Tracey Mumford
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The Headlines · Trump Blames Ukraine, and More Americans Identify as L.G.B.T.Q. · 20 Feb 2025
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Yesterday, Trump's new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced the government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, saying the administration is, quote, restoring biological truth to the federal government. But many medical experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say that not everyone fits into neat categories of male and female.
Now, three updates on stories from this week. In the Middle East this morning, Hamas returned the bodies of four Israeli hostages who were taken on October 7th. They include an elderly man and a mother and her two young children. It's not clear how they died, though Hamas says they were killed in Israeli airstrikes while being held in Gaza.
In exchange, Israel's releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners. It's part of the ongoing ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. This weekend, Hamas is expected to return six hostages who are still alive. In Panama, nearly 100 migrants who were recently deported from the U.S. have been moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle.
The migrants are from countries like Iran and China, and some had arrived in the U.S. hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were put on a plane to Panama City after Panama struck a deal with the U.S. to take in deportees. They spent days locked in a hotel before being transferred to the remote camp.
One migrant told the Times it felt like being in a zoo, with detainees kept in cages, a claim that Panama's foreign minister denied. And in an update on the plane crash in Toronto, Delta Airlines says it will offer $30,000 to every passenger on the flight, which flipped upside down and burst into flames upon landing. Delta said the offer came with, quote, no strings attached.
No one was killed in the crash, and as of yesterday morning, all but one passenger had been released from the hospital. The investigation into the cause of the crash is still ongoing. And finally, Mount Etna in Sicily has been erupting for the last two weeks. This is something that happens regularly. Tourists have flocked to the Italian island for decades to see the volcano in action.
This time, though, there has been a flood of people, so many that cars are blocking the roads and emergency vehicles haven't been able to get through. Also, the visitors just won't stay away from the lava. Italian authorities have been warning that while it's an extremely beautiful sight, the lava sizzling on the snowy mountain slopes, it's dangerous.
This week, they tried to ban people from approaching it. But people keep uploading photos and videos of the eruption from places that are supposed to be off-limits. A few videos show people skiing down the mountain while lava is smoldering in the distance.
Experts say that a volcano with snow on it is particularly dangerous because when the extreme hot meets the extreme cold, it can result in sudden bursts of high-pressure steam that can hurl rocks outward. So local authorities would just like everyone to know, please do not ski by the lava. But those are the headlines.
Today on The Daily, how the Trump administration getting involved in Mayor Eric Adams' legal case has set off chaos in the Justice Department. That's next in the New York Times audio app, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
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