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Luis Sandoval, a 48-year-old from El Salvador, died on Friday at the Folkston ICE facility, owned by the notorious GEO Group. The detention center is already facing scrutiny over poor conditions.

Over 3,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron since Friday, as Netanyahu carries out collective punishment in a bid to shore up support ahead of Israel’s elections on Tuesday.

On Friday, after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint in Hebron, killing two Israeli soldiers, Netanyahu stated that he would “prepare for a full lockdown across all of Judea and Samaria,” using the Israeli term to encompass the West Bank.

The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council voted unanimously this October to ban data centers on tribal land in Montana. But the Apsáalooke, or Crow Tribe, has not taken an official position and remains open to hearing proposals from companies.

The divide over data centers comes as developers eye Montana for its land, water, and power, and as Tribes test how far their sovereignty can actually reach. Tribal bans are enforceable on tribal land, but off-reservation data centers that affect reservation waters are “unlikely to be enforceable.”

"The man in blue is screaming commands, provoking my trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, though he will never call it that. To him, this is procedure. Policy. Control. To my body, it is a return."

Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement against Vučić’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party.

Not two weeks after the Tennessee legislature carved Memphis into three congressional districts this spring, in a move designed to eliminate Democratic representation, Republican state Sen. Brent Taylor made his electoral expectations clear.

"After the surgeon removed my tumor, my stomach looked like a horror movie connected by twelve inches of staples and yellowish pink flesh. He instructed me to keep my wound clean, but the correctional officers assigned to me refused to let me shower for 7 days. I was also denied food for 5 days."

Today, we are grateful to announce the winners of the 6th annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. The prize, awarded to 2 formerly or currently incarcerated people, is given in memory of Keeley Schenwar, a devoted mother, daughter, sister, friend, writer, and advocate for incarcerated mothers.

Harlow Scott's winning essay, “Cancer in Prison: A Death Sentence?” chronicles her diagnosis with colon cancer, 14 years into her prison sentence. She describes the medical neglect and abuse to which she’s been subjected.

Today, we are grateful to announce the winners of the 6th annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. The prize, awarded to 2 formerly or currently incarcerated people, is given in memory of Keeley Schenwar, a devoted mother, daughter, sister, friend, writer, and advocate for incarcerated mothers.

As repression has escalated in so many realms of U.S. life over the past year and a half, we cannot allow ourselves to forget that nearly 2 million people in this country experience some of the most constant and brutal state repression, in the form of incarceration.

Today, we are grateful to announce the winners of the 6th annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. The prize, awarded to 2 formerly or currently incarcerated people, is given in memory of Keeley Schenwar, a devoted mother, daughter, sister, friend, writer, and advocate for incarcerated mothers.

About 5.5 million people lost access to food stamps in the year since enactment of the 2025 reconciliation law. This includes about 2 million children who were not targeted by the law’s eligibility restrictions.

Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters that he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the Department of Justice refusing to allow states to certify their own election results in this year’s midterm races.

Trump and his allies in local governments have been fighting to defund everything from health care to education — fights we’ve been covering at Truthout for as long as they’ve existed. But we can’t just work to protect existing public goods; we need to fuel the push for more.

In California, volunteers are canvassing for Proposition 40, an upcoming ballot initiative to tax billionaire wealth to fund health care, food assistance and education. Whether or not it passes, the citizen-led ballot initiative will serve as a model for future efforts to tax the ultra-rich.

Trump and his allies in local governments have been fighting to defund everything from health care to education — fights we’ve been covering at Truthout for as long as they’ve existed. But we can’t just work to protect existing public goods; we need to fuel the push for more.

We’re launching this series to shine a light on the visionary organizing to win control over public funding and public goods, while shifting the balance of power away from the ultrawealthy toward the rest of us.