World News
Haiti taking more steps against gangs after thousands of protesters demand security. By AP and NBC News
No wigs please – the new rules shaking up beauty pageants (Africa and the Caribbean) By Anita Nkonge / BBC
Israeli operation in Gaza expanding to seize ‘large areas,’ defense minister says. By David Brennan / ABC News
My Fellow Republicans and President Trump, We Must Stand Up to Putin. By Don Bacon / NYT
How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status. By Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast
‘A Great Emboldening’: Trump Inspires Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere. By Michael D. Shear / NYT
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid. By Hunter Walker / TPM
Final Cuts Will Eliminate U.S. Aid Agency in All but Name. By Karoun Demirjian Stephanie Nolen, Michael Crowley and Elizabeth Dias / NYT
U.S. Presses French Companies to Comply With Trump’s Anti-Diversity Policies. By Liz Alderman / NYT
Israel approves controversial proposal to facilitate emigration of Palestinians from Gaza. By Dana Karni, Tim Lister and Nadeen Ebrahim / CNN
Britain backs force for Ukraine but security community has doubts. By Karla Adam / Wash Post
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced. By Philip Holsinger / Time
Voice of America brought light to dark places. Just ask Martina Navratilova. By Sally Jenkins / Wash Post
“A tragedy for the world”: How the Trump-Musk takeover is sowing global chaos. By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status. By Gerald Imray / ABC News
Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion. Ben Reiff / The Nation
“No place for migrants”: Advocates fear expelled Venezuelans “already being tortured” in El Salvador. By Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon
On concessions to Russia, Trump and Americans are on different pages. Aaron Blake / Wash Post
I Don’t Believe a Single Word Trump and Putin Say About Ukraine. By Thomas L. Friedman / NYT
More than 400 killed as Israel strikes Gaza, breaking ceasefire with Hamas, officials say. By Wash Post
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler. By Timothy W. Ryback / The Atlantic
Does Trump Want America to Look More Like Saudi Arabia? By Quinn Slobodian / NYT
The Arab plan for Gaza should be taken seriously. By The Editorial Board / Wash Post
I Went to Dubai, and Caught a Glimpse of the Future. By Lydia Polgreen / NYT
An Unexpected Trump Bump for the World’s Centrists. By Mark Landler / NYT
The Fate of Migrants Detained at Guantánamo. By Edwidge Danticat / The New Yorker
