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Trump administration changes have upended the U.S. agency charged with providing humanitarian aid overseas, with senior officials put on leave, contractors laid off and a sweeping freeze imposed on foreign assistance.

The Pentagon has said in recent years that it is impossible to count the total number of transgender troops.

North America braces for new Trump tariffs as Saturday deadline nears  Reuters Your complete guide to tariffs: How much you’ll pay, and when  CNN Ahead of Possible Tariffs, No Rush to Get Goods In From Canada and Mexico  The New York Times Trump

North America braces for new Trump tariffs as Saturday deadline nears  Reuters Canada Your complete guide to tariffs: How much you’ll pay, and when  CNN Ahead of Possible Tariffs, No Rush to Get Goods In From Canada and Mexico  The New York Times

Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list.

Spend the shortest month of the year with a book that is worth your time. The best new books to read in February include best-seller Ali Hazelwood’s latest romance, transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan’s second memoir, and Virginia Feito’s blood-soaked

The tariffs would also invite retaliation. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, has already vowed to counterpunch by pulling American alcohol off store shelves in the Canadian province.

Three Israeli hostages, including dual US and French citizens, set for release in Gaza on Saturday  Reuters Hamas Turns Hostage Releases Into a Humiliating Spectacle for Israel  The Wall Street Journal American and father of youngest hostages among those due for release

January should be a great month for television, as brutal cold makes captive, couch-potato audiences of us all. Sadly, in practice, a long holiday hangover tends to limit new releases; platforms’ reticence to compete for attention with an inevitable regime-change

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the first execution in the United States this year. Marion Bowman Jr, 44, was sentenced to death in 2002 for the