Category: Everydaynews


  • Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency

    The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York City field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence. “Today, we find ourselves in the middle…

  • Fay Vincent, Baseball Commissioner in a Stormy Era, Dies at 86

    Fay Vincent, a lawyer who presided over Major League Baseball as its eighth commissioner during a time when it was shaken by labor strife, the first shadows of steroid use and, quite literally, a powerful earthquake that interrupted the 1989 World Series, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86. His death, in…

  • Has Your Nonprofit Been Affected by Federal Funding Cuts? We Want to Hear From You.

    This is a time of fear and worry in the nonprofit world. The Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to reduce federal grant funding to nonprofit groups. It has largely shut off foreign aid. It briefly froze all outgoing grants. Now, even though that broad freeze has been lifted, the White House says it is…

  • Weight Loss Drugs and Their Lesser Known Side Effects on Relationships

    Javier comes across as bewildered by the changes in his wife. He is grieving, he says, the loss of the woman he married, starting with her physical self. “I used to love feeling her body, her big body, next to me in bed, the softness of it. The extra tummy and extra booty was comforting…

  • Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.

    The Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential deportation in the coming months, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times. The move signals that President Trump plans to continue a crackdown on the program that…

  • Tariffs: Aiming at Mexico, Hitting Ourselves

    There are many reasons to regret Trump’s latest experiment with tariffs, but let’s take prices and migration. Source link

  • Who Pays for Tariffs? Here’s What You Need to Know.

    President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning Tuesday, companies bringing products into the United States from Canada and Mexico will pay a 25 percent tariff; importers bringing products in from China will pay an additional 10 percent on top of existing levies. The president has insisted that these…

  • Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday

    More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.” The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific…

  • Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike

    Soft power is out. Hard power is in. Since returning to the White House, President Trump has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain, his way to foreign policy goals. With counterparts from Asia, the Middle East and North and South America, Mr. Trump has shown a willingness to use American power in a…

  • This Republican Senator Says Trump Needs to Hear Dissent. Will He Speak Up?

    Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah, had not yet been sworn in for his first term nor opened his mouth to say much of anything in public when he found himself under attack by President Trump’s most fervent supporters for the alleged sin of being insufficiently loyal. “I’m tired of RINO Republicans running everything,” Charlie…