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Judge Blocks Florida’s Gender-Affirming Care Ban for Transgender Youth
The state has vowed to appeal the ruling, which will likely head to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
![Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (center) listens as former President Donald Trump sits next to his lawyers as he arrives for his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0611-mike-johnson-400x300.jpg)
GOP Bill Aims to Protect Trump From Future State-Based Criminal Court Cases
The bill is unlikely to pass, as some Republicans are balking at changing the judicial process.
![Piles of garbage are accumulating in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, on May 6, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0611-garbage-400x300.jpg)
Israel’s Blockade Has Caused Accumulation of 330,000 Tons of Solid Waste in Gaza
There are already at least over 1.1 million cases of infectious disease in Gaza, officials have reported.
![A Palestinian child hugs a toddler surrounded by destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 11, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0611-gaza--400x300.jpg)
Israel Bombs Gaza After UN Security Council Passes Binding Ceasefire Resolution
In the time immediately surrounding the vote, Israel killed at least 15 Palestinians in Gaza, including children.
![Palestinians inspect debris a day after a massacre carried out by the Israeli military in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0611-nuseirat-400x300.jpg)
The IDF’s Nuseirat Raid May Amount to a War Crime, UN Human Rights Office Says
“All they cared about was carrying out the operation, even if it was at the expense of all these lives,” said a witness.
![Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee March 7, 2019, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0610-alito-400x300.jpg)
Alito Says SCOTUS Should Push Nation Toward “Godliness” in Secret Recording
One critic described Alito's cavalier expression of his right-wing views as “deeply troubling” for the Supreme Court.
![Smoke billows from the many chemical plants in the area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 12, 2013.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0611-cancer-alley-400x300.jpg)
New Study Reveals Air in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” Is Even Worse Than Expected
The latest data show that EPA modeling has drastically underestimated the levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide.
![Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, speaks via video to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during the Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0610-aipac-400x300.jpg)
Report: AIPAC Is Funneling GOP Donor Money Into Democratic Primaries
“I want to support the most conservative person who can win,” one Republican donor said.
![President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up at the conclusion of a campaign rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0610-biden-400x300.jpg)
A Majority of Voters Backing Biden Are Mostly Motivated by Stopping Trump — Poll
Only 27 percent of voters who plan to vote for Biden in the 2024 election say they genuinely like him as a candidate.
![A Palestinian girl climbs over debris a day after an operation by the Israeli Special Forces in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0610-p-400x300.jpg)
World Food Programme Pauses Use of US Aid Pier in Gaza Due to Israeli Attacks
WFP already has to “make choices every day to take food from the hungry to give to the starving,” a UN official said.