Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks and insurers while building a real estate empire.
- Biden visits UAW picket line, tells union to ‘stick with it.’
- Congress returns to work in crisis mode with five days to go before a government shutdown.
- Striking writers have stopped picketing after reaching a tentative labor deal with Hollywood studios.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block enforcement of a special master redrawing of a Republican-drawn congressional map which the court ruled violated the Voting Rights Act.
- The first of thousands of Lahaina residents who lost their homes in the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century have returned to their devastated properties on Maui.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom signs laws that, among other things, raises taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school safety programs.
- Oakland merchants and restaurants hold one-day business strike to protest the city’s lack of action on safety and support for local businesses.