating]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329895</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump falsely claimed the US has the best credit rating in the world.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump offered a false characterization of the state of the U.S. economy in a rant against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, claiming that nonexistent improvements to the country’s credit rating should result in interest rates being lowered. Trump has frequently pushed Powell to lower interest rates, flouting past presidents’ respect for the independence of the Federal…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-pretends-big-beautiful-bill-credit-downgrade-has-somehow-been-fixed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0711-trump--1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='51137' /> </item> <item> <title>Bipartisan Group of Senators Meets With Netanyahu Despite ICC Arrest Warrant</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/bipartisan-group-of-senators-meets-with-netanyahu-despite-icc-arrest-warrant/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:19:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bipartisanship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Criminal Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Thune]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329875</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pictures show Democrats like Chuck Schumer standing next to Netanyahu, smiling.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A bipartisan group of senators representing an eighth of the Senate posed for photos and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the U.S. this week, sparking criticism over senators’ smiles next to a man wanted in the Hague for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Netanyahu met with senators on Wednesday, with leaders for both parties, Senators John Thune (R-South…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/bipartisan-group-of-senators-meets-with-netanyahu-despite-icc-arrest-warrant/" 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/2025/07/2025_0711-netanyahu-group-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='133033' /> </item> <item> <title>The Oceans Likely Contain Much More Plastic Than We Previously Thought</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-oceans-likely-contain-much-more-plastic-than-we-previously-thought/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Winters]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:03:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Microplastics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nanoplastic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plastic Pollution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329884</guid> <description><![CDATA[A new study estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone has a staggering 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains 27 million metric tons of nanoplastic — plastic particles 100 times smaller than the width of a human hair. That figure is 10 times higher than previous estimates of plastic pollution of all…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-oceans-likely-contain-much-more-plastic-than-we-previously-thought/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Joseph Winters]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Grist]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0711-plastic-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='129968' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanitation-workers-demand-higher-wages-as-trash-pickup-strikes-spread-nationwide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:57:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AFSCME]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teamsters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329882</guid> <description><![CDATA[As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A local sanitation workers strike that began on July 1 in Boston, Massachusetts, and left trash unpicked across the city is now spreading nationwide in a series of labor actions coordinated by the Teamsters union as frustrated workers demand better pay and benefits from Republic Services, a major waste disposal company. The Teamsters said in an email on Friday that about 550 sanitation…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanitation-workers-demand-higher-wages-as-trash-pickup-strikes-spread-nationwide/" 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/2025/07/2025_0711-waste-collection-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='214812' /> </item> <item> <title>UN Human Rights Chief Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Abuse of Migrants and Protesters</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/un-human-rights-chief-sounds-alarm-on-trumps-abuse-of-migrants-and-protestors/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:52:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CECOT]]></category> <category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=329881</guid> <description><![CDATA[High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The wide-ranging conversation touched on immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to preserve human rights and more. See Part 1 of our conversation with Türk, including his response to Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/un-human-rights-chief-sounds-alarm-on-trumps-abuse-of-migrants-and-protestors/" 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/2025/07/SEG3-Volker-Amy-2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94160' /> </item> <item> <title>GOP Missouri Governor Repeals Paid Sick Leave Measure Voters Passed in Landslide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gop-missouri-governor-repeals-paid-sick-leave-measure-voters-passed-in-landslide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:04:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ballot Initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Kehoe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paid Sick Leave]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329873</guid> <description><![CDATA[Advocates called the move, which also restricts minimum wage increases, “a slap in the face to workers.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Missouri’s Republican governor on Thursday signed legislation repealing the paid sick leave portion of a ballot measure that the state’s voters approved with nearly 60% support in the 2024 election. The short-lived provision, which will officially be repealed on August 28, required Missouri employers to provide workers with an hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours of work.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gop-missouri-governor-repeals-paid-sick-leave-measure-voters-passed-in-landslide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0711-mike-kehoe-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89858' /> </item> <item> <title>6 in 10 Americans Back Medicare for All — Poll</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/6-in-10-americans-back-medicare-for-all-poll/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:59:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big beautiful bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare For All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329876</guid> <description><![CDATA[The poll's results stand in stark contrast to Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” which cuts federal health care spending.