The Detroit Opera has cancelled its season-opening production of The Girl of the Golden West (La fanciulla del West) by Giacomo Puccini.

The death toll from flash flooding in Texas continues to rise, now above 100, with many still missing and presumed drowned.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid down the law to military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific: “Dramatically escalate your military build-up and put yourselves on a war footing for conflict with China.”

The letter—addressed to the Association of University Heads in Israel, the Board of Academic Public Colleges, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Academics for Israeli Democracy—is a reaction to the launching of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard University Thursday informing the school’s administration that she was revoking its ability to enroll international students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time officially stated that an Israeli war aim is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, openly stating what had been the unspoken goal of Israel since October 7, 2023.

In a massive attack on the working class, on Sunday, House Republicans confirmed that their main proposal for offsetting some of their planned $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and mega-corporations will come in the form of at least $880 billion in cuts to social programs, centered on Medicaid.

In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.

On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.

The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.

The imposition of the new U.S. tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world.

Over the past year, the United States and Israel have waged a major regional war, coordinated with the Gaza genocide, targeting Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran itself.

The U.S. and Israeli governments have opened up discussions with officials from Sudan, Somalia and the internationally unrecognized breakaway Somaliland over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza and their forcible relocation to those countries.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night took the first step in the Trump administration’s plans for devastating cuts in social spending, particularly on healthcare, adopting an initial budget plan by a 217-215 vote.

Trump administration officials and fascists from around the world are currently gathering at Maryland’s National Harbor for the annual U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press.

More than 40 substantial lawsuits have been filed over the last three weeks challenging President Donald Trump’s provocative executive orders on the budget, access to government data, the rights of federal employees, including inspectors general, campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, birthright citizenship and other burning issues.

Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.

Firefighters are being flown in from neighboring states like Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as local resources have been depleted. This shortage can be directly attributed to recent budget cuts signed by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, with the Los Angeles Fire Department seeing a $17.6 million reduction, while the police department received a $126 million increase.