Sophie Chou | Truthout
WEB5 days ago · Sophie Chou is a data reporter at ProPublica.She uses statistics and data science to investigate stories. Before coming to ProPublica, she was a data journalist at Public Radio International, and a Google News fellow at the Pew Research Center, where she was a primary researcher on a report that used Google search data to measure the …
Jessica Kegu | Truthout
WEB5 days ago · Jessica Kegu is an investigative producer for CBS News. But that hasn’t stopped the cash from flowing, as Texas leads the nation in funding for “crisis pregnancy centers.”
UN Experts: Israel’s “Genocidal Starvation” Has ... - Truthout
WEB6 days ago · In a statement released Tuesday, a group of UN special rapporteurs and other experts cited the recent deaths of young children and babies in northern, central and southern Gaza as evidence that Israel is manufacturing a famine. “Fayez Ataya, who was barely six months old, died on 30 May 2024 and 13-year-old Abdulqader Al-Serhi died …
Israel Attacks Four Schools in Gaza in Four Days, Killing 50
WEB5 days ago · In all, Israeli attacks on schools have killed at least 50 Palestinians in the past four days alone. Israel’s streak of school strikes comes after its military struck yet another UN-run school last Thursday in Nuseirat, killing 40 people. That strike, CNN reported, used two of the U.S.-made GBU-39s. “Since the war began, two thirds of UNRWA ...
The Supreme Court Is Demolishing Decades of Precedent on …
WEB5 days ago · Starbucks v. McKinney. In the Supreme Court’s June 13 decision in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, the justices threw out a lower court’s approval of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) injunction instructing the company to rehire seven fired workers at a Memphis, Tennessee, store.Starbucks said it fired the “Memphis 7” because they …
Biden’s “Democracy” Defense Ignores Un-Democratic Way
WEB5 days ago · President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president in 2024, argued earlier this week that calls for him to step down from the ticket and allow someone else to run as the Democratic candidate are improper, vaguely citing “democracy.”. Calls for Biden’s departure from the top of the ticket intensified after his poor debate ...
As NATO Members’ Military Spending Surges, So Do Emissions
WEB6 days ago · NATO countries’ military spending increased from about $1.21 trillion in 2022 to $1.34 trillion in 2023, thanks in part to the conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine. TNI used a spend-emission conversion factor to estimate the carbon cost of the spending. The briefing’s authors warn that NATO’s spending targets must be abandoned or its ...
Schumer Hints at Bill to Carve Trump’s Jan. 6 Acts Out of
WEB6 days ago · Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Monday that he’s working on legislation that would ensure that former President Donald Trump can be legally held responsible for his attempt to seize power during the 2020 election, after the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling last week. In remarks on the Senate floor ...
Harris Says She Understands Gaza Protesters, as Biden ... - Truthout
WEB6 days ago · Harris then said that she understood young pro-Palestine protesters’ frustration over Gaza, even as Biden condemned and repressed student protesters earlier this year. “ [Pro-Palestine protesters] are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza. There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely ...
US’s $320M Gaza Pier Will Be Permanently Removed, Months
WEB5 days ago · Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder said on Tuesday that the military will reattach the pier this week, potentially on Wednesday, after which U.S. officials have said it will be permanently dismantled. Officials say it will operate for a few days in order to deliver aid that has been piling up in Cyprus. The pier, which cost $320 million, was ...
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