Friday, March 14, 2025

Friday Mix

HEADLINES:

  • Trump Is Unleashing a Chaos Economy (Atlantic)

  • Schumer backs down on fight against GOP’s government funding bill as Democrats face reckoning over Trump strategy (CNN)

  • Judge orders Trump officials to offer jobs back to some fired probationary workers (WP)

  • Trump’s tariffs may end up blowing up the US dollar hegemony (Al Jazeera)

  • Trump’s Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Go Into Effect, Inciting Global Retaliation (NYT)

  • S&P 500 slides into a correction as trade and inflation weigh on traders (WP)

  • Who loses if Social Security breaks (Axios)

  • Putin backs US ceasefire idea for Ukraine, but says details need to be sorted out (Reuters)

  • A breakdown of the 31 EPA deregulatory moves around water, air, climate (AP)

  • White House pulls CDC director nomination (Axios)

  • Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates (CNN)

  • Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war (Guardian)

  • E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose (NYT)

  • I Was a Columbia Student Journalist. Here’s What to Know About Mahmoud Khalil. (Politico Mag)

  • US relies on rare foreign policy provision to try to deport Mahmoud Khalil (Guardian)

  • They flew into hurricanes for NOAA - until they got caught up in Doge firings (BBC)

  • Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots (TechCrunch)

  • With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open (Economist)

  • Drones, robots and China’s next AI darlings (Financial Times)

  • China manufacturing, AI pose an ‘existential threat’ to US in robotics sector (South China Morning Post)

  • IBM’s CEO doesn’t think AI will replace programmers anytime soon (TechCrunch)

  • Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 (The Onion)

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