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Right now’s prime tales
President Trump was sworn into his second time period in workplace 4 weeks in the past right now. Since then, he has gotten the Senate to verify even his most controversial cupboard picks, his govt actions have compelled dramatic adjustments within the federal authorities, and he is tried to get rid of whole businesses. A number of courts have paused a few of Trump’s actions and questioned whether or not they’re authorized.
President Donald Trump indicators an govt order withholding federal funding from faculties and universities that impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate within the Oval Workplace on Feb. 14, 2025. Lots of Trump’s govt actions are going through authorized challenges within the courts.
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- 🎧 Trump is taking a really expansive view of his govt authority this time period, in accordance with NPR’s Tamara Keith. She tells Up First that he has much less to lose this time as he is not working for reelection and the Supreme Court docket has given presidents broad authorized immunity for legal guidelines damaged of their position. Trump stated final week he would abide by the courts. Nevertheless, a federal decide present in at the least one case that the Trump administration defied a short lived order to unfreeze federal funding. Keith says the theme for Trump’s second time period is difficult legal guidelines and the widespread understanding of the stability of energy displayed within the Structure.
European leaders have referred to as an emergency assembly in Paris right now after they have been lower out of negotiations set to be held within the coming days by high-level U.S. and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia to talk about ending the warfare in Ukraine. The emergency assembly, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, will embrace leaders of Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark.
- 🎧 The assembly’s agenda consists of growing navy spending and authorizing huge lending, NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley says. This comes after U.S. Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth stated the U.S. has extra vital priorities in Asia and Europe ought to deal with itself. Final week, Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the cellphone and proposed lifting sanctions and bringing Russia again into the fold of countries. Elie Tenenbaum, a safety skilled on the French Institute for Worldwide Relations, says that with out European allies on the negotiation desk, the U.S. may strongarm Ukraine into a nasty take care of Russia.
Right now, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia, the place he’ll amplify Trump’s imaginative and prescient for Gaza. This comes in the future after he visited Israel on his first journey to the Center East in his new position. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says they mentioned how they plan to implement change within the Center East.
- 🎧 Rubio’s essential message with Israel was pushing Trump’s plans to rebuild Gaza beneath U.S. possession after the ceasefire and guaranteeing the deal holds lengthy sufficient to launch all Israeli hostages held by Hamas, NPR’s Aya Batrawy says. Two years in the past, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was near establishing ties with Israel. He has since described the warfare in Gaza as a genocide and has proven no indicators that ties with Israel are on the horizon.
Life recommendation
Right now’s dad and mom are placing extra time into youngster care and work than they have been 20 years in the past, in accordance with a 2024 advisory on parental well-being from the U.S. Surgeon Normal. That leaves dad and mom with much less time for themselves, their companions and leisure actions.
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Right now’s society can maintain dad and mom consistently on edge. Together with balancing work, youngster care, and family obligations, they have to additionally navigate issues associated to social media, faculty shootings and their kids’s psychological well being, in accordance with the U.S. Surgeon Normal’s 2024 advisory. With a lot on their plates, the stress can result in burnout. Listed below are some crimson flags to observe for and options to assist address this stress:
- 🚩 If you end up so emotionally, bodily or mentally drained most days that you would be able to’t get pleasure from time with household, you would be scuffling with burnout. Signs seem otherwise from individual to individual.
- 🚩 When you’re caught in a troublesome parenting second, set a timer for 60 seconds, breathe deeply and provides your self time to get your physique and thoughts again to a peaceful state.
- 🚩 The “mental load,” which is invisible labor like planning and decision-making, is usually a main consider parental burnout. If you happen to’re experiencing this, it may very well be time to let go of a few of these obligations.
Take a look at the total record of coping methods right here.
Image present
Kids collect inside a standard tent, often known as an ortz, within the Siberian taiga of northern Mongolia, watching a documentary a couple of Norwegian reindeer herder who was visiting the taiga to fulfill and be taught concerning the life-style of the area’s nomadic Dukha reindeer herders. Regardless of its distant and remoted location deep within the forest – accessible solely by horseback or reindeer – fashionable expertise comparable to photo voltaic panels, automotive batteries, and occasional wifi connection, permits these households to remain linked with the skin world.
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Claire Thomas
A nonprofit publication referred to as Remainder of World obtained virtually 230 submissions from 45 nations for its annual photograph contest, which requested entrants to point out the affect of expertise of their communities. Entries flowed in from skilled photographers and hobbyists who centered on scenes that may have been inconceivable to think about even only a few years in the past. Here is a take a look at some standouts and why they resonated with the judges.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Race winner Jacob Kiplimo breaks the world document on the eDreams Mitja Marato de Barcelona, on Sunday in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda reclaimed his half marathon world document yesterday on the 2025 Barcelona Half Marathon with a time of 56:42, smashing the earlier half marathon document of 57:30.
- The Saturday Night time Dwell fiftieth anniversary particular was full of nostalgia and sketches that includes a plethora of celebrities, together with Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and extra. Here is what labored and what did not, in accordance with NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.
- Combat for America! is a brand new artwork set up and social occasion that invitations viewers members to play a warfare recreation battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Every participant has a personality card depicting an actual individual on the Capitol on that day.
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