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New polling demonstrates that nearly 6 in 10 Americans are supportive of Medicare for All in the United States, with only a quarter of voters voicing opposition to a universal health care system. According to an Economist/YouGov poll published earlier this week, 59 percent of Americans back the idea of Medicare for All. Only 27 percent of those polled said they did not support the idea.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/6-in-10-americans-back-medicare-for-all-poll/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0711-medicare-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='200293' /> </item> <item> <title>Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Administration for $20 Million Over Unlawful Detention</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/mahmoud-khalil-sues-trump-administration-for-20-million-over-unlawful-detention/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:03:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Detention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Khalil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Organizing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329868</guid> <description><![CDATA[“There must be accountability for political retaliation and abuse of power,” Khalil said in a statement.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pro-Palestinian student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil on Thursday began the process of suing U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration for $20 million in damages for the harm he suffered as a result of the government’s “politically motivated plan to unlawfully arrest, detain, and deport” him. “This is the first step towards accountability,” Khalil said in a statement.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/mahmoud-khalil-sues-trump-administration-for-20-million-over-unlawful-detention/" 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/2025/07/2025_0711-mahmoud-khalil-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='140319' /> </item> <item> <title>Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/decades-of-neoliberalism-entrenched-us-inequality-trumps-budget-made-it-worse/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:02:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military Spending]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reconciliation Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax Cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329857</guid> <description><![CDATA[Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which was signed into law last week, has been described as a monstrous piece of legislation. In this exclusive interview for Truthout, world-renowned progressive economist Robert Pollin provides an overview of this “disgraceful” federal budget bill. Pollin is distinguished professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/decades-of-neoliberalism-entrenched-us-inequality-trumps-budget-made-it-worse/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0711-trump-b-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='113273' /> </item> <item> <title>Fear of ICE Is Keeping Communities From Speaking Out for Environmental Justice</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fear-of-ice-is-keeping-communities-from-speaking-out-for-environmental-justice/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amal Ahmed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:32:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329855</guid> <description><![CDATA[Advocates say immigrant communities are increasingly hesitant to speak out publicly for fear of being targeted.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When another concrete batch plant was proposed a few years ago in Aldine, Texas, local environmental organizers drew more than a hundred people to a state environmental agency’s public meeting to oppose the polluting plant. Concrete production is clustered around Aldine, a north Houston neighborhood. For decades, the industrial process has blanketed the community with harmful dust that can cause…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fear-of-ice-is-keeping-communities-from-speaking-out-for-environmental-justice/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amal Ahmed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Prism]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-ice-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='133612' /> </item> <item> <title>Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order, In-Line With SCOTUS Limits</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/judge-blocks-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-in-line-with-scotus-limits/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:24:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[14th Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump Executive Orders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329853</guid> <description><![CDATA[The judge indicated that his reasoning in issuing the injunction was “not a close call to the court.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A federal district judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on the Trump administration, forbidding the enforcement of an executive order signed on President Donald Trump’s first day in office that attempted to unilaterally redefine the Birthright Citizenship clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The order comes weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court limited the ability of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/judge-blocks-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-in-line-with-scotus-limits/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-birthright-citizenship-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='110683' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Threats Against Mamdani Put a Target on the Back of All Immigrants</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-threats-against-mamdani-put-a-target-on-the-back-of-all-immigrants/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:59:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[denaturalization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Repression]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sanctuary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329852</guid> <description><![CDATA[By using denaturalization as a threat, Trump shifts the goal posts of citizenship to further his political agenda.