Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It. NYT > Top Stories By:Paul Sonne 16 February 2025 at 09:50 Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow. © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik, via ReutersPresident Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Togliatti, Russia, last month, in a photo released by the Russian state media.
The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours NYT > Top Stories By:Ezra Klein 16 February 2025 at 00:02 What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition? © Will Matsuda for The New York Times
Trump Rehires Neil Jacobs, Former NOAA Chief Involved in ‘Sharpiegate’ NYT > Climate and Environment By:Christopher Flavelle 4 February 2025 at 14:52 A respected atmospheric scientist, Dr. Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics in 2019. © Wes Frazer for The New York TimesNeil Jacobs, speaking before a gathering of the National Weather Association in Huntsville, Ala., in 2019.
E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More NYT > Climate and Environment By:Lisa Friedman 4 February 2025 at 13:44 A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral. © Joshua A. Bicket/Associated PressResearch on PFAS, a family of toxic compounds known as forever chemicals, at an Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati.
Chris Wright Is Confirmed as Secretary of Energy NYT > Climate and Environment By:Brad Plumer 4 February 2025 at 02:28 The former fracking executive said in confirmation hearings that his top priority would be to “unleash” American energy production. © Anna Rose Layden for The New York TimesChris Wright, in his Senate hearing, also tried to reassure Democrats that he believed climate change was a “global challenge that we need to solve.”
Top N.I.H. Official Abruptly Resigns as Trump Orders Deep Cuts NYT > Science By:Sheryl Gay Stolberg 12 February 2025 at 13:22 Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health, did not give a reason for his departure. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDr. Lawrence A. Tabak, who resigned from the National Institutes of Health, has weathered past presidential transitions.
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