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New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics. Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1. Responding to a question from Democracy Now!, Sanders said Mamdani’s successful campaign for mayor was a blueprint for the Democratic Party, with affordability and workers’ rights at the center of the agenda. “We have the grassroots of America behind us,” Sanders said. Starbucks workers at unionized stores across the United States launched an open-ended strike November 13 accusing the company of unfair labor practices. Starbucks Workers United has been bargaining for a contract with the company since early last year. Monday’s picket came just hours after Starbucks reached a $38 million settlement with New York City for labor violations including denying workers stable and predictable schedules.

Lethal domestic violence is persistent, despite a statewide decline in overall homicides.

Modern science is increasingly validating what many traditions have long held: Singing and chanting can have profound health benefits.

Mark Carney framed the decision as essential to developing the province’s energy sector while reducing Canadian dependence on the US.

TotalEnergies also sold 10% of a different Nigerian offshore field to Shell.

The offensive included a series of drone attacks on oil vessels in the Black Sea that Kyiv alleges were part of Russia’s “shadow fleet."

People in countries around the world are drinking less alcohol.

"I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little," Kelly said of the unarmed fishermen while discussing the administration's unauthorized boat strikes.

As bipartisan criticism intensifies over U.S. attacks on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the White House is defending a September 2 operation that killed 11 people. The Washington Post reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second attack to kill two survivors of an initial strike, an order that legal experts say would constitute a war crime. The White House on Monday confirmed the second strike but said the authorization came not from Hegseth, but from Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, then head of Joint Special Operations Command. This comes as Hegseth threatens to court-martial Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a former naval officer, after Kelly and five other Democratic veterans urged service members to refuse unlawful commands. “Killing civilians who are not engaged in armed conflict against us is a war crime,” says law professor David Cole of Georgetown University.