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After Super Bowl stunt, protester calls on Trump to act with compassion and empathy for Palestinians
The man who pulled out a Sudanese and Palestinian flag during Kendrick Lamar's halftime show said he felt compelled to use his moment in the Super Bowl to "highlight the human suffering."
USA TODAY
Trump pauses DOJ enforcement of bribery laws for US firms overseas
The President says his new executive order was needed because the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act puts US firms at a competitive disadvantage overseas
NBC News
NIH cuts could stall medical progress for lifesaving treatments, experts say
Doctors and researchers across academic institutions fear that the National Institutes of Health’s decision to cut indirect research funding could stall medical progress and negatively affect patient care.
AFP
Playgrounds come alive again with Brazil school phone ban
In Rio de Janeiro, children are playing again "like in the old days," and their focus in class has improved after a school cellphone ban pioneered in the city that has now gone national.A study carried out by the Rio de Janeiro municipality in September showed improvements in concentration, class participation and student performance since the school ban was implemented.
AFP
Federal workers fearful, outraged over ‘DEI watchlist’ website
Federal workers across US health agencies say they are nervous and on edge after a conservative group published more than 50 of their names and photos on a website that at one point described them as "targets."The federal worker who spoke to AFP said many people featured on the website focus on issues of health equity, such as offering mobile health screenings in low-income neighborhoods.
AFP
'So fast': NY subway shove survivor captures commuter fears
Joseph Lynskey was quietly waiting for the New York subway on New Year's Eve when someone shoved him from behind onto the tracks as a train pulled into the station.Lynskey survived because he fell into a deeper, recessed space under the train and between the tracks, and was not hit by the wheels but rather the undercarriage.
AFP
'Project 2025' in out of cold as Trump takes office
During his campaign, Donald Trump shunned Project 2025, a radical governing blueprint that envisioned a humbled federal bureaucracy bending the knee to a nearly omnipotent White House.On national disasters Trump has also indicated that he is open to shifting response costs from the federal government to affected states -- another Project 2025 idea.
AFP
Could a climate megaproject cloud Chile's unparalleled views of universe?
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.AES Andes, the Chilean subsidiary of US energy company AES Corporation, has submitted proposals for a 3,000-hectare (7,400-acre) site in the Atacama desert near Paranal to harness solar and wind energy, which in turn can be used to produce green hydrogen and ammonia, a gas used in making fertilizers.
AFP
Trump's tariff tactics may reshape global trade: analysts
US President Donald Trump's use of tariffs as a blunt weapon to extract concessions on everything from commerce to immigration and drug trafficking could redraw global trading norms, analysts say.To McDaniel, the risk of unilateral tariffs may upend global trade.
Politico
Hamas must release remaining hostages by midday Saturday, Trump warns
“After that, I would say, all hell is going to break out,” he threatened.
AFP
Zelensky to meet JD Vance in Munich on Friday: Kyiv presidency
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US Vice President JD Vance on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian leader's spokesman told AFP, as Washington pushes for an end to the nearly three-year war with Russia.Zelensky's spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov told AFP the meeting with Vance would take place Friday on the sidelines of the Munich conference.
CBS News
What we know about the victims killed in the Los Angeles wildfires
The Los Angeles area is now looking to rebuild as families mourn those who died in the wildfires.
CBS News
1 dead, at least 3 injured after planes crash on Arizona runway
The PGA Tour's Phoenix Open was held over the weekend in Scottsdale. It is typically one of the busiest times of year for the airport.
NBC News
Trump signs order imposing 25% steel and aluminum tariffs
The move comes a week after Trump promised to suspend tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
AFP
Trump pardons former governor jailed for corruption
US President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor whose jail sentence for corruption he commuted five years ago during his first term.Back in 2020, Trump was vague about his reasoning for freeing Blagojevich, who was sentenced to 14 years.
Associated Press
DOGE's access to Treasury data risks US financial standing and raises security worries, experts warn
The Department of Government Efficiency’s embed into the federal government has raised a host of concerns, transforming a debate over how to cut government waste into a confrontation over privacy rights and the nation’s financial standing in the world. DOGE, spearheaded by billionaire Donald Trump donor Elon Musk, has rapidly burrowed deep into federal agencies and taken drastic actions to cut spending. This includes trying to get rid of thousands of federal workers, shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development and accessing the Treasury Department's enormous payment systems.
NBC News
Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting research funding after 22 states sue
A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's radical changes to how the National Institutes of Health pays for biomedical research, putting on hold a plan to slash research funding paid out by the federal government.
Yahoo Finance
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures slide as Trump orders new tariffs
US Stock futures falter in the face of AI spend, tariffs and trade uncertainty.
AFP
US judges challenge Trump cuts as legal battles mount
The Trump administration was on a collision course with the US courts Monday, with federal judges questioning the legality of the White House's cost-cutting onslaught of government and Vice President J.D Vance warning the judiciary to back off. Despite the legal challenges, the Trump administration continued its cost-cutting campaign Monday, effectively closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency long criticized by Republicans as engaging in overreach.
CNN
Trio of storms threatens nearly every weather hazard, including ‘life-threatening’ debris flows in LA fire burn areas
Winter weather kicked into high gear in the United States and it’s not slowing down anytime soon.

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After Super Bowl stunt, protester calls on Trump to act with compassion and empathy for Palestinians

Trump pauses DOJ enforcement of bribery laws for US firms overseas

NIH cuts could stall medical progress for lifesaving treatments, experts say

Playgrounds come alive again with Brazil school phone ban

Federal workers fearful, outraged over ‘DEI watchlist’ website

'So fast': NY subway shove survivor captures commuter fears

'Project 2025' in out of cold as Trump takes office

Could a climate megaproject cloud Chile's unparalleled views of universe?

Trump's tariff tactics may reshape global trade: analysts

Hamas must release remaining hostages by midday Saturday, Trump warns

Zelensky to meet JD Vance in Munich on Friday: Kyiv presidency

What we know about the victims killed in the Los Angeles wildfires

1 dead, at least 3 injured after planes crash on Arizona runway

Trump signs order imposing 25% steel and aluminum tariffs

Trump pardons former governor jailed for corruption

DOGE's access to Treasury data risks US financial standing and raises security worries, experts warn

Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting research funding after 22 states sue

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures slide as Trump orders new tariffs

US judges challenge Trump cuts as legal battles mount

Trio of storms threatens nearly every weather hazard, including ‘life-threatening’ debris flows in LA fire burn areas