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WILHELM ARCHIPELAGO, Antarctica — Sometimes, in the middle of a long workday or as she’s falling asleep, Anzhelika Hanchuk sees her phone jolted to life by a bright notification that means Kyiv is under attack from Russian missiles. The meteorologist is about as far as she could be from the Ukrainian capital and the conflict raging in her home country. Surrounded by the jagged glaciers and towering peaks of the Antarctic Peninsula with only a colony of gentoo penguins for neighbors, Hanchuk is leading a group of 14 Ukrainians helping the war effort in an unlikely way: by keeping its Antarctic program afloat. “Stopping the base for even one year and then trying to restart it is simply impossible,” she said. “To stop the base for a year would mean losing it forever.” Maintaining a permanent scientific presence at Vernadsky Research Base, the mint-green structure perched on a remote, rocky outcropping nearly 10,000 miles from Kyiv, might seem an unusual priority for a country fighting for its existence at home. But Ukrainian officials see their small polar foothold as not just a scientific endeavor, but also a crucial bulwark in their fight for survival and against Russia’s expansionist plans. That’s because its very existence secures Ukraine a seat at the table where major world powers govern the vast white landmass entirely by consensus — giving the besieged country an important forum to draw attention to Russian aggression in all its forms. A long-term polar strategy adopted this year by Ukraine declares its Antarctic presence a “platform for protecting national interests.”“Ukraine’s systematic presence in the regions of Antarctica, the Arctic, and the World Ocean is of major strategic and geopolitical importance,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said when approving the strategy in February. “It provides additional foreign policy instruments, strengthens Ukraine’s national security, enhances our country’s position on the global stage, and contributes to countering Russia’s aggressive policy in these regions.” On May 11, the core decisionmakers in the continent’s governance will gather in Hiroshima, Japan, for the annual Antarctic Consultative Treaty Meeting. Representatives of 29 nations will debate everything from restrictions on krill fishing in the Southern Ocean to the future of Antarctic tourism to the frontiers of mineral prospecting on the resource-rich continent. The politics of the war in Ukraine have seeped into the work of the little-known governing body. Lines between the Western countries backing Ukraine on one… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago - The Man Trying to Make Trump’s Tariffs Go on Forever
WARREN, Mich. — Jamieson Greer is a trade lawyer. He is a well-respected trade lawyer. He was chosen by President Donald Trump to be the country’s top trade lawyer: the U.S. Trade Representative. He is not a member of a union. He is not a welder. He is not a manufacturer. He is definitely not a salesman. But here he is one cloudy morning on a factory floor in Michigan, in front of an American flag that could hide an elephant, selling the administration’s trade agenda in one of the most important political states in the country with a man hoping to become its next governor. And that man just went soft on the core tenet of Trump’s efforts to reshape global trade. “We don’t want the tariffs to go on forever,” said Rep. John James (R-Mich.). “We want reciprocal tariffs. We want fair trade.” Greer stares off at a machine in the distance. He’s heard a similar line from tariff-skittish Republicans before — that the tariffs are a tool, a way to get countries to open markets and expand exports, and then they will come down. But those reassurances contradict his daily reality: His boss does want tariffs to go on forever. And he’s made it Greer’s job to ensure they do. Trump has never hidden his love of tariffs. But his second term has seen the so-called “Tariff Man” unleashed, with a trade policy defined by a fire-from-the hip approach that’s upended global markets. He immediately set about imposing tariffs on three of the country’s top trading partners — China, Canada and Mexico — and quickly followed with “Liberation Day,” when he imposed duties on goods from nearly every country in the world in the hopes that it would end the alleged global exploitation of American commerce and mark the beginning of a grand resurgence in domestic manufacturing. He justified those tariffs with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which allows the president to regulate trade during a national emergency. The trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries, Trump said, constituted such an emergency. But the law had never been used for that purpose and doesn’t explicitly mention tariffs. In April, the Supreme Court ruled that it couldn’t be used that way at all, striking down the cornerstone of Trump’s economic agenda. Trump was undeterred. He vowed that his administration would find a new legal mechanism with… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago - ‘We Want to Move on From Losing’: Pritzker on Antisemitism, Trump and 2028
