New Today -- 10 May 2017

Perspective

Three years after the lead poisoning of Flint, residents face water shutoffs, home foreclosures

Three years after the decision to switch Flint's water supply to the polluted Flint River, nothing has been done to address the catastrophic health consequences of the lead poisoning of tens of thousands of working-class residents.

News & Analysis

Trump firing of FBI director touches off political storm

Democrats condemned the firing of FBI Director James Comey and demanded the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Senate hearing revives Democratic campaign over alleged Trump-Russia connections

Washington prepares to send up to 5,000 more troops into Afghanistan

More than half of young people in Europe would join a "large-scale uprising"

Further arrests of German army personnel in neo-Nazi terror plot

Democrat Moon Jae-in wins South Korean presidential election

Life expectancy study shows 20-year gap between richest and poorest US counties

Puerto Rico to shut down 179 public schools

Detroit water shutoff crisis intensifies under bill repayment scheme

Podemos no-confidence vote in Rajoy aimed at preserving bourgeois rule in Spain

Living standards plunge in UK

SPD vote plummets in Schleswig-Holstein state election in Germany

Australian budget set to heighten social and political antagonisms

Australian media union shuts down week-long Fairfax journalists' strike

Commentary

Sister of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner pitches investment-for-visa scheme in China

Arts

13 Reasons Why: The unhappiness of youth