New Today -- 9 June 2018

Perspective

US-European tensions erupt at the G7 summit

The bitter denunciations of America's trade war measures by its closest allies are just one manifestation of the divisions ripping apart the world geopolitical order.

News & Analysis

Trump EPA to shred rules on toxic pollution

The chemical industry is writing the rules that will regulate its discharge of toxins.

US suicides increased by 25 percent from 1999 to 2016

Cincinnati, Ohio area fentanyl overdoses increase by one thousand percent over the last five years

Trump administration to send 1,600 ICE detainees to federal prisons

Mexico responds to Trump's trade war measures with tariffs on US goods

Japan's ruling party calls for a doubling of military expenditure

Australian "foreign interference" bills seek to protect "US secrets"

Italy: Immigrant harvest worker shot dead

Brexit constitutional stand-off reaches UK Supreme Court

Police to investigate London Fire Brigade over Grenfell fire: The real criminals remain at large

Right-wing populist Doug Ford wins Ontario's election

As UAW Constitutional Convention opens: the class issues facing autoworkers

Oakland Education Association announces contract negotiation impasse

Nashville teachers, school workers denounce pay freeze

Illinois Governor calls for reinstatement of the death penalty

Defend Julian Assange!

Australian officials visit Julian Assange as campaign to free him expands

Professor Stuart Rees, former director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, calls for Assange's liberty

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific