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Trump to visit Mack Trucks plant in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to promote militarism and economic nationalism
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (277+ words) The event has been organized as a tightly controlled affair. Attendance requires pre-registration, with a limit of two tickets per mobile number on a first-come, first-served basis. The White House has learned from experience. Trump's last major auto plant visit'to…...
US construction of a second southern border wall disturbs important archaeological sites
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (349+ words) According to U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB), which is supervising the wall's construction, the supposedly inadvertent disturbance occurred on April 23 when a contractor bulldozed an approximately 60-70-foot- (18-21-meter) wide swath through the middle of the figure, destroying about a third....
Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship exposes the continuing threat of zoonotic spillover
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (412+ words) On April 1, 2026, the Dutch-flagged expedition cruise ship MV Hondius departed from Ushuaia, Argentina, embarking on a voyage across the remote South Atlantic. Today, the vessel has departed Cape Verde and is now sailing toward Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, carrying…...
Idaho constructs remote-controlled firing squad chamber: A method of state killing with a merciless history
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (263+ words) Idaho's embrace of the rifle follows the trail blazed by South Carolina, which carried out three firing squad executions in 2025the first such executions anywhere in the United States since Utah put Ronnie Lee Gardner to death in 2010. The 15 men were…...
Dolores Huerta's allegations against Cesar Chavez and the political bankruptcy of the United Farm Workers
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (302+ words) The public allegations made by'Dolores Huerta'on March 18, 2026 have brought renewed scrutiny to the historical record of'Cesar Chavez'and the organization he led, the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta, now 95 years old, and long regarded as Chavez's closest collaborator, described two specific…...
Ford worker Gregory Knopf killed at Sharonville Transmission Plant in Ohio
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (263+ words) In comments to the local media, Knopf's son Corey described his father as the best man he knew. His daughter Miranda Boutwell remembered him as selfless. "My dad was always willing to help anybody in need," she said. "I wish…...
Severe drought conditions imperil US Southwest, as states wrestle over water rights
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (611+ words) The seven states of the Colorado River Basin failed to reach an agreement on how to redivide declining water supplies, blowing past another federal deadline on February 14. Negotiations have been ongoing for two years with no sign of compromise in…...
The Guthrie kidnapping, the US media and the thousands of ICE abductions
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (664+ words) The kidnapping of NBC's'Today'show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy Guthrie continued to unfold Sunday. According to news reports, the abductor or abductors have demanded $6 million in ransom and threatened the 84-year-old woman's life if a 5: 00 p. m. Monday deadline is not met....
Trump turns Kirk memorial into campaign for theocratic-fascist dictatorship
9+ mon, 2+ hour ago (654+ words) Three days ago, the Socialist Equality Party wrote, in a statement calling for the mobilization of the working class against the Trump administration: [I]t is necessary to put aside all self-deluding hopes that what is unfolding is anything less…...
Trump, Vance turn Kirk funeral into Christian-fascist rally
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (775+ words) In a spectacle that was a toxic stew of Christian fundamentalism with American nationalism, President Donald Trump and his top aides transformed a memorial ceremony in Glendale, Arizona, for Charlie Kirk, the leader of the far-right student group Turning Point…...