{"id":293573,"date":"2025-04-29T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/wednesday-briefing-100-days-of-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:16:06","slug":"wednesday-briefing-100-days-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/wednesday-briefing-100-days-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Briefing: 100 Days of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/30ambriefing-asia-trump\/trump-100days-promostill-zhwb-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wednesday Briefing: 100 Days of Trump\" title=\"Wednesday Briefing: 100 Days of Trump\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-46fe1d02\">After his victory, Carney took aim at Trump<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a combative tone yesterday after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/world\/canada\/canada-election-mark-carney-win.html\" title=\"\">his Liberal Party won a narrow victory<\/a> in Canada\u2019s parliamentary elections. He vowed to confront Trump\u2019s threats to Canada\u2019s economy and its sovereignty. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAs I\u2019ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,\u201d he said in a speech in Ottawa. \u201cPresident Trump is trying to break us, so he can own us. That will never happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the Liberals will form the next government, they are projected to have a minority in the House of Commons. They had 169 seats at the time of this send, three shy of a parliamentary majority with only one seat left to call. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/28\/world\/canada\/results-canada-federal-election.html\" title=\"\">Here are the latest results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader, lost his seat in Ottawa, a stinging defeat for a man who had seemed set to become the next prime minister just a few months ago. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/canada\/canada-election-results-carney-trump-takeaways.html\" title=\"\">Here are takeaways from the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2311bc45\">These Vietnam War photos still haunt the world<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago this week, was the first \u201cliving room war,\u201d and it continues to have an impact through the violent, intimate images produced by photographers on the ground there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those photographs shaped politics, amplified opposition to the war and changed how many Americans viewed their country. But what people on both sides saw wasn\u2019t always the same. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/vietnam-war-photography-impact.html\" title=\"\">Take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Traces of America: <\/strong>The buildings that Americans left behind when they pulled out of Vietnam have their own story to tell. Our Vietnam bureau chief <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/vietnam-saigon-pittman-building.html\" title=\"\">wanted to hear those tales for himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Politics: <\/strong>The Trump administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/vietnam-war-anniversary-us-diplomats.html\" title=\"\">eased a ban<\/a> on senior diplomats attending events marking the anniversary of the war\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David Kaczynski turned in his brother, the Unabomber, to the F.B.I. in 1996. He spent nearly three decades <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/us\/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-letters.html\" title=\"\">trying to explain<\/a> why \u2014 and attempting to visit the older brother he had adored one last time. In a series of interviews, David spoke in detail for the first time about his long correspondence with his sibling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> Beginning with a competition entry, the novelist Peter Lovesey wrote more than 40 mysteries. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/books\/peter-lovesey-dead.html\" title=\"\">He died at 88<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-495554ba\">How to be happy<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jancee Dunn, who covers health and wellness for The Times, collected her favorite advice on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/28\/magazine\/how-to-be-happy.html\" title=\"\">how to be happy from her interviews<\/a> with a wide range of professionals, including F.B.I. negotiators and dream researchers. Some suggested finding opportunities for delight; others look for little exercises in gratitude or ways to have more meaningful interactions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And then there\u2019s Cher\u2019s approach to not sweating the small stuff: \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t matter in five years, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-705d9918\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">RECOMMENDATIONS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/briefing\/trump-100-carney-canada-election-vietnam-50-years.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his victory, Carney took aim at Trump Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a combative tone yesterday after his Liberal Party won a narrow victory in Canada\u2019s parliamentary elections. He vowed to confront Trump\u2019s threats to Canada\u2019s economy and its sovereignty. \u201cAs I\u2019ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/30ambriefing-asia-trump\/trump-100days-promostill-zhwb-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,3495,52,7780],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293575,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293573\/revisions\/293575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}