Briefly with OZY

Citing “substantial progress” in trade negotiations, President Donald

Trump tweeted yesterday that he’ll extend the March 1 deadline for dramatically

increasing tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports. Meanwhile, following deadly

clashes over the weekend between protesters and security forces, Venezuelan

President Nicolás Maduro appears to hold the upper hand.

While new court filings on President Donald Trump's campaign staff members continue to filter out, the U.S. capital is braced for the big one: The final report from the probe into Russian election meddling and how deeply it was linked to campaign staffers -- and the president himself. Meanwhile, along the Venezuelan frontier with Brazil, local indigenous people have captured Venezuelan government military officers after their troops fired on anti-government protesters, killing two.

Venezuela’s political crisis appears set to intensify after President

Nicolás Maduro closed Venezuela’s border with Brazil and threatened to do the

same with Colombia to stop deliveries of humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, U.S. and

Chinese negotiators continued haggling in Washington yesterday to avoid a

worsening trade war.

President Donald Trump said yesterday that Hoda Muthana, an Alabama woman who joined the terror group in 2014, would not be allowed back into America. Meanwhile, prosecutors described Christopher Hasson, a 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant arrested last week on drug and gun charges, as a White nationalist and domestic terrorist planning a killing spree.

The tussle between President Donald Trump and the Golden State

has intensified after the U.S. Transportation Department said it would cancel

nearly $1 billion in federal funding for a high-speed rail project. Meanwhile,

the family of a British teen who fled to Syria to join the terror group in 2015 says it

will challenge the U.K. government’s move to revoke her citizenship.

California is leading a coalition of states including Illinois, Michigan,

Virginia and New York in challenging President Donald Trump’s use of emergency

powers to fund a barrier along the southern border. Meanwhile, President Trump

has assured military leaders in the crisis-racked country they’ll “lose

everything” if they continue backing embattled President Nicolás Maduro.

Following President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national

emergency in order to build his border wall, critics are heaping legal hurdles in

his way. Meanwhile, In a new report on fake news and social media

disinformation, the British Parliament’s media committee accused Facebook of

“intentionally and knowingly” shirking privacy and anti-trust laws.

President Donald Trump signed a spending package to keep the U.S. government open on Friday, but he also declared a national emergency to give himself unilateral power to fund his signature wall on America’s border with Mexico. Meanwhile, out-of-work quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who pioneered players’ civil rights protests during the national anthem, has settled his suit alleging NFL owners conspired to bar him from playing.

Although he pledged to sign a bipartisan spending bill approved by

Congress yesterday to avert another federal shutdown, President Donald Trump

appears poised to spark a constitutional battle over the federal purse and the

limits of presidential authority. Meanwhile, Progressive politicians are claiming

victory after the retail giant abandoned its plan for a $2.5 billion second

headquarters in Long Island City.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair lied to prosecutors about his contact with an aide tied to Russian intelligence. Meanwhile, Monica Witt was charged yesterday with delivering military information to a foreign government, with U.S. officials claiming she helped Iranian hackers target her former colleagues in intelligence.