1. Seeking to eliminate all limits to his power when he returns to the White House, President-elect Trump and his sidekick, the ignoramus and richest man in the world Elon Musk, intervene to keep Congress from allowing the US government to fully run without a budget

2. By striking, Amazon workers hope to win their demands, but the motivation of the Teamsters bureaucracy in calling the strike is to bolster its own damaged credibility

3. Not a word about this latest COVID-19 wave has been uttered by the Biden administration or any major outlet in the corporate media: wastewater surveillance data show that the COVID-19 pandemic has entered its tenth wave in the United States

4. California Governor Gavin Newsom tries to dampen the public's fear of contagion while declaring a state of emergency regarding the spread of H5N1 bird flu among dairy cows

5. More than 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives across New Zealand continue strikes to win demands for better benefits and working conditions

6. Australian foreign minister declares his country's "ironclad" commitment to defending Ukraine's "democracy" and "freedom"

7. An anti-Marxist, anti-socialist pseudo-left organization to beware: "The Platypus Affiliated Society"

8. Reinstate Rachel Dawson! The University of Michigan fires a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) unit director for alleged "anti-semitic" remarks

9. "An author's moral failings are not the basis on which to judge her art"-- Nobel winning Canadian Alice Munro (1931-2024) breathed new life into the short-story genre

10. Cruel, unjust, and not uncommon: the execution of mentally ill prisoners in the United States

11. Consultation is cooperation: the premier of the German state of Saxony won't avoid working with the far-right elements that helped him get re-elected

12. Recent live events and videos from the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party

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