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Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change

The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.

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The cuts included funding for a collaborative program between NOAA and Princeton University. One of the program’s meteorologists, Syukuro Manabe, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021.

He Served 36 Years for His Wife’s Murder and Then Forgave the Man Who Confessed

Leo Schofield maintained his innocence all along in his wife’s 1987 murder. For “Bone Valley,” a podcast about the case, he connected with the man who said he did it.

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Leo Schofield served 36 years in prison before he was paroled in 2023, eight years after another man, Jeremy Scott, first confessed to the crime that put Mr. Schofield away.

Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?

President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom.

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Princeton is one of seven prominent universities that have been singled out by the Trump administration for funding cuts.

The House Republicans Holding Out Against Trump’s Budget and Tax Cut Plan

Hard-line conservatives concerned about the deficit are among President Trump’s most stalwart supporters in Congress. But they say they cannot in good conscience back the budget plan he has endorsed.

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Representative Eric Burlison, Republican of Missouri, is one of about a dozen hard-line conservatives who have said they cannot back their party’s budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s spending and tax cuts.

Netanyahu Sticks By Trump’s Brazen Proposal for Gazans to Leave

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said his government was serious about “voluntary” migration, after an Oval Office meeting where President Trump appeared to have lost interest.

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Asked on Monday about Gaza emigration, President Trump said it was “a concept that I had,” and passed the question to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

China Dismisses Ukraine’s Assertion That ‘Many’ Chinese Are Fighting for Russia

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that two Chinese men fighting alongside Russian troops had been captured and that there were “many more” on the battlefield.

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Lin Jian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said on Wednesday that Beijing was “verifying the relevant situation” about the two Chinese men captured fighting alongside Russian troops.

For U.S. and China, a Risky Game of Chicken With No Off-Ramp in Sight

China’s latest move: an additional 50 percent tariff on U.S. goods. Neither side wants to look weak by backing down, but a collapse of their trade ties could have profound consequences.

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A small factory in Guangzhou, China, that makes restaurant appliances. The Trump administration’s tariffs will ravage export-oriented companies along China’s eastern seaboard.

Trump’s Tariff Goal Is to Eliminate Trade Deficits. Economists Have Doubts.

Behind Trump’s new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading partner.

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The formula that the White House has devised for imposing tariffs means that, until U.S. imports from and exports to each country balance out, those nations will face additional levies.

Islamic State Regains Strength in Syria

The U.S. has sent more forces to Syria, tamping down on the immediate threat, but experts warn that the extremist group could break thousands of hardened fighters out of prison.

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Men accused of being Islamic State fighters last month in a cell Al-Sina Prison, run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, in Hasaka, Syria.
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