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Would Europe Actually Retaliate Against Trump’s Tariffs?

European Union officials have drawn up plans to impose levies on American imports, but questions abound about whether they would go through with them.

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Shipping containers at a port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. European Union officials say that if President Trump follows through on his tariff threats, it could upend trans-Atlantic trade.

PBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save Funding

As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding nears, stations are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.”

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Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, at its headquarters in Arlington, Va. She has been promoting a campaign to save federal funding for public media.

Democrats Are Workshopping New Tactics After Losses of 2024

Among the ideas being promoted: knocking on every single door in a House district and awarding cash prizes for the most effective new ways to reach voters.

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Door knocking — both where to do it and whether it is still effective in a digital age — is being studied by Democratic strategists to identify what went wrong in 2024.

In Northern Ireland, Fire Has Long Been Used as a Weapon of Fear

A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target Irish Catholics in the territory.

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A fire set in the streets during an anti-immigrant riot last month in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Violence there erupted after two boys were charged with the attempted oral rape of a teenage girl.

The D.E.I. Industry, Scorned by the White House, Turns to ‘Safer’ Topics

To avoid government scrutiny, companies are asking for fewer trainings focused on race and gender and more on neurodivergence and generational differences.

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“If you have something being billed as a generational differences training,” said Arin Reeves, who has been a D.E.I. consultant for 26 years, “it is less likely to raise eyebrows.”

Trump Adds 17% Tariff on Tomatoes From Mexico

The Trump administration is adding a 17 percent tariff to a year-round grocery store staple, while funneling more business to domestic tomato growers, largely in Florida.

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The levies stem from a nearly 30-year-old trade case that found Mexican tomato growers to be selling their products in the United States at unfairly low prices.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Criticizes Trump’s Plan to Speed Weapons to Ukraine

The right-wing congresswoman from Georgia suggested that the president’s new proposal to help speed weapons to Ukraine betrays the promise to voters to end U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene attending a military parade commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army in Washington, last month.
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