Nieuws Buitenland – 9

Apprenticeships, from construction to painting, allow students to earn a degree while working in a future career.... Read more »

The outspoken border official drove the agency’s aggressive immigration policy in U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, until January.... Read more »

A new legislative study showed the potential costs of the state’s warming climate.... Read more »

A district court said the federal government had not based its decisions on science in limiting COVID shots and revising the childhood immunization schedule.... Read more »

The group will report to the president and will be tasked with putting together a “national strategy to stop fraud” in federal benefits programs.... Read more »

More than 20 inches of snow in some areas, coupled with rising winds, closed roads and canceled hundreds of flights and school days in multiple cities. But, it will all be gone soon, with a weekend forecast that includes a high in the 60s.... Read more »

A congressional measure to again allow mining near the BWCAW has lingered for weeks without a vote.... Read more »

The Brooklyn Center woman was found unresponsive in her cell 8½ hours after she was booked, police said.... Read more »

“Gun violence devastates families and traumatizes communities, and tonight it took the life of a man,” said Police Chief Brian O’Hara.... Read more »

Minneapolis Police said they are investigating a shooting that damaged a city snowplow Sunday night.... Read more »

The omicron variant has halted plans to bring more workers back to the Twin Cities' downtowns.... Read more »

Minnesota is known as the state of hockey.... Read more »

In response to a historic spike in carjackings around the Twin Cities in the last two years, federal agents and prosecutors are stepping into an area of violent crime that had mostly been left up to local authorities to solve in the past.... Read more »

Prosecutors have charged a man suspected of fatally shooting the mother of his child this past weekend in St. Paul's North End neighborhood.... Read more »

The DFL-controlled Minnesota House made history last May when it passed a bill to legalize recreational marijuana. However, don't look for history to repeat itself in the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate this year.... Read more »

Crime prevention and public safety have moved to the top of the 2022 agenda of the Minnesota Legislature along with COVID response and the projected budget surplus.... Read more »

A crowd full of family members, fans and local elementary students held signs and American flags outside the Super Rink, as the bus full of Olympians headed out Monday afternoon.... Read more »

St. Paul Police are investigating an incident where a liquor store employee was reportedly shot during a confrontation with a shoplifter.... Read more »

Every Meal in Roseville has already served more than one million meals this school year.... Read more »

A woman is charged with second-degree murder in Scott County after she admitted to strangling her mother.... Read more »

The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd officially began Monday morning.... Read more »

Opening statements began Monday morning in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd.... Read more »

Arvid Harry Johnson, 65, faces one count of second-degree murder in his wife's death. He is being held at the Ramsey County Jail with a bail of $1 million.... Read more »

The right should know better than to let the left dictate the terms of battle.... Read more »

Why Christians must fight against antisemitism.... Read more »

A legalized sports betting market is better able to curb the economic and personal risks associated with gambling.... Read more »

There has to be urgency about reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration clearly feels it.... Read more »

Thanks to their embrace of addictive sports betting systems, states have made it easy for young men to bet their futures away.... Read more »

An unworkable patchwork of state and local AI rules underscores the need for federal intervention.... Read more »

Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend, and four times is CNN.... Read more »

Why was Mohamed Bailor Jalloh not in federal prison?... Read more »

South Korea’s proposed investment in U.S. shipbuilding is a clear recognition of the importance of industrial capacity in modern deterrence.... Read more »

Congress must act to fix the broken incentives that make states treat federal dollars like free money.... Read more »

The sky isn’t really falling — at least figuratively.... Read more »

This isn’t just about opposition to Israel.... Read more »

A visit to Ferry Farm for the archeology of his boyhood home, Kenmore for fabulous plasterwork, and was his mother a battle axe? ... Read more »

There is no reason we should be handing out citizenship to people who hate America and wish to kill Americans.... Read more »

Over the weekend, Donald Trump unleashed two crazed tirades at the media over Iran. In one, he angrily accused news organizations of rooting for the United States to “lose the war.” In another, he openly urged his Federal Communications Commission chair to deploy state power against media outlets that displease... Read more »

The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers said Monday that he is no longer part of the MAGA movement because of President Trump’s war in Iran. While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s show, Stewart Rhodes lamented “the obvious role of the influence of Zionism in our government, of the Israeli... Read more »

A trio of Oklahoma teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company’s artificial intelligence program of stealing images of them off the internet to create child pornography.The lawsuit, filed Monday, accuses a single perpetrator of compiling images and videos of at least 18 girls, and digitally altering their appearances... Read more »

The Trump administration is rolling out a new task force, led by Vice President JD Vance, to go after claims of benefits fraud in majority-blue states.Vance accompanied President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday as the latter signed an executive order to create an official benefits fraud task... Read more »

