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Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the strikes, which killed or injured at least 31 aid workers and those with them. More than 250 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the Oct. 7 assault.

This new book is a chronicle of the Democratic Party’s left flank

End Unlawful Attacks, Ensure Accountability

Matters of life and death

The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.

With drugs like Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Ozempic in the mix, new vistas of corporate exploitation have opened up.

The Affordable Connectivity Program is about to come to an end—unless Congress does something.

New York labor law will require employers to provide paid leave for pregnant employees for prenatal care, starting 2025.

UAW Local 4811, representing student workers from the University of California system, are holding a strike vote in response to the university’s actions against pro-Palestine protesters