1. Artists in Toronto and Miami demonstrate against continuing genocide of Gazans; mass murder has opened the eyes of millions to the savagery of imperialism

2. US President Biden commutes the prison sentence of a crooked judge who made millions of dollars in a kickback scheme to profit off of children being sent to juvenile detention centers and kept there

3. A Lakeland, Florida woman is charged with a felony after allegedly saying “Delay, deny, depose" to a health insurance call center representative

4. Canada's Liberal government hangs by a thread after Prime Minister Trudeau's finance minister and deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from the cabinet in a manner calculated to inflict maximum political damage

5. About 55,000 postal workers return to work after Canada’s Liberal government imposes a draconian strike ban: the working class must respond!

6. A federal judge orders the United Auto Workers (UAW) to produce “between 10,000 and more than 100,000 electronic records” it has been withholding in an effort to block an investigation into its corruption

7. Incoming US President Donald Trump stokes an atmosphere of fear and disorientation by fueling right-wing hysteria over alleged sightings of drones above northeastern states

8. US President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of a man implicated in some of the worst war crimes committed in Latin America during the 20th century, as ambassador to Mexico, makes clear that threats of military operations and a reckless tariff war against Mexico are not mere bluster

9. US President-elect Donald Trump announces his intention to privatize the United States Postal Service

10. The extent to how today's world economy "rhymes" with that which existed during the Roaring Twenties of the last century

11. The Labor Premier for the state of Victoria in Australia announces a series of repressive laws aimed at curtailing or even abolishing the right to protest

12. Political turmoil disrupts Romanian elections, fails to stop the rise to influence of the political far-right, and browbeats widespread working-class opposition to policies pursued by the EU and NATO

13. Despite reported safety complaints, a worker is killed by a falling turbine blade at a wind farm near Melbourne, Australia

14. The assassination of a high-ranking Russian general in charge of nuclear defense is the latest in a series carried out by Ukrainian forces

15. At least 14 people have died and hundreds more have been injured after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the island-nation Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean

16. Announcing that a tentative agreement had been struck, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) abruptly calls off a strike of George Washington University resident doctors in Washington, DC

17. Despite strong opposition, dozens of public schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are slated to be closed due to budget shortfalls

18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!