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New York Times
2 hours ago
- Business
- New York Times
Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program
The Trump administration's proposed budget for 2026 slashes about 90 percent of the funding for one of the country's cornerstone biological and ecological research programs. Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the program is part of the U.S. Geological Survey and studies nearly every aspect of the ecology and biology of natural and human-altered landscapes and waters around the country. The 2026 proposed budget allocates $29 million for the project, a cut from its current funding level of $293 million. The budget proposal also reduces funds for other programs in the U.S. Geological Survey, as well as other federal science agencies. The budget still needs to be approved by Congress and scientists are seizing the opportunity to save the E.M.A. In early May, more than 70 scientific societies and universities signed a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, urging him not to eliminate the program. Abolishing the E.M.A. was an explicit goal of Project 2025, the blueprint for shrinking the federal government produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation. That work cited decades-long struggles over the Interior Department's land management in the West, where protections for endangered species have at times prevented development, drilling and mining. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
National Post
3 hours ago
- Business
- National Post
Bell: Danielle Smith and Alberta give Mark Carney an offer he shouldn't refuse
It is a letter. A five-page letter. Article content You could call it THE letter. Whatever happens with this letter will play a big, big part in Alberta's place in Canada going forward. Article content It is dated May 16, signed by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Article content On Monday, June 2, this letter will be on the table when Carney sits down with the premiers in Saskatoon. Article content Article content Before Smith gets around to making her offer, she begins her letter to Carney talking about how what Alberta wants will 'address serious issues plaguing Canada's economic well-being and the very real sense of alienation felt across the West.' Article content Article content This is serious stuff. Alberta has had more than enough. Article content She says Asian customers in Japan and South Korea have told her they believe Canada needs to 'accelerate market access of our oil, LNG, ammonia and critical minerals faster.' Article content 'We must build on what TMX delivered by creating another pipeline that delivers similar economic uplift, jobs, opportunities for reconciliation and Canadian security.' Article content Article content The premier says an oil pipeline has to be on Carney's list of nation-building projects to be fast-tracked. Article content It will also … and read between these lines … 'send an unwelcome signal to Albertans concerned about Ottawa's commitment to national unity.'
India Today
10 hours ago
- Business
- India Today
9th time in 20 days: Jairam Ramesh asks PM to clarify 'Donaldbhai's' Pak claim
The Congress intensified its demand for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence on the repeated claims by his "friend Donaldbhai" (US President Donald Trump) that his threat of cutting trade with India and Pakistan led to the fresh attack by Congress's Jairam Ramesh came as Trump reiterated his claim that he avoided a potential nuclear disaster by mediating the ceasefire between India and In a scathing post on X, the Rajya Sabha MP pointed out that through the repeated assertions by Trump - the ninth time in 20 days across 3 countries - the equivalence of India and Pakistan gets has always insisted on "de-hyphenation". The reference is to the term "Indo-Pak", which is how the West saw South Asia in the 90s in an attempt to balance its relationship with both nations."This is the 9th time in 20 days, across 3 countries and 3 cities. Donaldbhai keeps repeating the same sequence of events of how he got the 4-day India-Pakistan war to stop - US intervention and the use of trade instrument to stop nuclear escalation. The equivalence of India and Pakistan gets reiterated yet again," Ramesh government has always maintained that New Delhi and Islamabad "directly negotiated" the ceasefire and the US had no role in COMMERCE SECRETARY'S COURT SUBMISSIONadvertisementThe Congress leader also referred to US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick's recent submission before a court that the threat of tariffs helped the US broker a ceasefire between India and issue was raised by the Trump administration before the Court of International Trade to defend its sweeping tariffs on the trade court blocked Trump's tariffs from going into effect. A day later, an appeals court temporarily reinstated the to it, Ramesh tweeted, "President Trump's commerce secretary has made exactly the same claims in his submission to the New York-based Court of International Trade. But Donaldbhai's friend Narendra Modi continues to ignore his claims with absolute silence. Why doesn't the PM speak up?""Is President Trump also doing what Modi does all the time and so well (i.e. lying)? Or is he speaking even 50% truth?" he further said.
