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While much about the threatened tariffs is still unclear, experts predict they would be bad news for all three economies, with few winners.

It turns out, a maggot’s preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into figuring out why and what neurons are responsible. (Image credit: Helmut Hess/Getty Images)

Ties between the United States and Mexico have deepened over 30 years of free trade, creating both benefits and irritants.

Let’s celebrate Groundhog Day, in all its bizarre, quirky strangeness. Let it remind us that we have not subdued nature, but merely made ourselves more comfortable in its domain. (Image credit: Brett Carlsen)

Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country’s military, has died at 81. (Image credit: Martial Trezzini)

Trump DOJ demands list of thousands of FBI agents, others who worked on Jan. 6 and Trump investigations for possible firing  CNN Trump Officials Fire Jan. 6 Prosecutors and Plan Possible F.B.I. Purge  The New York Times DOJ directs FBI to fire

Three Israeli hostages, including dual US and French citizens, set for release in Gaza on Saturday  Reuters Live updates: US-Israeli citizen Keith Siegel freed in latest round of hostage releases  CNN Hamas stages Gaza beach handover as Israeli hostages freed  Yahoo! Voices Three

An NPR listener wonders whether her husband’s relationship with a female colleague is too close for comfort. He says she’s being competitive for no reason, and that he sees the woman as a ‘sister.’ (Image credit: Eoneren/Getty Images)

Siegel is the first American to be released as part of this deal. A total of 18 hostages have been released since the ceasefire took effect. Hundreds Palestinians have been released so far. (Image credit: AFP)

Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent reference to the move, called it a “victory.”