1.  Thousands of University of California workers are returning to work from their brief strike without having their critical demands resolved

2. US President Donald Trump's "deal" nosedives after he and Vice President JD Vance engage in a publicly televised dress down of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

3. Doug Ford, posturing as a man of the people, wins a third term as premier of Ontario in a campaign dominated by Canadian nationalist tub-thumping

4. The Philippines provides a platform for military exercises aimed at dominating the South China Sea and preparing for war with China

5. The reason for President Trump's proposal to take over the US District of Columbia is of a piece with his administration's attacks on federal workers-- to eliminate anything that stands in the way of building a personalist dictatorship

5. To demand justice for the people who died in the 2023 Tempi train collision and an end to a government cover-up, hundreds of thousands of angry workers and youth stage one of the largest demonstrations in Greek history

6. Walter Salles’ film, I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), which is garnering acclaim as an Academy Award nominee, hits a nerve in Brazil and around the world

7.  To determine if remedial action is warranted, the US Trump administration orders the investigation of  ten major universities where pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the Gaza genocide took place last year

8. The presence of three Chinese warships in international waters off the Australian coast sparks a furor in Australia's media and political establishment

9. In Sri Lanka, trade union bureaucrats attempt to suppress the effectiveness of a strike by thousands of nurses against the IMF austerity measures being imposed by the government

10. Accidental? Or accepted as a cost of business? Adding to record numbers of occupation-related casualties, one of two construction workers in Chicago, electrocuted on the job Tuesday, dies; the other is reported to be recovering in the hospital

11. The Brutalist is a film that deals with weighty subjects in an inadequate and confused way

12. With more than 19,000 people in the US having died this season from flu, why did the US Food and Drug Administration abruptly cancel a preliminary meeting of an expert scientific panel to discuss next year’s flu vaccine?

13. Democratic Party lawmakers in Maryland introduce bills to implement right-wing-motivated restrictions on people wearing masks

14. A senior psychiatrist contacts the World Socialist Web Site to describe how public mental health services have deteriorated in Australia over the past 27 years

15.  Exploited apparel workers making Carnival costumes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have mere seconds to escape a deadly fire

16. The Socialist Equality Party formally challenges the Australian Electoral Commission for undemocratically rejecting its application to participate in Australian federal elections

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

18. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help