Rep. Bennie Thompson, the only Democrat in Mississippi’s congressional delegation, who will likely lose his seat to gerrymandering, has condemned Callais as “equivalent to a second Civil War.”

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Despite the promises made by Trump and the window dressing that is Trump Rx, the president’s discount prescription drug initiative, prices are not and will not come down for Americans.

"He will never satisfy normal-income viewers by asking Bezos why doubling his effective (tax) rate to almost 2% presents a hardship."

That raising tax money allows the government to actually do things is not a radical contention. And it’s telling that Bezos has become comfortable refusing to concede even this much.

The Trump critic and satirist has been one of the most thoughtful, funny and genuinely decent people on television.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer denounced the plan as “one of the most depraved” uses by Trump of the Justice Department.

How does an administration bomb small boats to stop drug smuggling while handing a pardon to the man convicted of moving 400 tons of cocaine through Central America?

Cuba has spent years sending the world doctors and nurses while we starve them to death

This is evil collective punishment.

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Cubans legally admitted under U.S. government-approved parole lost their work permits, driver's licenses and path to residency overnight. Washington called it an immigration crackdown.

The staffing cuts raise questions about the agency’s capacity to manage a growing volume of complaints and whether the increase in complaints is connected to reduced oversight.

What's at stake isn't just a museum. Republicans just voted to decide, by law, which women count as women in American history.

The project involves the U.S. and Israel each committing $1 billion to joint ventures, much of which will be geared to AI, cyberwarfare and other new forms of killing, many of which have been battle-tested in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the U.S. has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa.

Trump promised Venezuela "an unprecedented economic upswing" in January. By April, 77% of Venezuelans rated the economic situation as "bad."

Under the leadership of Keir Starmer, Labour bled 100,000 members, was outflanked by the Tories from the left on corporate taxes and delivered an electoral catastrophe.

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Drones accounted for 80% of civilian deaths in the war in Sudan in the first four months of 2026, killing at least 880 people.

Major oil and gas companies have been hiring social media influencers for years to reshape public perceptions of their role in producing the planet-heating carbon emissions fuelling the climate crisis.

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Generations of young people killed mandatory draft registration through silent noncompliance. Congress just gave the Selective Service a backdoor to bring it back.

Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 57% of Americans believe it is.

In addition to monetary relief, eligible claimants will also receive a formal apology from the government.

Even by the standards of plutocratic dead-thought exercises, Jeff Bezos’s Wednesday sit-down with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin was mortifying.

""We already have the most progressive tax system in the world,” he lied again. “You could double the taxes I pay, it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens,” he added, also lying."

U.S. forces are killing people on drug boats in international waters while Trump pardoned the man convicted of overseeing the smuggling of 400 tons of cocaine.

@truthdig.com ran an excerpt from a chapter in my co-authored book, Pharma Monopoly, that traces how the drug industry and U.S foreign policymakers became partners in expanding the industry’s monopoly power. www.truthdig.com/articles/at-...

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Long before it became the jugular vein of the modern global economy, the stretch of water was the sacred and strategic maritime gateway to the Persian empire.

Food safety complaints spiked nearly 40% after USDA cuts and the 775 inspectors lost are not expected to be replaced.

A preview of what the new “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel might look like was just unveiled at a technology expo last weekend in Washington, D.C.

Since January 2025, the U.S. has killed more than 2,000 civilians in a furious blitz of global war-making across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

The Democratic Women’s Caucus pulled support after Republicans amended the legislation to require that the museum exclude transgender women.

Bezos doing some extremely warmed-over projection about who helps create extremism doesn't work as well when he's singing for his subsidies to the same leader trying to siphon off $2 billion for putschists.

The billionaire’s self-pitying CNBC interview bombed with the public, but adoration is not the point of ultra-rich messaging — Nazi-shaming their critics is. By @mobute.bsky.social

Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into legal chaos.

A new book explains why drugs cost so much in the United States — and why Trump’s claims about addressing the crisis are bogus. www.truthdig.com/articles/at-...

Trump insisted he is slowing drug smuggling by sinking small boats and killing all aboard. In fact, Trump is *increasing* cocaine traffic through #Honduras, by recreating the Narco State. I explain @truthdig.com @bilbow.bsky.social @incompleteness.bsky.social www.truthdig.com/articles/tru...

Trump says Venezuelans are "really happy" and "dancing in the streets." Workers in Caracas were blocked by riot police for demanding a living wage.

It’s unclear how much longer Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer will last, but it’s safe to say his proverbial goose is cooked.

Cuba's fuel is exhausted. Washington threatened sanctions against any country that tried to sell the island more.

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Cartoon — The Epstein Files Cover Ups

Trump dropped a $10 billion IRS lawsuit and his DOJ responded by creating a $1.776 billion fund that Jan. 6 defendants can now claim from.

U.S. interference in Honduras will increase cocaine traffic.

How an exclusive mountaintop retreat for the megarich serves as “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.

Drone attacks in conflict settings rose 4,000% between 2020 and 2024. Governments are pouring funds into more.