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Aujourd’hui — 18 février 2025NYT

U.S., Russia Talks in Saudi Arabia Set to Go Beyond Ukraine

18 février 2025 à 09:35
The two sides are meeting in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties are on the table.

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The U.S. delegation, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated second from left, meeting with the envoys from Moscow, including the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, right, in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

As Deadline for Withdrawal Lapses, Israel Says It Will Stay in Southern Lebanon

18 février 2025 à 06:01
Israeli forces will remain at five strategic points within Lebanese territory despite Tuesday’s deadline for Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters to pull back.

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An Israeli military vehicle at the Israel-Lebanon border on Monday. Israel’s declared intent to remain in southern Lebanon has set the stage for what could be a renewed bout of violence.

Federal Judge Declines to Block Musk’s Team From Having Access to Education Data

18 février 2025 à 05:16
The ruling said that the students who sued had failed to show that sensitive information had been illegally disseminated in a way that would justify an emergency restraining order.

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Lawyers representing the students argued that when students submit their data to the Education Department, they are promised certain safeguards about how their data is used.

Prison Boss Elevated by Hochul Was Accused of Rape by 2 Former Inmates

18 février 2025 à 03:54
The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe worked at a state women’s prison, his accusers said. Now he runs a prison where an inmate was fatally beaten by guards.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul installed Bennie Thorpe to turn around the troubled Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York. It was not clear whether she knew of rape allegations against him.

Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access

18 février 2025 à 02:03
The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.

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Members of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency have also been seeking access to sensitive data at the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service.

Russia Frees American Prisoner Before Talks With U.S.

18 février 2025 à 01:49
The release of Kalob Byers Wayne, who was arrested on drug charges on Feb. 7, came on the eve of talks about the war in Ukraine.

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Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told reporters that talks on Tuesday would be about restoring relations between Moscow and Washington, and “so certain events can be viewed in this context.”

Southwest Layoffs Will Take 15% of Its Work Force

18 février 2025 à 00:54
The company said the cuts, the first round of broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history, would affect mostly corporate employees.

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The airline said it planned to cut about 1,750 jobs, and that most of the layoffs would be carried out by the end of June.

An Invisible Medical Shortage: Oxygen

18 février 2025 à 00:30
Oxygen is vital to many medical procedures. But a safe, affordable supply is severely lacking around the world, according to a new report.

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More than 370 million people worldwide need oxygen as part of their medical care each year, but fewer than 1 in 3 receive it, according to a new report on the shortage.

Can the Federal Reserve Look Past Trump’s Tariffs?

18 février 2025 à 00:28
Top officials are grappling with how to handle potential price increases caused by the administration’s policies.

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Fed officials received more bad news on inflation as January’s Consumer Price Index report showed renewed price pressures, driven by soaring grocery costs, especially for eggs.
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Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk

17 février 2025 à 22:45
The newspaper told Common Cause, an advocacy group, that it was pulling its special ad, which would have covered the front and back pages of some Tuesday editions.

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The full-page ad, known as a wraparound, would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.

17 février 2025 à 20:53
Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.

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Making Canada a state, according to some early studies of popular opinion and voting patterns, would almost surely cost Republicans control of the House, trim their majority in the Senate and make it harder for them to win the White House in future elections.

Trump Pushes Business Interests in Golf, Mideast and New York as Conflicts Abound

17 février 2025 à 18:27
Norms recognized for decades in Washington by both parties no longer appear to apply to the Trump White House, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say.

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President Trump with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of the Saudi Arabia-backed league known as LIV Golf, during a LIV tournament at the Trump family’s Bedminster golf club in 2022.

Ed Martin, Trump Loyalist, Is Nominated as U.S. Attorney in Washington

17 février 2025 à 16:53
The nomination of Mr. Martin, who stood in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a full reversal for an office that formed the core of one of the Justice Department’s most complex investigations.

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Ed Martin, a far-right election denier, during a news conference in November 2020. Mr. Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, was nominated by President Trump on Monday to run the office on a permanent basis.

4 Top Officials to Resign Over Adams’s Cooperation With Trump

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the resignations raised “serious questions about the long-term future of this mayoral administration.” She planned to meet with elected officials to discuss “the path forward.”

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Four deputy mayors, from left to right, Maria Torres-Springer, Meera Joshi, Anne Williams-Isom and Chauncey Parker, are leaving the Adams administration.

Why Everyone Is Still Talking About ‘Paddington 2’

17 février 2025 à 18:30
With the third movie now in theaters, let’s look at how the 2018 film became a sleeper hit, thanks to Hugh Grant’s villain and its showstopping end credits.

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With “Paddington 2,” the gentle duffle-coated bear voiced by Ben Whishaw became an internet phenomenon.

The Land Ukraine Could Be Forced to Give Up to End the War

President Trump has promised to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine, suggesting that Russia could keep at least some of the Ukrainian territory it had captured. Andrew Kramer, the New York Times bureau chief in Kyiv, explains how this would leave Ukraine divided in two: one side with its government in Kyiv, and the other a battered Russian satellite to the east.

California’s Push for Electric Trucks Sputters Under Trump

17 février 2025 à 15:56
The state will no longer require some truckers to shift away from diesel semis but hopes that subsidies can keep dreams of pollution-free big rigs alive.

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California officials insist that their electric semis effort is not doomed and say they will keep it alive with other rules and by providing truckers incentives to go electric.

The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards

17 février 2025 à 16:00
The Times was honored for an investigation into extremism in Israel, coverage of the civil war in Sudan and a narrative about a Russian soldier who defected from the war in Ukraine.

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Declan Walsh and the staff of The New York Times were given the prize for war reporting for their continuing coverage of the devastation and destruction of the civil war in Sudan.

Republicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut.

17 février 2025 à 16:25
House Republicans are preparing to adopt a plan that puts a $4.5 trillion limit on the size of the tax cut, but even that will not be enough for some of President Trump’s promises.

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As Republican lawmakers prepare to adopt a budget plan, they must decide which policy commitments they are willing to abandon or abbreviate.
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