Extra, Extra
Fast and Furious: “For decades, the world’s largest car factory was Volkswagen’s complex in Wolfsburg, Germany. But BYD, the Chinese electric carmaker, is building two factories in China, each capable of producing twice as many cars as Wolfsburg.” NYT (Gift Article): ‘The Tsunami Is Coming’: China’s Global Exports Are Just Getting Started. (Causing a tariff-induced global recession isn’t the answer. But China’s economic might is a big story.)
+ Returning to the Scene of the Crime: “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.” Believe it or not, that quote is from RFK Jr. But does it come too late and will anyone who’s been following his statements for years buy it? Measles Rates Hit New Record as RFK Jr. Keeps Waffling on Vaccines. NPR: RFK Jr. visits epicenter of Texas measles outbreak after death of second child.
+ Paige Turner: “In her final game as a Husky, Bueckers earned that elusive national title. She scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds in an 82-59 victory over defending champion South Carolina that secured the sole accolade missing from Bueckers’ résumé and snapped UConn’s nine-year title drought.” How Paige Bueckers and UConn got their fairytale ending with national title.
+ Ovechkin Do Attitude: Alex Ovechkin scores goal 895 to break Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL scoring record. (And like LeBron, Messi, Curry, Djokovic, and others, he’s part of a great generation of athletes that are performing at amazing levels at advanced ages.) ESPN: Ranking Alex Ovechkin’s top goals in a record-breaking career.
+ Land Grab: As Bibi visits DC to meet with Trump, “Israel has dramatically expanded its footprint in the Gaza Strip since relaunching its war against Hamas last month. It now controls more than 50% of the territory and is squeezing Palestinians into shrinking wedges of land.”
+ Evil Empires Collide: The 2024 World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, were honored by President Trump at the White House on Monday.
+ Wolf at the Door: “Relying on deft genetic engineering and ancient, preserved DNA, Colossal scientists deciphered the dire wolf genome, rewrote the genetic code of the common gray wolf to match it, and, using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers, brought Romulus, Remus, and their sister, 2-month-old Khaleesi, into the world during three separate births last fall and this winter—effectively for the first time de-extincting a line of beasts whose live gene pool long ago vanished.” Time: The Return of the Dire Wolf. (As if things weren’t dire enough.)
