Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Supreme Court poised to expand Trump power to fire independent federal agency members;
- House to vote this week on $900 billion Defense bill, $8 billion more than Trump requested for Pentagon;
- SF could lose $400 million under Big Beautiful Bill, could push SF deficit to 1 billion, as city considers new tax on “overpaid CEOs”;
- Nurses, healthcare organizations and Dem Rep Laura Friedman push back against fed cuts to student aid for some healthcare students;
- UN launches global humanitarian appeal, asking countries for 1% of what the spend on military;
- National parks ending free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth, instead adding Trump’s birthday