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I used to take my United States citizenship for granted. Don’t get me wrong, I was always aware of the benefits conferred on me by a U.S. passport, but I didn’t give it much more thought than that. My great-grandparents immigrated through Ellis Island, and eventually I happened to be born on a certain tract of land, within certain lines drawn up by men many years ago. It’s hard to know how…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-threats-against-mamdani-put-a-target-on-the-back-of-all-immigrants/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Schuyler Mitchell]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-mamdani-b-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89633' /> </item> <item> <title>US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-campuses-have-become-the-newest-laboratories-for-surveillance-technology/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elham Azad]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:27:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Campus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Digital Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[palestine solidarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[predictive policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[student activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329774</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Gaza to the US, military-grade surveillance tools are being deployed to monitor and punish student dissent.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In early June 2025, The Guardian revealed that the University of Michigan paid over $800,000 to Amerishield, parent company to a private security company called City Shield. It was part of a broader $3 million public‑security budget, which included surveillance of pro‑Palestinian student activists. The university hired plainclothes agents who trailed students into cafés, harassed them…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-campuses-have-become-the-newest-laboratories-for-surveillance-technology/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elham Azad]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-university-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77530' /> </item> <item> <title>DHS Head Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Texas Floods</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-head-noem-prioritized-instagram-pics-over-fema-requests-for-texas-floods/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:37:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Emergency Management Agency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kristi Noem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas floods]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329849</guid> <description><![CDATA[It took Noem four days to respond to requests from FEMA, delaying access to some search and rescue tools.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Officials within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who were tasked with responding to massive flooding in central Texas this past week say that some of their lifesaving efforts were delayed due to cost-saving rules imposed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem, whose department oversees FEMA’s work, issued a new agency rule this year requiring all…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-head-noem-prioritized-instagram-pics-over-fema-requests-for-texas-floods/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-texas-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='161855' /> </item> <item> <title>From LA to Chicago, Latinx Communities Mount a Defense Against ICE Attacks</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/from-la-to-chicago-latinx-communities-mount-a-defense-against-ice-attacks/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:26:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Latinx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=329850</guid> <description><![CDATA[This week saw federal agents descend on a popular LA park and a Chicago museum in two spectacles of intimidation.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is sowing fear and chaos in communities across the United States, as heavily armed and masked agents descend on workplaces, schools and public spaces. In Los Angeles, dozens of federal agents, including some on horseback, swept MacArthur Park, located in a predominantly immigrant and working-class part of the city. “It felt like an occupation of L.A.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/from-la-to-chicago-latinx-communities-mount-a-defense-against-ice-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/2025/07/SEG1_ICE-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='90045' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin Sanctions UN Palestine Rapporteur Over Her Opposition to Genocide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-sanctions-un-palestine-rapporteur-over-her-opposition-to-genocide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:02:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Francesca Albanese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329845</guid> <description><![CDATA[The move came just a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Trump in the White House.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Defenders of Palestine and the rule of law on Wednesday condemned Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement of sanctions targeting United Nations expert Francesca Albanese, one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s U.S.-backed genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. In a post on the social media site X, Rubio said he is imposing sanctions on Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-sanctions-un-palestine-rapporteur-over-her-opposition-to-genocide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-albanese-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93160' /> </item> <item> <title>Lula Responds Defiantly to Trump’s Tariff Threat Against Brazil</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/lula-responds-defiantly-to-trumps-tariff-threat-against-brazil/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:22:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trade War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329843</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Brazilian president promised to respond in kind if Trump moves forward with a threatened 50 percent tariff.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva responded defiantly on Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 50% tariff on products from the South American nation, a move that Lula said would be reciprocated. “Brazil is a sovereign nation with independent institutions and will not accept any form of tutelage,” Lula said in a statement released shortly after Trump issued…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lula-responds-defiantly-to-trumps-tariff-threat-against-brazil/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0710-silva-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='84134' /> </item> <item> <title>Sand Mining Is a Booming Industry — This Mexican Community Is Paying the Price</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sand-mining-is-a-booming-industry-this-mexican-community-is-paying-the-price/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamara Pearson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:14:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[extraction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rivers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wetlands]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329801</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, a