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. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/mexico-trump-tariffs-troops-cartel-china.html Author : Simon Romero Publish date : 2025-03-02 15:42:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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Midweek warmup could fuel a chance of strong to severe storms on Wednesday. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/03/02/dc-weather-live-updates-cold-sunday-storms-wednesday/ Author : Molly Robey Publish date : 2025-03-02 14:30:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Gov. JB Pritzker and 16 Illinois Democrats sent a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on Tuesday demanding the Trump administration release $1.88 billion in federal funding to Illinois. Chair of the Illinois Republican Party Kathy Salvi dismissed it as Pritzker playing politics. Pritzker, Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Tammy Duckworth and congressional Democrats said in the letter that Illinois is "in danger of needing to pause operations, cancel projects, or lay off staff" if their funding is not restored, leaving a "detrimental impact on vulnerable people, local economies, and the state as a whole."The
The blazes were fueled by gusty winds, dry air and unusually high temperatures. Evacuations were continuing on Sunday in some neighborhoods. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/fire-north-carolina.html Author : Amy Graff and Simon J. Levien Publish date : 2025-03-02 14:17:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Luck gave everything to his shortened career as a quarterback. Now he’s back in the fray as the Cardinal’s first general manager. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/03/02/andrew-luck-stanford-general-manager/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage Author : Publish date : 2025-03-02 14:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
More than 50 school districts in Maine have policies that allow minors to hide their gender identity from their parents, according to a new watchdog report. Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization tracking gender ideologies in schools across the country, filed public records requests to confirm that at least 57 of the state's 192 school districts have policies excluding parents from knowing whether their children identify as another gender.The report comes after President Donald Trump chastised Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Millis last week over her refusal to enforce Trump's "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order.TRUMP VOWS TO CUT OFF
Israel has called for Hamas to accept a temporary extension of the existing cease-fire deal, and to release more hostages. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/europe/israel-aid-gaza-cease-fire-proposal.html Author : Isabel Kershner Publish date : 2025-03-02 12:52:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Conan O’Brien takes center stage at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/03/02/oscars-2025-how-watch-stream-host/ Author : Thomas Floyd Publish date : 2025-03-02 10:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Saturday in a bid to fast-track wildfire prevention projects.Newsom announced the move after President Donald Trump blasted the governor's handling of previous wildfire disasters. The order suspends certain environmental regulations that would have delayed forest management projects and other wildfire prevention measures."This year has already seen some of the most destructive wildfires in California history, and we’re only in March. Building on unprecedented work cutting red tape and making historic investments – we’re taking action with a state of emergency to fast-track critical wildfire projects even more," Newsom said in
European leaders have been working to support Ukraine and beef up their own defenses. But the blowup between President Trump and Ukraine’s president on Friday made those goals more urgent. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/europe/ukraine-trump.html Author : Jeanna Smialek Publish date : 2025-03-02 11:35:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Letter writer thinks a friend is too controlling of her husband’s communications with his ex-wife and co-parent. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/03/02/asking-eric-husband-talks-ex-wife/ Author : R. Eric Thomas Publish date : 2025-03-02 05:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Friday's extraordinary Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off the rails, leaving hopes for a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in question. Here are some reasons why things went wrong, and where it leaves efforts to end the war.1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: Those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (as with his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like
Several cartel operatives said that for the first time in years, they genuinely feared arrest or death at the hands of the authorities. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/americas/trump-threats-and-mexicos-crackdown-hit-mexican-cartel.html Author : Natalie Kitroeff, Paulina Villegas and Daniele Volpe Publish date : 2025-03-02 10:02:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Firefly Aerospace successfully reached the lunar surface, to be followed in short order by space companies Intuitive Machines and ispace. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/02/firefly-blue-ghost-moon-landing/ Author : Christian Davenport, Aaron Gregg Publish date : 2025-03-02 08:36:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
A man shared a bitter relationship conflict tied to a morning coffee routine — with over 13,000 people on social media reacting to it and more than 2,000 sharing their very direct comments and thoughts. Was he wrong, a man wondered in a social media post a few days ago, for "telling my girlfriend I wouldn't make her coffee anymore unless she stops micromanaging me?"He said he was 24 and that his girlfriend was 23. They'd been together for about two years, he said, "living together for roughly six months."DRINKING COFFEE AT A CERTAIN TIME OF DAY COULD REDUCE DEATH RISK,
The robotic vehicle is the first of three aiming to set down on the moon this year, and became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/science/blue-ghost-firefly-mission-1-moon-landing.html Author : Kenneth Chang Publish date : 2025-03-02 08:55:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
President Donald Trump designated English the official language in the United States for the first time in its nearly 250-year history. Here’s what that means. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/01/trump-english-official-language-explainer/ Author : Vivian Ho, Rachel Pannett Publish date : 2025-03-02 02:27:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Israeli officials announced Sunday that they are stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip and warned Hamas it would face "additional consequences" if it does not accept a new proposal for an extended ceasefire."With the conclusion of the 1st stage of the hostages deal and in light of Hamas's refusal to accept the Witkoff framework for the continuation of the talks, to which Israel agreed, PM Netanyahu decided: as of this morning, entry of all goods & supplies to the Gaza Strip be halted," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on X."Israel will not
Hamas is unlikely to accept the deal as outlined, an analyst said, since it involves returning half of the remaining hostages in Gaza with few reciprocal commitments from Israel. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/world/middleeast/israel-cease-fire-proposal.html Author : Eve Sampson Publish date : 2025-03-02 06:47:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
European leaders have questions about what President Trump might do with U.S. troops and want to keep NATO posture off the table in his talks with Moscow. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/02/us-troops-europe-trump-russia/ Author : Ellen Francis Publish date : 2025-03-02 07:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths as well as that of their dog could be the result of a tragic accident, according to forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden.A criminal investigation into the deaths of Hackman and Arakawa was launched Wednesday after New Mexico authorities found the 95-year-old actor, the 65-year-old classical pianist and one of their dogs dead in their Santa Fe home under circumstances deemed "suspicious."Santa Fe Sheriff Department officials have said that there were no obvious signs of foul play and no external trauma was seen on either Hackman or Arakawa. After preliminary autopsies were completed,
Decisions on U.S. policy toward China are being made based on diminishing insight into the country’s internal dynamics. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/opinion/china-united-states-academics.html Author : Yanzhong Huang Publish date : 2025-03-02 06:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
A fresh directive to workers ordering them to justify their employment weekly is still being met with resistance at the highest levels. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/01/second-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers-email/ Author : Evan Halper, Dan Lamothe, Hannah Natanson Publish date : 2025-03-02 03:03:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
An Indiana couple is accused of inflicting "nutritional" neglect on their 10-year-old son, zip-tying him and covering his head with a towel so he could not watch TV and telling his siblings to beat him up.Melody Rose Greenwood, 38, and Adam Jon Greenwood, 36, each face preliminary charges for neglect of a dependent.The abuse was uncovered when the "extremely skinny" child was taken to Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital for an exam that revealed "nutritional" neglect and child abuse, Muncie Police said, according to the Muncie Star Press.The suspected abuse was reported to the police.HUSBAND OF RUBY FRANKE, UTAH
Their arrival has upset their accusers and alarmed women’s rights groups. Conservatives were divided. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/andrew-tate-brothers-us-reaction.html Author : Isabella Kwai and Michael Levenson Publish date : 2025-03-02 03:06:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.