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Senate Republicans passed a budget package with the deepest cuts to health care in decades on Tuesday.
Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.
Billions of dollars for ICE and border patrol in Trump’s budget bill would supercharge the chaotic crackdown.
The protests were inspired by the idea that 3.5% of a population must rise up to successfully reject authoritarianism.
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.
Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.
Trump’s crackdown on immigrants has fueled legislation to restrict access to the ballot in more than two dozen states.
“People don’t have the jobs here, but people do have cancer,” one Louisiana-based organizer told Truthout.
Big Pharma is using dark money to fund groups that sound like patient advocacy organizations but represent the industry.
Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.
The legislation would make it harder to file legal challenges against controversial mines and pipelines.
At least seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump’s term began.
A new report from human rights experts urges the United Nations to condemn the “evaporation of fundamental rights” in the United States, where the...
A new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration's removal of environmental justice maps and datasets.
Hungry for an economic populism that challenges Trump, Democrats line up behind Sanders’s latest minimum wage push.
A former US resident displaced by street violence in Port-au-Prince says Haiti is “not safe for anyone right now.”
Grieving Palestinian Americans are demanding an arms embargo from their lawmakers as Israel escalates its genocide.
Watchdogs warn of surveillance expansion as ICE and the IRS finalize a data-sharing deal targeting undocumented workers.
The vast majority of voters want a strong EPA, but Trump is laying the agency to waste.
Organizers say desperate tenants are being pushed to the brink of revolt as Trump slashes assistance.
One attorney warns of a “humanitarian crisis” in detention centers as a jail notorious for abuse reopens to ICE.
Three have died in ICE custody as Trump rapidly expands government capacity to surveil and incarcerate immigrants.
The push to slash health care to pay for Trump's tax cuts will come back to haunt Republicans.
Trump is flexing imperialist muscles, but his plan for a hasty peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is incoherent.
Trump and RFK Jr. have moved to fire thousands of highly trained employees at the CDC and other agencies since Friday.
The administration is publishing photos of migrants transferred to Guantánamo while denying them access to lawyers.
Right-wing climate denialists accuse the National Weather Service of promoting alarmism over the climate crisis.
Doctors are struggling to access public health information as the Trump administration censors federal agency websites.
Defense attorneys point to a long history of rights abuses at Guantánamo, including mistreatment of Haitian refugees.
The withdrawn proposal would limit the amount of PFAS chemical plants can dump into the water supply.
About 1,600 Afghans approved to come to the US are now in limbo as the State Department cancels travel plans.
Activists say debates over content moderation devolve into partisan food fights instead of challenging tech titans.
Democrats in Congress cheered as President Joe Biden moved on January 6 to withdraw 625 million acres federal ocean waters off United States...
An independent watchdog group called on New York state officials to investigate racist discrimination and “rampant abuse” by staff at the Marcy...
As the Biden administration scrambles to shield President Joe Biden’s climate legacy from Donald Trump in its waning days, the president-elect is...
Thousands of Teamster workers overwhelmingly voted in the past week to authorize strikes at two major Amazon warehouses in New York City and one...
Amid an outpouring of frustration with for-profit health insurance sparked by the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December...
Medical workers in Gaza’s remaining hospitals and field clinics are pleading with the international community for desperately needed assistance and...
As the media drag out the political drama over President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden, one of the right-wing media’s favorite...
Joining a growing chorus of liberal-leaning Israelis, a former Israeli defense minister has accused the government of Prime Minister Benjamin...
A broad coalition of civil liberties and activist organizations is calling on lawmakers across the U.S. to oppose bans on wearing masks in public...
The latest study by renowned Dutch climate scientist Klaus Hubacek and his team offers an eye-opening look at the 1 percent’s extravagant consumer...
More than 143 million people in the United States may be exposed to toxic “forever chemicals” in their drinking water, according to a new analysis...
While politicians and the media obsessed about the economy and immigration under President Joe Biden, his administration has been running the most...
Even as votes continue to be tallied in a handful of battleground states, Republican Donald Trump is projected to win the presidential race against...
After months of fending off last minute challenges to electoral procedures and voter eligibility in key swing states filed by an array of...
Raphael was described by his family as a “bright and cheerful child” who, at the age of 12, wanted nothing more than to get an education. However,...
The death toll in Russia’s war on Ukraine is reaching alarming new heights. Roughly 1 million soldiers and civilians on both sides have been killed...
Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in combat on October 17, briefly raising questions about the next phase of Israel’s war on Gaza....
Investigators have been busy at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, the independent federal agency tasked with determining the root causes of major...