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![Postal workers picket outside the post office on Forest Ave. in Portland, Maine, on December 18, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0917-usps-b-400x300.jpg)
Postal Workers Plan Day of Action to Fight DeJoy’s Plan to “Modernize” the USPS
Nationwide rallies will be held on October 1 to demand reforms and better working conditions at the postal service.
![This picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing after an Israeli strike as flares are also dropped over north Gaza on November 22, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0917-gaza-400x300.jpg)
Israel Admits It Probably Killed Israeli Hostages in Gaza Airstrike in November
The Israeli military told the captives’ families at the time that they were killed by Hamas forces.
![Keiko Lane and Cory Roberts-Auli pass out safe sex information at a high school.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/photo-2-1-400x300.jpg)
In New AIDS Activist Memoir, Keiko Lane Aims to Articulate the Inexpressible
Keiko Lane was 16 when she joined ACT UP. Decades later, she describes how that activism was a kind of mutual aid.
![A massive pipeline fire burns near Spencer Highway and Summerton on September 16, 2024, in La Porte, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0917-pipeline-fire-400x300.jpg)
Company Operating Exploded Pipeline in Texas Has Faced Major Climate Protests
Energy Transfer sued Greenpeace and Water Protectors over anti-pipeline protests at Standing Rock in 2016.
![Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0917-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Claims Harris’s “Rhetoric” Inspired Assassination Attempt
In blaming Democrats for the attempt on his life, Trump downplayed his own incendiary statements and calls to violence.
![Child's hands clasped in prayer over bible on wooden table with early dawn lighting](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0917-religious-school-400x300.jpg)
Ohio Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Grants to Religious Schools
Critics warn that the state is using public money to expand a separate, religious system of education.
![Rudy Giuliani, then-lawyer for then-President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting the results of the presidential election at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on November 19, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0917-giuliani-400x300.jpg)
Quality of Elections Has Suffered Globally for 8 Consecutive Years, Report Finds
Between 2020 and 2024, the losing candidate in nearly 20 percent of elections around the world rejected the outcome.
![Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance speaks to reporters in front of the border wall with Mexico on September 6, 2024, in San Diego, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0916-jd-vance-400x300.jpg)
Vance Admits to “Creating” Stories About Haitian Immigrants, Stoking Hate
Vance said he and Trump are “creating a story” with the racist lies they’ve spread in the past week.
![Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders questions witnesses during a hearing about working hours in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 14, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0916-bernie-400x300.jpg)
“We Must Act”: Sanders Demands DOJ, FBI Probe Israel’s Killing of Aysenur Eygi
“[T]he United States makes a mockery of its values” by deferring to Israel’s own “findings,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
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What Are the Prospects for Gaza Ceasefire as Israel Expands Multifront Attacks?
Israeli proposals assume that Israel will maintain overarching control of Gaza, says Palestinian writer Amjad Iraqi.