The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/health/usaid-freeze-hiv-tb-nutrition.html Author : Stephanie Nolen Publish date : 2025-02-20 20:25:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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Every week, we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice to a question Carolyn Hax hasn’t answered. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/02/20/carolyn-hax-elderly-aunts-out/ Author : Carolyn Hax, Haben Kelati Publish date : 2025-02-20 20:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Elon Musk is set to deliver his debut speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday afternoon. CPAC organizers made a surprise announcement that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief and close President Donald Trump confidant would give a surprise address to attendees on Thursday afternoon. Other CPAC speakers this year include President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, immigration czar Tom Homan and many of the nation's leading conservative politicians and influencers. At the conference's opening ceremony Vance addressed a packed house and touted many of the Trump administration's accomplishments in its first full month. 'WASTEFUL AND DANGEROUS': DOGE'S TOP
The Trump administration has reassigned or forced out several dozen government employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in U.S. elections at multiple agencies, according to current and former officials. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/business/trump-foreign-influence-election-interference.html Author : Steven Lee Myers, Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel Publish date : 2025-02-20 19:16:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
About 7,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs at the tax agency, according to a person familiar with the decision. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/irs-layoffs-trump-firings-doge/ Author : Jacob Bogage, Shannon Najmabadi Publish date : 2025-02-20 18:04:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is planning to announce new state and city bills that would add oversight to the New York City mayor’s office, sources familiar with the governor’s decision told Fox News on Thursday, a move that comes amid Mayor Eric Adams’ legal woes and his recent cooperation with President Donald Trump.Instead of removing Adams from office, as the governor had reportedly considered, the sources said that Hochul would set up guardrails, which could include the addition of an independent monitor at City Hall.Hochul reportedly met with multiple New York leaders this week while considering removing Adams from his
European officials knew the president’s win would threaten the fundamental precepts of the post-World War II order. But the speed at which it is unraveling has created a crisis of enormous proportions. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/trump-nato.html Author : David E. Sanger Publish date : 2025-02-20 17:48:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against multiple vape companies on Thursday, alleging that they are “taking a page out of Big Tobacco’s playbook.” Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/20/new-york-vape-lawsuit-public-health-crisis/ Author : Anumita Kaur Publish date : 2025-02-20 17:42:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Speaking at the opening session of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) on Thursday morning, Vice President JD Vance touted the Trump administration’s success in its first month of restoring "safety and prosperity" to the American people, which he said is the president’s "fundamental goal."A week after his fiery speech to European political leaders in Munich, Germany, Vance spoke before a packed house at National Harbor, Maryland, in a conversation-style address with a CPAC organizer.He said Trump recognizes that "we have a historical mandate on a few issues," which he said were cracking down on illegal immigration, restoring American energy
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia-republicans.html Author : Robert Jimison Publish date : 2025-02-20 16:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
A total of 251 people were taken in the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. We’re tracking what happened to each of them. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/hamas-hostages-israel-war-gaza/ Author : Victoria Bisset, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro Publish date : 2025-02-20 15:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Advocates of a state bill protecting minors from gender transition surgeries are celebrating the Kansas legislature’s override of Gov. Laura Kelly's veto."As elected lawmakers, we have a duty to protect children from harm," Kansas Rep. Ron Bryce told Fox News Digital. Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed the Help Not Harm Act, on Feb. 11. The legislation mandates that state funds not be used "to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex." TRUMP ORDER RESTRICTING SAME-SEX CHANGE PROCEDURES FOR MINORES IN LINE WITH ‘DO NO HARM,’ DOCTOR SAYSIt also allows legal action to
Mr. Musk, one of President Trump’s main advisers, has not outlined a plan to reverse falling sales at the electric car company of which he is chief executive. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/business/elon-musk-tesla-trump.html Author : Jack Ewing Publish date : 2025-02-20 15:18:00 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/2025/02/20/trump-presidency-news/ Author : Sabrina Rodriguez, Mariana Alfaro, Maegan Vazquez, Brianna Tucker, Justine McDaniel Publish date : 2025-02-20 15:09:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
No industry is safe from data breaches. Over the past few months alone, we've seen security incidents hit almost every sector, including healthcare, finance and tech. Now, the shipping industry has joined the list, with a major global shipper that works with Amazon, eBay and Shopify exposing 14 million records.To make things worse, the open instance was found in December during the peak of international shipping when people are sending and receiving gifts all over the world. Researchers traced it back to an unprotected AWS bucket owned by Hipshipper.STAY PROTECTED & INFORMED! GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS —
The group staged a handover of four coffins with the remains of abductees. Shiri Bibas, an Israeli woman, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were said to be among those returned. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-hostages-bodies.html Author : Aaron Boxerman and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Publish date : 2025-02-20 13:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Dominique de Villepin, who warned against the Iraq War, sees Trump making catastrophic blunders. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/20/de-villepin-trump-ukraine-war-europe/ Author : Lee Hockstader Publish date : 2025-02-20 13:24:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Trump to rally Team USA with phone call before 4 Nations final, teases Canada with 51st state remark
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he would call the U.S. men’s hockey team ahead of their 4 Nations Face-Off final against Canada in a rematch of their heated game over the weekend.Bill Guerin, the general manager for the U.S. 4 Nations team, invited Trump to come to Boston for the final against Canada in an interview on Fox News Channel’s "America’s Newsroom." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMOn Truth Social, the busy president wrote he would give the team a ring and teased Canada again."I’ll be calling our GREAT American Hockey Team this morning to spur them on
Keith Kellogg and President Volodymyr Zelensky were expected to discuss possible paths to ending the war and ways to defuse tensions between Washington and Kyiv. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-kellogg-trump.html Author : Constant Méheut Publish date : 2025-02-20 12:37:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The president told reporters that city leaders are not doing enough to reduce crime, clean up graffiti and remove homeless encampments. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/20/trump-dc-take-over-bowser/ Author : Paul Schwartzman, Peter Hermann Publish date : 2025-02-20 11:59:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Dissidents from across the globe gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tell the stories of their survival and escape from authoritarian regimes. In just a few days, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will kick off its 58th session in that same city.In his opening remarks at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer set the record straight on the UNHRC."You know, when most people hear the words ‘UN Human Rights Council,’ they imagine in their minds men wearing long white beards, dressed in white robes strolling along Mt. Olympus, basing their decisions
Plus, please don’t ski down the volcano. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-ukraine-lgbtq-delta.html Author : Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and Kim Barker Publish date : 2025-02-20 11:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
James Wood, Trey Lipscomb and Nasim Nuñez all trained this winter with Gerardo Caceres, also known as ‘Coach G.’ Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/02/19/james-wood-coach-g-nationals-offseason-training/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage Author : Publish date : 2025-02-20 11:15:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Comedian Kelsey Cook offered her thoughts on why more and more people are flocking to podcasts for their information, as well as what has contributed to the meteoric rise of stand-up comedy in recent years.Cook has been a stand-up comedian for over 15 years, and her most recent special, "Mark Your Territory," premiered on Hulu and YouTube on Feb. 11.The main reason she believes people are turning to podcasts over mainstream media boils down to a lack of trust and relatability between the mainstream media and the public.COMIC AARON WEBER REVEALS THE SECRET BEHIND COMEDY’S ‘BOOM’ AND WHY IT’S ‘NEVER
Many of President Trump’s media allies were quick to celebrate this week’s negotiations, a contrast to the deep unease expressed by the foreign policy establishment. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/business/media/trump-russia-right-wing-media.html Author : Ken Bensinger and Michael M. Grynbaum Publish date : 2025-02-20 03:50:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.