While talking on Monday about the war he started with Iran, President Trump claimed that he predicted 9/11 “a long time ago.”“I knew about the Strait [of Hormuz], that it would be a weapon, which I predicted a long time ago, I predicted all of this stuff. You guys were... Read more »

Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, who presided over the Trump administration’s violent operations in Chicago and Minneapolis, will retire at the end of March, two unnamed sources told CBS News.Bovino was reassigned back to his home office in southern California in January after his disastrous tenure in Minnesota, which... Read more »

Iranian officials are reportedly leaving Steve Witkoff’s messages on “read” as the hapless envoy attempts to restart negotiations he abandoned for Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East. Witkoff has sent messages to officials in Tehran, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, urging them to come to the table for peace... Read more »

The In Memoriam segment of this year’s Academy Award ceremonies lasted for 15 minutes. On a night when several winners’ speeches were cut short—the songwriting team behind “Golden” was interrupted mid-sentence by its own platinum-plated K-pop earworm—the producers opted to go long in honoring a series of fallen icons, resulting... Read more »

The White House has taken the reins at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services.Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda—which has so far included stripping nationwide access to important vaccines—is apparently not winning Americans over. Motivated by midterm anxieties, aides close to Donald Trump have reportedly stepped... Read more »

Alabama Senator Katie Britt condemned Democrats for not funding the Transportation Security Administration just days after she voted against her Democratic colleagues’ attempt to fund the agency. “TSA officers have gone 74 days without a paycheck in FY26 because of Democrats’ two shutdowns. This is absolutely unacceptable,” Britt wrote on X... Read more »

President Trump just told the entire world that GOP Representative Neal Dunn is supposed to be “dead by June”—information that was previously private. Trump approached the topic on Monday while complaining about the slim Republican majority in the House as Speaker Mike Johnson sat next to him on a panel... Read more »

Donald Trump announced Monday that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has early stage breast cancer, and will be completing much of her treatment on site at the White House. “She has a fantastic medical team, and her prognosis is excellent! During the treatment period, she will be spending... Read more »

The treasury secretary has pitched his own timeline for the Iran war.When asked by CNBC on Monday when the armed conflict would end, Scott Bessent insisted: “two weeks.”“Two weeks,” Bessent repeated. “I know the media likes to move things along, we see these headlines—and that’s part of the Iranian strategy.... Read more »

Donald Trump’s solution to the farmworker shortage caused by his violent mass deportation campaign is to embrace migrant labor. The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is making it cheaper to hire migrant farmworkers on temporary visas under the H-2A program. It’s a blatant admission that the White... Read more »

Dave Zirin In a union of religion, culture, sports, and politics, a rookie for the New York Knicks broke bread with the youngest mayor in the city’s modern history. The post Iftar With the Knick and the Mayor appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer As Mark Carney’s deceptive centrism pushes the country to the right, Avi Lewis offers a compelling alternative. The post Canada’s Left Is in Crisis. Can Avi Lewis Revive It? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Anita Kunz Living history. The post Women appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elie Mystal The emperor is stark naked, but thanks to a misguided legal doctrine, the Republican justices keep insisting he’s fully clothed. The post Why Does the Supreme Court Treat Trump Like a “Regular” President? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Joshua Freeman A new book revisits the public housing programs of the 1930s. The post Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of an Affordable New York appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Eric Blanc Exploring what might help us move to start building one. The post Why Is There No Anti-War Movement? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Mara Marques Cavallaro In California, talking to your students about Gaza can have severe consequences. The post They Tried to Teach About Palestine. They Paid a Huge Price. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Geffrey Davis The post Until All That Was Left Was a Voice appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Joshua Levkowitz Josh Safdie’s latest movie Marty Supreme spurred a renewed national interest in ping-pong. I played my way through New York City to try to find out more. The post The Great Table Tennis Renaissance appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Ben Schwartz In a new X post building on an earlier Hollywood action-clip montage, the White House tries to render the horrors of war as a Wii game. The post The Trump White House’s Vision of War as Nihilist Entertainment appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Matthew Vickers An interview with Illinois congressional candidate Daniel Biss. The post “I Think I’m Very Intimidating to AIPAC ” appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elie Mystal In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent hails Raskin’s bold call-out. Plus, a counterintuitive take on the SAVE Act and a controversial video-game lawsuit. The post Jamie Raskin Just Told John Roberts: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer Trump’s reckless and unnecessary conflict is hurting allies as well as foes. The post The Iran War Is Spurring Global Anger at America appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Wen Stephenson Nepal’s “Gen Z revolution” achieved historic and unexpected electoral success—but transformational change remains elusive. The post A Sweeping Victory for Gen Z in Nepal—but Not Yet a “Revolution” appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Imagine coming home from school and confiding in a chatbot instead of your parents. In Michael Pollan's latest exploration, he delves into the sneaky ways AI and social media algorithms encroach on our mental sanctuaries. As Pollan warns, our very consciousness is a "precious realm" under siege, with our autonomy... Read more »

Every afternoon around 3 p.m., a small group of construction workers in Cleveland climb to an upper floor of a building under construction and wave to 4-year-old Brinley Wyczalek in the Cleveland Clinic. It began in January when her father, Travis, shone a flashlight at the site where the Neurological... Read more »

For Indian environmental activist Dev Karan, 17, a Young Activist Summit laureate for 2025, it all began with a village pond that no longer looked like a pond. It made climate change real for him, and inspired him to found Pondora, which fosters community stewardship of vulnerable water sources, in... Read more »

LaShonda Adams sits beside her 48-year-old husband, gently explaining to him -- again -- that she is his wife, that the people around him are his children, that he is home and safe. After a massive heart attack left him without oxygen to his brain for more than twenty minutes,... Read more »

Some insights from an author and psychologist may help introverts and extroverts better understand one another in order to improve their relationships. “Introverts are quieter, more introspective, deliberate, really into alone time. Extroverts are more talkative, outgoing, energetic, and very into socializing.” Most people fall somewhere in between the extremes... Read more »

Miki Kawamura, founder and director of the Youth Peace Ambassadors program, learned something significant at the rural Japanese school she attended until 2025. Seeing two students from completely different political backgrounds brought together by working on a single multilingual art installation about peace, she realized that while our differences may... Read more »

Abandoned cemeteries in Morocco are opening hearts between Jewish and Muslim people in a unique interfaith project that began in 2012 when the Moroccan Jewish community allowed 36-year-old Abderahim Baddah to use land beside the Akrich cemetery to cultivate crops while restoring the site. Now that once abandoned 700-year-old Jewish... Read more »

On Google Earth, Nguyen Minh Hai's twenty-year forest looks like an ice cube melting in hot water—a small patch of biodiversity surrounded by endless monoculture. It began with a misunderstanding: Vietnamese farmers read Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution and thought natural farming would be easy. One woman spent $21,000 clearing hillsides,... Read more »

Teen Line was founded in 1980 under a different name; the grassroots nonprofit evolved into a vital resource for young people struggling with stress, loneliness, relationships and mental health challenges.  Teen Line still runs on the same core model: Trained teens supporting peers through nonjudgmental listening.  “I think the biggest... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A quick note: this article walks through how water cremation works, including some detail about the process. If you’d prefer to jump straight to the environmental and policy context, feel free to scroll to the subheadings. Scotland is making history in end-of-life care. As... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When anxiety starts creeping in, many people instinctively reach for music. A calming playlist, a pair of headphones, and a few quiet minutes can make a noticeable difference. Science increasingly backs up that instinct, with new research suggesting that the length of time you... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Style has a way of feeling most elusive exactly when you’re looking for it. You know what you’re drawn to. You know what you like on other people. But translating that into something that feels genuinely, consistently you? That’s where things get slippery. The... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For centuries, the tiny West African island of Príncipe was a place where nature was exploited and people were brought in chains to work it. Today, the descendants of those laborers are being paid to protect it. The Faya Foundation, funded by South African... Read more »

Episode Description: Spring is in the air, and so is this week’s roundup of solutions, breakthroughs, and good news worth sharing.                                                Arielle and Karissa are back together after last week’s Sambhali Trust guest interview, and they’ve got a full lineup: wildlife conservation wins, medical milestones, an environmental project decades in... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Age-related macular degeneration eliminates the center of your vision – the ability to read, to recognize faces, to see what’s right in front of you. For the more than five million people worldwide living with its most advanced form, geographic atrophy, that loss has... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Immunotherapy has reshaped cancer treatment over the past decade. It has worked for melanoma, lung cancer, and several other tumor types. Prostate cancer, though, has largely been left out. Researchers classify it as “immune-cold,” meaning the body’s immune system doesn’t recognize or attack it... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer treatment has no shortage of big ideas, but this one has a certain dark charm: send in bacteria that thrive where healthy human cells struggle, then let them chew through a tumor’s interior. A research team led by the University of Waterloo is... Read more »

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, nutrition debates have centered on a familiar question: Is it better for heart health to cut carbohydrates or reduce fat? A large long-term study suggests that the question may be missing the bigger picture. According to new research tracking nearly 200,000 adults... Read more »

Gecko Robotics scores $71m contract.... Read more »

<![CDATA[Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life. Parents wept over their children’s bodies. Crushed desks and blood-stained backpacks... Read more »

