The Week in Pictures: May 30 - June 6, 2025
From Muslim pilgrims performing Hajj, continued conflict in the Middle East and the German chancellor's visit to Washington to the North Korean leader meeting Russia's security chief, dpa international presents its Pictures of the Week.
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Sunset World Group Trains Its Kitchen Staff in Cooperation with the German Organization Senior Expert Service
CANCÚN, Mexico, June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the Culinary Team and kitchen staff at Sunset Royal and Sunset Marina hotels of the Sunset World Group were trained in haute cuisine and pastry making, guided by two chefs from the German organization Senior Expert Service: Norbert Winkler, an expert in European cuisine, and Giordano Giovanni Bottignole, an expert pastry chef. At Sunset Royal, the training focused on the most authentic Western flavors and included the preparation of beef Wellington, chicken cordon bleu, pork roulette, beef bourguignon, sauerkraut, and minestrone soup, among others, focusing on baking and fermentation techniques. This training was primarily provided to the buffet and dinner staff. As for Sunset Marina, the training was provided to pastry chefs and consisted of improving techniques such as chocolate decoration, molding, and fortifying flavors and textures, preparing, among other famous desserts, apple strudel, chocolate volcano, mousses, plum tart, Italian meringue, and French sponge cake. Senior Expert Service is Germany's leading volunteer organization for retired experts and executives in all sectors to share and exchange knowledge and experiences internationally under a "help-for-do-it-yourself" approach. Senior Expert Service has been present in Mexico since 2017. Sunset World Group is a Mexican family business founded by some of the pioneers of Cancun who helped turn it into the most sought-after tourist destination worldwide. Sunset World Group has more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry and a sincere passion for environmental conservation, which is why it implemented an Energy Efficiency Program by substituting supply technologies in its six hotels in Cancun and The Riviera Maya. In addition, all Sunset World hotels are supplied with clean and renewable energy produced at Mexican wind farms and geothermal plants, which has considerably reduced the company's carbon footprint. The activity and gastronomy programs in all six hotels are updated and expanded constantly for the enjoyment of all family members, since Sunset World Group always focuses on providing the best vacation experiences for its members and guests. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Sunset World Resorts & Vacation Experiences Sign in to access your portfolio
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America the Fortress
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Past leaders have imagined the United States as a 'shining city upon a hill,' a melting pot, a ' beacon to the world.' Donald Trump is working toward a different vision: the United States as a fortress. Late Wednesday, the White House announced a new version of the travel bans that it had imposed during Trump's first term, barring people from 12 countries—Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen—from coming to the U.S., and restricting entry from seven others: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. (The ban has some exceptions.) Shortly after, he issued a proclamation that bars foreign nationals from entering the country to attend Harvard University—though not other universities, for reasons that are not satisfactorily explained but seem to boil down to Trump's animus toward the school. A judge promptly issued a temporary block on the new rule. (Trump had made the move after she temporarily blocked his previous attempt to prohibit Harvard from enrolling foreign students.) The new travel ban is, if you're keeping score, Trump's fifth, and the widest ranging. The first came on January 27, 2017. In line with his campaign promise to prevent Muslims from entering the United States, it barred entry to people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days; suspended refugee admission for 120 days; indefinitely blocked refugees from Syria; and lowered the overall annual cap on refugees. When a federal judge temporarily blocked the order, Trump replaced it with a somewhat narrower one, again running for 90 days, which covered the same countries minus Iraq. Federal courts initially blocked the core parts of that order too, though the Supreme Court allowed it to mostly go forward. Trump issued additional bans in fall 2017 and January 2020, with various changes to the countries covered. Joe Biden rescinded the bans on January 20, 2021. In a video about the new ban, Trump cited 'the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas,' and said: 'We don't want them.' That message is loud and clear—even to those who aren't formally banned. Horror stories about foreign nationals visiting the U.S. have begun to circulate: Two German teens claimed that they were detained, strip-searched, and deported from Hawaii (U.S. Customs and Border Protection denied their account and alleged that they had entered the country under false