The Headlines
The Scramble After a White House Showdown, and R.F.K. Jr.’s Measles Response
Mon, 3 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the headlines for March 3rd?
From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Traci Mumford. Today's Monday, March 3rd. Here's what we're covering.
We are re-exerting peace through strength. President Trump has brought back strength to the White House.
Chapter 2: Why is the Trump administration criticizing Zelensky?
After Friday's fiery showdown in the Oval Office, the Trump administration and other top Republicans are doubling down on their aggressive stance toward Vladimir Zelenskyy.
I hope and pray, frankly, that President Zelensky will come to his senses, come back to President Trump, apologize for his behavior there.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Zelensky should be the one to apologize after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance publicly berated the Ukrainian leader for not being grateful enough for U.S.
aid. I hope he comes to the realization that we're actually trying to help his country here.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also criticized Zelensky, saying he was undermining peace negotiations.
And that's what Zelensky did, unfortunately, is he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine-splain on every issue. Then he confronts the vice president.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz went further in an interview on CNN.
Are you suggesting that President Trump wants Zelensky to resign?
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Chapter 3: What actions might Trump consider regarding Ukraine?
We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians, and end this war. And if it becomes apparent that President Zelensky's either personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting in his country, then I think we have a real issue on our hands.
Today, Trump is set to meet with his top national security aides to consider a range of policy options for Ukraine. An official tells The Times that could include suspending or canceling some military aid. Meanwhile.
Chapter 4: How are European leaders responding to the U.S.-Ukraine tension?
We are at a crossroads in history today. This is not a moment for more talk. It's time to act.
Chapter 5: What are the goals of the U.K. in the Ukraine crisis?
European leaders scrambled to show their support for Ukraine after Zelensky's heated exchange with Trump. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted a meeting of the leaders in London, Zelensky included.
European leaders wrapped their arms around Zelensky. You know, it was his first chance after the very bad meeting with Donald Trump to see them in person. And so there were a lot of expressions of support. Mark Landler is the Times bureau chief in London. Keir Starmer had sort of two goals with this meeting. One was to prevent an irreparable rift in the transatlantic alliance.
And in order to do that, he really wanted to demonstrate that Europe was ready to step up, both to spend more money on defense on its own, but also to put together what he's calling a coalition of the willing, which is a number of European countries
that will take steps from deploying aircraft and troops to a peacekeeping force to, in a sense, secure any peace agreement that Russia and Ukraine agree to. And then he hopes that by doing that, he can go back to Donald Trump and say, we've stepped up, we're willing to pay a higher price, shoulder more of a burden. And so for that reason, we hope that you'll stay part of this effort.
But the second purpose here is, was to get Europe ready should that transatlantic alliance really be finished. If this breach cannot be filled, if Donald Trump is really walking away, I think Starmer and Emmanuel Macron of France and other leaders recognize that Europe's going to have to be far more in charge of this effort, going to have to take charge of it.
And so sort of two different efforts here. One, to keep the alliance together, but two, to start planning for a world in which that may not happen.
This weekend, Israel disrupted the ceasefire negotiations with Hamas and announced it will stop all aid shipments into Gaza. It wants to try and force the militant group to accept new terms outside of the original agreement. Phase one of the existing deal expired over the weekend, and the two sides were supposed to move into negotiations about a longer-term end to fighting.
But now Israel is calling for just a short-term extension of the truce and the return of half of the hostages remaining in Gaza. Hamas immediately rejected the new proposal and called Israel's halt in humanitarian aid, quote, cheap blackmail.
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