The Daily Populous

Thursday March 20th, 2025 day edition

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A new shipment of Western F-16 fighter jets has arrived in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed to journalists on March 19.

The president stated that several F-16s had arrived but did not reveal the exact number of jets delivered.

"Additional F-16s have arrived in Ukraine.

And the good news is that several F-16 aircraft have arrived in Ukraine," Zelensky told reporters during a briefing, RBC Ukraine reported.

Earlier in the day Russian media claimed that an F-16 jets was downed in Sumy Oblast, a claim that Ukraine's Air Force denied.

Zelensky did not specify from where the jets were delivered from.

Ukraine has been requesting F-16s since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, with the first jets arriving in August 2024 after approval from several Western countries. »

Video Game Workers Form First North American Industry-Wide Union With Communications Workers of America

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Today, a group of cross-discipline video game workers have announced the first-ever direct-join industry-wide union in North America, known as United Videogame Workers, organizing with Communications Workers of America (UVW-CWA).

In a press release, UVW-CWA shared that its mission is "to not only build community and solidarity amongst video game workers, but also to build large-scale education campaigns about labor organizing in the video game industry."

Though this is the first North American industry-wide union, other similar groups exist in the UK and France, and developers in union-friendly Sweden are also increasingly exercising their rights to form union clubs within their companies. »

Trump to sign executive order calling for shutdown of Education Department

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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that's been a longtime target of conservatives.

Trump has derided the Department of Education as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology.

At the same time, Trump has leaned on the Education Department to promote elements of his agenda. »