Truthout

New polling data shows the majority of Americans are opposed to the U.S. and Israel’s joint war on Iran, and are unhappy with how the Trump administration is handling it. truthout.org/articles/new-p…

HUD announced it would delay implementation of a policy change which would have left the nation’s poorest tenants in certain states vulnerable to “rapid, unfair evictions” for being “as little as one dollar short or one day late on rent.” truthout.org/articles/trump…

Arab countries are fuming after the U.S. and Israel escalated their war on Iran with an attack on a key natural gas field this week, an attack that Arab states reportedly sought to prevent in order to head off further chaos in the global energy industry. truthout.org/articles/gulf-…

Prices for basic necessities in the Gaza Strip have continued to rise ever since the U.S. and Israel started their war on Iran. Palestinians in Gaza have already lived through repeated waves of food shortages, man-made famine, and soaring food prices. truthout.org/articles/aid-r…

Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to soon force a vote on legislation seeking to block the sales of over 20,000 bombs valued at $650 million to Israel as it slaughters civilians in Lebanon, Gaza and Iran. truthout.org/articles/sande…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned a “new stage of war” has begun after Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field — the largest known natural gas reserve in the world. truthout.org/video/the-war-…

Trump had campaigned on lowering gas prices to below $2 per gallon, but recently told reporters that he had expected consumer costs to increase because of the Iran war. “I thought there was a chance it would be much worse,” Trump said, calling current price hikes “not bad.”

A new government report suggests it could be several months — and perhaps even years — before the cost of consumer-grade gasoline drops below $3 per gallon again, contradicting Trump officials' vows that prices will drop soon. truthout.org/articles/iran-…

The supplement, if passed, would be “taking food and healthcare from struggling families here and using it to bomb families in Iran that were already struggling under that country’s authoritarian regime and U.S. sanctions,” said Lindsay Koshgarian.

The Trump administration is seeking a whopping $200 billion supplement for the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, enough to restore 2 years of the Medicaid cuts that kicked 16 million people off the program. truthout.org/articles/trump…

The FBI has opened an investigation into Joe Kent, the former Trump administration National Counterterrorism Center director who resigned from his position earlier this week in protest of the decision to go to war with Iran. truthout.org/articles/the-f…

Developers are planning to build 6 data center campuses in Archbald, which will cover 14% of the town, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. Just one campus is expected to use more power than the region’s power plant produces. truthout.org/articles/resid…

Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy. truthout.org/audio/why-libr…

It took decades before it was accepted that Chernobyl had caused tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths. It may take even longer to completely understand Fukushima’s full effects. In the meantime, the still ongoing cleanup of the burned-out facilities may cost as much as $500 billion.

Risks of nuclear power plant disasters have been overlooked amid fears of nuclear weapons. truthout.org/articles/risks…

A new report finds that, despite directives that ICE must accommodate parents’ “efforts to make alternative care arrangements for their minor children prior to detention,” agents are forcing many to leave them with friends, relatives, or even babysitters. truthout.org/articles/ice-i…

Ahead of the Iran war, Trump’s DOGE cuts led the State Department to fire its oil and gas experts, including the team that modeled crises like a Strait of Hormuz shutdown and maintained key ties with Middle East energy officials. truthout.org/articles/oil-a…

Tehran residents’ social media posts are filled with images of oily smoke, black rain, shattered apartments, and loved ones killed in US-Israeli airstrikes, offering a nightmarish glimpse of a humanitarian disaster from which Iran will not soon recover. truthout.org/articles/tehra…

Israel’s assault on Lebanon has killed or wounded the equivalent of a classroom of children every day since early March, and has forcibly displaced about 350,000 children from their homes in the south. truthout.org/articles/israe…

Democrats are reviving a windfall profits tax that would claw back Big Oil’s wartime gains and return the money to struggling US families, arguing fossil fuel giants must be held accountable for orchestrating profiteering during the Iran war. truthout.org/articles/dems-…