Good morning!🙋🏼♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert. You'll need glasses to see the partial solar eclipse this weekend.
Quick look at Thursday's news:
- A visit of U.S. officials to Greenlandhas been condensed to just a single day — without a dogsled race.
- International students face detainments by immigration authorities.
- Tragedy in the backdrop of the World Figure Skating Championships.
Icy reception from Greenland curtails visit
The itinerary has changed. So has the personnel. A major dog-sledding event is out.
It's not easy to deal with uninvited guests. Just askDanish and Greenlandic officials. They said a U.S. visit to the Arctic territory this week was not wanted or needed, threatening an icy reception amidPresident Donald Trump's vow to make Greenland the 51st U.S. state.
- What was the original plan? Usha Vance, wife ofVice President JD Vance, and one of her sons was due to visit the Danish territory Thursday to Saturday to see cultural and historical sites, including a dogsled race.
- But now the visit has both been upgraded and downgraded amid what Denmark's Prime MinisterMette Frederiksendescribed as "unacceptable pressure" by the U.S. on Greenland and local Greenlandic officials.
- What's behind Trump's quest to "get" Greenland? Economic motivation and national security implications encourage Trump's desires for the world's largest island that isn't a continent.
ICE detains Tufts University grad student
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained 30-year-old Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk, who was in the country on a valid F-1 visa, near her home in Massachusetts on Tuesday. The Tufts University graduate student was on her way to meet friends to break her Ramadan fast, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, told USA TODAY on Wednesday. Ozturk’s arrest comes as theTrumpadministration continues todetain studentsatinstitutionsacross the country over terrorism allegations after theyparticipated inpro-Palestinianprotests. Demonstrators decried the reason for Ozturk's detention at a protest later in the day.
- Related: ICE also detained a doctoral student at University of Alabama on Wednesday.
More news to know now
- A measles outbreak was confirmed in Ohio.
- Trump's new FCC chief opened an investigation into longtime conservative targets NPR and PBS.
- A Georgia House bill criminalizing abortion is advancing.
- Trump and Musk are going all in on Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.
- An appeals court upheld a block on deportation of Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act.
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Atlantic reveals US attack plans discussed by Trump officials in Signal group chat
The Atlantic magazineon Wednesday published the full text chain fromDefense Secretary Pete Hegsethand other topTrumpofficials detailing operations to carry out U.S. military airstrikes in a Signal chat group with a reporter present after the White House denied "war plans" had been shared. Among the details, Hegseth disclosed the timing of planned airstrikes by U.S. attack jets and armed drones on militant Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15, according to an account by The Atlantic's editor-in-chief,Jeffrey Goldberg. The magazine had previously withheld publicizing Hegseth's texts out of concern for the sensitive nature of the information.
Buying a new car?
Maybe double check your budget. Experts say new and used car prices are likely to increase after President Donald Trumpon Wednesday imposed 25% tariffs on imported automobiles, barreling forward witha whiplash economic strategythat has rattled markets andignited a global trade war. Costs to make a vehicle assembled in Canada or Mexico could go up $6,000 or more, experts told USA TODAY, while higher costs for parts could increase production costs for U.S.-made vehicles by roughly $3,000.U.S. stocks tumbled in after-hours trading following the auto announcement.
Today's talkers
- Kermit the Frog is now an commencement speaker!
- Plastic may be in your Coca-Cola.
- U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin finds positives in what could have been a lost season.
- Here are ourSweet 16 predictions for the men's NCAA Tournament.
Figure skating’s past is inspiring its recovery from the DC crash
It's been nearly two months since a plane collided with a military helicopter as it approached the airport in Washington D.C., killing all people on board. Those who were lost included some of the nation's most promising young skaters. Future Olympic hopefuls. Dedicated parents. Top coaches. America’s tight-knit figure skating community has struggled to absorb the blow, which was eerily similar to a 1961 plane crashon the way to that year's world championships that devastated the sport. Now, the skating community converges this week in Boston for theISU World Figure Skating Championships, where organizers held a tribute on Wednesday with the hope of helping to heal still-raw wounds.
Photo of the day:Ready for first pitch
Ahh, summer is in sight: Opening Day has officially arrived with 28 of the 30 Major League Baseball teams in action on Thursday. Everyone will be chasing the Dodgers after they won last year's World Series and began defense of their title with a two-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo. Here's Opening Day's schedule, game times and TV info.
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