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![People in bleachers raise a banner reading "PROTECT TRANS RIGHTS" during a sporting event](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0715-trans-rights-400x300.jpg)
Even When Trans Women Win Transfers to Women’s Prisons, They Still Aren’t Safe
Many states are rolling back policies allowing trans people to be placed in prisons aligned with their gender identity.
![Seen through a window, President Joe Biden speaks during an address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 14, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0715-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Biden Calls on Nation to “Lower the Temperature” in Aftermath of Trump Shooting
Biden acknowledged several examples of political violence over the past few years, including some incited by Trump.
![A voter checks in before casting a primary ballot at a polling place in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 12, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2071889607-400x300.jpg)
New Georgia Law Opens Door to Partisan Purging of Voter Rolls
The law allows challenges that will disenfranchise voters and prevent election workers from doing their jobs.
![A Baytown resident wears a sticker that reads Exxon is not a good neighbor as residents spoke during formal public comments about the Exxon Mobil Corporations Baytown Olefins Plant on February 5, 2024, in Baytown, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1993004569-400x300.jpg)
Big Oil Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Block Lawsuits Demanding Accountability
Fossil fuel corporations are teaming up with far right activists to hide their climate deception and block lawsuits.
![Sen. J.D. Vance speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 2, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_07-13-jd-vance-cpac-400x300.jpg)
Republicans Immediately Seize on Trump Rally Shooting to Incite More Violence
Comments blaming Biden and the left for the shooting could lay the groundwork for crackdowns on critics of the right.
![A Palestinian woman reacts over the corpse of a family member in front of the morgue of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on July 13, 2024, one of the health establishments to which casualties were rushed after an Israeli strike killed at least 90 people at the Al-Mawasi camp.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2161226806-400x300.jpg)
Survivors Describe Horror as Israel Massacres 90 Palestinians in “Safe Zone”
“What a life we ​​live ... that we have to see the dismembered bodies of our siblings and families fly over our heads.”Â
![A digital illustration of a cartoonist drawing the Palestinian flag as she's loomed over by two large, shadowy figures in suits, both of them stretching red tape across the composition and holding it to her neck in a threatening manner.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-palestine-censorship2-400x300.jpg)
Israel Faces No Apparent Red Line, But Pro-Palestinian Media Workers Do
Western journalists have faced retaliation following expressions of support, or even concern, for the people of Gaza.
![An aerial view of the Whinstone U.S. Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1235926785-3-400x300.jpg)
Crypto Mining Is Creating an Environmental Crisis for Black Texas Communities
Energy companies plan to build new fossil fuel plants in communities of color to meet the demands of crypto mining.
![Raul (Junior) Nunez milks Holstein cows at Frank Konyn Dairy Inc., on April 16, 2020, in Escondido, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1210114335-2-400x300.jpg)
Finland Is Offering Farmworkers Bird Flu Shots. Should the US Be Following Suit?
As this year's bird flu threatens to spread, some experts criticize the CDC's hesitance to vaccinate high risk workers.
![Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders questions witnesses during a hearing about working hours in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on March 14, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2083892918-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Makes Bid to Block Biden’s New $18 Billion Arms Sale to Israel
“I intend to do everything I can to block further arms transfers to Israel,” the senator said Friday.