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![A woman takes pictures of the CBS Broadcast Center the day before the television network will host the vice presidential debate on September 30, 2024, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-vp-debate-400x300.jpg)
CBS News Flops in Trying to Justify No Fact-Checks for VP Debate
The network’s decision comes just weeks after GOP nominee J.D. Vance admitted to knowingly pushing lies to the public.
![Demonstrators rally in support of women's reproductive rights at the Georgia State Capitol on October 2, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_100124-georgia-abortion-400x300.jpg)
Georgia Judge Strikes Down State’s 6-Week Abortion Ban
The state constitution's liberty provisions include “the right to make personal healthcare decisions,” the judge said.
![Heavy smoke from Israeli air raids billows from the southern Lebanese border town of Khiam on September 30, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-lebanon-400x300.jpg)
As Israel’s Bombardment of Lebanon Grows, So Do Fears of Regional War
Just as in Gaza, the displaced are “in schools, mosques, churches, community centers,” a journalist in Beirut says.
![Vilés Dorsainvil (center), the executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, holds hands with pastors during a prayer at the end of a press conference where religious leaders called for calm and support following former President Donald Trump's racist and debunked rumors about Haitian immigrants, in Springfield, Ohio, on September 12, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-ohio-400x300.jpg)
Community Groups in Ohio Fight Anti-Haitian Violence Stoked by Trump and Vance
Facing bomb threats and attacks, Springfield residents are organizing to counter anti-Haitian lies from the right.
![A person walks through a flooded road after Hurricane Helene passed offshore on September 27, 2024, in Crystal River, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-florida-hurricane-400x300.jpg)
Helene Marks Three Hurricanes in a Year for Hamlets in Florida’s Big Bend
The cycle of recovery continues for small towns in the state’s west coast “hurricane alley.”
![Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum on September 12, 2024, in Greensboro, North Carolina.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-kamala-harris-400x300.jpg)
Kamala Harris: “We Need to Legalize” Recreational Marijuana Use
Harris acknowledged that, on criminalization, "We know historically what that has meant and who has gone to jail.”
![45K Dockworkers Shut Down Ports From Maine to Texas Over Pay and Automation](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/SEG2-Port-Strikers-1-400x300.jpg)
45,000 Dockworkers Shut Down Ports From Maine to Texas Over Pay and Automation
The International Longshoremen’s Association is launching the first strike of its kind in almost 50 years.
![A displaced Palestinian mother holds her baby at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir Al-Balah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-gaza-displacement-400x300.jpg)
Genocide in Gaza Has Been Deadliest Year for Women and Kids in 2 Decades
The humanitarian group Oxfam reports that Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 6,000 women and 11,000 children.
![Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz applauds during a campaign event at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1001-tim-walz-400x300.jpg)
Walz Led on Insulin Affordability. Now It’s a Major Presidential Campaign Issue.
Advocates for diabetes patients worry that neither presidential candidate would go as far as the Minnesota law.
![Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Bayfront Convention Center on September 29, 2024, in Erie, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0930-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Calls for Single Day of Violence by Police to Cut Down Crime
Throughout his campaign, Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to become an autocratic leader.