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18 hours ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Amid President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, we continue our interview with DAWN’s Sarah Leah Whitson and HuffPost’s Akbar Shahid Ahmed about Trump’s acceptance of a luxury plane gifted to him by the Qatari government, nuclear negotiations with Iran and Saudi Arabia, a less cooperative relationship with Israel and more. TRANSCRIPTThis is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Akbar, I wanted to follow that up on Iran.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Katya Schwenk |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. As President Donald Trump tries to bar almost all refugees from entering the country, his administration is planning to use federal funds reserved for sick, elderly, and at-risk refugee populations to facilitate an influx of white South Africans within days, according to a government source and an internal memo viewed by The Lever.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Dozens of people have been killed in the worst fighting between India and Pakistan in more than two decades. India attacked nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir early Wednesday, killing at least 26 people, including a child. Pakistan described the attacks as an act of war and responded by shelling areas controlled by India.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Jake Johnson |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
Not only is Trump a major crypto dealer — he is also the industry’s top policy maker, The New York Times noted.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Tech writer and critic Paris Marx discusses the first 100 days of the second Trump administration and the influence of billionaire Elon Musk at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which has slashed government programs and the civil service.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Rachana Pradhan |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
The Trump administration quietly restored federal family planning money to Tennessee and Oklahoma, despite court rulings that the states weren’t entitled to funds because they refused to provide women information about terminating pregnancies or abortion referrals on request. The decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to restore millions of dollars for the two states came as it simultaneously withheld nearly $66 million from clinics in the Title X program elsewhere.
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3 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Shefali Luthra |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
A report finds the risk is greatest for Black women, who disproportionately live in states that have banned abortion. By Shefali Luthra , The19th Published April 23, 2025 A midwife performs an ultrasound on expectant mother at the Bay Area Community Birth Center on March 9, 2023, in Houston, Texas.Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post via Getty Images This story was originally published by The 19th.
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3 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
We spend the hour with acclaimed historian Greg Grandin discussing his new book, America, América: A New History of the New World, which spans five centuries of North and South American history since the Spanish conquest, including the fight against fascism in the 1930s. He examines the U.S.-Latin American relationship under Trump, with a focus on El Salvador, Panama, Ecuador and Cuba.
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3 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Kelly Hayes |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
Television personality Mehmet Oz was sworn in Friday as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In his remarks, Oz stressed the need to reduce chronic illness, declaring, “It is the patriotic duty of all Americans to take care of themselves.
