New Today -- 25 May 2017

Perspective

Official account of Manchester suicide bombing unravels

It took less than 24 hours for Prime Minister May's claim that Manchester suicide bomber Salman Ramadan Abedi was known to British intelligence only "up to a point" to be exposed as a lie.

News & Analysis

Trump budget aims to fatally cripple Medicaid

The measures proposed by the White House would cut off tens of millions of people from access to health care, dramatically increasing disease, suffering and death.

Trump to press for increased defence spending at NATO summit

Quebec construction strike rattles Canada's ruling elite

After Manchester attack, France prolongs state of emergency

Duterte declares martial law on Philippine island of Mindanao

Progressive Alliance rally in London calls for support for "globalist" elite

German Social Democratic election programme: More police, more surveillance, faster deportations

Activists' tribunal into neo-Nazi murders plans to name those responsible

Prominent analyst predicts "imminent" US war on North Korea

Mounting massacres against rural workers and indigenous groups in Brazil

Half of US Fortune 500 companies pay next to nothing in state taxes

Eastern Michigan University part-time lecturers face 25 percent pay cut

Crisis at Canadian subprime mortgage lender

Sri Lanka in a balancing act over China's One Belt, One Road project

Australian inquest into Sydney siege whitewashes unanswered questions

Arts

The 2017 Whitney Bienniala survey of contemporary American art: What does it show?

A conversation with artist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer