“I am a man of law,” says Felipe Calderón exclusively to The Mexico Brief. “It is a moral and legal obligation to confront the cartels… their goal is to completely capture the state.” themexicobrief.org/latest/the-fel…

White House labeled Taiwan a country when Trump announced tariffs. The issue? It isn't one usatoday.com/story/news/wor… via @usatoday Kim Hjelmgaard

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NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.

The data, anecdotes and patterns are clear: Trump's America, his policies and talk, from immigration to tariffs, are causing foreign travelers, students, academics, business leaders and lawmakers to question whether the U.S. they knew and admired has lost its shine.

🇺🇸 They See An Erosion In Lady Liberty's Promise ▫'Dark undertone': For some overseas, new policies are changing how they view the U.S. ▫Kim Hjelmgaard ▫is.gd/Uw6Vq8 #frontpagestoday #USA USA TODAY 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Pronatalism Movement Is Finding Fertile Ground ▫But the answers to falling birth rates can be complex ▫Charlie Trepany ▫is.gd/uu29bi #frontpagestoday #USA USA TODAY 🇺🇸

The world's oldest person is a lady called Ethel from Surrey. She was 50 when the Beatles signed their first record deal, 65 when Nixon resigned, 80 when the Berlin Wall fell and 100 when the Black Eyed Peas released "I Gotta Feeling".

"Like a Christmas tree bedecked with shiny ornaments of every shape and size." This well done story by Edward Wong demonstrates that if you are secretary of everything you may also effectively be secretary of nothing. nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/…

Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon.

🇺🇸 'Habemus Papam': New Pope Elected ▫Leo XIV selected to succeed Francis as pontiff ▫John Bacon Jorge L. Ortiz Kim Hjelmgaard #frontpagestoday #USA Enquirer 🇺🇸

Will be interesting to see if President Trump, while in Saudi Arabia, raises the case of an American who was jailed there, then banned from leaving, for sending fairly innocuous tweets about the kingdom 👇

The anti-press playbook used in eroding democracies like Hungary, India and Brazil is being deployed in the United States, New York Times Publisher AG Sulzberger warned. If carried out successfully, it will undermine the independent reporting that’s critical for society.

Spoke with Kim Hjelmgaard about Trump's trip to the Middle East & how often he, "seems so mesmerized by the glitz and glamor, he forgets to stay focused on our agenda and falls into fawning over the show they put on for him..." usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

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An American in Greenland. Who'd be one? The icebergs and sled dogs are OK with it. My story from Ilulissat and Nuuk on how the rest of the Greenlanders feel about it. usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

🇺🇸 Retailers Do The Math On Their Self-Checkouts ▫What's in store for the future of self-checkouts? How retailers are pulling back ▫Betty Lin-Fisher ▫is.gd/zB9zeB #frontpagestoday #USA USA TODAY 🇺🇸