New York Times
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Even the Cowboys Are Bigger in Texas
THE GUNFIGHTERS: How Texas Made the West Wild, by Bryan Burrough In the John Ford film 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,' Maxwell Scott, the editor of The Shinbone Star, hears the U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard confess that he was not the man who shot the villainous Valance. The editor spikes the story, explaining to a surprised Stoddard, 'This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.' In 'The Gunfighters,' a lively chronicle of the way real-life cowboys and their high-noon duels captured American attention in the late 1800s, the journalist Bryan Burrough — best known for 'Barbarians at the Gate,' his classic exploration of the wild, wild east of 1980s Wall Street — prints the facts, the legends, the whole shootin' match. These pages read more like a movie script than a history book. Between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century, social order in the American West straddled the rule of law and the grip of a gun. Roles on the frontier shifted constantly: Gunfighters became marshals, cowboys became killers, pimps became lawmen. And many gangsters of the prairie became heroes, celebrated in a way that murderers in Boston or Baltimore could only envy. Why? Blame it on Texas, Burrough argues. Texans had ongoing, bloody face-offs with Mexicans to their south, and Comanches in their midst. Violence was to be expected; even insisted upon. Moreover, while a cop on the corner could protect your store in New York, vigilante violence was probably the only way to secure 'millions of cattle roaming free across millions of acres' out West. Add to that a media eager to romanticize Texans' perverse Southern sense of 'honor,' whereby 'gentlemen' avenged the mildest slight by dueling. There was money to be made peddling lies about swashbuckling frontier gunfighters across hundreds of miles of telegraph wires to clerks in cities around the country. Burrough follows the winding facts wherever they lead. At times I felt like I was reading a Russian novel as so many characters crisscrossed and double-crossed: one day a villain, the next a victim. But it's also satisfying to watch Burrough explode the legends of the late frontier the way Butch Cassidy dynamited safes. Wild Bill Hickok, to start with, 'was a titanic fraud' and 'the fake patient zero of the gunfighter myth.' A former Union scout turned lawman, Hickok allegedly killed hundreds, but the real number, off the battlefield, was probably fewer than 10. The Texan outlaw John Wesley Hardin, on the other hand, was no fabulist. Burrough reveals the hero of Bob Dylan's 1967 ballad to be a psychopath. 'Literally,' Burrough writes, 'a serial killer.' He shot Black men for little or no reason (even by the standards of the time, Hardin was a vicious, violent racist) and seems to have killed a man for snoring. He had already murdered as many as 24 people by his 18th birthday. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Post
17 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Dodgers' Mookie Betts misses Yankees opener after he stubs toe, needs X-rays
Toe injuries can be way worse than they sound. Dodgers star Mookie Betts was reminded of this the hard way. The eight-time All-Star and three-time World Series Champion was a late scratch from the lineup for Friday night's series opener against the Yankees after injuring his left toe. 4 Mookie Betts isn't starting for the Dodgers on Friday due to a toe injury. Getty Images Manager Dave Roberts confirmed that Betts stubbed his toe at home on Wednesday night and is currently considered day-to-day. 'It's day-to-day right now,' Roberts told reporters. 'So, that's where we're at.' It is still unclear exactly how much time Betts, 32, will miss as the Dodgers continue to gather information regarding the injury. 4 Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts stands in the dugout in the third inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. David Richard-Imagn Images 'I really don't know,' Roberts said after being asked how the injury happened in the first place. 'I think it was at home. It's probably a dresser, nightstand, something like that. It's just kind of an accident. I think that Mookie will be able to give more context, but that's kind of from the training staff what I heard. 'So hopefully it's benign, it's negative. Not sure, but I feel confident saying it's day-to-day … but putting on a shoe today was difficult for him.' Despite the injury, Betts is available to pinch-hit if necessary, though Roberts noted that 'putting on a shoe today was difficult for him.' Miguel Rojas started at shortstop in Betts' absence. 4 Mookie Betts is available to pinch hit, but is listed as 'day-to-day.' Getty Images So far this season, Betts has appeared in 53 games and has posted a .254 batting average with eight home runs, 31 RBIs and 42 runs scored. His on-base percentage stands at .338 while he holds a slugging percentage of .405. Although they are currently leading the National League West with a 34-22 record, the Dodgers are navigating a series of injuries to key players aside from Betts. 4 Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy and shortstop Mookie Betts celebrate a win over the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. David Richard-Imagn Images Despite these challenges, the team maintains a two-game lead in the NL West, thanks in part to contributions from Shohei Ohtani, who leads the team with 20 home runs, and Freddie Freeman, who boasts a .359 batting average. The series against the Yankees marks the first meeting between the two teams since the Dodgers' victory in the 2024 World Series. With both teams leading their respective divisions, the World Series rematch is among the more highly anticipated series thus far in the 2025 MLB campaign.
