{"id":48256,"date":"2025-04-30T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/wednesday-briefing-the-new-york-times-9\/30\/04\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:32:15","slug":"wednesday-briefing-the-new-york-times-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/wednesday-briefing-the-new-york-times-9\/30\/04\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Briefing &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3f9cb83f\">100 days like no other<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was President Trump\u2019s 100th day back in the White House yesterday, and tariffs were top of mind. At a rally at Michigan to mark the occasion, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/04\/29\/us\/trump-news#trump-michigan-100-days\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">made a speech<\/a> focused on vilifying undocumented migrants, reveling in his use of executive power to remake the government and economy and sniping at political opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The trip had been billed as an opportunity for Trump to demonstrate his commitment to reviving American manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump\u2019s tariff war has piled pressure on U.S. businesses. Toy retailers across the U.S. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/business\/trump-tariffs-christmas-china.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">paused holiday orders<\/a> as tariffs froze supply chains. After the White House press secretary <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">attacked Amazon over a report<\/a> that suggested it would highlight tariff-related price increases, the company said that was \u201cnot going to happen.\u201d Separately, Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-auto-tariffs-executive-order.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">walked back some auto tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">approval ratings<\/a> have steadily fallen. But there is no doubt that Trump\u2019s return to the Oval Office has already been hugely consequential. \u201cHe has already changed the way America is perceived more than any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt,\u201d said Maggie Haberman, our White House correspondent. Here\u2019s a deeper look at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/28\/us\/trump-100-days-actions.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">how and where he has made his mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-56e504fe\">Zelensky called Putin\u2019s truce pledge \u2018manipulation\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-zelensky-putin-truce.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">launched 100 drones across Ukraine<\/a> on Monday night, just hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered a three-day cease-fire starting on May 8. The strikes killed a child and wounded several people.<\/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\">Putin\u2019s truce has been met with skepticism by Ukrainian officials. \u201cThere is no reason to wait until May 8,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in his nightly address, calling the announcement \u201canother attempt at manipulation\u201d amid the Trump administration\u2019s push for an end to the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Zelensky noted that Ukraine had already agreed, at the urging of the U.S., to an unconditional 30-day cease-fire \u2014 but that Russia had not. Nor did Russia agree to halt strikes on civilian targets, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">In Kyiv:<\/strong> The residents of an apartment building that was hit by a Russian missile last week <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/europe\/kyiv-russia-missile-strike.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">formed a tight-knit community<\/a> \u2014 now blown apart. \u201cIt feels like I lost my whole extended family,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Diplomacy: <\/strong><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/europe\/finland-stubb-russia-trump-ukraine.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In an interview with The Times<\/a>, President Alexander Stubb of Finland said Trump was running out of patience with Russia. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/europe\/finland-president-interview-takeaways.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Here are takeaways<\/a> from the interview.<\/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<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<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=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wanted to hear those tales for himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">The latest: <\/strong>A half-century on, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/30\/world\/asia\/vietnam-country-progress-growth.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ideology is mostly dead and pragmatism is thriving<\/a>. Vietnam has moved from war to peace, rural to increasingly urban, poor to roughly middle-class, and explicitly Communist to a complex hybrid of free markets and state control.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/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=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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, Peter Lovesey wrote more than 40 crime novels. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/books\/peter-lovesey-dead.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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-10\">\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=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">how to be happy from interviews<\/a> with 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/30\/briefing\/trump-russia-vietnam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 days like no other It was President Trump&rsquo;s 100th day back in the White House yesterday, and tariffs were top of<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/wednesday-briefing-the-new-york-times-9\/30\/04\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/30ambriefing-europe-trump\/trump-100days-promostill-zhwb-facebookJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}