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![Kate Hilts addresses picketing NEASO members outside the Philadelphia Convention Center, July 6, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/photo-k-400x300.jpg)
I Work for the US’s Largest Union. Why Would It Hold My Health Care Hostage?
The National Education Association has been using its employees’ health insurance as a bludgeon at the bargaining table.
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Sanders Rebukes Billionaire Effort to Get Harris to Dump Antitrust Champion Khan
Major Wall Street donors have mounted a push to oust the FTC chair over her crackdowns on corporate power.
![Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at the George Washington University Law School, September 13, 2016, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0726-elena-kagan-400x300.jpg)
Elena Kagan: Supreme Court Should Have Enforcement Mechanism for Ethics Rules
Kagan suggested a panel of respected judges with “experience and a reputation for fairness” could enforce the rules.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visit Hebron, West Bank, on August 21, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0726-netanyahu-gallant-400x300.jpg)
UK Dropping Challenge to ICC Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders Under New PM
Pro-Palestine groups lauded the move, but said Labour leaders must go further to end the UK’s complicity in genocide.
![Fausto Limon looks at his bean plants, knowing they need more fertilizer, but lacking the money to buy it, in Veracruz, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/fausto06b-1-400x300.jpg)
US Corporations Pump Aquifers Dry as Police Kill Water Defenders in Rural Mexico
Farmers are risking their lives to fight back against the US-owned factory farms that are destroying Mexico’s water.
![Sign for the Jewish National Fund defaced to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on October 9, 2008.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1235216803-400x300.jpg)
Jewish National Fund of Canada Has Its Charitable Status Revoked
The move marks a significant victory against apartheid, genocide and Palestinian dispossession.
![California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters in the spin room following the CNN Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump at the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus on June 27, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0726-gavin-newsom-400x300.jpg)
A Month After SCOTUS Decision, Newsom Issues Order Targeting Unhoused People
“From a public health perspective, this is ineffective and potentially deadly,” a public health researcher said.
![An abortion rights advocate participates in a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2159051859-400x300.jpg)
Experts Weigh In on How the “Chevron” Ruling Could Unravel Reproductive Rights
The case is another example that the “anti-abortion movement is not stopping at abortion,” said one expert.
![Baby triplets of Palestinian mother Nuzha Awad face the threat of dying from malnutrition and lack of medical care due to constant Israeli attacks and blockades as they take shelter in Nuseirat camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on March 25, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0725-gaza-hunger-400x300.jpg)
US Health Workers Back From Gaza Calculate Death Toll at 92,000 — at a Minimum
Epidemics and famine are raging across Gaza, they said, and at least 37,000 have already died of starvation.
![FBI Director Christopher Wray appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0725-christopher-wray-400x300.jpg)
FBI Director Tells Congress Agency Is Unsure If Bullet Actually Hit Trump
Trump has yet to release an official health assessment to the public since the attempt on his life nearly two weeks ago.