↩ Accueil
❌

Vue lecture

NPR and PBS Face Federal Funding Cuts: What to Know

✇NYT
Par :Benjamin Mullin
↗️
Cutting funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting could be catastrophic for local stations, particularly those in rural areas.

© Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

Representative Robert Garcia, Democrat of California, at a hearing on federal funding for NPR and PBS in March. Supporters of public broadcasting point to educational programming like “Sesame Street.”
  •  
  • ↗️

Trump’s War With Powell Throws a Little-Known Planning Board Into Scrutiny

✇NYT
Par :Alan Rappeport
↗️
The National Capital Planning Commission has become pivotal in the administration’s campaign to discredit Jerome H. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

© Ting Shen for The New York Times

White House officials have focused their attention on the cost of renovating the Federal Reserve building, suggesting that the $2.5 billion makeover could be grounds for sacking Jerome H. Powell.
  •  
  • ↗️

Trump’s Withering Criticism of Powell Puts Fed Decisions Under Microscope

✇NYT
Par :Colby Smith
↗️
The central bank is poised to hold interest rates steady this month, but there could be a path to cut as early as September.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

The Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome H. Powell, have been the subject of relentless attacks by President Trump over the central bank’s reluctance to lower borrowing costs.
  •  
  • ↗️

Alan Bergman, Half of a Prolific Lyric-Writing Team, Dies at 99

✇NYT
Par :Anita Gates
↗️
With his wife, Marilyn, he wrote the words to memorable TV theme songs and the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were” and “The Windmills of Your Mind.”

© Lennox McLendon/Associated Press

Marilyn and Alan Bergman at their home in Beverly Hills in 1980. They were among the favored lyricists of stars like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand.
  •  
  • ↗️

Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Former President, Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor Before Trial

✇NYT
Par :Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
↗️
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, to stay home most hours, defying President Trump’s demands that charges against him be dropped.

© Luis Nova/Associated Press

Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the country’s Senate on Thursday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.
  •  
  • ↗️

Trump Tariffs on Russia Could Hurt Wary U.S. Farmers

✇NYT
Par :Kevin Draper
↗️
President Trump’s plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on Russian goods could raise the cost of urea, a key fertilizer in corn and other row crops.

© KC McGinnis for The New York Times

Last year, the United States imported about $1.3 billion worth of fertilizer from Russia.
  •  
  • ↗️

As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

✇NYT
Par :Alan Blinder · Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
↗️
President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.
  •  
  • ↗️

Debate Ignites at U.S. School Over Netanyahu’s Hall of Fame Status

✇NYT
Par :Kenneth P. Vogel
↗️
Recent comments by the Israeli prime minister and a Fox News commentator about Cheltenham High School, their alma mater in suburban Philadelphia, have inflamed a debate.

© Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times

Benjamin Netanyahu, known then as Ben, graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1967, and was inducted into its hall of fame in 1999.
  •  
  • ↗️

Should Teens Vote?

✇NYT
Par :Evan Gorelick
↗️
We examine the voting age around the world.

© Carl Court/Getty Images

In London.
  •  
  • ↗️

UK, France and Germany Plan for a Post-U.S. Future

✇NYT
Par :Michael D. Shear and Jim Tankersley
↗️
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain are building parallel diplomatic institutions to defend Europe as President Trump retreats from the continent.

© Pool photo by Leon Neal

From left: President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany at a summit in Tirana, Albania, in May.
  •  
  • ↗️

Who Are the Druse? The Religious Minority at the Center of Israel and Syria’s Tensions

✇NYT
Par :Euan Ward
↗️
Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now, members are at the heart of the region’s shifting power struggles.

© Shadi Al-Dubaisi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.
  •  
  • ↗️

Tariffs on Russia Could Hurt Wary U.S. Farmers

✇NYT
Par :Kevin Draper
↗️
President Trump’s plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on Russian goods could raise the cost of urea, a key fertilizer in corn and other row crops.

© KC McGinnis for The New York Times

Last year, the United States imported about $1.3 billion worth of fertilizer from Russia.
  •  
  • ↗️

One of These BRICS Is Not Like the Others

✇NYT
Par :Alex Travelli
↗️
President Trump’s attacks on the group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, Russia and China, have put one member — India — in an uncomfortable spot.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India — the only founding member of BRICS that’s closer to the United States than to China — wants to keep his allies content without irritating President Trump.
  •  
  • ↗️

As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

✇NYT
Par :Alan Blinder · Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
↗️
President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.
  •  
  • ↗️