News Analysis | Politics & Elections Can Trump Vote in the 2024 Election Now That He Has Felony Convictions? Over 1 million Floridians are denied that right. Will the state’s harsh felony disenfranchisement law apply to Trump? By Patrick Berry , BrennanCenterforJustice July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Human Rights UN Report Details Vast, Systemic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention Israeli forces are arbitrarily imprisoning at least 9,400 Palestinians, including children, the UN found. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Human Rights At Least 973 Native Children Died in the US’s Abusive Boarding School System The Interior Department’s investigative report also issues recommendations but stops short of calling for reparations. By Mary Annette Pember & Stewart Huntington , ICT July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections 2 Names Emerge as VP Picks for Harris as She Announces She’ll Decide by Tuesday After the vice presidential candidate is chosen, the Harris campaign will hold rallies in six swing states. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 31, 2024 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Viral TikTok Videos Erase Kamala Harris’s Record as California’s “Top Cop” From the drug war to the death penalty, Kamala Harris's past as a prosecutor deserves scrutiny. By Schuyler Mitchell , Truthout July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | War & Peace Hamas Political Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Iran in Apparent Israeli Strike Haniyeh was killed just hours after Israel bombed a suburb in Beirut in an escalation of tensions. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Mass Layoffs Follow $10 Billion in Profits at John Deere for 2023 The UAW, which represents more than 10,000 John Deere employees across the US, condemned the mass layoffs. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Atlanta’s Cop City Is Funded by Some of the Same Billionaires Who Back AIPAC Donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are underwriting a thin blue line between Israel and Cop City. By Derek Seidman , Truthout July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections 24 States Have Implemented More Restrictive Voting Policies Since 2020 The wave of anti-voting laws disproportionately affects Black voters and voters in the South and Midwest. By Benjamin Barber , FacingSouth July 31, 2024 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Far Right Project 2025 Is Ending Its Public Push — But It’s by No Means Dead The Trump campaign has tried to distance itself from Project 2025, despite deep connections to the far right manifesto. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 31, 2024 Truthout