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Trump and the Press

The president wants journalists to parrot his views and face consequences if they don’t.

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Clock Ticks Down Toward Sweeping Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

President Trump could still choose to pause the tariffs he is threatening to put on America’s largest trading partners Tuesday, but industries are preparing for the worst.

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The tariffs set to go into effect Tuesday would add a 25 percent fee on top of Mexican and Canadian exports coming across the border, and an additional 10 percent for Chinese goods.

How Trump’s Canada Tariffs Could Impact Both the U.S. and Canada

President Trump’s plan to apply 25 percent tariffs on Canadian exports is set to start on Tuesday. They would deal a brutal blow to Canada’s economy.

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Workers at Lanex Manufacturing, an auto parts company in Windsor, Ontario. The Canadian and U.S. auto industries are deeply intertwined.

At Supreme Court, Mexico to Offer Culprit for Cartel Violence: Gun Makers

The dispute focuses on whether Mexico can hold U.S. manufacturers liable for gun violence and comes amid rising tensions between the countries.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico watched as a gun was destroyed in Mexico City last month. Mexicans were encouraged to surrender their firearms and ammunition for cash.

Released From Hamas Captivity, a Hostage Finds His Family Gone

Eli Sharabi gave himself up on Oct. 7, 2023, hoping to save his wife and daughters. After some 500 days in the tunnels of Gaza, he emerged to learn that they had been killed.

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Eli Sharabi, center, being handed over by Hamas last month. He had been kept underground, his legs constantly shackled.

Greenland’s Minerals: The Harsh Reality Behind the Glittering Promise

There is excitement about the potentially lucrative resources scattered around the island, especially the rare earths. But extreme weather, fired-up environmentalists and other factors have tempered hopes of a bonanza.

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Greenlanders have expressed caution about any new heavy industry. The island’s governing political party swept into office four years ago on an environmentalist platform and shut down one of the most promising mining projects.

Cuomo’s First Mayoral Campaign Promise: A Plan to Tackle Affordability

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has jumped into the New York City mayoral race. His first proposal focuses on affordability.

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Andrew M. Cuomo’s affordability plan embraces ideas that have circulated among Democrats, including building more affordable housing and expanding a half-priced MetroCard program for poor New Yorkers.

Ukraine Is Europe’s War Now

Ukraine wants a peace deal — it just doesn’t want to end up destroyed by peace’s terms.

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The Dnipro river near Kyiv in February.

China’s Vow of ‘Leniency’ in Plea Deals Erodes Rights to Fair Trial

China has embraced a plea deal system, but lawyers and scholars fear that it is being abused to further erode individual rights — and for shakedowns.

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The South Korean professional soccer player Son Jun-ho’s legal fight against match fixing and bribery charges in China has brought to light problems with that country’s plea agreement system.

Our Favorite Photos From the Oscars Red Carpet

The show before the show, aglitter with stars and fashion, is also home to tender moments you don’t always see.

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Zoe Saldaña won best supporting actress in a film for “Emilia Pérez.”

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid

The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

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Current and former U.S.A.I.D. employees and supporters of foreign aid rallied on Capitol Hill in Washington last month.

Khalil Fong, Hong Kong Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 41

Singing in both Mandarin and English, he brought a soul and R&B sensibility to Chinese pop.

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Khalil Fong in 2018. His music found an audience in Hong Kong, mainland China and much of the wider Chinese-speaking world.

Morgan Freeman Honors Gene Hackman at Oscars

Freeman and Hackman, who was found dead last week at the age of 95, appeared together in the 1992 western “Unforgiven.”

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Gene Hackman, who earned Oscars for “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” was honored at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

Europe Races to Repair a Split Between the U.S. and Ukraine

European leaders pledge to assemble a “coalition of the willing” to develop a plan for ending Ukraine’s war with Russia, which they hope could win the backing of a skeptical President Trump.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, left, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, center, and President Emmanuel Macron of France in London on Sunday.