Mazatec Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been defending its river from gravel and sand dredgers for over a decade. As a well-organized and determined force, the community has endured unprecedented repression, including criminalization, torture, displacement, imprisonment, and violence. Now, the community faces a new attack — 200 trumped-up charges against…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sand-mining-is-a-booming-industry-this-mexican-community-is-paying-the-price/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tamara Pearson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/IMG_6270-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='225518' /> </item> <item> <title>Decades of Cinematic Organizing Change the Narrative on Palestine in the US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/decades-of-cinematic-organizing-change-the-narrative-on-palestine-in-the-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Umayyah Cable]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Excerpt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Colonialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329701</guid> <description><![CDATA[How cinema fueled a mass uprising for Palestine that rattled corporate giants.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On March 10, 2024, five months into Israel’s accelerated genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian people of Gaza, English filmmaker Jonathan Glazer ascended the stage at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California, to accept an Oscar for his film The Zone of Interest (2023). A historical drama and psychological thriller, The Zone of Interest recasts the story of the Auschwitz…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/decades-of-cinematic-organizing-change-the-narrative-on-palestine-in-the-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Umayyah Cable]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout / University of Minnesota Press]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2066798713-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='63141' /> </item> <item> <title>Philadelphia Union Ends Largest Municipal Workers’ Strike in Decades</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/philadelphia-union-ends-largest-municipal-workers-strike-in-decades/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:03:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy and Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[worker rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=329826</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District Council 33, who are primarily sanitation workers, walked off the job a week ago. Growing piles of trash on the streets of Philadelphia brought the strike into clear view for city residents. Labor historian Francis Ryan says the workers won “the hearts of a lot of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/philadelphia-union-ends-largest-municipal-workers-strike-in-decades/" 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/2025/07/DN-SEG4-Philly-Strike-3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='145179' /> </item> <item> <title>X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down After Platform’s AI Chatbot Spews Nazi Hate</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-steps-down-after-platforms-ai-chatbot-spews-nazi-hate/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:11:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329824</guid> <description><![CDATA[The antisemitic display from Grok came after Elon Musk said he would make the bot more “politically incorrect.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of social media giant X, abruptly announced her departure from the company on Wednesday less than a day after the social media platform’s AI chatbot started calling itself “MechaHitler” and promoting a policy of mass extermination. Writing on X, Yaccarino said that she’d decided to step down “after two incredible years” at the company in which the social media…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-steps-down-after-platforms-ai-chatbot-spews-nazi-hate/" 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/2025/07/GettyImages-2192344776-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='95433' /> </item> <item> <title>As Fires Consumed California, Small Towns Organized Their Own Defense</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-fires-consumed-california-small-towns-organized-their-own-defense/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Elysia Garcia]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Excerpt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evacuation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wildfires]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329757</guid> <description><![CDATA[Faced with abandonment from the state, rural residents built their own fire lines, shelters, and support systems.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you live in a national forest in California, odds are pretty high that at some point or another you’ve been ordered to evacuate. In Indian Valley, for the first twelve days, many of our residents did indeed evacuate, but a significant number stayed behind. Some residents had livestock to look after and often no solid indication of where they could take their animals that wouldn’t also…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-fires-consumed-california-small-towns-organized-their-own-defense/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Margaret Elysia Garcia]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout / AK Press]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/photo-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='92476' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s FTC Let Lobbyists Kill Popular Click-To-Cancel Rule, Advocates Say</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-ftc-let-lobbyists-kill-popular-click-to-cancel-rule-advocates-say/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:13:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consumer rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FTC]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329817</guid> <description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court blocked the rule, which would have required companies to make it easier to end subscriptions.