USA i dag

OL åpningsseremonien fredag kveld.

USAs visepresident J.D. Vance var tilstede med sin kone. Det var høylydt booing da den amerikanske troppen kom inn. 

Det olympiske flagget ble båret inn av 8 personer. Alle ble presentert og de var med i FN organer eller arbeidet for flykninger og vanskeligstilte. Tipper at Vance ikke liker Europa bedre etter det. Uansett en flott seanse.

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Inside the crisis at the Kennedy Centre

A year ago the president vowed to make the arts venue great again. Last week he announced its “temporary” closure

(Red.) The Economist Today The best of our journalism, handpicked each day

Roger McShane US digital editor

Pat Nixon called being First Lady “the hardest unpaid job in the world”. But the role carved out by Melania Trump doesn’t appear especially taxing, and Amazon paid her millions for an advertisement—ahem, documentary. Mrs Trump is reinventing the job, not necessarily for the better. At least she’s no Evita, writes our Lexington columnist.

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Var det for smertelig for den hvite Trump rasen å gå på dette nederlaget?

NPS removes Native American signage at Little Bighorn National Monument

(Military Times) For more than 150 years, the Battle of the Little Bighorn has been one of the most written about subjects in American history. Was it because Lt. Col. George Custer disobeyed orders, disregarded the warnings of his scouts, violated the principles of warfare by dividing his command and was ambushed? Was he the victim of a conspiracy? Or was he simply outsmarted and outgunned? Read More A list of US military strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels (Military Times) Since early September 2025, the U.S. military has conducted strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean in support of what the Pentagon has called continued counternarcotics efforts. Read More