1. Hunter Biden gets mercy and Trump gets a political gift: A son's crimes trading on his family name hardly compare to the crimes committed by his father, US president Biden, who facilitated Israeli genocide in Gaza, instigated the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, and authorized mass spying on the people of the United States and the entire world

2. A major escalation in a global war: US backed, NATO-supported, Al Qaeda-linked militias storm Aleppo, Syria, Trump issues threats, Russia and Iran end trading with the US dollar

3. As parliamentary elections are being used by the ruling class to pave the way for an extreme right-wing government in Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to Kiev to provide arms and reassurances to Volodymyr Zelensky

4. Without explaining how it will work, the Australian Labor government pass vague, but far-reaching laws to ban children under age 16 from accessing social media

5. In Austin, Texas, Tesla factory workers are exposed to hexavalent chromium, a dangerous chemical that was highlighted in the biographical film, Erin Brockovich

6. Victoria, Australia paramedics are voting this week on a sell-out agreement drawn up by the state Labor government in collaboration with their unions

7. How an 18-year-old government fund, the so-called "Future Fund" in Australia, makes profits from war

8. Australian university and school educators send letters of support to the World Socialist Web Site on behalf of striking Woolworths distribution workers

9. Despite massive public opposition, Denver, Colorado closes 7 public schools and eliminates grades in others to cope with looming funding cuts which it blames on dropping enrollments (due largely to families leaving because the city has become unaffordable)

10. Pathways to hazardous child labor?  Trump's pick to head the Department of Education, Linda McMahon, is enthusiastic about “apprenticeship programs” in secondary education

11.  Presented as a reinterpretation of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain is a play that leaves no buzzword unspoken in its fabrication and then joyous demolition of a world of “textbook toxic masculinity”

12. Changes to Medicare and Medicaid drug coverage in the United States will require the endorsement of the incoming Trump administration, which has unequivocally stated it plans to cut federal spending

13. In its latest move to intimidate and silence opposition to the war in Gaza, Britain uses an anti-terrorism act to charge a prominent anti-Zionist activist, Tony Greenstein

14. Quebec’s big business, pro-independence Parti Québécois pledges to drastically reduce immigration should it (as expected) form Quebec’s next provincial government

15. Autoworkers in Thailand are not immune from job layoffs that are affecting autoworkers in other countries

16. Stellantis CEO, Carlos Tavares, resigns for failing to cut costs quickly enough for Wall Street and European investors

17. The strike by 55,000 postal workers at Canada Post is now well into its third week

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