100 days like no other
It was President Trump’s 100th day back in the White House yesterday, and tariffs were top of mind. At a rally at Michigan to mark the occasion, he made a speech focused on vilifying undocumented migrants, reveling in his use of executive power to remake the government and economy and sniping at political opponents.
The trip had been billed as an opportunity for Trump to demonstrate his commitment to reviving American manufacturing.
Trump’s tariff war has piled pressure on U.S. businesses. Toy retailers across the U.S. paused holiday orders as tariffs froze supply chains. After the White House press secretary attacked Amazon over a report that suggested it would highlight tariff-related price increases, the company said that was “not going to happen.” Separately, Trump walked back some auto tariffs.
The president’s approval ratings have steadily fallen. But there is no doubt that Trump’s return to the Oval Office has already been hugely consequential. “He has already changed the way America is perceived more than any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” said Maggie Haberman, our White House correspondent. Here’s a deeper look at how and where he has made his mark.
Zelensky called Putin’s truce pledge ‘manipulation’
Russia launched 100 drones across Ukraine 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.
Putin’s truce has been met with skepticism by Ukrainian officials. “There is no reason to wait until May 8,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in his nightly address, calling the announcement “another attempt at manipulation” amid the Trump administration’s push for an end to the war.
Zelensky noted that Ukraine had already agreed, at the urging of the U.S., to an unconditional 30-day cease-fire — but that Russia had not. Nor did Russia agree to halt strikes on civilian targets, he added.
In Kyiv: The residents of an apartment building that was hit by a Russian missile last week formed a tight-knit community — now blown apart. “It feels like I lost my whole extended family,” one said.
Diplomacy: In an interview with The Times, President Alexander Stubb of Finland said Trump was running out of patience with Russia. Here are takeaways from the interview.
These Vietnam War photos still haunt the world
The Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago this week, was the first “living room war,” and it continues to have an impact through the violent, intimate images produced by photographers on the ground there.
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’t always the same. Take a look.
Traces of America: The buildings that Americans left behind when they pulled out of Vietnam have their own story to tell. Our Vietnam bureau chief wanted to hear those tales for himself.
The latest: A half-century on, ideology is mostly dead and pragmatism is thriving. 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.
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David Kaczynski turned in his brother, the Unabomber, to the F.B.I. in 1996. He spent nearly three decades trying to explain why — 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.
Lives lived: Beginning with a competition entry, Peter Lovesey wrote more than 40 crime novels. He died at 88.
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How to be happy
Jancee Dunn, who covers health and wellness for The Times, collected her favorite advice on how to be happy from interviews 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.
And then there’s Cher’s approach to not sweating the small stuff: “If it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter.”
