BREAKING Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador's visa Announcement comes week after Brazil denied visas to two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country's elections

Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador’s visa in tit-for-tat

A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a “reciprocal” action because Brazil has not approved President Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Brasilia.

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“We are getting used to these daily announcements,” Brando Benifei, the chairman of the European Parliament delegation on relations with the United States, tells The Post. “We don’t take them so seriously anymore”

Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.

The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.

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BREAKING Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador's visa Announcement comes week after Brazil denied visas to two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country's elections

Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador’s visa in tit-for-tat

A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a “reciprocal” action because Brazil has not approved President Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Brasilia.

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“We are getting used to these daily announcements,” Brando Benifei, the chairman of the European Parliament delegation on relations with the United States, tells The Post. “We don’t take them so seriously anymore”

Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.

The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.

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Hi journalist friends! I wrote a one-pager cheat sheet for covering polling for @aapor.bsky.social! Head it here:

A Journalist’s Guide to Understanding Polls & Surveys - AAPOR

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Columbia hires former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, fired by CBS News after challenging Bari Weiss, to help train the next generation of journalists

Columbia Journalism School Appoints Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley as Journalists in Residence | Columbia Journalism School

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In Argentina’s Jujuy province, the influence of indigenous practices is obvious. Visitors are likely to hear Quechua spoken alongside Spanish. The festivities commence with a literal disinterment of the 'Pujllay', a demonic figurine that is buried again when Carnival comes to a close.

WHO IS SEBASTIÁN ZUBIETA?

A Planet People Profile

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Believe it or not we have addressed this! Here you go: single gar = gar multiple gars, same species = garrison multiple gars, different species = garmada

Frank Hogan@charleyphogg.bsky.social · 5d ago

A group of Gar can not be called a school it’s not tough enough

“His character was known as Big Pussy — not for any obscene reason, but because he had started his career in crime as a cat burglar”

Vincent Pastore, Actor on ‘The Sopranos,’ Dies at 80

He played Salvatore Bonpensiero, a mobster’s foot soldier turned F.B.I. informant known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the celebrated HBO series.

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POST EDITORIAL The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing

Opinion | The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing

Trump pushed legal limits with boat strikes, alienating allies, but traffickers adapted.

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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

DHS told employers it had ended TPS for about 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs affecting travel, nursing homes, schools Let go: Nursing assistants, dietary aides, housekeepers, janitors, airplane cabin cleaners, wheelchair attendants, landscapers, bus drivers, security guards

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers

The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.

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Dogs amirite

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d ago

A family husky's protective instincts kicked in when a bear came running across their driveway, charging straight at a child nearby. “You’re always wondering in the back of your head, ‘What’s gonna happen if she needs to protect us?’ And now we know,” Jeffrey Tazzara said.

“Nigeria, home to one of the continent’s largest ports, has drifted inland, grown in size and changed shape. It’s not that the map bestows the name on the wrong country; the new landlocked, splat-shaped Nigeria sprawls across Mali, Niger, Algeria and Chad, probably, resembling no existing state”

State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.

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CANADIAN TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES FELL 25 PERCENT IN 2025 as Trump returned to the White House and Canadians opted to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere, Statistics Canada reports. The trend continued into early 2026, “signaling a persistent shift away from the United States”

Canadian visits to U.S. plummet amid Trump tariffs, ‘51st state’ talk

"Canadian travel sentiment shifted abruptly" after President Donald Trump returned to office, analysts said.

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HORRIFYING One orca holds the prey in place. Another hurls its full body at it, nose-first. The fish explodes. Researchers say the behavior could be a hunting strategy, or just a way of being playful www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Bam! See these killer whales explode fish into pieces.

Researchers for the first time have documented orcas cooperating to smash their prey. Both instances were captured on video.

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Exclusive: Officials who separated Pete Buttigieg from his young twins last month relied on a vague and unsubstantiated allegation from an accuser authorities later deemed possibly “mentally unstable,” according to unreported police records.

Source of false Buttigieg allegation appeared ‘mentally unstable,’ records show

The Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that prompted the ex-Cabinet secretary's separation from his 4-year-old twins was handled.

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67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

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It's been hard to do my job this year. Being back reporting — and in print again — means more than I can say. Please spend some time with my story about a Trump administration crackdown on faculty speech at West Point, and one professor's lonely rebellion. wapo.st/4fo0lts

UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system

Brazil denies visas to U.S. delegation aiming to impugn election system, officials say

The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a presidential election this fall, officials said.

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Trump is sending senior officials to sow doubt about the integrity of Brazil’s electoral system before elections in October Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro's 2022 coup attempt began with a yearslong campaign to delegitimize the vote Flávio Bolsonaro is challenging Lula this year to get dad out of prison

U.S. sending envoys to question Brazilian electoral system, officials say

The delegation is expected to visit the Brazilian capital and raise doubts about the integrity of the voting system ahead of the country's presidential election this fall.

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"This was malo because I have una importante meeting el martes with other blancos de Connecticut. ¡Qué disastre! Mi jefe will be angry and also triste. “I’m sorry I forgot inglés,” I’ll say, “but I’ve watched veinte hours of fútbol every día for cinco weeks."

I Watched the Copa Mundial Non-Stop on Telemundo for Cinco Weeks and Now I Don’t Hablar Inglés Anymore

“Hola, Chad aquí, de Greenwich, Connecticut, a muy blanco área of los Estados Unidos. A few weeks ago, I decidir to watch Estados Unidos vs. Paraguay in fútb...

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Trump’s new tariffs on Brazilian products are a political gift to Lula at the expense of Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro

Trump’s new tariffs on Brazil could ‘tip the election’ for Lula over Bolsonaro

Levies on 18 percent of Brazilian exports are a political gift to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the expense of a Trump ally.

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Scoop: U.S. intelligence reports offer a pessimistic view of new rounds of U.S. military strikes against Iran: They are unlikely to have a significant impact on Iran or soften its negotiating position, current and former officials tell Warren Strobel and me

just give shakira the world cup

The European Union is giving five Caribbean nations two years to phase out their citizenship-by-investment programs or lose visa-free travel to the Schengen Area. The programs, which predate Schengen access, generate significant revenue for the island governments

E.U. tells Caribbean nations: Stop selling citizenship or we’ll require visas

The bloc is giving five nations two years to phase out citizenship by investment or lose visa-free travel to the 29-country Schengen area.

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I assume many will see my latest @newyorker.com column as churlish and grumpy. Fair enough. I am a lifelong Argentina fan, like tens of millions also from the Global South. But this is not the team that stirs my childhood nostalgia

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w ago

The team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love. www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

coming over to borrow one of your beans for this 3 bean salad

Downtown Winsted, Connecticut, this evening

Rescuers believe 9-year-old Fabio Bastardo is still alive under the rubble 17 days after earthquakes flattened his apartment building. They detected signs of life as recently as Friday Helena Carpio reports from La Guaira with @terrencemccoy.bsky.social

Venezuela quake rescuers believe boy, 9, is alive under rubble after 16 days

The Mexican rescue team Topos Azteca said it detected signs of life from the ruins of a 13-story apartment building on Friday, 16 days after the quakes.

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