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The performance of Elon Musk and the department of government had potentially violated the Constitution When he effectively closed the US agency for international development, a federal judge has ruled. President Trump is promising to appeal the decision.
The former US Agency for International Development Employees were abolished when the agency collected its personal belongings at the US Aid Headquarters in Washington DC on February 27 after the Trump administration ended effectively.
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A two -dozen USAID employees filed a lawsuit against Musk and Dodge, saying they have no authority NPR’s Fatima Tennis said Musk is not the head of a fixed agency because closing the agency Before. US District Judge Theodore Chung wrote a 68 -page opinion, preventing Kasturi from further US aid shutdown and ordered Dodge to restore access to emails and other electronic systems for existing staff. Decision Does not restore work That USAID was doing before, because humanity and development aid programs are still low.
Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin announces limited ceasefire in Ukraine Yesterday, where the Kremlin agreed to stop targeting Ukraine’s energy facilities for 30 days. However, hours after the announcement, Russia and Ukraine launched strikes targeting each other’s infrastructure.
- Ukrainian President Wolodmeir Zelannsky said the fact is that attacks are ongoing It shows this after Trump and Putin’s conversation tomorrow MUST MUST PUT PURCHASE ON RUSE. Zillski does not trust Putin. Ukraine and Russia are currently not closely close to terms of ceasefire. Putin wants his army not to be controlled, and this is a red line for Ukraine.
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have continued in Gaza after the end of a two -month ceasefire with Hamas with Hamas yesterday. It was one of the deadliest days of the Gaza war, and more than 400 people were killed. The five Hamas officials and women and children who were killed were killed in their homes overnight.
- Israel says it is returning to the war to pressure Hamas so that it agrees to new terms of ceasefire.NPR’s Daniel Estman says, including the issuance of more hostages before the end of the war talks. Hamas said their important demands, including returning to the real terms of the ceasefire, remain. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu currently has to pass the national budget in two weeks or his government may fall. Essar says more airstrikes on Gaza can continue until the budget is approved. Works to stabilize her right -right alliance.
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A customer shops for eggs at the grocery store on March 12 in Chicago. Wholesale egg prices are falling, but grocery prices may take several days after that.
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Eggs are still a pain for American pockets. However, there may be a path to relief. On Friday, the US Department of Agriculture reported that the national wholesale price of eggs was decreasing since the end of February. This is a positive sign that the price of eggs at grocery stores may fall in a few weeks. The wholesale price reduction is due to the absence of a major outbreak of birds flu in March, which has allowed egg supply to recover.
Eggs on the shelf were purchased at a wholesale price a few weeks ago by the retailer, so the grocery store prices are not yet reflecting the change. However, Joseph Balagatas, a professor of agriculture economics at Prado University, says prices may start to decrease in a few days.- Alternatives seeking eggs can help prevent US egg prices from rising further. Experts advise consumers to panic not to buy eggs and not increase the price.
- When a flock of eggs in the fields loses the bird flu, the rehabilitation of the fields takes about one year to one year.
- Virginia Tech Professor Jadreen Votan says, hopefully, the fields will have new chickens in the summer – but it will be revealed with the assumption that the bird flu cannot grow again.
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Demonstrators gather in New York City to express solidarity with Palestinian activists Mahmoud Khalil and demand immediate release of ice custody. New York, USA, March 15, 2025.
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This article was written Lily FoodleHost of the first and morning edition.
Years ago, Noor Abdullah fell in love with Lebanon on a voluntary journey. She was riding a bus to educate Syrian refugees and met Mahmood Khalil.
He told me, “He was already trying to help other people.” But I don’t think that’s why I was attracted to him. “
He was charming, calm and extraordinary. In many ways he was opposed to it, a self -made interview that becomes extremely restless. And maybe that’s why she knew, she said, one day she would marry her.
He told me, “He is the only only person who knows how to calm me.”
But on Saturday, March 8, the feeling of comfort was torn. Eight months of pregnant, she saw that she handcuffs her husband to her husband in the lobby of his apartment building and removing her. Now, instead of getting ready for the birth of her first baby in the last weeks of pregnancy, she told me she was fighting to bring her husband back.
Colombia graduates and legal permanent residents are at the Louisiana detention center for involvement in the protests against the Israeli war in Gaza. The government wants to deport it despite its legal status, and its case is the focus of a tough debate on what kind of speech is protected under the first amendment. Many independent speeches say that if Khalil has been deported for his position on the Gaza war, he is being punished for a safe political speech. The government has not committed any crime on it and says they do not need to use immigration as rarely.
Noor Abdullah told me, “The use of your first amendment rights is not illegal. It has always been so.” “The fact is that you can basically kidnap someone from your home to go to a protest.”
Since it is in the federal court, in protest and in the national headlines, Noor does not only want her husband home to birth over time. Listen to our interview Or read it here.
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In this photo taken by NASA, a Space X capsule, in the Gulf of Mexico, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, with NASA astronauts Sunny Williams, Boch Wilmor and Nick Hague, and Russian Cosmont landing with Alexander Gorbono.
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- Sunny Williams and Boch Vilmur, two NASA astronomers who have been at the International Space Station for months, returned to Earth yesterday evening. They returned to the Space X dragon capsule that went down the Gulf coast of Florida.
- South Bai South West Festival Is diminished. Next year, it will be less than two days and will not have a dedicated weekend of music. (Through Cut newsJes
- Thousands of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 were made public late yesterday. Presidential historians are not expecting any bombing revelations.
This newsletter was amended Suzanne Navin.