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Consumer advocates said Tuesday that the Trump administration is to blame for an appeals court decision that effectively killed the Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule, a Biden-era effort to stop companies from trapping consumers in subscriptions with onerous cancellation terms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit vacated the rule entirely on procedural grounds on…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-ftc-let-lobbyists-kill-popular-click-to-cancel-rule-advocates-say/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2217872117-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='180758' /> </item> <item> <title>Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/connecticut-pilots-a-better-way-for-unhoused-kids-and-caregivers-to-access-homes/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category> <category><![CDATA[head start]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Head Start on Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329683</guid> <description><![CDATA[Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Connecticut resident Stacey Duran’s youngest daughter was 3 months old when she fled an abusive partner in 2023. Along with her two other children — a then-7-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son — the family spent more than a year bouncing between friends, relatives, and their car. “Most of the time we were in the car,” Duran told Truthout. “After my son’s father pulled his arm so hard that…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/connecticut-pilots-a-better-way-for-unhoused-kids-and-caregivers-to-access-homes/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2210469516-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='99228' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Minister Says Israel Plans to Confine Palestinians in Gaza to a Camp</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-minister-says-israel-plans-to-confine-palestinians-in-gaza-into-a-camp/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:30:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329814</guid> <description><![CDATA[The plan has been likened to building a concentration camp in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel’s Defense Minister said on Monday that he has instructed the military to prepare plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp where they will be imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. Minister Israel Katz told reporters that the Israeli government was planning to establish a so-called “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza, on what used to be Rafah until Israel decimated the city.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-minister-says-israel-plans-to-confine-palestinians-in-gaza-into-a-camp/" 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/2025/07/2025_0708-gaza-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='117524' /> </item> <item> <title>At Least 1,277 Measles Cases Identified in 2025 — the Highest Number Since 1992</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/at-least-1277-measles-cases-identified-in-2025-the-highest-number-since-1992/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:12:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Vaxxers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health and Human Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Measles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vaccinations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329807</guid> <description><![CDATA[Health experts describe the count as “devastating,” as the virus was deemed virtually eradicated in the early 2000s.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Measles cases in the United States have surpassed the highest numbers seen in over three decades — despite the fact that the virus was deemed virtually eradicated around the year 2000. At least 1,277 confirmed cases have been identified in 38 states and Washington, D.C. Around 155 people have required hospitalization, with three individuals — two otherwise healthy children and one adult…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/at-least-1277-measles-cases-identified-in-2025-the-highest-number-since-1992/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-rfk-jr-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62785' /> </item> <item> <title>“Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Say Their Living Conditions Are a Form of Torture</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/alligator-alcatraz-prisoners-say-their-living-conditions-are-a-form-of-torture/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:56:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alligator Alcatraz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329809</guid> <description><![CDATA[They report inadequate and maggot-infested food, inability to bathe, flooding, denial of religious practice, and more.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Detainees at the “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp in the Florida Everglades say they are enduring inhumane conditions, including inadequate and maggot-infested food, inability to bathe, flooding, and denial of religious practice, CBS News Miami reported Tuesday. Officially known as Krome Detention Center, the 5,000-bed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration detention…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/alligator-alcatraz-prisoners-say-their-living-conditions-are-a-form-of-torture/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-trump-alligator-alcatraz-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='161977' /> </item> <item> <title>Netanyahu Says Relocating Palestinians From Gaza Gives Them “Free Choice”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/netanyahu-says-relocating-palestinians-from-gaza-gives-them-free-choice/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:18:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethnic Cleansing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=329804</guid> <description><![CDATA[The “freedom” being offered is to be made refugees again so Israel can continue ethnic cleansing, says Peter Beinart.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. Trump and Netanyahu are discussing Israel’s war in Gaza, with Netanyahu suggesting that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians the “freedom” to choose. But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/netanyahu-says-relocating-palestinians-from-gaza-gives-them-free-choice/" 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/2025/07/SEG2_Netanyahu3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='95505' /> </item> <item> <title>Cruz Seen Vacationing in Greece After Deaths Recorded in Texas Floods</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/cruz-seen-vacationing-in-greece-after-deaths-recorded-in-texas-floods/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:46:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Floods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ted Cruz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas floods]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329802</guid> <description><![CDATA[One witness confronted Cruz at the Parthenon, asking, “20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite torrential rains and deadly flooding in his home state late last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) remained for some time in Athens, Greece, where he was vacationing when the disaster took place. Although it was well known by July 4 and 5 that the floods were catastrophic, Cruz remained in Greece, sightseeing at, among other places, the Parthenon, The Daily Beast reported.