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![Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0607-alito-400x300.jpg)
Former Alito Law Clerk Calls on Him to Recuse Following Flags Controversy
Susan Sullivan, who is now a law professor, said Alito's excuses blaming his wife for the flags are irrelevant.
![Alex Jones of InfoWars talks to reporters outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0607-alex-jones-400x300.jpg)
Alex Jones Will Liquidate Infowars Empire to Pay Damages to Sandy Hook Families
The fate of Jones's company, Free Speech Systems, will be decided at a bankruptcy hearing scheduled June 14.
![A digital illustration of a female prisoner reaching out to pass a letter to someone on the other side of a chain link fence, both of them unable to see due to the glaring light from several floating eyeballs surveilling the prisoner with the message.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0607-prison2-400x300.jpg)
Communication Crackdown in Federal Prisons Has Been Operating Quietly Until Now
“Double contact bans” disrupt the means by which prisoners may assert their rights and dissent to their treatment.
![Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks during the Florida Chapters Conference of The Federalist Society at Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on January 31, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0607-clarence-thomas-400x300.jpg)
Watchdog: Thomas Accepted More in Gifts Than All Other SCOTUS Members Combined
Since 2004, Clarence Thomas has accepted more than $4 million in donations, much of it undisclosed.
![An Israeli strike illuminates the sky above the southern Lebanese village of Khiam late on April 17, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-israel-lebanon-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has Used White Phosphorus on 17 Towns in Lebanon Since October
Officials have said at least 173 in Lebanon have been injured by white phosphorus exposure in the past eight months.
![India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party's win in country's general election, in New Delhi on June 4, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-modi-400x300.jpg)
Electoral Setbacks for BJP Won’t Unseat Hindutva Fascism in India
While the Bharatiya Janata Party lost seats in India’s elections, the architecture of Hindutva fascism remains intact.
![Melting icebergs drift off near a glacier in Scoresby Sound, Greenland, on August 16, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-icebergs-400x300.jpg)
There’s an 80 Percent Chance of Surpassing 1.5°C Warming Over Next 5 Years
There is also an 86 percent chance that one of the next five years will surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record.
![A view of the Fiserv Forum, venue for the July 2024 Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 8, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-milwaukee-400x300.jpg)
ACLU Sues Milwaukee Over Republican Convention Free Speech Restrictions
The lawsuit is on behalf of the Coalition to March on the RNC 2024, which wants to host a parade near the convention.
![President Joe Biden speaks at the NAACP Detroit Branch annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Michigan, on May 19, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-biden-naacp-400x300.jpg)
NAACP Calls on Biden to Indefinitely End Arms Shipments to Israel
The statement is representative of the growing gulf between Biden and groups important to his base.
![A view of destruction at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school sheltering thousands of people, in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Gaza, on June 6, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-unrwa-400x300.jpg)
Report: US Bombs Used in Israeli Massacre of 40 in Gaza Refugee Camp
The targeting of the UN school-turned-shelter is a “blatant” violation of international law, one UN official said.