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Top Trump officials included Atlantic editor in group chat about plans to bomb Yemen; Medal of Honor, nation’s highest military award, gets its own museum in Texas

Supreme Court wrestles with dispute over majority-Black districts in Louisiana; Reporter’s Notebook: A Founding Father’s fears about presidential tyranny

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This year’s Iditarod route was 120 miles longer than normal as the route had to be changed due to a lack of snow. But Emily Ford still finished 18th out of 33 mushers in her first go at it.

The urgent care doctor cocked an eyebrow at Mari Santos and her American accent. It was four days after President Tweety McTreason’s inauguration, and Santos was a student with a stomach bug in the first weeks of an overseas semester in Glasgow, Scotland. A doctor arrived to see her after a six-hour wait. But before asking what ailed her, he said this: “Interesting time to be an American, I suppose.” Until then, Santos, 20, had not been thinking about Trump — just her 104-degree fever and concern about being sick while abroad. But the president and his triumphant return to the White House, she says, were on her physician’s mind, giving the American University student an instant education in geopolitics. The lesson, as she sees it: “There’s a kind of chilling in the air.” “I knew that maybe that Europe is not in general big fan of American politics,” Santos said, “but I didn’t expect it to be such like a personal thing.” The United States and its center of gravity occupy a unique space in the international conversation. People the world over talk about America — its policies, its proclivities, its place in the world. They have for generations. They did it during the Iraq War. They did it during the first Trump administration. And two months into Trump 2.0, at least in many European and English-speaking countries, it’s happening again — sometimes even more intensely. People from other countries have questions about Trump — and trust Answering for America under the new Trump administration is becoming a delicate experience for some of the estimated 5 million U.S. citizens living in other countries. From Santos in Scotland to others in New Zealand, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada, Republican and Democratic expats alike told The Associated Press in recent weeks that the moment they are revealed to be American changes virtually every conversation to, in essence, “What about Trump?” At its root, this

A new thermal vent spewing steam in the air at Yellowstone National Park is gaining attention, mainly because it’s visible from a road rather than any significant change in the park famous for its thousands of geysers, hot springs and bubbling mud pots. When Yellowstone’s roads open to car traffic in April, tourists will be able to view the new steam column from a pullout as long as the vent remains active. It’s located in an area about a mile (1.6 kilometers) north of the Norris Geyser Basin. The thermal feature was first spotted by scientists last summer and inspired them to trudge across a marsh and measure 171-degree (77-degree Celsius) steam venting from the base of a wooded hill. A thin coat of gray mud confirmed the vent was new, according to a recent online post by scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory overseen by the U.S. Geological Survey. Mike Poland, scientist in charge of the observatory, said Monday that such features are often forming and constantly changing in Yellowstone. “The feature itself is new. That there would be a new feature is, you know, mundane,” he said. “The noteworthy part … was just that it was so noticeable. But the sort of overall idea that there would be a new feature that formed is pretty normal.” The new steam plume is located within a 200-foot (60-meter) area of warm ground and appears to be related to hot water that surfaced as a new feature 700 feet (215 meters) away in 2003. The plume diminished over the winter. Whether it will remain visible from afar this summer, or be stifled by water in the vent, remains to be seen, geologists say. Still, geological changes in Yellowstone draw interest because the park overlies a volcano that was responsible for powerful eruptions in the distant past. The volcano has had no lava eruption for 70,000 years and no major eruption for 631,000 years, however. The volcano’s

A redistricting battle over Louisiana’s congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.