1. US President Trump tells lies to escalate a global trade war by imposing tariffs on its three largest trading partners

 2. Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC to strategize plans to redraw the map of the Middle East

3. The World Socialist Web Site interviews an immigrant and refugee support worker about immigrant raids being conducted in the Chicago, Illinois area by the Trump administration

4. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate against the return of fascism in Germany, after the AfD political party secures a majority with its votes in the Bundestag

5. Remembered as the quietly offbeat but immensely talented member of the Band, Garth Hudson, the Band's last surviving member dies (1937-2025)

6. Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee members in Australia issue statements in defense of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah who is facing a mounting Zionist-led media and government witch hunt 

7. Defending the rights of everyone regardless of where they were born:  a massive increase of workers and students demonstrate across the United States to defend immigrants targeted by the Trump administration

8.  A return to the Dark Ages: under US President Trump's executive orders, government websites go dark and public health datasets are entirely erased to appease his reactionary war on "Wokeism"

9. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union bureaucracy defies Daimler Truck Detroit Axle plant workers at a Detroit, Michigan suburb to secure a sellout contract

10. Two aviation disasters in three days are painful reminders of how poor air traffic controller staffing impacts public safety in the United States

11. Opal Australian Paper in Victoria, Australia, a subsidiary of a an international conglomerate, has locked out its entire manufacturing workforce for three weeks after its workers began a strike

10. The Santa Ana, California Unified School District school board defies angry protests to move ahead with layoffs of elementary and high school educators, counselors, social workers and support staff

11. The mysterious death of a construction worker in Brisbane, Australia has been the subject of a corporate media blackout and silence by the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU)

12. Samoa’s director general of health denounces Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments in the US Senate last week about the country’s 2019 measles epidemic as “a complete lie”

13. The first execution in the United States this year: the state of South Carolina snuffs out the breath and life of Marion Bowman, Jr.

14. Thousands of USA workers are slated to lose their jobs as part of an effort by transnational automakers to reduce costs and control markets, supply chains and profits, particularly in the emerging electric vehicles (EV) market

15.  Contract bargaining talks begin for approximately 170,000 Deutsche Post mail delivery employees in Germany

16. A recent event in Michigan that presented performances of century-old compositions confirm George Gershwin’s stature as the greatest American composer of the 20th century and one of the century’s greatest the world over

17. The London Times newspaper calls for the UK to spend more on defense and accuses the Labour government of betrayal

18. After seizing the city of Goma and much of the region's mineral wealth, the M23 militia, supported by 4,000 Rwandan troops, continues its brutal advance within the Democratic Republic of the Congo

19.  San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

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