1. After blocking all food and humanitarian supplies earlier this month, the Israeli government announces that it will now cut all electricity to Gaza, meaning it will make potable water unavailable

2. The World Socialist Web Site, Socialist Equality Party, and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil!

3. Part of an escalating trend all over the US:  the state of Kentucky has had 234 prison inmates die while in custody between 2020 to 2024 (more than half of whom were in jail without being convicted of the alleged crime for which they were arrested)

4. The death toll among prisoners is mounting while the wildcat strike of New York state prison guards enters its fourth week

5. With NATO fraying because of the US Trump administration's disinterest, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, thought to be the likeliest successor to President Erdoğan, clarifies why his country is making integration into Europe a priority

6. A former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, Mark Carney, will take over from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a matter of days

7. Royal Mail workers at delivery offices in Scotland tell the World Socialist Web Site about their impossible workloads and why they are against the “Amazon-modeled” pilot scheme being implemented at their workplace

8. Workers in Germany are realizing that their incoming coalition government has already begun to starve public services of much-needed funds to feed the arms industry

9. What is the fine Tesla must pay for the August 1, 2024 death of journeyman electrician Victor Joe Gomez Sr. at its “Gigafactory” in Austin, Texas?

10. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders brings his fraudulent “Fight Oligarchy” tour to Wisconsin and Michigan

11. Parliamentary candidate Melanie Schweizer of the MERA25 political party in Germany is fired and stripped of her civil servant status as a result of a smear campaign against her intended to intimidate and criminalize all those who condemn war and genocide

12. An International Monetary Fund official visiting Sri Lanka exhorts everyone in the impoverished nation to make sacrifices and expect labor unrest to pay for onerous loans

13. Rank-and-file Rolls Royce aircraft engine workers in Indianapolis, Indiana spot nine contemptuous lies that the UAW hoped to hide within a tentative contract agreement to be voted upon this week

14. Without releasing any details on voter turnout or final results, the Teamsters union announces the ratification of a sellout contract for Costco workers in the United States

15. The Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Sydney, Australia calls on the National Tertiary Education Union to hold an urgent campus meeting and rally of staff and students to defend the persecuted academic, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

16.  459 workers at a Nestlé Purina dog and cat food plant in Pennsylvania strike over wages and benefits

17.  UPS, hoping to cut costs while it automates and implements AI technology, has announced a new wave of layoffs that will leave hundreds of workers in multiple states without a job

18. Pseudo-leftists in Spain enthusiastically celebrate the European Union’s €800 billion plan for military rearmament

19. US President Trumps nomination of a a former mining industry executive to head the US Mine Safety and Health Administration presages a major ramping up of attacks on miners

20. An animated film dedicated to nurses, another that focuses on sensations to reveal absurdities of everyday life, a film about surveillance in Iran (but applicable to any modern country), and a fascinating film about "clickworkers"-- are among the more interesting short films shown at this year's Berlin International Film Festival  

21.  New Zealand's foreign minister fires a high-ranking diplomat to the UK for having criticized US President Trump’s negotiations with Russia to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine

22. Anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish graffiti that sparked public hysteria against anti-genocide protesters in Australia are revealed to have been fabricated by criminals with no interest in Middle Eastern affairs

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

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