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/cruz-seen-vacationing-in-greece-after-deaths-recorded-in-texas-floods/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-ted-cruz-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='60152' /> </item> <item> <title>Federal Judge Blocks Attack on Planned Parenthood in Trump-GOP Budget Law</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-blocks-attack-on-planned-parenthood-in-trump-gop-budget-law/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:28:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reconciliation Bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329799</guid> <description><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood welcomed the decision to issue a temporary injunction but stressed that the legal battle is not over.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a provision of the new Republican budget law that bars Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood health centers across the United States, an attack that reproductive rights advocates warn could shutter hundreds of clinics nationwide. The decision by Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, an Obama appointee…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-blocks-attack-on-planned-parenthood-in-trump-gop-budget-law/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-medicaid-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93861' /> </item> <item> <title>US’s Largest Labor Union Votes to Cut All Ties to the Anti-Defamation League</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/uss-largest-labor-union-votes-to-cut-all-ties-to-the-anti-defamation-league/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Emmaia Gelman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:13:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADL]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Education Association]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329793</guid> <description><![CDATA[The ADL leveraged spurious antisemitism claims to demand that schools bring it in to set policy and provide programming.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a momentous vote, the National Education Association’s 7,000-member policymaking body cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. On July 6, the NEA’s national Representative Assembly approved New Business Item 39, committing that the NEA “will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.” The reasoning…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/uss-largest-labor-union-votes-to-cut-all-ties-to-the-anti-defamation-league/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Emmaia Gelman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-nea-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='139879' /> </item> <item> <title>Japanese BDS Activists Are Ramping Up Their Campaign Against a Robotics Company</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/japanese-bds-activists-are-ramping-up-their-campaign-against-fanuc-robotics/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:05:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BDS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[robots]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329639</guid> <description><![CDATA[Japan BDS is claiming a special responsibility to end Japanese robot makers’ complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Japan is a great geographical distance from Israel’s killing fields in Gaza. But the nature of the global supply chain is bringing Israel’s genocidal assault into Japan’s orbit. Japan BDS, the local formation of the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestine, is claiming a special responsibility to end Japanese robot makers’ complicity in Israel’s campaign of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/japanese-bds-activists-are-ramping-up-their-campaign-against-fanuc-robotics/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-fanuc-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='125398' /> </item> <item> <title>New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-report-documents-racist-rot-at-the-core-of-the-petrochemical-industry/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:50:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cancer alley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[petrochemicals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329751</guid> <description><![CDATA[Economist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A recent study published by Ecological Economics reveals that the petrochemical industry, well known for creating pollution and health risks to predominantly poor and Black communities near its plants, also perpetuates stark racial disparities across its workforce, reflecting what can only be described as institutional racism. In the exclusive interview for Truthout, one of the co-authors of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-report-documents-racist-rot-at-the-core-of-the-petrochemical-industry/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0708-petrochemical-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='70163' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Falsely Calls “Big Beautiful Bill” the “Most Popular” Law Ever Signed</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wrongly-calls-big-beautiful-bill-the-most-popular-law-ever-signed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:59:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big beautiful bill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329784</guid> <description><![CDATA[One poll published in June found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans were opposed to the bill.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shortly after signing his so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law last week, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the legislation was popular among the American public. “It’s the most popular bill ever signed in the history of our country…this is the single most popular bill ever signed,” Trump said on July 4 during a ceremony at the White House. Despite Trump’s claims…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wrongly-calls-big-beautiful-bill-the-most-popular-law-ever-signed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/07/2025_0707-trump-bbb-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='63927' /> </item> <item> <title>A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/a-new-supreme-court-case-could-give-the-wealthy-even-more-political-power/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Citizens United v. FEC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oligarchy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=329783</guid> <description><![CDATA[A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cast a deciding vote for the GOP’s unpopular budget package after publicly admitting the bill is “bad” and would disadvantage people across the United States. After negotiating carveouts to protect some of her own constituents, Murkowski urged House Republicans to make revisions before sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/a-new-supreme-court-case-could-give-the-wealthy-even-more-political-power/" 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/2025/07/2025_0707-SCOTUS-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='80187' /> </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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