N.Y. State Police Investigate Death of Another Inmate at Upstate Prison

A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday. Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers.

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The death of a 22-year-old prisoner at Mid-State Correctional Facility is under investigation. The prison is near another facility where an inmate was fatally beaten in December.

How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

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“This is my most grown up novel,” Adichie said. “Obviously I’m older than when I wrote the others. But it’s more that I feel myself made new by experience. I’m aware of how fleeting everything is.”

Federal Officials Underplaying Measles Vaccination, Experts Say

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described the outbreak in West Texas last week as a “top priority.” But he has not explicitly encouraged Americans to get vaccinated.

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A digital billboard with a message about measles from the South Plains Public Health District in Seminole, Texas, on Thursday.

Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s emergency declaration calls for sending 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

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Officials from the State Department, led by Marco Rubio, told the House and Senate committees responsible for reviewing the weapons orders about the emergency authorization on Friday.

After He Ran a Cartoon on the War in Gaza, Gannett Fired Him

Tony Doris, the editorial page editor at The Palm Beach Post, was fired after he selected a cartoon that drew criticism from a nearby Jewish organization.

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Opinion editor of the Palm Beach Post Tony Doris was fired for running a cartoon that was critical of the IDF.

What to Know About Israel’s Decision to Halt Aid to Gaza

The move was apparently part of a bid to force Hamas into accepting a temporary extension of a cease-fire and releasing more hostages.

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Trucks carrying aid destined for Gaza lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday after Israel’s decision to stop aid from entering the enclave.

Greenpeace Faces Tough Start in Trial Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

The environmental group, battling a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, told the court it can’t get a fair trial.

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Demonstrators in North Dakota in 2016. The pipeline owner, Energy Transfer, claims Greenpeace played a major role in costly protests, which Greenpeace denies.

Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire.

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“The Last Day of Pompeii,” a 19th-century painting by the Russian artist Karl Bryullov.

Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia

The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.

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The order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is part of a larger re-evaluation at the Pentagon of all operations against Russia.

Rubio Attacks Zelensky, Firmly Defending Trump and Vance

Facing a wave of criticism from his former Senate colleagues, Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed the complaints lobbed by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance against Ukraine’s leader.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office on Friday, during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that went disastrously awry.

How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy

President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

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The Biden strategy was to erect legal and other barriers intended to make it tough to undo its work. Trump has already broken through many of them.

Syrian Forces Deployed in Druse Town After Deadly Gunfight

An uneasy calm prevailed in the town on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, two days after a gunfight between local men and security forces.

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A Druse man watching an Israeli soldier in December in the buffer zone on the border between Israel and Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

The ‘S.N.L.’ Hosts Who Give 110%

A look back at the pro athletes who have tested their fortitude at 30 Rock. “Sometimes it’s a train wreck,” a producer said. Or an incredible surprise.

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Travis Kelce joked about his overlooked reality dating show when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2023.

What Would the Church Say About End-of-Life Decisions for a Pope?

Francis has weighed in publicly before on ethics for end-of-life medical situations, but it is unknown whether he has made known his own wishes should he face such a crossroads.

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Nuns praying for Pope Francis at the foot of a statue of Pope John Paul II, near the entrance to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where the Pope is being treated.

Mexico’s Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Troops, Cartels and China

Aiming to appease President Trump, Mexico is hitting China with tariffs, handing cartel leaders over to the United States and using C.I.A. intelligence to hunt down others.

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Mexican forces protecting an area in Culiacán, Sinaloa, where the authorities confirmed the arrest of two high-ranking members of El Chapo’s faction of the Sinaloa Cartel last month.

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead

Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.

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The I.R.S. office building in Washington. Elon Musk’s group took credit for the cancellation of a $1.9 billion contract for I.R.S. work that had been completed last year.

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy

The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

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Mr. Musk now finds himself spearheading a radical takeover of the federal bureaucracy, empowered by President Trump in ways that have no historical parallel for an unelected adviser.
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