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![Dr. Franz Theard performs a sonogram to confirm pregnancy on a patient seeking abortion services at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1241524424-400x300.jpg)
Judge Rules Catholic Employers Can Deny Workers Time Off for Reproductive Care
The Trump-appointed judge also ruled that thousands of Catholic employers don’t have to use workers’ preferred pronouns.
![Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Berks County Fairgrounds on September 21, 2024, in Leesport, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2172774853-400x300.jpg)
J.D. Vance Attends Pennsylvania Town Hall Hosted by Christian Nationalist Pastor
Televangelist Lance Wallnau rails against LGBTQ+ people and accused Kamala Harris of using “witchcraft.”
![Lebanese army soldiers gather over the rubble of a leveled building as people flight the flames, following Israeli air strikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2173935619-400x300.jpg)
Biden Praises Carpet-Bombing in Beirut, Tlaib Condemns US-Funded “Bloodbath”
The president called Israel's attack, which flattened a residential city block, “a measure of justice.”
![Activists gather outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, a Federal prison, to demand justice for Jamel Floyd, a prisoner who died nine days earlier after being after being pepper sprayed by corrections officers, on June 12, 2020, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1249304273-400x300.jpg)
Prisoners Say Routine Use of Lockdowns Has Led to More Violence and Suicides
“Imagine being trapped in your bathroom for weeks on end!” one incarcerated man said. “That’s what it’s like.”
![Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, on February 20, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1231291086-400x300.jpg)
Amazon Union Effort in North Carolina Is Latest Attempt to Organize the South
The Amazon warehouse workers are fighting for paid sick leave, a one-hour lunch break and $30 an hour.
![Certified nursing assistant LaToya Francis hugs her 11-year-old son Gabriel McDonald at their home in northeast Washington, D.C., on January 14, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-1239563101-400x300.jpg)
Left to Battle a Pandemic With Little Help, Nursing Aides Struggle With PTSD
COVID-19 has left health care workers across the US with a gutting sense of abandonment.
![Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on May 6, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2151277790-400x300.jpg)
Congressional Dems Call Out Companies That Pay Execs More Than They Pay in Taxes
Among the 35 companies named and shamed were giants like Netflix, Ford and Tesla.
![An aerial view of damaged houses are seen after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on September 28, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2174213478-400x300.jpg)
Hurricane Helene Causes Record Rainfall and Deadly Flooding Across US Southeast
Rapidly accelerated by the warming climate, Helene killed at least 42 in some of the worst flooding in recent memory.
![An activist with the Abolitionist Action Committee hands out brochures opposing the death penalty outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July 2, 2024 in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2160265107-400x300.jpg)
The Death Penalty Is Always an Atrocity, Not Just for the Wrongfully Convicted
The death penalty should be applied neither to the guilty nor the innocent. We must abolish it.
![Palestinian activists lift a banner and portraits of slain Turkish-American International Solidarity Movement activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi during a funeral procession in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, on September 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2170478084-400x300.jpg)
Witness to Israel’s Attack on Aysenur Eygi Tells How Solidarity Work Lives On
Recent attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers on US observers in the West Bank have led to serious injuries and death.