Top News: UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End

 

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  US DOE Approves New Fortress Energy LNG Export Despite Climate Risks "As the disastrous impacts of increased fossil fuel development become more and more obvious here and around the globe," said one campaigner, "the notion of expanded LNG exports should be dismissed out of hand." By Julia Conley House GOP Budgets Paired With Project 2025 Would Create 'Harsher' Nation for Working Class "Behind these eye-popping budget numbers are millions of real people who will see health coverage, food assistance, and other forms of support taken away," said the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. By Jake Johnson Dems Want to Know If Trump DOJ Covered Up Alleged $10 Million Egyptian Bribe "Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president—and a current candidate for president—took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator." By Jessica Corbett US Drug Prices Still Far Higher Than Other Nations' Even After Medicare Talks The U.S. "has always accepted that we are the country that overpays relative to the rest of the world," said one health policy expert. By Julia Conley Once Free, Covid-19 Vaccines Now Cost Up to $200 for Uninsured in US "What's at stake is we are reverting back to a system where a person's financial ability to be able to pay will determine their ability to be healthy." By Edward Carver UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as 'Genocidal Violence' Spreads to West Bank "Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion," said United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. By Jake Johnson

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