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At least 902 cases have been documented of people being charged with crimes related to their pregnancies in the three years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision. Many more cases are thought to exist as the research doesn't cover this year.truthout.org/articles/prosec…
A new data analysis shows that delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country. truthout.org/articles/ballot…
Cindy Napolitan and her daughter Melissa have multiple sclerosis and live in a nursing home. Previously they voted by mail, but this year they voted in person. They worried their mail-in ballots — and even their in-person votes — may not be counted. truthout.org/articles/nursin…
Norwegian People’s Aid, a leading NGO doing land mine removal and disarmament work around the world, announced it will decline U.S. funding due to new restrictions related to DEI. truthout.org/articles/trumps…
The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s bid to halt care for incarcerated transgender people, marking a rare win for transgender rights at the conservative-leaning court.
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Student-led protests in Albania are escalating over corruption, living costs, and a planned Kushner/Trump luxury resort. Demonstrators are calling for the prime minister’s resignation, among other demands.
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcasters over poll coverage. A Democratic strategist responds: “It’s not illegal to tell the American people that Trump is a failed president.”
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Student-led protests in Paris have spread across France over several weeks, despite arrests, reports of police brutality, and restrictions on demonstrations.
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Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton says Ramaswamy exploited her estranged mother for political gain. Acton accused her mother’s then-husband of sexually assaulting her as a child.
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A new Progress Action Fund ad calls out the GOP’s “creepy fetish of monitoring children’s bathrooms.” The left-wing PAC aims to disrupt the right-wing media bubble.
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A poll finds 7 in 10 Americans doubt Trump will accept the midterm election results. He has said he will accept them only if he considers them “honest.”
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Nurses helped win what the report calls the first US countywide 12-week paid parental leave policy in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Advocates hope the victory inspires other localities to follow suit.
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Texas regulators continued permitting data centers after Governor Greg Abbott ordered a pause, according to a new report. It identified 35 permitting actions in the weeks following the moratorium.
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As more unions oppose ICE and Israel, the right is targeting their internal records, seeking access to meeting minutes, membership lists, and Zoom chats, according to the report.
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Lawyers accuse the Trump administration of creating a “deportation assembly line” for migrant children. Their lawsuit argues that its policies deny those children due process.
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Anti-transgender ads may be backfiring on Republicans, according to the report. Elon Musk’s America PAC has committed $100 million to a midterm push that heavily features those ads.
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Canadian voters rejected secession after the Trump administration backed Alberta’s separatists, according to the report. Leaders of the “Let Alberta Decide” campaign had sought advice from Republican operatives.
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Mahmoud Khalil has appealed to the Supreme Court to block the Trump administration from detaining him. The pro-Palestine activist says the administration is violating his free speech rights.
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Mississippi’s attorney general declared the police shooting of a 1-year-old “justified.” The report places it within a pattern of racist police violence against Black residents of Senatobia.
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Race and class have entered the Flock camera chat.
Police keep secret the location data on where Flock-style cameras are located — but researchers in VA got their hands on data from Hampton Roads.
Can you guess where Flock cams are concentrated???
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