(Want to receive this newsletter in your inbox? Here it is register.)
Good evening. This is the latest news as of late Friday.
1. Western officials failed to reach an agreement to supply tanks to Ukraine.
After more than five hours of negotiations at a US-led meeting with Ukraine’s allies in Germany today, the US defense secretary said: Germany has not yet decided whether to allow tanks to be sent to Ukraine. The lack of approval has hampered Ukraine’s hopes of getting it quickly weapons it considers important to defend against an expected Russian attack in the spring or earlier.
The United States was reluctant to send its own tanks, which it deemed would be too difficult and expensive to operate. Instead, the Ukrainian military will need to rely on a small number of tanks that Britain has committed to send, as well as 200 personnel carriers Canada.
However, many Republicans Struggling with what it means to be “pro-life” in the post-Roe political context. And Donald Trump, who became the first sitting president to speak personally at the march in 2020, recently blamed the “abortion issue” for the Republican defeat in the election. midterm elections.
4. The White House kept the discovery of classified documents secret, hoping that the case would be treated as a minor mistake.
President Biden and several advisers who knew about the discovery of classified documents at the president’s former office bet they could quietly convince the Justice Department that the matter was a mistake in good faith, unlike Donald Trump hoarding documents at his Florida mansion.
That bet seems to have backfired. Biden’s silence did not prevent the appointment of the special counsel, as his aides had hoped, but instead led to a public uproar when it became apparent that the White House had concealed it. situation with the public for more than two months.
In other news from Washington, an entrepreneur contacted the SEC after losing $625,000 in a fund connected to Representative George Santos.
5. In the gang-controlled capital of Haiti, a mother fights to save her daughter.
In recent years, the government has given more power than ever to armed groups, essentially giving them the freedom to kill, mutilate, rape and blackmail whoever they want. . A single mother of four living in Haiti’s largest slum tries everything she can to get her teenage daughter out of the neighborhood.
The mother, a woman named Mamaille, heard about a plan involving an intrepid nun who was preparing to take the schoolchildren out of the slums, to a safer area. But on the day when the three were supposed to meet, tragedy struck and Mamaille’s daughter fell victim to the violence her mother wanted so badly to protect her from.
6. Can you tell which city this apartment building is in?
It’s in Denver, but it looks almost identical to the buildings that have sprung up in recent years in Seattle, Nashville, and several other cities around the country. New developments often take the form of mid-rise, boxy buildings with ground-floor retail space, sans-serif fonts, and vibrant light-colored panels. These buildings are raises concerns that cities are losing their unique charm.
However, advocates of multifamily housing argue that there are times when design must give way to necessity. And in the context of the housing crisis – exacerbated by inflation and brutally low housing inventory – this is one of those times, they said.
7. As tennis matches dragged longer and longer past midnight, players are expressing their frustration.
At 4am in Melbourne, Andy Murray and Thanasi Kokkinakis were still playing a match at the Australian Open. While that may sound obscene, it’s not particularly uncommon to end a game early in the morning, nor is it a matter of the tournament’s time zone.
Instead, long matches are becoming more popular for a variety of reasons, including transition times and tournaments schedule multiple night matches to provide entertainment value. But now, the players have begun to push back, citing concerns about their physical and mental health as well as their performance. Murray, the British star, said: “I don’t know who it benefits.
In other sports news, when the baseball team announced this year’s Hall of Fame inductees on Tuesday, “none of the above” may prevail.
8. If you’re a fan of the popular Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” you’re probably not from Paris.
The film, about a 20-year-old American who moves to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity, quickly became a hit among American fans when it premiered in 2020 — but caused a huge backlash against critics. with the French.
Maybe even more triggered by the series than the French are real-life Emilys in Paris — expatriates — who complain that they’ve spent years perfecting unpretentious elegance and rolling Rs, only to be barged in and ruined by a sassy Chicagoan their.
“Emily embarrassed me,” said Nicole Pritchard, a Paris-based real estate agent from Virginia. “I don’t see her trying so hard to adjust to life in France.”
For dessert, try a simple twist on the traditional: sesame bread. This dish turns the nutritious black sesame seeds found in Chinese New Year candies and candies, like yuan roadinto butter cookies.
Also happening this weekend: With a pair of binoculars, catch a glimpse “blue comet,” has not passed near this Earth since the Stone Age.
10. And finally, Dancing with the stairs.
With the right foot on them, stairs can be as good as a dance floor. Whether it’s Bill (Bojangles) Robinson’s famous zigzag or the recent TikTok trends, countless brave acts take place up the stairs. They turn ordinary moves into brave and vulnerable moves.
Our reviewer explored the history of dance in the film, where she found that the stairs were never really just stairs. Each step is a potential stage that calls for a dance — and often a dance of bravery and daring.
Have a smooth weekend.
Elizabeth Bristow compiled the photos for this press conference.
