House inaction leads D.C. mayor to order spending freezes, prepare furloughs: Cuts could include furloughs of government employees and the closure of certain government facilities — except for schools, homeless shelters or health care facilities.
A Trumpworld power struggle muscles Waltz out: Jockeying for influence in the administration, the national security adviser held a losing hand.
Metro officer stabbed ahead of transportation chief’s visit for safety talk: Incident occurred at Navy Yard station
In wake of assault, Metro’s leader tries to win over Trump appointee: The two had a “productive” meeting as feds focus on transit crime, an administration official said.
Man arrested in stabbing of D.C. transit officer at Navy Yard Metro station: The altercation occurred ahead of a visit to the station by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to discuss safety on public transit.
GOP senators voice doubts over Trump D.C. U.S. attorney nominee Martin: Facing a May 20 deadline for Senate confirmation, Ed Martin met with Capitol Hill staffers Thursday as several Republican senators aired concerns.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data - "An aide for the Democratic minority on the House Oversight Committee who was not authorized to speak publicly told NPR that the committee is in possession of multiple verifiable reports showing that DOGE has exfiltrated sensitive government data across agencies for unknown purposes, revealing that Berulis' disclosure is not an isolated incident." [ed. note: jfc]
What Parents of Boys Should Know: Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more. - "Whippman cites research by the UCLA psychology professor Allan N. Schore, whose work explains that the brain circuits regulating stress mature more slowly in the prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal periods for boys compared with girls. Schore's findings echo observations made by the British child-and-adolescent psychiatrist Sebastian Kraemer, who in 2000 published an article in The British Medical Journal in which he wrote that 'even from conception, before social effects come into play, males are more vulnerable than females.' From a physiological perspective, Kraemer wrote, boys are born about a month behind girls developmentally. They also tend to be less proficient at regulating their emotions and more affected when things go wrong - and things go wrong, in part, when parents feel overwhelmed by boys' behavior, or when they neglect, intentionally or not, sons' need for affection and attention.
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"'A wide body of research shows that it is not masculinity itself that makes men violent, but the sense of shame that they are not masculine enough,' Whippman wrote. 'Men who score high on measures for what researchers call masculine discrepancy stress meaning, stress derived from a belief that they fall short of society's standards for manhood are significantly more likely to be violent in a variety of ways, including intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and gun violence.'"
Well, That’s One Way to Address America’s Vaping Problem: Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China. Because of tariffs, they’re about to get a lot more expensive.
This Is the Way a World Order Ends: Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them. - "We should never underestimate the power of example in human affairs. In our own time, we are seeing one country and then another flouting what had been a basic rule since the end of World War II: that ownership by one country of territory seized by force from another would not be recognized. President Vladimir Putin of Russia took parts of Georgia in 2008, and in 2014 invaded Ukraine to seize Crimea and part of the Donbas region to further his mission of rebuilding the czarist empire. The peace negotiations under way between Ukraine, which is being abandoned by the United States, and Russia seem almost certain to allow Russia to keep that territory and very likely acquire even more. Israel seems to be maneuvering toward annexing parts of Gaza and maybe even southern Lebanon, while in Africa, Rwandan troops are pushing into neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. China can only be encouraged to think that the world will accept its bringing Taiwan under its rule.
"A new world order with new rules is taking shape."
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market: A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Import, Immature. - "Bottled water is, incredibly, Fiji’s single biggest export by a factor of more than two. The United States is Fiji’s single biggest export destination by a factor of more than two. In 2024 we imported about a hundred and forty-two million dollars worth of bottled water from Fiji."
USA's robot building boom continues with first 3D-printed Starbucks
Kilmar Abrego García’s tattoos alone do not prove MS-13 membership, experts say: Several were skeptical of the claim that knuckle tattoos highlighted by President Trump suggest gang affiliation. - "... any discussion about the tattoos and their significance was missing the broader picture on Abrego García’s case, which is centered on his right to due process and the fact that the Trump administration has admitted that it mistakenly violated an immigration judge’s 2019 order that he not be deported to El Salvador."
The 35 definitive rules of train travel: From boarding to riding to getting around town, these are the essentials of train etiquette.
FBI reassigns agents who knelt during 2020 Black Lives Matter protests: Conservatives have pointed to the photo, taken during President Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, as proof that the FBI harbors a liberal agenda. - "The reassignments have angered current and former colleagues, who say that FBI agents are not trained for riot control and that these officers were unjustly punished for trying to defuse a tense situation. Some of those interviewed, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution, said they see it as another example of the Trump administration punishing personnel whom it considers part of the liberal 'deep state.'
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"FBI leadership reviewed the matter and ultimately concluded that no disciplinary action was necessary 'because there was no violation of policy that they could point to,' the former official said."
Singer Michael Bolton has incurable brain cancer. What is glioblastoma?: The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive and often deadly brain cancer, since late 2023. He plans to keep fighting.
The Diddy allegations are shocking. Were they also business as usual?: Dominate. Intimidate. Silence. It’s a familiar playbook for powerful men in the music industry. The allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs are a disturbing twist.
