Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Former president Donald Trump to be arraigned on charges that he participated in a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- The probe into the January 6th insurrection at the nation’s capital has turned into an indictment for former President Donald Trump and fodder for partisan squabbling. Democrats say the indictment follows the narrative laid out by the House January 6th Committee’s investigation, while former Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani is blasting the federal prosecutor as an “unethical lawyer”.
- Russian drone strikes hit a Ukrainian port on Romania’s border that is key to grain exports
- Chinese capital of Beijing reports heaviest rainfall in 140 years.
- Pittsburgh synagogue gunman to be sentenced to death.
- Fitch Ratings downgrades the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance.”
- Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in front of the Philippines Consulate in San Francisco to protest against what they said is an increased government surveillance in their communities, and to demand a better government responses to their concerns about the political and economic crisis in the Asian nation.
- Lawsuit charges a San Francisco State University employee was subjected to racist comments and treatment by a superior, and university officials knew for years but did nothing about it.