Albania Gives Jared Kushner Hotel Project a Nod as Trump Returns
|

Albania Gives Jared Kushner Hotel Project a Nod as Trump Returns

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The government of Albania has given preliminary approval to a plan proposed by Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, to build a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on a small abandoned military base off the coast of Albania. The project is one of…

Canada Readies Billions of Dollars in Retaliatory Moves to Trump Tariff Threat
|

Canada Readies Billions of Dollars in Retaliatory Moves to Trump Tariff Threat

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Canadian government is preparing billions of dollars in retaliatory measures on U.S. exports to Canada if President-elect Donald J. Trump makes good on a threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, setting up a potential showdown between two countries that are each…

Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is the Secretary of Defense We Deserve
|

Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is the Secretary of Defense We Deserve

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines First let me hit you with some realities: The secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, has said that the West is not prepared for the challenges that will come over the next five years and that it’s time to “shift to a wartime…

Opinion | The Israeli Right May Soon Be Disenchanted With Trump
|

Opinion | The Israeli Right May Soon Be Disenchanted With Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The most interesting detail of the hostage and cease-fire deal that Israeli and Hamas officials agreed to on Wednesday lies neither in its terms, which mainly resemble what’s been on the table for months, nor in the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime…

Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice
|

Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I really, really wanted to like Mark Zuckerberg’s gushing appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Friday. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made some important points about the inadequacies of fact-checking as well as the troubling ways that governments can…

Defending Michigan’s Auto Industry, Whitmer Warns of Tariff Risks
|

Defending Michigan’s Auto Industry, Whitmer Warns of Tariff Risks

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a leading Democrat from a critical battleground state, on Wednesday subtly warned against President-elect Donald J. Trump’s tariff threats targeting Canada, even as she stressed her broader willingness to work with him on the cusp of his second…

Opinion | Would Pam Bondi Stand Up to Trump as Attorney General?
|

Opinion | Would Pam Bondi Stand Up to Trump as Attorney General?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If anything, Ms. Bondi’s résumé most resembles that of Janet Reno, who spent 15 years as the state attorney for Miami-Dade County (called Dade County at the time) before serving as the U.S. attorney general from 1993 to 2001. That’s not to suggest…

What We Know About the Proposed Gaza Cease-Fire Agreement
|

What We Know About the Proposed Gaza Cease-Fire Agreement

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After more than 15 months of nearly uninterrupted fighting in Gaza, diplomats trying to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas expressed cautious hope on Tuesday that a deal could finally be within reach. But that optimism was tempered — by the uncertainty…

Opinion | Hegseth Is Dangerous but Not for the Reasons You Think
|

Opinion | Hegseth Is Dangerous but Not for the Reasons You Think

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines To state the obvious: As a former weekend “Fox & Friends” anchor, Army National Guard officer and leader of two small nonprofits, Pete Hegseth is unqualified to run a nuclear-armed organization with a budget approaching a trillion dollars. That’s the point. Donald Trump…