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While elite institutions shaped the pandemic response, critics say they sidelined dissenting views, deepening distrust and contributing to Donald Trump’s reelection. As the pandemic divided the United States, could a full accounting help the nation heal?
Also: today’s stories, including European and Arab governments making diplomatic progress towards peace, an artist pulling her work from the National Portrait Gallery, and a natio...
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The international community has unified around the question of Palestinian statehood, diverging from the U.S. and Israel. But will it make a difference? Not since the mid-1950s under Dwight Eisenhower has a U.S. president held such sway over Israel.
Also: today’s stories, including how Sudanese women exiled by war are finding freedom from female genital mutilation; why Europeans have been pushing back on cruise ships; and a photo e...
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Growing global outrage over the hunger crisis in Gaza has many asking if Israel had a deliberate policy of starving civilians. Israelis say that was never the case, but an ignorance of Palestinian suffering allowed an inconsistent government policy to lead to a calamity.
Also: today’s stories, including how the president has recently touted a trade deal with the EU, but the overall economic outlook is uncertain, how
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President Trump’s tariff threats are in some cases turning into tariff deals. The details of the broad agreements are yet to come and may determine whether the U.S. comes out ahead.
Also: today’s stories, including how Europeans feel in the wake of a new U.S.-EU trade deal; why Argentines are struggling economically despite efforts to tackle inflation; and a look at how volunteerism in Japan has surged in the decades following the ...
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The Trump administration faces pressure to release additional files from investigations of sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s what’s known from two decades of lawsuits and what could come from efforts to reveal more.
Also: today’s stories, including a look at the effects of Syria’s drought crisis, the Monitor’s Francine Kiefer’s farewell letter to readers and a new generation of journalists, and how the ceasefire reached between ...
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A spirit of “We’re in this together” colored the early days of the pandemic in the United States. But that frayed as debate over what steps to take became increasingly politicized.
Also: today’s stories, including how a third of the enclave’s 2.3 million people are not eating for multiple days in a row, how the truth-telling folk singer Patty Griffin was thinking about hanging up her guitar, and our global progress roundup this wee...
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Amid sectarian violence in Syria, in which hundreds of Druze were killed, Israel struck Damascus and issued a warning to the new government. Israeli Druze are mourning the deaths, but are divided over whether Israeli military action is the wisest course.
Also: today’s stories, including a look at how some communities in the U.S. are grappling with federal cuts for flood preparation; how a populist surge on the right is gaining grou...
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President Trump’s new AI policy, which includes promoting private investment in AI, reflects growing bipartisan concern that China is rapidly eroding America’s lead in artificial intelligence.
Also: today’s stories, including volunteers rallying around Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, a book review about vanilla, and Texas Republicans are meeting this week to redraw the state’s congressional map.
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As President Donald Trump pursues his goal of the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history, his administration has tapped an unusual range of government agencies to aid the effort.
Also: today’s stories, including how President Donald Trump finds himself in the middle of an uproar within his base over his administration’s handling of the “Epstein files,” how Arabs and Kurds in Syria are working with one another to secure areas ...
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The Trump administration argues that the police officer who shot Breonna Taylor should be sentenced to just one day in prison. The recommendation comes amid efforts to reverse policies meant to reduce police violence against minorities.
Also in today’s stories: how Guatemala's anti-graft president might lose support from Indigenous voters; how soccer is bringing together the West African community; and how the federal government ca...
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