Shutdown, capitulation, and austerity: how Democrats failed to defend affordable healthcare
While the Democratic Party claimed to be defending working-class people in the US, its capitulation to a Republican spending bill leaves millions facing skyrocketing healthcare costs and exposes the limits of partisan opposition in the face of billionaire-driven austerity.
German government to pay US Army employees amid US government shutdown
12,000 civilian US Army employees working in Germany are set to receive their October salaries from the German Ministry of Finance.
As US government enters week four of shutdown, millions of low income families could lose food assistance
Several states have warned that if the shutdown continues until November, they will be forced to suspend SNAP and WIC benefits, threatening food assistance for millions
Trump pledges $20B to Argentina, threatens to cut aid if country votes left
The Milei-Trump meeting secured a USD 20 billion financial bailout for Argentina’s unstable economy. Trump made future aid conditional on Milei winning the upcoming elections.
Healthcare takes center stage in shutdown as Democratic base pressures silent leaders
As the shutdown begins, Republicans push deep cuts to Medicaid while Democrats face mounting pressure from their base to finally an even more decisive stand on healthcare
Over a 1,000 Hondurans set out in migrant caravan to US
The endemic corruption, poverty, lack of basic services and opportunities and widespread violence are the major motivating factors for the hundreds of Hondurans making their way towards the US
Trump appeals for border wall funding again in a prime time fear mongering speech
In a speech on the eve of his visit to the US-Mexico border, Trump cited slain Indian-origin police officer’s murder for his racist, anti-immigrant stance
- Nepal heads to first elections since mass protests
- Ecuadorian-Iranian Cultural Center attacked in Quito
- Israel escalates attacks against Lebanon
- Protests break out across South Asia against Iran war and assassination of Khamenei
- Iran continues waves of strikes against US bases in West Asia and offices of Israeli leaders
