Tracey Mumford
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A lot of people who first saw Alona Marr on social media had never watched a rugby match. But the American athlete and TikTok favorite has been giving the sport a bump. It started during the summer's Olympics when Marr shared a lot of videos of giant croissants, but also footage of her on the field helping Team USA take the bronze.
Since then, she's built a massive following, 8 million people and counting, with her mix of the goofy and the confessional, lip syncing to the Kardashians, also talking body positivity. I have cellulite everywhere.
This season, she took her newfound fame to England, playing for the Bristol Bears in the country's top women's rugby league.
She just wrapped her stint with the Bears this past weekend, and her presence was transformative. Team merchandise sales went through the roof. They had record attendance and even had to temporarily move stadiums from a 2,000-seat venue to one with 27,000 seats. Overall, it was a major boost for a league where many of the players have to work other jobs to support themselves.
And Marr herself said she hopes the momentum behind the sport will continue to build.
Marr is planning to be back in England this summer, though in an American jersey, for the Women's Rugby World Cup. Those are the headlines. Today on The Daily, the Department of Government Efficiency claims it's cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending so far. A look at how that math does not add up. That's next in the New York Times audio app.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Traci Mumford. Today's Monday, March 3rd. Here's what we're covering.
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.
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.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also criticized Zelensky, saying he was undermining peace negotiations.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz went further in an interview on CNN.
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.
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.
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.
In West Texas, doctors and health officials have been racing to try and contain a measles outbreak that has sickened more than 140 people and killed one unvaccinated child. The measles death was the first in the U.S. in a decade. The flare-up of cases, which has now spread to New Mexico, is shining a harsh spotlight on the federal response.
Experts say that the Department of Health and Human Services, run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been underplaying the best way to control the disease, vaccines. Kennedy used to run an anti-vaccine nonprofit and has claimed in the past that, quote, measles outbreaks have been fabricated to create fear.
The federal government didn't send out a substantive notice about the outbreak until a month after the first cases were reported. And in televised remarks at a cabinet meeting last week, Kennedy didn't mention vaccination at all. In an opinion piece published yesterday, though, he did urge parents to talk to their doctors about vaccinating their kids.
The relatively muted response is a sharp contrast to how a measles outbreak during President Trump's first term was handled. At that time, officials led an intense public campaign to raise awareness about vaccines. That led to more than 60,000 people getting vaccinated.
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