CHICAGO — Nobody asks “who sent ya?” when you walk into Manny’s Deli, pick up a tray and deliberate over pastrami or corned beef to go with your latke. This South Loop institution welcomes every element of Chicago. That was evident last week when we took “On The Road” to the American city that’s perhaps most consumed by its own politics. Manny's crowd spanned class and racial lines. They were united in caloric excess, the Chicago way. It’s one of the few things that links a city otherwise balkanized by neighborhood, class, ethnic group, even baseball allegiance. Another is its obsession with its own politics, particularly its mayors (pronounced locally as: Da Mare). Presidents and senators are fine — and one of their own will open his presidential library next month in Hyde Park — but the adage that all politics is local really could have been coined for Chicago. This clubhouse culture is why ward committeemen and aldermen — and the favors they distribute or retribution they exact — endure in Chicago’s municipal-centric ecosystem. But just as Manny’s feeds all, the historically closed system that was Chicago’s Democratic political machine is close to a relic, on its way to being as dated as the famous footage of 1968 in Grant Park. Nobody today is posing the locally famous question a young Abner Mikva faced when he showed up at a local Democratic office to volunteer and was told: “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” That’s in part because there’s not a Richard Daley on the fourth floor of City Hall. And because the other enduring Illinois Democratic boss, Mike Madigan, was finally felled by the feds, meeting the same fate as so many others in both parties here. But someone has stepped up to fill the vacuum: Gov. JB Pritzker. Pritzker is hardly a political outsider — his family name can be found on buildings and philanthropic endeavors across Chicagoland. But the billionaire Hyatt hotel heir was always a donor and, he’s quick to note, an activist. He was no machine regular. Pritzker’s only run before his winning 2018 gubernatorial bid was in a 1998 House Democratic primary (he came in third). He may hate the term, but by virtue of his office and the personal money he’s steered toward consolidating political power, he’s effectively become Chicago’s new boss. That was apparent enough when, in March, he helped engineer… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago - eBay Shares Surge After Bizarre, Surprise Takeover Bid From GameStop
eBay confirmed the huge bid on Monday and said that it has had no talks with GameStop or received any outreach from the company before it received the proposal. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 weeks ago - Inside the Quiet Republican Effort to Flip FettermanIt’s a few days after the election this November, and the results have become clear: Democrats have netted the four seats they need to claim a Senate majority. But then there’s a disturbance in the force: Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump persuade Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) to switch parties or at least become an independent to ensure Republicans retain power in the chamber. It’s a scenario that’s becoming less fantastical by the day. The political environment is curdling for Republicans, and the quiet campaign to lure Fetterman across the aisle is underway. Trump has made the sell, offering his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall to the Pennsylvanian. A handful of Senate Republicans are also gently feeling out Fetterman and responding to his concerns over the prospect of defecting from the Democratic Party, multiple high-level GOP officials tell me. If Fetterman does flip, according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters, it will be thanks in large part to his deepening friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley. But the first-term Democrat — who’s infuriated his party with his harder line on immigration and staunch support for Israel, Trump nominees, government funding bills and most recently the president’s ballroom — isn’t yet persuaded. “I’m not changing,” Fetterman told me in an interview Friday when I asked if he was ruling out both becoming a Republican or turning independent. “I’m a Democrat, and I’m staying one. “ Yet, at least in private, he’s not totally rejecting dropping his “D.” When one senior Republican recently brought up the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman, he absorbed the suggestion and didn’t embrace or reject the overture, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversation. In our interview, Fetterman said bluntly: “I’d be a shitty Republican.” There are his votes against big-ticket measures, such as last year’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, but also his liberal views on a raft of cultural issues. There’s something else, too: Fetterman has watched how his Republican colleagues who break from Trump, at different levels, have been treated. “Committed conservatives like Cassidy and Tillis are getting pushed out of their seats,” he noted. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges in 2021, and the… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 weeks ago
