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![People stand next to a truck carrying 88 bodies, which according to the Palestinian health ministry entered the Gaza Strip from Israel the day before, as it awaits for the bodies to be unloaded and buried in a mass grave in Khan Yunis on September 26, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-gaza-t-400x300.jpg)
Israel Sends 88 Unidentifiable Bodies of Palestinians to Gaza in a Container
The Israeli military returned the Palestinians’ bodies with no identification or information about their deaths.
![Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders arrives for a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-bernie-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel
“There is a mountain of documentary evidence” that Israel uses US weapons to violate the law, Sanders said.
![A voter casts a ballot during the Super Tuesday primary at a polling station in an American Legion Post in Hawthorne, California, on March 5, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-vote-400x300.jpg)
Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Back Ending the Electoral College
The poll comes eight years after Trump won the presidency in 2016 without winning the popular vote.
![Rep. Ro Khanna speaks during a rally near the U.S. Capitol on June 29, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-ro-khanna-400x300.jpg)
Khanna Reintroduces Bill Ending Massive Taxpayer Subsidies for Captured Carbon
Many scientists and advocates warn carbon capture utilization and storage is actually used to extract more fossil fuels.
![As International Community Continues to Enable Israel, People Must Heed BDS Call](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/seg2-Lara-Lebanon-bombing-400x300.jpg)
As International Community Continues to Enable Israel, People Must Heed BDS Call
US officials “are not serious about a ceasefire, neither in Gaza nor in Lebanon,” says journalist Lara Bitar.
![New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends the annual German American Steuben Parade on September 21, 2024, on Fifth Avenue in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-eric-adams-400x300.jpg)
Calls for NYC Mayor to Resign Grow After Prosecutors Unseal Indictment
The 57-page indictment charges Eric Adams with wire fraud, bribery and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations.
![Mia Perez, center-left, a Haitian-Cuban-American translator and attorney from Springfield, Ohio, and business leaders in the town's growing Haitian community, listen as an area resident denounces the town's growing Haitian population during a town hall meeting on September 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/204_0926-haitian-immigrants-400x300.jpg)
Haitian Residents of Springfield Criminally Charge Trump, Vance Over Racist Lies
Under a little-utilized law in Ohio, private residents can file criminal charges when local prosecutors fail to do so.
![A person looks at the free banned books during the MoveOn Banned Bookmobile Tour stop outside of Sandmeyer's Bookstore in the South Loop on July 13, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-banned-books-400x300.jpg)
The Right’s Raid on Libraries Is So Extreme, Even the Dictionary Is Under Fire
The right to read is under attack. During National Banned Books Week, we fight back.
![Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0926-trump-harris-400x300.jpg)
Both Harris and Trump Cite Right-Wing Myths About Fentanyl in Border Policy
Militarizing the border — and promoting rhetoric that demonizes immigrants — will not save any lives.
![The Palestinian flag at Nabala Cafe still hangs proudly in the window.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/20240922_ITT_NabalaCafe_077-400x300.jpg)
My Palestinian Chicago Cafe Was Attacked. I Turned to the Community, Not Cops.
Palestinians and Palestinian businesses have been frequent targets since the genocide in Gaza began.