The Sudanese army says it has recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum after nearly two years of fighting. / BBC News An explainer for how Germany's "fiscal flip" this week stunned Europe's diplomats. / Politico Unrelated: Photographs from Berlin's feminist noise-punk scene. / VICE
European leaders gather to find the money and rules needed to turn the bloc into a military superpower. / Politico Hungary passes a law banning any pride marches held by the LGBTQ+ community. / BBC News President Trump removes all democrats from the board of the Federal Trade Commission. / Vox Tesla protesters
Hundreds of Palestinians are killed after Israel resumes its war on Gaza. / Al Jazeera Peru declares another state of emergency in Lima over a crime wave. / Reuters Investors are slashing holdings of American equities by the most on record. / yahoo! Finance Military websites are scrubbing stories about Native American Code
A reporter in Canada explains how furious people are with the United States. / Vox "If you are not a citizen of the US, and you are going through an immigration process, your first thought needs to be: How can this process be weaponized against me?" / USA Today The
Greenlanders vote to rebuff President Trump's bid to control their island. / BBC News Chinese automaker BYD delivers more fully electric vehicles than Tesla for the first time in the fourth quarter. / rest of world Related: Some thoughts about "inventive arrays of everyday small vehicles" in Shanghai.
Ukraine says it is ready to accept a US-led proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia. / BBC News A separatist militant group in Pakistan says it has taken 214 hostages after hijacking a train. / The New York Times [+] The West is said to have bet on the wrong
Secretary of State Rubio says there's "no military solution" to resolving Russia's invasion of Ukraine. / The Guardian A Ukranian newspaper uncovers how Russian defense manufacturers are covertly buying American microchips. / The Kyiv Independent Historian Stephen Kotkin: Trump may be wrong in his analysis of
Since Trump's inauguration, records show multiple incidents of violence have erupted at Tesla facilities in the US, including one person who tossed molotov cocktails at vehicles. / The Washington Post [+] See also: At a dealership in France, more than a dozen Teslas were ignited in an apparent act of
Why may President Trump's $880 billion in spending cuts come from Medicaid? Because otherwise the math doesn't add up. / The 19th A now-deleted list of government properties for sale includes a secretive CIA facility. / WIRED Related: How Trump's efforts to cut environmental red
The 2025 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, is now live. / Field Notes, The Tournament of Books Denmark's postal service plans to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025. / BBC News Russia is working hard to hold on to its military bases in Syria. / The