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WILHELM ARCHIPELAGO, Antarctica — Sometimes, in the middle of a long workday or as she’s falling asleep, Anzhelika Hanchuk sees her phone jolted to life by a bright notification that means Kyiv is under attack from Russian missiles. The meteorologist is about as far as she could be from the Ukrainian capital and the conflict raging in her home country. Surrounded by the jagged glaciers and towering peaks of the Antarctic Peninsula with only a colony of gentoo penguins for neighbors, Hanchuk is leading a group of 14 Ukrainians helping the war effort in an unlikely way: by keeping its Antarctic program afloat. “Stopping the base for even one year and then trying to restart it is simply impossible,” she said. “To stop the base for a year would mean losing it forever.” Maintaining a permanent scientific presence at Vernadsky Research Base, the mint-green structure perched on a remote, rocky outcropping nearly 10,000 miles from Kyiv, might seem an unusual priority for a country fighting for its existence at home. But Ukrainian officials see their small polar foothold as not just a scientific endeavor, but also a crucial bulwark in their fight for survival and against Russia’s expansionist plans. That’s because its very existence secures Ukraine a seat at the table where major world powers govern the vast white landmass entirely by consensus — giving the besieged country an important forum to draw attention to Russian aggression in all its forms. A long-term polar strategy adopted this year by Ukraine declares its Antarctic presence a “platform for protecting national interests.”“Ukraine’s systematic presence in the regions of Antarctica, the Arctic, and the World Ocean is of major strategic and geopolitical importance,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said when approving the strategy in February. “It provides additional foreign policy instruments, strengthens Ukraine’s national security, enhances our country’s position on the global stage, and contributes to countering Russia’s aggressive policy in these regions.” On May 11, the core decisionmakers in the continent’s governance will gather in Hiroshima, Japan, for the annual Antarctic Consultative Treaty Meeting. Representatives of 29 nations will debate everything from restrictions on krill fishing in the Southern Ocean to the future of Antarctic tourism to the frontiers of mineral prospecting on the resource-rich continent. The politics of the war in Ukraine have seeped into the work of the little-known governing body. Lines between the Western countries backing Ukraine on one… [TheTopNews] Read More.
3 weeks ago
WARREN, Mich. — Jamieson Greer is a trade lawyer. He is a well-respected trade lawyer. He was chosen by President Donald Trump to be the country’s top trade lawyer: the U.S. Trade Representative. He is not a member of a union. He is not a welder. He is not a manufacturer. He is definitely not a salesman. But here he is one cloudy morning on a factory floor in Michigan, in front of an American flag that could hide an elephant, selling the administration’s trade agenda in one of the most important political states in the country with a man hoping to become its next governor. And that man just went soft on the core tenet of Trump’s efforts to reshape global trade. “We don’t want the tariffs to go on forever,” said Rep. John James (R-Mich.). “We want reciprocal tariffs. We want fair trade.” Greer stares off at a machine in the distance. He’s heard a similar line from tariff-skittish Republicans before — that the tariffs are a tool, a way to get countries to open markets and expand exports, and then they will come down. But those reassurances contradict his daily reality: His boss does want tariffs to go on forever. And he’s made it Greer’s job to ensure they do. Trump has never hidden his love of tariffs. But his second term has seen the so-called “Tariff Man” unleashed, with a trade policy defined by a fire-from-the hip approach that’s upended global markets. He immediately set about imposing tariffs on three of the country’s top trading partners — China, Canada and Mexico — and quickly followed with “Liberation Day,” when he imposed duties on goods from nearly every country in the world in the hopes that it would end the alleged global exploitation of American commerce and mark the beginning of a grand resurgence in domestic manufacturing. He justified those tariffs with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which allows the president to regulate trade during a national emergency. The trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries, Trump said, constituted such an emergency. But the law had never been used for that purpose and doesn’t explicitly mention tariffs. In April, the Supreme Court ruled that it couldn’t be used that way at all, striking down the cornerstone of Trump’s economic agenda. Trump was undeterred. He vowed that his administration would find a new legal mechanism with… [TheTopNews] Read More.
