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TOPICS:

Intro (no news yet)

Transnational News: Ukraine, USA, Russia, Europe

Transnational News: Tariffs

US ICE News: Deportation, Panama

Nature News: Walking Corals

Outro

Links to sources used to create this summary

Ukraine, Russia, US, and the Europe

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trump-and-vances-attacks-on-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/28/trump-ukraine-russia-zelensky/

https://apnews.com/article/un-russia-ukraine-war-resolution-trump-zelenskyy-cde221e5850196776525403e788c272c

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/europe/ukraine-russia-zelensky-starmer-summit-intl/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-britain-zelenskyy-europe-starmer-trump-russia-b980170ead74a1a7914c565f14ee6cc9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/first-thing-us-suspends-military-aid-ukraine-trump-zelenskyy-row

People deported, detained in Panama

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/migrants-limbo-panama-jungle-camp-after-being-deported-us-2025-02-27/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/migrants-limbo-panama-jungle-camp-deported-us-rcna194159

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-deportations-panama

https://apnews.com/article/panama-deportees-chinese-woman-hotel-2bc1239f680725d7a560f6a6c8b130e7

US, Canada, Mexico, China Tarrifs

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/economy/trade-mexico-canada-china-tariffs-trump-hnk-intl/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/04/donald-trump-congress-speech-ukraine-tariffs-democrats-federal-workers-us-politics-live-news

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg1jxdpq0qo

Nature News: Corals

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/science/walking-coral.html

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Topics Covered:

Iowa: Trans Rights

US news: Executive Office and the threat of authoritarian takeover, international health, homelessness

International (and US) News: Infectious Disease

Nature News: Birds and Bioflorescence

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News Sources Used to Create This Summary

Iowa, trans rights:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-rights-protections-iowa-lawmakers/

US Executive, USAID

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/usaid-hiv-protest-trump-musk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/musk-doge-usaid-cuts-dc/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/doge-elon-musk-donald-trump-marco-rubio.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/27/heres-where-trumps-government-layoffs-reportedly-are-as-usaid-employees-booted-from-offices/

Paypal Mafia:

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner/episode/16130733-trump-apartheid-and-the-paypal-mafia

US Executive, HUD

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-elon-musk-hud-housing-discrimination-privacy-domestic-violence

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-administration-slash-hud-workers-tackling-housing-crisis-119046960

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2025/02/27/hud-cuts-in-housing-crisis-devastate-communities/79445601007/

https://people.com/mom-of-2-kids-died-after-sleeping-in-van-gets-emotional-funeral-11681909

https://5calls.org/

Infectious Disease:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-disease-congo-what-we-know/

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2025/02/28/texas-measles-outbreak-reaches-nearly-150-cases-state-health-department-says/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/trump-fired-bird-flu-hires-00206334

https://health.wyo.gov/wyomings-first-human-bird-flu-case-confirmed/

Birds:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/science/birds-of-paradise-biofluorescence-feathers/index.html

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Topics:

Intro (no news yet)

US News: Authoritarian Actions, free speech

US News: Executive Branch

Worker resistance to Executive Branch

Nature news: Mutuality between aardvarks and melons

Articles Sourced to Create this Summary

https://newrepublic.com/article/191908/gop-town-hall-idaho-lear

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-close-roosevelt-hotel-migrant-center-targeted-mus-rcna193433

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/travel/upside-down-american-flag-firefall-yosemite/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-park-firings-elon-musk-d0cdc23fe5fac68e4dc8ef58f041ced4

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/doge-civil-service-employees-quit-musk.html

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

Aardvarks & Melons https://news.mongabay.com/shorts/#/294999

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Topics Timestamp:

0:00 — Intro (no news yet)

0:42 — Native American Rights News

1:36 — US Executive News: Authoritarian consolidation & popular resistance

4:09 — International/US News — Deportations

4:52 — Nature News: Hummingbird cuddles

5:52 — Outro (no news)

News Sources Used to Create this Summary:

https://ictnews.org/news/ive-come-home-leonard-peltier-returns-to-north-dakota-homelands

https://apnews.com/article/leonard-peltier-release-fbi-killings-native-american-05c1d7c5429ce081f23311735f5120f6

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-shuns-tradition-replaces-top-114831365.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/21/trump-joint-chiefs-of-staff-charles-brown-dan-caine/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/cq-brown-trump-fired-joint-chiefs-general-00205593

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5157509-elon-musk-private-security-detail/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/20/trump-justice-nlead-database-deleted/

https://wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02/tesla-takedown-musk-moving-from-protest-to-resistance/?ref=organizingmythoughts.org

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/02/tiktokers-are-hunting-cybertrucks-with-anti-elon-musk-messages/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/science/hummingbirds-living-in-a-hive-found-for-the-first-time.html

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Time Stamp of Topics0:00 — Intro (no news)

0:28 — US News: Flooding in Southeast

1:26 — US News: Executive Office

3:28 — International news: Egypt, Gaza, US

4:46 — Nature news: Beavers

5:59 — Outro (no news)

