Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Former president Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial will continue next week after an appeals judge turned down a bid by Trump to halt it.
- According to a United Nations report, about 20,000 children on average were forced from their homes every day between 2016 and 2021 due to the impacts of storms, floods, fires, and other extreme weather worsened by climate change.
- President Joe Biden celebrated unexpectedly high employment gains in September’s jobs report today. Employment numbers defied surging interest rates, financial market turmoil, the ongoing threat of a government shutdown, and an uncertain outlook to add the most jobs in any month since January.
- Newly elected liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz has declined to recuse herself from a pair of redistricting lawsuits, which may increase the chance that Republicans, who control the legislature and drew the maps, may proceed with the unprecedented step of impeaching her.
- The United Auto Workers union says it will not expand its strikes against Detroit’s three automakers after General Motors made a breakthrough concession on unionizing electric vehicle battery plants.
- Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow Chief Executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit. They say he owes millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe going forward.
- The Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, today announced the launch of the “Vacant to Vibrant Program” which aims to fill vacant commercial spaces with pop-up stores in San Francisco.