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Defying RFK Jr's new 'vaccine sceptic' leadership, states in the West and Northeast are joining forces to create their own health guidelines based on the recommendations of professional societies of pediatricians, gynecologists and family doctors.

Protests across Los Angeles this summer led to charges against multiple people accused of assaulting or impeding federal immigration agents. A jury rejected the charges against Brayan Ramos-Brito in the first case to go to trial.

The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

Poet Lenore Weiss remembers what it was like to have heroes and hope.

Today’s firings present a new challenge for union stewards because each case becomes public, playing out on social media and on the national stage. Nonetheless, the same principles hold. Here are some basic steps a steward should take.

The University of California, in a move with strong echoes of McCarthyism, has turned over to the Trump administration dossiers on 160 faculty, students and staff under investigation for antisemitism.

The man who's leading Israel into a deepening war in the Strip – amid slim chances of victory – is a failed, isolated and hounded leader who is determined to hold onto power by all means.

“For Trump, trafficking is a bludgeon that’s deployed to accomplish political ends. It’s not about survivors. It’s not about justice. There is no conscience or policy behind this – there is only political calculation.”

The “third rail” over Palestine is losing its fatal power in Congress and the Democratic Party, and it’s time to shut it down permanently, as part of a long-term orientation towards blocking fascism while building the kind of new Left that we need

Worker power is contested not just at the bargaining table, but also in the stories told about workers.