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A hearing was held in Boston on Thursday for Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar who was arrested by ICE agents last week for co-authoring a school op-ed. A court decision has not yet been delivered. ICE officials transferred Öztürk to a Louisiana detention center, despite a Massachusetts court having ordered the government to not remove her from Massachusetts.

BREAKING As Trump imposed widespread tariffs Thursday on countries around the world, US markets saw their steepest decline since 2020. Stocks lost more than $3 trillion in market value. Among the countries tariffed, China and African countries were hit the hardest, with tariffs as high as 50% on some of the poorest countries in the world.

Following Donald Trump's widespread tariffs imposed on Thursday, the chief economist at JPMorgan has increased the odds of a US recession to 60%.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the US will remain in NATO, but is asking other members to increase their defense spending to 5%.

During Israeli PM Netanyahu's visit to Hungary on Thursday, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that his country will withdraw from the International Criminal Court. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

BREAKING On Donald Trump's tariff "liberation day," trillions were wiped off global markets — $2 trillion off Wall Street alone. The US dollar has fallen to to a 6-month low.

Donald Trump has announced new tariffs on any imports from Antarctica’s Heard and McDonald Islands, which are home to only penguins. The remote territories obviously have no exports.

Trump's ban on TikTok is set to go into effect on Saturday if it's not sold. Amazon has made a last-minute bid to buy the platform.

Israel launched airstrikes on Damascus and Hama, Syria, targeting what it calls military sites. Syrian air defenses responded, with reports of casualties and damage.

The death toll from the earthquake last week in Myanmar has risen to 3,085 and is expected to continue to rise. Another 4,715 have been injured.

Federal prosecutors have been directed by US Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is charged with killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last December.

China has escalated the military drills near Taiwan that it began on Tuesday. It conducted live-fire drills today in the Taiwan Strait that simulate strikes on key ports and energy facilities of the democratic island China claims as its own territory.

CERN plans a new 91-km particle collider in Switzerland and France, aiming to surpass the Large Hadron Collider in exploring fundamental physics.

Israel’s Gaza blockade reaches one month, shutting bakeries and worsening shortages. The UN warns of famine as Israel plans more ground operations.

A gay Venezuelan makeup artist was deported from the U.S. after authorities misidentified his religious tattoos as gang symbols.

Trump appears all in for Netanyahu's political survival

MENA

Trump appears all in for Netanyahu's political survival

Responsible Statecraft

The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

MENA

The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common: they're both way behind the technological curve

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Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common: they're both way behind the technological curve

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(Ripton, Vermont)

Cracks in the Wall

Americas

Cracks in the Wall

The American Prospect

Stop Asking 'Can It Happen Here?' It Is Happening Here.

MENA

Stop Asking 'Can It Happen Here?' It Is Happening Here.

How Elon's plans for Mars threaten Earth

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How Elon's plans for Mars threaten Earth

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Inside the Israeli movement to recolonize Gaza

MENA

Inside the Israeli movement to recolonize Gaza

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M.Gessen: “Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand"

US silent as Israel heaps scorn on Arab League's Gaza ceasefire plan

Middle East Eye

Can Trump Legally Deport Mahmoud Khalil? What About Free Speech?

Since 1975, $79 Trillion Has Flowed From Bottom 90% to Top 1% in US

Ex-Democratic Leader Schumer

The American Prospect

Trump just assaulted the independence of the nuclear regulator

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Climate Change Could Throw a Wrench in Trump’s Greenland Pipe Dream

US ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

LastWeekTonight (HBO)

Breaking Points' Krystal Ball lets loose on Bill Maher's criticism of protestors

Breaking Points

How Trump’s compulsion to dominate sabotages dealmaking, undermines democracy and threatens global stability

The Conversation

'An American President Is Not a King': Judge Reinstates Labor Regulator Illegally Fired by Trump

How the shutdown of USAID will hurt Americans and empower foreign adversaries

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Did Trump just crown Saudi with leadership of Gaza ‘day after’ plan?

Responsible Statecraft

‘Worse than the Second Intifada’: West Bank refugees reel from Israeli offensive

Trump is abandoning Europe. Europe should abandon its appeasement of Israel

Middle East Eye

ICC Asked to Investigate Biden and Blinken Over War Crimes Allegations

Israel Launches Major Air Assault on Damascus

Not So Fast on Ukraine

The American Prospect

Elon Musk’s China Threat

The American Prospect

Curfews, Roadblocks, House Raids—Israeli Military Entrenches Inside Syria

How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine

Middle East Eye

Hamas Report to Mediators Accuses Israel of Pervasive Gaza Ceasefire Violations

The Middle East's longest-reigning king heads into a standoff with Trump

Middle East Eye

Elon Floats Hostile OpenAI Takeover

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