By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that hospitals received 122 more bodies as Palestinians continue to dig the remains of people killed by Israel’s bombing campaign out of the rubble on the fifth day of the ceasefire. Continue reading “Gaza Hospitals Receive 122 More Bodies, Raising Death Toll”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

President Trump on Thursday issued an executive order directing the Director of National Intelligence, Attorney General and other officials to create a “plan” to declassify all remaining files on the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Continue reading “Trump Issues Executive Order to Create Plan for Declassify JFK, RFK and MLK Assassination Files”

By Ari Hoffman – The Post Millennial

Washington state funds sex-change surgeries, hair removal for incarcerated trans child rapist, other inmates

Washington State’s Department of Corrections is using taxpayer funds for sex-change operations, electrolysis, and laser hair removal services for incarcerated individuals, including a transgender child rapist, in violation of the latest presdential executive order against gender identity determinations in prisons and other spaces, and despite the state facing a $10-17 billion dollars budget crisis. Continue reading “Washington state funds sex-change surgeries, hair removal for incarcerated trans child rapist, other inmates”

By Dan Frieth – Reclaimthenet

A gavel composed of digital binary code against a dark background with glowing green lines and patterns.A federal district court has delivered a pivotal ruling that strikes at the heart of unchecked government surveillance. In the criminal case United States v. Hasbajrami, the court determined that backdoor searches of vast databases containing Americans’ private communications — collected under Section 702 — typically require a warrant. This judgment comes after more than a decade of legal battles and follows the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2019 finding that such searches constitute “separate Fourth Amendment events,” leaving it to the lower court to address the warrant requirement. That question has now been resolved. Continue reading “Federal Court Rules Warrant is Required for Section 702 Backdoor Searches of Americans’ Communications”

By PETER CHARALAMBOUS, LAURA ROMERO and SOO RIN KIM – ABC News

A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. Continue reading “Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, calling it ‘blatantly unconstitutional’”

By Rasha Abou jalal – Drop Site

KHAN YOUNIS — Eleven-year-old Mohammad Sharaara lies alone in a hospital bed at the Nasser Medical Complex. He is the sole survivor of six members of his family killed in an Israeli strike on their home in Khan Younis last month, including both his parents. Continue reading “Nearly 40,000 Palestinian Children Orphaned by War in Gaza”