New Today -- 5 January 2019

Perspective

Wall Street rules

The Federal Reserve, responding to Thursday's stock market selloff, declared it was "listening" to the markets and ready to scrap its plans to raise interest rates.

News & Analysis

Trump threatens to declare national emergency to build border wall

Legal options are reportedly being seriously considered within the Trump administration for circumventing Congress, including redirecting funds already appropriated to the Department of Defense.

Ecuador unveils "special examination" of Julian Assange's asylum

Scuffles in German city of Amberg exploited to incite right-wing campaign

NBC journalist resigns, blasting media as "defender of Washington and the system"

India's unions to hold two-day "general strike" next week

Fifteen Indian coal miners trapped, likely killed, in mine disaster

UAW lawsuit against GM pits temporary part-time workers against laid-off Lordstown workers over jobs

Report: 452 child workers died in the US from 2003 to 2016

Mumia Abu-Jamal wins right to reargue appeal of his 1982 conviction

Protests against poverty, housing evictions and repossessions spread across Ireland

Growing signs of Australian economic fragility

Australian stripped of citizenship despite being made stateless

Arts Review

Netflix's The Innocent Man: The American injustice system

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific