STRIPES (Svetlana Shkolnikova) - US seeks to expand Greenland military presence in 3 areas | Stars and Stripes
The expansion would allow the U.S. military to close vulnerability gaps in an increasingly contested part of the world.
NYTIMES (Ana Ionova and Ju Faddul) - Seeking to Rely Less on China, U.S. Pushes a Rare Earths Partnership on a Reluctant Brazil
Seeking to reduce its reliance on China, the United States is pushing for a critical minerals deal with Brazil. The South American country is less eager.
NYTIMES (Alexa Robles-Gil) - New Spider Mimics ‘The Last of Us’ Zombie Fungus Cordyceps
A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.
NYTIMES (Valerie Hopkins and Tomas Dapkus) - U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge
The Trump administration made the move in exchange for Belarus’s freeing of 250 political prisoners, part of a rapprochement between the two countries.
NYTIMES (Valerie Hopkins) - Lukashenko Jailed Her in Belarus, but She Wants the World to Talk to Him
Maria Kalesnikava is campaigning for the West to engage with the regime in Belarus that imprisoned her for more than five years.
NYTIMES (Benjamin Mullin) - Can Jonah Peretti Save BuzzFeed From Extinction?
Facing financial straits, the founder is betting on a skunkworks for A.I. experiments.
NYTIMES (Reed Abelson) - How New Mexico Became an Obamacare Success Story
Affordable Care Act enrollment has dropped across the United States since the enhanced federal subsidies expired. But New Mexico has record numbers of people signing up.
NYTIMES (Stacy Cowley) - Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default
Recently released data from the Education Department showed that by the end of last year, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181 billion in federal student loans.
NYTIMES (Kurtis Lee and Robert Gebeloff) - Blood Plasma Centers Move Into More Middle-Class Neighborhoods
Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing, groceries and health care.
NYTIMES (Alexandra Alter) - A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.