China dominates in critical minerals, and President Trump has turned to high-pressure tactics to acquire them. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-biden-minerals-ukraine.html Author : Edward Wong Publish date : 2025-02-26 23:49:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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States would face ugly choices: dropping people, slashing benefits or cutting other spending. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/26/house-gop-budget-medicaid-expansion/ Author : Karen Tumulty Publish date : 2025-02-26 23:30:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick host Riley Gaines delivered a message Wednesday to states defying President Donald Trump's executive order to keep transgender athletes out of women's and girls sports. Gaines appeared on Fox News' "The Story With Martha McCallum" to praise U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for urging states who have not complied with the order by threatening to withhold federal funding. "The Constitution is very clear that federal laws, such as Title IX, takes precedence over state laws," Gaines said. "Even with President Trump back in the White House, the war on woke has not been won yet."CLICK HERE FOR
A secret meeting, and echoes of Benedict’s exit, have heightened talk that Francis could resign, too. But the possibility is anyone’s guess. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/world/europe/pope-francis-resignation-illness.html Author : Jason Horowitz and James Hill Publish date : 2025-02-26 22:22:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Records show a Department of Labor component that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/26/doge-federal-workforce-firings-job-cuts/ Author : Emily Davies, Jeff Stein, Hannah Natanson Publish date : 2025-02-26 22:26:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The White House fired back at "disgraced" progressive filmmaker and activist Michael Moore’s criticism of the Trump administration’s deportations, saying his comments are "a strong contender for dumbest statement of the year."Moore, who has directed a score of highly politically-charged documentaries, published a lengthy blog post on Tuesday titled, "Our Muslim Boy Wonder," in which he warned that by deporting illegal immigrants, the U.S. may miss out on the person who could cure cancer, the next equivalent of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, or the person who will save the world from "the asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032.""Who's really
The United States is in talks with several countries in an effort to immediately secure new supplies. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/egg-prices-us-imports.html Author : Linda Qiu Publish date : 2025-02-26 21:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Read more Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/02/26/nflpa-player-survey-commanders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage Author : Nicki Jhabvala Publish date : 2025-02-26 21:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Former Obama advisor Van Jones praised President Donald Trump for his newly-appointed "pardon czar," Alice Marie Johnson.On Thursday, Trump appointed Johnson, a woman he pardoned during his first term, as "pardon czar" during a Black History Month event at the White House. Johnson had previously been convicted of nonviolent drug trafficking in Memphis, Tennessee and, after serving 21 years, her life sentence was commuted by Trump. Jones praised the president for this latest appointment as he spoke to liberal commentator Donny Deutsch on Monday’s episode of the "On Brand" podcast."He put Miss Alice Johnson – the formerly incarcerated Black woman who he
The administration is positioning itself to clamp down on Chinese investment and access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-china-crackdown.html Author : Ana Swanson Publish date : 2025-02-26 19:17:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The plan includes biosecurity upgrades and purchasing millions of eggs from other countries, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/02/26/egg-imports-avian-flu-prices/ Author : Tim Carman Publish date : 2025-02-26 19:15:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Police discovered that a man allegedly killed his brother in Princeton, New Jersey, after he called 911 to report a fire and a dead body at the luxury apartment complex where the victim's body was found, prosecutors said.Matthew Hertgen, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his 26-year-old brother, Joseph Hertgen. He is also charged with third- and fourth-degree weapons charges related to possession of a golf club and knife, as well as animal cruelty related to the death of a family cat.A police source who spoke anonymously to The New York Post said that
Police officers, responding to a 911, found her unresponsive in a Manhattan apartment on Wednesday morning, the authorities said. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/arts/television/michelle-trachtenberg-dead.html Author : Michael Levenson Publish date : 2025-02-26 18:24:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Marlean Ames challenged rulings requiring members of majority groups to meet a higher bar to prove job discrimination than groups that traditionally face bias. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/supreme-court-workplace-discrimination-marlean-ames/ Author : Justin Jouvenal Publish date : 2025-02-26 17:03:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
President Donald Trump signaled Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might be the next agency on the chopping block as his administration continues to unveil new cuts to the federal government. Trump told reporters Wednesday during the first meeting with his Cabinet that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is eyeing cutting 65% of federal employees from the agency. "I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from Environmental, and we’re going to speed up the process too at the same time," Trump said. "He had a lot of
Thousands of Israeli lined the streets to mourn the Bibases, who were taken hostage in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and had become a symbol of the country’s trauma. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/world/middleeast/israel-bibas-funeral.html Author : Isabel Kershner Publish date : 2025-02-26 16:49:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Kyiv and Washington have agreed to a framework to develop Ukraine’s mineral resources after the war, reportedly including lithium, graphite and uranium. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/18/ukraine-war-rare-minerals-metals/ Author : Leo Sands Publish date : 2025-02-26 16:56:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
USAID WORKERS SEND MESSAGE TO TRUMP ON BOXES WHILE LEAVING OFFICE FOR LAST TIMECNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings countered a CNN panel suggesting that President Trump is a "dictator" with a recent report showing that Trump has been more transparent with the press than other modern administrations.During an episode of "CNN Newsnight" on Tuesday, Jennings ripped former DNC spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa and host Abby Phillip for arguing that Trump banning journalists from the White House makes him like a dictator. The conservative responded by citing a post from a former CNN journalist revealing that Trump has answered many more
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.” Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html Author : Benjamin Mullin Publish date : 2025-02-26 15:43:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/trump-presidency-news/ Author : Sabrina Rodriguez, Mariana Alfaro, Brianna Tucker, Justine McDaniel Publish date : 2025-02-26 15:39:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Women’s sports activists called on the NCAA to clear up the alleged issues in the organization's new transgender-athlete policy in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order.The current and former collegiate athletes were featured in an XX-XY Athletics video.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"We see you, NCAA," the clip began. "You announced a new policy after Trump’s executive order. This policy does not protect females. It sets no clear boundaries. The new policy does nothing to ensure women’s sports are for women only."You said you were going to comply with federal law but you didn’t. Your policy
A copy of the agreement obtained by The New York Times says that the United States “supports Ukraine’s effort to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace.” Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/world/europe/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-security.html Author : Andrew E. Kramer and Constant Méheut Publish date : 2025-02-26 13:47:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Many Trump supporters welcome a strongman government, with 55 percent viewing it positively. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/26/trump-threats-democracy-experts-polling/ Author : Philip Bump Publish date : 2025-02-26 12:30:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Gov. Janet Mills of Maine is attempting to capitalize on her moment in the national spotlight after she got into a public dust-up with President Donald Trump last week over her state's defiance of his executive order demanding biological males who identify as transgender stay out of women's sports. The pair got into a verbal skirmish on Friday at the White House after Trump said the night prior that Maine would not receive any federal funding until it started taking action to prevent transgender women from competing on women's sports teams. "We're going to follow the law, sir. We'll see you in
The terminations, which hit agencies involved in protecting the nation’s food supply and agricultural products, could have long-lasting consequences, experts said. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/science/trump-plant-animal-health.html Author : Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Publish date : 2025-02-26 12:56:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.