From Reuters Daily Briefing |
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| Mariia Pankova during an interview with Reuters, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko |
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- A delicate dance: Two of the most powerful men in the United States, President Trump and John Roberts, are locked in a clash over the most fundamental questions about the shape of the US government. This as Roberts rebuked Trump earlier this week for urging the impeachment of a federal judge.
- Trump and the judges: Deportations by the Trump administration are testing the system set up by America's founders where three equal branches of government check each other's power. Our legal journalists examine the growing standoff between the executive and judicial branches to understand where we go from here. Listen now.
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- Appetite for war: Israel has warned that its latest onslaught in Gaza is "just the beginning" as its forces pound the enclave with deadly airstrikes and launch new ground operations. But a return to a full-scale ground war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas could prove more complicated given waning public support, exhausted military reservists and political challenges.
- Middle East latest: Israeli artillery fire and airstrikes hit southern Lebanon after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, threatening a shaky truce that ended a year-long war between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
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- Some European central banking and supervisory officials are questioning whether they can still rely on the US Federal Reserve to provide dollar funding in times of market stress, casting some doubt over what has been a bedrock of financial stability.
- Billionaire Elon Musk, whose businesses have a number of Defense Department contracts, met US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for 80 minutes at an unprecedented top-level meeting at the Pentagon. The Tesla CEO also called for the prosecution of any Defense Department officials who leak information.
- Boeing won the contract to build the U.S. Air Force's most sophisticated fighter jet yet, handing the company a much-needed win and boosting its shares. The Next Generation Air Dominance program will replace Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor.
- The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum, it said in a statement, in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country.
- Gene therapy, with its offer of a possible cure for rare diseases like sickle cell, is losing early investors to higher-reward sectors like obesity and cancer, as sales for some of the new treatments fall short.
- Disney's "Snow White" has opened in theaters dogged by controversies that have dragged the retelling of the 1937 animated classic into the culture wars. Our graphics team asks, why are there so many live-action remakes?
- Thanks to all 400 of you who replied to Robert's question about Denmark, the USA and its request for eggs. Nearly all of you had choice words for Donald Trump, and Robert is still reading through them. He'll write properly when he returns to work.
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