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![Rep. Cori Bush makes a speech as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a rally outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0704-cori-bush-400x300.jpg)
After Bowman Defeat, AIPAC Targets Cori Bush
AIPAC said it expects to spend more than $100 million as part of its pledge to unseat lawmakers critical of Israel.
![People gather to rally on broad access to the abortion pill outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear oral arguments in a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to preserve broad access to abortion pill in Washington D.C., on March 26, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0704-abortion-pr-400x300.jpg)
Reproductive Health Funding Remains “Shackled” as Abortion Rights Are Decimated
During a critical election year, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations risk losing funding.
![President Joe Biden (right) and former President Donald Trump participate in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0703-trump-biden-400x300.jpg)
Report: Trump Campaign Wants Biden to Stay in Race as an Easy Target
One Trump super PAC leader said clips from the debate “would make for devastating campaign commercials.”
![agricultural workers tend to crops while wearing clothing to protect them from the sun](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0703-climate-workers-heat-400x300.jpg)
Biden’s Proposal Would Protect 36 Million Workers Facing Extreme Heat on the Job
Labor advocates applauded the plan but warned that federal labor standards for extreme heat are long overdue.
![President Joe Biden arrives for a news conference at the White House on July 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0703-jb-400x300.jpg)
Biden Reportedly Considers Dropping Out as Polls Show Him Losing Key States
“He knows if he has two more events like [the debate], we’re in a different place,” a close Biden ally said.
![A medical worker prepares medical equipment for surgery](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0703-medical-worker-400x300.jpg)
SCOTUS Ruling on Federal Power May Have Major Ramifications for Health Care
Experts say patients and providers should brace for more uncertainty and less stability in the health care system.
![A woman carries her baby as they cross through a hole in a fence](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0702-immigrant-mother-400x300.jpg)
An Increasing Number of Migrant Women Are Dying at the US-Mexico Border
Migrant rights advocates are concerned as summer temperatures rise amid even more US-imposed asylum restrictions.
![The Heritage Foundation president Dr. Kevin Roberts conducts a discussion with former Vice President Mike Pence in Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0703-kevin-roberts-400x300.jpg)
Project 2025 Leader Touts SCOTUS’s Role in Aiding “Second American Revolution”
The group’s president issued a threat, saying the revolution “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
![A lab tech works in a lab](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0702-bird-flu-400x300.jpg)
US Pays Moderna $176 Million to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine Amid Waves of Outbreaks
Moderna will employ the same mRNA vaccine technology that was pioneered to develop COVID-19 vaccines.
![Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis arrive to the city as they flee after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0702-gaza-r-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has Forcibly Displaced 1.9 Million Palestinians in Gaza
Israel’s assault has displaced over 1 million people just since May, a UN human rights official said.