News Links Used to create this summary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/02/16/virginia-flash-floods-kentucky-tennessee-arkansas/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flooding-pikeville-kentucky-swift-water-rescues/

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/co-conspirators/e-ky-mutual-aid/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/17/trump-fires-federal-workers-performance/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/climate/trump-nnsa-nuclear-staff-reinstated/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/climate/trump-nnsa-nuclear-staff-reinstated/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/17/nx-s1-5298684/national-park-ranger-trump-job-cuts-nps

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/

https://apnews.com/article/president-donald-trump-protest-c8796556fbf20e796f42167f61c3d942

https://apnews.com/article/egypt-gaza-reconstruction-plan-76941b11e6746078da113e36605ec462

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic

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0:00 — Intro

0:30 —Us executive

2:20 — Gaza Ceasefire, Ukraine, Russia

3:37 — European US ADF

4:41 — Japanese food security

5:15 — Molten core

6:25 — outro

Articles used to create this news summary:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-fired-trump-musk-take-ax-us-government-offices-2025-02-14/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-disease-detectives-doge-cuts-health-agencies/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/justice-department-officials-resign-eric-adams-charges

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-15-2025-22a2d731961eb766e6c7914cb84e3990

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/us-european-relations-trump-putin-analysis/index.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04n622gzx7o

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9nmeyzkjo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/14/vance-munich-europe-security-ukraine/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel#:~:text=Weidel%20is%20in%20a%20lesbian,and%20have%20two%20adopted%20children

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/24/meet-the-lesbian-goldman-sachs-economist-who-just-lead-germanys-far-right-to-victory/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/japan-releases-200000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar

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Time Stamp of Topics:

0:00 — Intro (no news)

1:04 — Department of Education

2:29 — US Executive Orders

4:38 — International News, Democratic Republic of Congo

5:42 — Nature news, black soldier flies

6:51 — Outro (no news)

Sources used to make this summary:

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292444/trump-musk-education-department-schools-students-research-cuts

https://apnews.com/article/ies-musk-doge-education-cuts-4461d7bdbe9d55c5a411d8465999b011

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/doge-education-department-cuts-trump

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-journalism-first-amendment-8a83d8b506053249598e807f8e91e1ae

https://abcnews.go.com/US/google-maps-rename-gulf-mexico-denali-us-users/story?id=118177262

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/trump-unfreezing-federal-grants-judge-ruling.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c391ml9x878o

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew5q04q427o

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250130-the-little-bug-with-a-big-appetite-turning-organic-waste-into-sustainable-fertiliser

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Time Stamp of Topics:

0:00 — Intro (no news)

0:40 — March to protest deportations

2:31 — Transnational News about Tariffs

4:31 — Nature news about asteroids and the building blocks of life

5:50 — Outro (no news)

News Sources Used to Create this Summary:

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ice-protests-los-angeles-california-dallas-ecf1afef642ffff40117f88641c8605f

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/immigrant-arrests-ice-raids-trump-first-week-second-term

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04ngq3lwl2o

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-demand-explanations-degrading-treatment-deportees-2025-01-26/

https://apnews.com/article/migration-rubio-panama-colombia-venezuela-237f06b7d4bdd9ff1396baf9c45a2c0b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/tariff-mexico-canada-trump/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/03/mexico-tariff-retaliation-trump/

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8d90v1m6qvt

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/03/trump-presidency-news/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/science/bennu-asteroid-sample-osiris-rex-science-newsletter-wt/index.html

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TIME STAMP:

0:00 - Intro (no news yet)

0:33 - US Airline Crash

1:30 - Gaza Ceasfire; Greenland

2:45 - US Executive Office Directives

5:20 - Outro (no news)

Articles sourced for this summary:

https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-crash-62adba7fb1f546b4cf1716e42b86482b

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-01-30-2025-3cc7131495a60ce2bda73ca691abb7c8

https://www.reuters.com/world/poll-shows-85-greenlanders-do-not-want-be-part-us-2025-01-29/

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-6d41961940585544fa43a3f66550e7be

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/27/senior-usaid-staff-put-leave-amid-trumps-order-halting-foreign-aid/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/30/usaid-trump-purge-foreign-assistance-freeze/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dc-crash-victims-aboard-american-airlines-flight-5342/story?id=118250442

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TOPICAL TIME STAMP

0:00 - Intro (no news yet)

0:47 - US News: Executive Office Spending Freeze

4:58 - Nature news: Electroperception

6:52 - Outro

News articles sourced for this summary:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/28/trump-spending-freeze-upends-washington-triggering-legal-threats-delays/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/politics/refugee-benefits-afghans-halt-trump-administration/index.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/25/g-s1-44762/pepfar-trump-hiv-foreign-aid

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/trump-emails-workforce/

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278604/federal-workers-resign-september-telework

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/science/hummingbirds-flower-mites-static-cling.html