Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Senate funds Homeland Security Department for 2 weeks while negotiations continue over restrictions on ICE;
- Oakland mayor Lee signs orders to protect city’s immigrants from Trump’s enforcement campaign;
- Minneapolis mayor says defenders of parks and streets are now defending democracy;
- President Trump considers basing his Board of Peace in former Washington DC site of US Institute of Peace that the administration seized last year;
- UN chief Guterres says 2026 shaping up to be year of “constant surprises and chaos”