The agreement is part of a larger $20B license for the federal government to buy any Anduril product.... Read more »

At a conference in Honolulu, the assistant defense secretary for industrial base policy detailed the challenge.... Read more »

Sanctions relief for Russia will be difficult to undo.... Read more »

As the Trump administration pushes for faster weapons production, supply-chain vulnerabilities could trip progress.... Read more »

The Air Force removed chutes from the tankers in 2008 to save time and money.... Read more »

<![CDATA[US-Israeli war on Iran, day 14: The U.S. lost six more service members amid President Trump’s war against Iran on Thursday. All six crew members perished when their KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft went down in western Iraq after colliding with another aircraft. (An initial version of this newsletter noted the aircraft... Read more »

“Bad things can happen,” defense secretary says of Thursday’s KC-135 crash over Iraq... Read more »

Former pilots laud the arrival of cheap munitions and help from Ukraine.... Read more »

<![CDATA[US-Israeli war on Iran, day 13: The U.S. military spent more than $11 billion in just the first week of Trump’s war against Iran, Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a classified briefing Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The New York Times reported the fiscal tally, which “did not include many of the... Read more »

Current and former military lawyers question the secretary’s motives and timing.... Read more »

An Army researcher unpacks new initiatives to expand research into human performance.... Read more »

<![CDATA[The Pentagon plans to buy 30,000 one-way attack drones this month, but the military’s ability to repair or even build drones on the battlefield could make or break operations in modern conflicts.  So when Dan Magy, the CEO of Firestorm, first told me in December about a mobile industrial-grade 3D... Read more »

The classroom as a rehearsal room I have long believed that the best legal training happens where theory collides with the messy reality of contracts. In Mary Lee Ryan’s classroom…... Read more »

A different kind of spotlight I have always been drawn to the people who keep the lights on while others perform under them. Steve Gullion is one such person. His…... Read more »

A presence you felt in small things I have always been drawn to people whose lives read like margins of a larger story. Brenda Lorraine Gee lived in those margins…... Read more »

The small, strange permission of finishing someone else’s sentences I have long been fascinated by the moral choreography required when a living person finishes the work of the dead. Karen…... Read more »

A family in frames I have tracked celebrity lineages before, but Josephine Archer Cameron feels different. She is present on the edges of public narratives, a character who appears in…... Read more »

A quiet turning of the page I remember the first time I heard her name in a family anecdote and felt a small tug, like a guitar string tuned by…... Read more »

Growing up between dugouts and goalposts Presley Rowan Schumaker has one foot on the soccer field and one tied to a life that orbits professional baseball. The grooves of her…... Read more »

A Different Kind of Woods Legacy Royce Renee Woods has lived much of her life just outside the bright floodlights that follow the Woods surname. While the world associates that…... Read more »

A Life Lived Between Private Rooms and Public Stages Pamela Ann Stepnick occupies a rare position in contemporary culture. She is neither a background parent nor a manufactured celebrity. She…... Read more »

HMS Dragon, a Type 45 air defence destroyer, was sighted near the Strait of Gibraltar this morning as it transited from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean. The post British warship enters Mediterranean Sea first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

ZeroUSV demonstration for Royal Navy programme shows uncrewed vessel deploying subsea system without crewed support. The post Autonomous USV launches ocean glider in first first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

CMAL has identified a Chinese shipyard as the lead bidder to build two 140-metre freight flex ferries capable of carrying up to 200 passengers during peak periods on the Aberdeen to Orkney and Shetland route. The post Scottish freight ferry contract awarded to Chinese shipyard first appeared on UK Defence... Read more »

British F-35s and Typhoons conduct defensive patrols across the Middle East as RAF activity in region reaches highest level in 15 years. The post UK deploys most jets to Middle East in 15 years first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

UK Defence Secretary points to interceptor drones as UK weighs plans on protecting vital shipping routes. The post UK eyes interceptor drones in Hormuz to protect shipping first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs align on urgency of defence reform, as ministers face questions over timing of key plans and legislation. The post Cross-party pressure grows over defence investment plan first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The UK government says it is continuing to assess the strength of the country’s defence industrial base as it seeks to expand domestic industry capacity. The post UK continues efforts to strengthen defence supply chain first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

The Ministry of Defence says the UK share of work on a new low-cost NATO air defence weapon will depend on the industrial solution selected. The post UK workshare unclear in NATO air defence project first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »

Britain and Germany are progressing plans to develop a family of long-range stealth cruise and hypersonic missiles capable of striking targets more than 2,000 kilometres away. The post UK and Germany to build stealthy hypersonic cruise missiles first appeared on UK Defence Journal.... Read more »