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Sunday, September 15, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  After Historic Union Vote, Chattanooga VW Workers Rally for 'Record Contract' "You're the backbone of this plant, you're the backbone of this company, and you deserve your fair share of the wealth that you create," UAW President Shawn Fain told workers. By Olivia Rosane Trump 'Safe' After Shots Fired Near to Him on Golf Course "Violence has no place in America," said U.S. Vice President and his 2024 election opponent Kamala Harris.gett By Common Dreams Staff Deadly Flooding in Europe Shows 'Dramatic Consequences' of Climate Change "What you see here is worse than in 1997, and I don't know what will happen because my house is under water and I don't know if I will even return to it," one storm evacuee said. By Olivia Rosane 'Shame Must Change Sides': Thousands March in France Against Sexual Violence The protests were organized in support of Gisèle Pélicot, who has become a symbol of feminist defiance in the country when she chose to make the rape trial of her husband and 50 other men public. By Olivia Rosane 'Hitlerian': Trump Vows to Deport Haitians Legally in Ohio to Venezuela "The lies and conspiracies about Haitians are part of a larger volume of anti-immigrant and dehumanizing rhetoric that actively courts political violence," one immigrant rights advocate said. By Olivia Rosane 'We Are All Culpable': Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze "to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians" and "to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza." By Brett Wilkins

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