News Analysis | Environment & Health Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place. By Rob Wallace , Joe Sexauer , Rita Valenti , Truthout July 16, 2025 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Trump’s Funding Cuts Force Food Banks to Ration Meals for Texas Flood Survivors Texas already leads the nation in hunger rates with more than 5 million residents facing food insecurity. By Ayurella Horn-Muller , Grist July 16, 2025 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Only 3 Percent of Americans Say They’re Satisfied With Epstein Transparency For years, Trump benefited politically from conspiracy theories regarding the disgraced financier. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 16, 2025 Truthout
News | Human Rights Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Journalists Investigating Killing of Musallet Masked settlers followed the journalists’ car and smashed the windshield. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout July 15, 2025 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Pentagon Signs Contract With Musk’s AI After It Called Itself “MechaHitler” The AI bot praised Adolf Hitler as the best figure to combat “vile anti-white hate.” By Sharon Zhang , Truthout July 15, 2025 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections AG Pam Bondi Fires Top Department of Justice Ethics Official Joseph Tirrell, who was Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics at the DOJ, shared his termination notice on LinkedIn. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 15, 2025 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Trump Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations The system, which would enable sharing of massive amounts of sensitive data, may be launched before the end of July. By William Turton , Christopher Bing , Avi Asher-Schapiro , ProPublica July 15, 2025 Truthout
News | Environment & Health New Study Finds No Links Between Aluminum in Vaccines and Chronic Conditions The study examined over 1.2 million patients receiving vaccines over more than two decades. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 15, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Rep. Maxwell Frost: Trump Admin Is “Trying to Ethnically Cleanse” the US Democratic lawmakers are blasting the horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration jail in the Everglades. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! July 15, 2025 Truthout
News | Education & Youth Low-Income People Will Face Brunt of Trump’s Restart of Student Debt Collections The US government, which restarted collections efforts in May, can garnish wages, tax refunds, some pensions, and more. By Kalena Thomhave , Capital&Main July 15, 2025 Truthout