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![Children stand behind the rail of a hallway balcony outside classrooms sheltering people displaced by conflict at a school run by the UNRWA in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_09-09-gaza-school-children-400x300.jpg)
Israel Bombed 16 Schools in Gaza in Past 6 Weeks, Rights Group Says
Roughly 630,000 children in Gaza were supposed to start a new school year this week.
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Trump Says His Plan to Round Up Immigrants Will Become a “Bloody Story”
Trump also pushed a false story about immigrants taking over parts of Colorado.
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California Drinking Water Regulations Are Putting Cost Over People’s Safety
Polluters and utility groups have repeatedly stymied efforts to impose stricter limits on contaminants.
![A protester sits on grass while holding a sign reading "DEFEND CHOICE; YES ON 4" during an outdoor protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0909-abortion-protest-400x300.jpg)
Police Are Visiting Abortion Rights Ballot Referendum Supporters in Florida
Police claim to be investigating claims of signature-gathering fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
![A bombed car sits on the side of the road while people inspect it](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0909-syria-iof-400x300.jpg)
Iran Decries Israel’s Deadly “Criminal Attack” in Syria
The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes on central Syria late Sunday.
![A lone medical worker walks towards a hospital](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0909-hospital-covid-400x300.jpg)
As COVID Emergency Funding Sunsets, Public Health Faces Budget Cuts and Layoffs
In some places, that pandemic cash did little more than keep small health departments afloat.
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Poll: Trump Seen as “Too Extreme” by Most Swing State Voters
Nearly one in two voters say Trump poses a threat to the future of the country.
![Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer arrives ahead of his speech and press conference in the Rose Garden at 10 Downing Street on August 27, 2024, in London, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2167931800-400x300.jpg)
Keir Starmer’s Immigration Bill Only Continues Right’s Racist Agenda in UK
While the new government scrapped the infamous Rwanda Plan, it replaced it with yet another anti-migrant policy plan.
![Warren Morin, 59, a member of Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes, holds a framed photo of his grandfather and other family members attending St. Paul's Mission boarding school as children on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Lodge Pole, Montana, on July 12, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2154583561-400x300.jpg)
Native Boarding Schools Were Genocidal — Healing Starts With Telling the Truth
True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.
![A demonstrator holds placard reading "Macron + Le Pen = Barnier" in a demonstration against the appointment of right-wing Prime Minister Michel Barnier by France's President Emmanuel Macron in Marseille, France, on September 7, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2169987874-400x300.jpg)
Protests Sweep France After Macron Names Right Wing PM Despite Election Results
Over 100,000 protested the president's attempt to undermine the victory of a left coalition in July's election.