pretenses); an Australian ex–police officer said she was locked up while trying to visit her American husband; New Zealand's biggest newspaper ran an article in which an anonymous 'travel industry staffer' encouraged Kiwis not to visit the United States. These anecdotes could exact a cost. The World Travel & Tourism Council, an industry trade group, released a report last month forecasting a $12.5 billion decline in tourist spending in the United States this year. That is not the product of global factors: Out of 184 countries the group studied, the U.S. is the only one expected to see a drop. Other forecasts see a smaller but still huge decline, though so far the data show a major decline only in travel to the U.S. from Canada. The Trump administration's reputation as a host has taken a hit in other ways too. A visit to the White House was once a desirable prize for any foreign leader; now even allies are approaching them with trepidation. After the president ambushed Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa in Oval Office meetings—showing a racist and misleading clip, in the latter case—German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reportedly prepared for yesterday's meeting by seeking tips from other world leaders on how to handle Trump. (The encounter was still bumpy at times.) This hostility to foreigners of all sorts is neither an accident nor collateral damage. It's the policy. Trump's xenophobia is long-standing and well documented, but some of his aides have developed this into more than just a reflex of disgust. Vice President J. D. Vance has championed ideas aligned with the 'Great Replacement' theory that Democrats are trying to dilute the existing demographic and cultural mix of the United States with immigrants. 'America is not just an idea,' he said last July. 'It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future.' Stephen Miller and the Project 2025 crew, each of whom exerts a great deal of influence over Trump's policies, have pushed not just for stopping illegal immigration and deporting migrants but also for limiting legal immigration. The rare exception that Trump and his aides allow helps make the implied racism in these ideas explicit. The administration has moved to dramatically reduce refugee admissions, but last month, it welcomed a few dozen white Afrikaners from South Africa, whom the White House claims were victims of racial discrimination at home. The administration even seems eager to discourage people from leaving the country. Green-card holders are being arrested and detained while reentering the U.S.; immigration lawyers say the safest course for legal permanent residents is to stay in the country. Trump has also repeatedly expressed a desire to weaken the dollar, which would make it more expensive for Americans to vacation overseas. North Korea is frequently described as a hermit kingdom for its willingness to wall itself off from the rest of the world. Trump has expressed his admiration for and personal bond with Kim Jong Un before, but now he seems eager to emulate Kim's seclusion too. Here are four new stories from The Atlantic. What happens when people don't understand how AI works Trump is wearing America down. Inside the Trump-Musk breakup The Super Bowl of internet beefs Today's News The Supreme Court ruled that DOGE members can have access to the Social Security Administration's sensitive records. The Labor Department released numbers showing that job growth was strong but did slow last month amid uncertainty about Donald Trump's tariff policies. The unemployment rate held steady. Five leaders of the Proud Boys, four of whom had been found guilty of seditious conspiracy due to their actions on January 6, 2021, sued the government for $100 million, claiming that their constitutional rights had been violated. More From The Atlantic Evening Read Fast Times and Mean Girls By Hillary Kelly In the early spring, I caught a preview at my local Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for its forthcoming stoner-classics retrospective: snippets of Monty Python's Life of Brian; Tommy Boy; a few Dada-esque cartoons perfect for zonking out on, post-edible. The audience watched quietly until Matthew McConaughey, sporting a parted blond bowl cut and ferrying students to some end-of-year fun, delivered a signature bit of dialogue. 'Say, man, you got a joint?' he asked the kid in the back seat. 'Uhhh, no, not on me, man.' 'It'd be a lot cooler if you did,' he drawled. The crowd, including me, went wild. Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, in which a fresh-faced McConaughey appears as Wooderson, the guy who graduated years back but still hangs with the high-school kids, is that kind of teen movie: eternally jubilance-inspiring. Set in 1976 and released in 1993, it's a paean to the let-loose ethos of a certain decade of American high school. And boy do these kids let loose. Culture Break Watch. The Phoenician Scheme, in theaters, is the latest Wes Anderson film to let modern life seep into a high-concept world. Play our daily crossword. P.S. In other immigration news, ABC News broke the story this afternoon that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident and Salvadoran citizen whom the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran Gulag, has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges. The Justice Department acknowledged in court that Abrego Garcia's removal was an 'administrative error,' as my colleague Nick Miroff reported, before resorting to ever more absurd claims that he was a member of the gang MS-13. Now Abrego Garcia has been indicted for alleged involvement in a scheme to traffic migrants within the United States. I have no idea if these charges are true; the indictment is relatively brief, and the administration's earlier desperation to pin charges on him is worrying. (The investigation that led to the criminal charges reportedly began only after his removal.) Nevertheless, if the government believes that he committed these crimes, he should be tried in court with due process. As I wrote in April, 'If the people who are getting arrested are really the cold-blooded criminals the executive branch insists they are, saying so in a court of law should be relatively easy.' Now the administration will have a chance to do that, and Abrego Garcia will have a chance to defend himself. — David
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Trump feared a fight with Musk could undermine his signature bill. Then their feud erupted
The staggering and exceedingly public rupture in the world's most consequential and unprecedented partnership was a long time coming. But the surreal state of suspended animation that consumed Washington as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk traded escalating blows on social media obscured a 48-hour period that illustrated a profoundly high-stakes moment for the White House. Trump's entire economic agenda is sitting on a knife's edge. Its most critical components are running up against deadlines and locked in a series of complex negotiations with limited margin for error. In two days, Musk managed to undercut, attack or inflame just about all of it. 'He's kind of been a ticking time bomb for a while now,' one person familiar with Musk's unique and unprecedented role in the White House told CNN. 'But this is, and has always been, so much bigger than him and explains why we ended here after the last few days.' Musk was never a key player on Trump's economic team and wasn't involved in drafting the agenda or at the table for the implementation efforts that launched when Trump entered office. Musk had scrapped with Peter Navarro, Trump's top trade adviser, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and had worn out his welcome in the power centers of the administration, multiple senior officials told CNN. But the billionaire's rolling and increasingly scorched-earth attacks on Trump's sweeping tax and spending package this week posed an acute threat to the cornerstone of Trump's legislative agenda. For all the ways Trump's tariff-centric economic approach has created chaos and uncertainty across the global financial system, the underlying data has continued to show the US economy in a stable and resilient place. But Trump and his top economic officials are in the midst of a high-wire act to maintain and, ultimately, they say, dramatically accelerate US economic growth. Musk's tirade served as the backdrop of Trump's critical meeting with key Republican senators on Wednesday afternoon, irritating White House advisers trying to balance the House-passed version of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' and competing Senate priorities. Musk's stream of consciousness attacks centered on the deficit projections tied to the bill, which economic scorekeepers universally agree will pile trillions onto the soaring US debt over a decade. The White House has insisted the bill will pay for itself – and has rapidly accelerated its messaging efforts to rebut any analysis that says otherwise to mollify fiscal hawks on Capitol Hill. Yet Trump held his fire, in part because of an effort to avoid an escalation that would trigger Musk to declare all-out war against Republican lawmakers weighing the future of a bill essential to his entire agenda, according to two White House officials. On Thursday, as he weighed in on it during press spray with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ahead of their private meetings that were heavily focused on trade and the economy, Musk's real-time reaction took it there anyway. By the time Speaker Mike Johnson arrived at the White House for his own meetings, an all-out war had broken out between the two and included Musk taking a clear swipe Trump's tariffs. Johnson was with Trump in the Oval Office watching in real time as Musk declared the equivalent of social media nuclear war. Johnson, who deftly navigated his miniscule minority to get Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' through the House, is an essential player during the Senate effort that threatens to crack the fragile compromise between House conservatives and more moderate members. He's urged Musk to de-escalate, traded texts with him and repeatedly defended the bill from his attacks to reporters. Trump threatened the government contracts of Musk's business empire Thursday and placed a round of calls to reporters on Friday morning that focused primarily on making public there would be no call between the two men, despite efforts by allies to arrange