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![Donald Trump shouts from a platform](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0311-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Victory Could Add 4 Billion Tonnes to US Emissions by 2030, Analysis Finds
The additional emissions would be equivalent to the combined annual emissions of the European Union and Japan.
![A chef puts a tamale between two buns](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0311-street-vendor-400x300.jpg)
Cities Are Quietly Waging War on Marginalized Food Truck and Street Vendors
City leaders are clamping down on small entrepreneurs to protect the profits of their wealthy business allies.
![Betsy DeVos, then U.S. secretary of education, speaks during the "Getting America's Children Safely Back to School" event in the State Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 12, 2020](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1228016913-400x300.jpg)
Billionaires Yass and DeVos Are on a Crusade to Destroy US Public Schools
The pair are spending tens of millions on state elections to pass charter and private school voucher bills.
![Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest, a preserved forest Atlanta that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, on March 4, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1471710315-400x300.jpg)
Why Disability Justice Activists Have Joined the Movement to Stop Cop City
Organizers emphasized that disabled people are especially vulnerable to both climate crisis and police violence.
![People protest during a demonstration against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the United Nations amid a health and security crisis in Port-au-Prince on October 21, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0307-haiti-400x300.jpg)
What Haiti Needs Is Human Rights Support — Not More Military Interventions
Armed interventions don’t change the reality that many people in Haiti need to join gangs to meet their basic needs.
![Medical professionals wearing Keffiyehs over their work uniforms march behind a banner reading: "STOP BOMBING HOSPITALS" during an outdoor protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0306-israel-hauge-400x300.jpg)
Israel Didn’t Even Try to Defend the Legality of Its Occupation to World Court
Israel’s system is “an even more extreme form of the apartheid" than South Africa’s was, South African ambassador said.
![Candidate David Trone answers a question during the Democratic 6th Congressional District Candidate Forum at Hood College on January 17, 2018, in Frederick, Maryland.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-976031836-400x300.jpg)
Dozens of Wealthy Republicans Are Self-Funding Their Campaigns
Several wealthy candidates from both parties stood out in 2023, breaking patterns amongst parties and challengers.
![French gendarmes stand guard at night in front of demolished buildings in the shantytown of "Talus 2" district in Koungou, as part of Operation Wuambushu on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, on May 25, 2023. Authorities in Mayotte are carrying out Operation Wuambushu ("Take Back" in the local language) to clear slums, demolishing the makeshift settlements and sending migrants back to neighboring Comoros.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0301-gendarmes-400x300.jpg)
Europe’s Border Policies Are Sacrificing Migrant Lives for Corporate Profits
The EU's militarized strategy only exacerbates the immigration debacle, while undermining human rights and democracy.
![An aerial view shows migrants, including children, walking next to razor wire after crossing the Rio Grande to seek humanitarian asylum during sunset in Eagle Pass, Texas, on February 4, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1978666618-400x300.jpg)
Family Separations and Other Anti-Migrant Horrors Haven’t Stopped Under Biden
The president is considering an executive action that will worsen death and destruction across the immigration system.
![Stella Assange (center-left) attends the rally for Julian Assange on February 21, 2024, in London, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0227-assange-400x300.jpg)
US Refuses to Assure UK Judges That Assange Won’t Be Executed If He’s Extradited
UK law prohibits extradition to a country that may impose capital punishment.