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![Lebanese army soldiers gather over the rubble of a leveled building as people flight the flames, following Israeli air strikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2173935619-400x300.jpg)
Biden Praises Carpet-Bombing in Beirut, Tlaib Condemns US-Funded “Bloodbath”
The president called Israel's attack, which flattened a residential city block, “a measure of justice.”
![Activists gather outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, a Federal prison, to demand justice for Jamel Floyd, a prisoner who died nine days earlier after being after being pepper sprayed by corrections officers, on June 12, 2020, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1249304273-400x300.jpg)
Prisoners Say Routine Use of Lockdowns Has Led to More Violence and Suicides
“Imagine being trapped in your bathroom for weeks on end!” one incarcerated man said. “That’s what it’s like.”
![Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, on February 20, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1231291086-400x300.jpg)
Amazon Union Effort in North Carolina Is Latest Attempt to Organize the South
The Amazon warehouse workers are fighting for paid sick leave, a one-hour lunch break and $30 an hour.
![Certified nursing assistant LaToya Francis hugs her 11-year-old son Gabriel McDonald at their home in northeast Washington, D.C., on January 14, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1239563101-400x300.jpg)
Left to Battle a Pandemic With Little Help, Nursing Aides Struggle With PTSD
COVID-19 has left health care workers across the US with a gutting sense of abandonment.
![Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on May 6, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2151277790-400x300.jpg)
Congressional Dems Call Out Companies That Pay Execs More Than They Pay in Taxes
Among the 35 companies named and shamed were giants like Netflix, Ford and Tesla.
![An aerial view of damaged houses are seen after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on September 28, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2174213478-400x300.jpg)
Hurricane Helene Causes Record Rainfall and Deadly Flooding Across US Southeast
Rapidly accelerated by the warming climate, Helene killed at least 42 in some of the worst flooding in recent memory.
![An activist with the Abolitionist Action Committee hands out brochures opposing the death penalty outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July 2, 2024 in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2160265107-400x300.jpg)
The Death Penalty Is Always an Atrocity, Not Just for the Wrongfully Convicted
The death penalty should be applied neither to the guilty nor the innocent. We must abolish it.
![Palestinian activists lift a banner and portraits of slain Turkish-American International Solidarity Movement activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi during a funeral procession in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, on September 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2170478084-400x300.jpg)
Witness to Israel’s Attack on Aysenur Eygi Tells How Solidarity Work Lives On
Recent attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers on US observers in the West Bank have led to serious injuries and death.
![Iranians wave Lebanon's Hezbollah flags in front of a portrait of the Hezbollah Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, during a protest to condemn Israel's military attack on Lebanon, after Friday prayers ceremonies in downtown Tehran, Iran, on September 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2173980627-1-400x300.jpg)
Hezbollah Confirms Leader Hasan Nasrallah Killed in Israeli Bombing of Beirut
The carpet-bombing, which leveled an entire residential block, sends Israel's war on Lebanon into uncharted territory.
![Supporters cheer as Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at Turning Point USA Action's The People's Convention in Detroit, Michigan, on June 14, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0927-turning-point-usa-400x300.jpg)
Turning Point USA Is Cultivating a Pipeline for Young, Right Wing Candidates
The organization seems to be adapting the Federalist Society playbook. Progressives say this is a dangerous development.