the start of a peace process. There's now talk of selling the Tesla that Musk brought to the White House, one White House official said. But Trump again chose not to engage on the issue throughout the rest of the day. There were no social media posts about Musk. A scheduled swearing in and signing of an executive order were also closed to the press. In part, Trump didn't want to completely crowd out a morning of good economic news, according to a person familiar with the matter. But Trump has also told Republican lawmakers he understands how difficult Musk can make the path ahead in their legislative efforts. He's made clear, repeatedly, that he thinks Musk has 'gone completely crazy,' according to one lawmaker, and is cognizant of the pressure on his House and Senate allies. Musk's attacks, and his political threats to the same lawmakers who depended on his deep pockets in 2024 and planned to rely on them again in the midterm elections, undeniably add yet another complication to a moment defined by uncertainty. He has also amped up his rhetoric against Trump's tariffs – another cornerstone of the administration's economic agenda – at a volatile and critical moment in a dozens of complex and fluid negotiations. The second US-China bilateral trade talks, which were set in motion during Trump's call with Xi, will take place on June 9 in London, Trump announced Friday. Trump's economic team has dismissed Musk's tariff attacks, saying his opposition is well known and his argument is undercut by current economic data and Trump's first term tariffs. 'We can have disagreements about it, but I would simply say that everybody during our first term who said that the tariffs were going to be recessionary and inflationary were obviously, obviously and widely wrong,' Navarro told reporters on Thursday. The sweeping price increases predicted in the wake of Trump's market rattling April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement haven't emerged and economic activity remains durable despite pervasive pessimism in consumer and business sentiment surveys. The May jobs report Friday showed another month of steady job growth outpacing expectations. That has provided ample evidence for White House officials to dismiss outright concerns that the survey data is a leading indicator for turmoil to come. Still, Musk holds some important tools in his shed if he wanted to undermine Trump's tariff agenda – although it's not yet clear that is is considering using them. For example, many foreign governments have sought to sign contracts with Musk's Starlink service, which some diplomats have told CNN was viewed as helpful to trade talks. White House officials insist Musk's dramatic turn against Trump and the cornerstone of his legislative agenda won't ultimately move the needle as lawmakers grind through the most critical stage for the bill. 'We're full steam ahead, moving forward,' Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said Thursday on CNN News Central. Their arguments in favor, but more importantly the alternative if it fails – a sweeping $4 trillion tax cut due to the expiration of the individual tax cuts in Trump's 2017 law that expire at the end of the year – will ultimately get it over the finish line, officials say. Trump needs this bill to pass. His economic agenda was always predicated on its sweeping package of tax cuts and incentives even as much as Trump's expansive tariff regime, which was designed to re-orient the global trading system, incentivize massive investment in the US, secure substantial market access for US firms and drive significant new revenues into the federal coffers. Senate Republicans spent this week grappling with the complex balancing act of merging their priorities with the House version of Trump's tax cuts and incentives package – a bill that passed by a single vote. The Trump-backed deadline of July 4th to sign the bill, which was always aspirational at best, is now widely understood to be impossible, according to three senior GOP senate aides. Congressional Republicans, many of whom had also grown annoyed with Musk over the last few months, have largely dismissed the billionaire's fiery opposition to the bill. But the fiscal hawks seeking deeper spending cuts have started to utilize an ally that has already demonstrated a bank account and social media company that carry with them the kind of power and reach without much modern precedent. White House officials are united in their confidence they can navigate the exceedingly tight timeline, complexity and whip counts ahead. But even they implicitly nod to a deeply uncertain reality when asked for their own economic forecasts. 'It's hard to give a very precise forecast for growth, because we have yet to see exactly how the tax bill shapes up between the reconciliation process, between the House and the Senate,' said Stephen Miran, Council of Economic Advisors Chairman, on CNBC Friday. 'And we have yet to see exactly how the trade deal shape up as they as they will, I expect, continue to be made in coming weeks, so it's hard to give a precise forecast when the policy details are still being worked out.' Musk wasn't as cautious with his own forecast the afternoon prior. 'The Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year,' Musk posted.
