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Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire | Zelensky Wasn’t Going to Repeat His Oval Office Disaster
Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic
Excerpt: "The Ukrainian president had a new strategy—and backup from allies—during his meeting with Trump."

Trump Administration Speechwriter Linked to Hate Speech Online
Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Eric Lendrum, of Department of Homeland Security, likened US conservatives to Jews in Nazi Germany."

Teen Immigrant’s Release Propels Lawsuit to End ICE’s Courthouse Arrests
J. Dale Shoemaker and Akela Lacy, The Intercept
Excerpt: "A new lawsuit seeks to end ICE’s tactic of setting up immigrants to be taken from immigration courts."

MAHA Is Going to Make America Sicker
Branko Marcetic, Jacobin
Excerpt: "Donald Trump has spent the last seven months flooding our food, water, and air with all kinds of very real, very horrible pollutants, including numerous cancer-causing chemicals — the exact opposite of 'making America healthy again.'"

A Record Number of Aid Workers Were Killed in Global Hotspots in 2024, the UN Says
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, the U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday on the annual day honoring the thousands of people who step into crises to help others."

The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape
Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News
Excerpt: "When a new orangutan species was found near a Chinese-owned hydrodam in Indonesia, scientists and advocates launched a campaign to block the project. Then some who spoke against it lost their jobs and ability to work in the area—and, in the case of one activist, his life."

 

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