The dollar falls to a three-year low, as a trade war and threats against the Federal Reserve drive "Sell America" trades. / Semafor Andrew Burmon: If the fig leaf of prestige falls, the upper middle class will discover how angry it is at "the misalignment of their
Pope Francis has died at 88, "the first [pope] in generations to make the Vatican feel less like a fortress and more like a field hospital." / Migrant Insider The Bush administration argued Guantanamo should be beyond the reach of the courts; CECOT is the Trump administration's
Staffing cuts at HHS will apparently force the FDA to suspend its network of labs that test food for pathogens and contaminants. / Reuters World Health Organization members agree on a treaty to prevent pandemic disorganization and competition for resources—"the US will not be bound by the pact when
Chinese President Xi Jinping wraps up a Southeast Asia tour to strengthen already robust trade relations. / The Associated Press Goldman Sachs says a decoupling of the United States and China may cost the US $2.5 trillion. / The South China Morning Post The World Trade Organization expects trade of merchandise
A day in the life of northeastern Ukraine, where there are no signs Vladimir Putin wants to end his war. / The New York Times [+] A whistleblower explains that as DOGE staffers exfiltrated data, someone in Russia followed them through the door. / NPR Related: The EU issues burner phones to officials
The Nile's migratory birds are threatened by tourists' poaching habits. "Maltese hunters take everything." / The New Arab New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice, but they remain controversial. / Grist El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he can't return a mistakenly deported
The man arrested for breaking into and setting a fire in the Pennsylvania governor's mansion planned to beat Gov. Shapiro with a small sledgehammer. / AP The Trump administration is privately discussing how to "denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador." / Rolling
"The Trump administration believes it has what game theorists call escalation dominance over China... [but] it is China that has escalation dominance in this trade war." / Foreign Affairs The EU and China are in talks to set minimum prices on Chinese-made EVs, six months after Brussels raised
Analysts say President Trump's pause on some tariff measures "upends any pretence that we understand his strategy." / ING Meanwhile, Trump now faces accusations of market manipulation. / Al Jazeera From the Financial Times: "We now know the market has Trump on a leash, and we have
The world used clean power to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year. / The Guardian Between 1999 and 2023, heat deaths in the United States more than doubled. / Grist Lithium-ion batteries became the leading cause of fire deaths in New York City last year—how LA
