Featured News

Common Dreams: Trump DOJ Sides With Roundup Manufacturer Over Cancer Victims in Supreme Court Case

Edmonton Journal: Alberta to defy federal gun buyback program with Sovereignty Act motion

Radio France Internationale: French unions call for day of strike action as draft budget enters crucial stage

Sky News: Sudan's RSF says it has captured Babanusa in West Kordofan

The Gazette: STM overtime strike delayed by two days after labour tribunal ruling

Truthdig: Starbucks Agrees To Pay Workers $38 Million to Probe of Scheduling Practices

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta Metis eying ownership stake in proposed oil pipeline

• Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal

• Canadian authorities seize thousands of kilos of illicit drugs

• Carney says First Nations clean water legislation will come next spring

• ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm

• Liberal minister backs Bloc call to eliminate religious exemption for hate speech

• Numbered company registered to Mayor Patrick Brown and his wife buys downtown Brampton properties for $1.45M

• Ottawa’s spending on housing set to drop by more than 50% over next three years, PBO says

• Rodriguez permanently expels Rizqy from Quebec Liberal caucus as crisis grows

USA news:

• DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now

• Nebraska Supreme Court considers state bargaining, remote work dispute

• Ohio Senator Pushes for Bill that Would Ban Americans from Having Dual Citizenship

• Planned Parenthood drops challenge to SC ban on Medicaid payments

• Report: ICE headed to Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants

• Trump Admin Aims to Cut Down Office Visits in Latest Attack on Social Security

• Trump administration fires 8 immigration judges in New York City

• U.S. Helicopters Used to Kill Civilians in Philippines, Locals Say

• WV Supreme Court halts ruling that would have allowed students religious exemption to vaccines

World News

• Brazil votes to allow most projects & farms to skip environmental licensing

• Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint

• Germany launches new counter-drone police unit

• Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers in occupied West Bank

• Netanyahu ties Syria talks to DMZ in occupied Golan Heights

• Peruvian Presidential Candidate Survives Shooting Attack in Lima

• Russia says it captured Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in eastern Ukraine

• The U.S. is exporting Trump’s xenophobia through some of its Latin American embassies

• Trump cries foul over ‘technical tie’ in Honduras presidential race

• Tunisia arrests prominent lawyer and activist

• US firms outpace Europe in scramble for rare earths for rearmament

What I’m Reading

• Ah, Good Old War Propaganda

• Calvinism may hold key to understanding America’s white evangelical movement

• 'Kill Everybody': Hegseth's Reported Order Echoes WWII War Crime (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this story)

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