3 weeks ago
CHICAGO — Nobody asks “who sent ya?” when you walk into Manny’s Deli, pick up a tray and deliberate over pastrami or corned beef to go with your latke. This South Loop institution welcomes every element of Chicago. That was evident last week when we took “On The Road” to the American city that’s perhaps most consumed by its own politics. Manny's crowd spanned class and racial lines. They were united in caloric excess, the Chicago way. It’s one of the few things that links a city otherwise balkanized by neighborhood, class, ethnic group, even baseball allegiance. Another is its obsession with its own politics, particularly its mayors (pronounced locally as: Da Mare). Presidents and senators are fine — and one of their own will open his presidential library next month in Hyde Park — but the adage that all politics is local really could have been coined for Chicago. This clubhouse culture is why ward committeemen and aldermen — and the favors they distribute or retribution they exact — endure in Chicago’s municipal-centric ecosystem. But just as Manny’s feeds all, the historically closed system that was Chicago’s Democratic political machine is close to a relic, on its way to being as dated as the famous footage of 1968 in Grant Park. Nobody today is posing the locally famous question a young Abner Mikva faced when he showed up at a local Democratic office to volunteer and was told: “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” That’s in part because there’s not a Richard Daley on the fourth floor of City Hall. And because the other enduring Illinois Democratic boss, Mike Madigan, was finally felled by the feds, meeting the same fate as so many others in both parties here. But someone has stepped up to fill the vacuum: Gov. JB Pritzker. Pritzker is hardly a political outsider — his family name can be found on buildings and philanthropic endeavors across Chicagoland. But the billionaire Hyatt hotel heir was always a donor and, he’s quick to note, an activist. He was no machine regular. Pritzker’s only run before his winning 2018 gubernatorial bid was in a 1998 House Democratic primary (he came in third). He may hate the term, but by virtue of his office and the personal money he’s steered toward consolidating political power, he’s effectively become Chicago’s new boss. That was apparent enough when, in March, he helped engineer… [TheTopNews] Read More.
3 weeks ago
eBay confirmed the huge bid on Monday and said that it has had no talks with GameStop or received any outreach from the company before it received the proposal. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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It’s a few days after the election this November, and the results have become clear: Democrats have netted the four seats they need to claim a Senate majority. But then there’s a disturbance in the force: Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump persuade Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) to switch parties or at least become an independent to ensure Republicans retain power in the chamber. It’s a scenario that’s becoming less fantastical by the day. The political environment is curdling for Republicans, and the quiet campaign to lure Fetterman across the aisle is underway. Trump has made the sell, offering his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall to the Pennsylvanian. A handful of Senate Republicans are also gently feeling out Fetterman and responding to his concerns over the prospect of defecting from the Democratic Party, multiple high-level GOP officials tell me. If Fetterman does flip, according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters, it will be thanks in large part to his deepening friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley. But the first-term Democrat — who’s infuriated his party with his harder line on immigration and staunch support for Israel, Trump nominees, government funding bills and most recently the president’s ballroom — isn’t yet persuaded. “I’m not changing,” Fetterman told me in an interview Friday when I asked if he was ruling out both becoming a Republican or turning independent. “I’m a Democrat, and I’m staying one. “ Yet, at least in private, he’s not totally rejecting dropping his “D.” When one senior Republican recently brought up the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman, he absorbed the suggestion and didn’t embrace or reject the overture, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversation. In our interview, Fetterman said bluntly: “I’d be a shitty Republican.” There are his votes against big-ticket measures, such as last year’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, but also his liberal views on a raft of cultural issues. There’s something else, too: Fetterman has watched how his Republican colleagues who break from Trump, at different levels, have been treated. “Committed conservatives like Cassidy and Tillis are getting pushed out of their seats,” he noted. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges in 2021, and the… [TheTopNews] Read More.
4 weeks ago
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