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Dear listeners,It’s Lindsay’s editor, Caryn, here to kick off a round of guest newsletters with around 19 minutes of upbeat music from March. (If you missed Friday’s newsletter celebrating The Amplifier’s second birthday, a reminder that Lindsay will be taking a few months away to work on a book. The Amp will still arrive every Tuesday.)I’ve probably mentioned this before, but I sequence the Friday Playlists that provide the raw material for these monthly entries spotlighting new music, and one of my big challenges is tempo: With the critics Jon Pareles and Lindsay picking so many different types of tracks,…

Hey, are you sure you want to send that to your group chat? Like, one thousand percent sure?Just checking. Because it’s been a strange week in the history of the group chat, those seemingly intimate text conversations that ping back and forth among friends and family members and, apparently, national security personnel.On Monday, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote that he had accidentally been added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal. He followed along as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out attack plans against Houthi strongholds in Yemen and watched other national…

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has lingering questions about President Donald Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nominee, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and his past stances on transgender treatments for minors and abortion, and he says the nominee hasn’t answered his inquiries. The Missouri Republican told Fox News Digital in an interview that he remains concerned by Oz’s past of “promoting transgender surgeries for minors, promoting transgender hormone treatments and puberty blockers for minors.”He submitted a number of questions to Oz on the subjects earlier in the month, but Hawley said Oz never answered. “He hasn’t. Which I think is strange,”…

Maryland detectives are back on the hunt to identify a man who they believe targeted women over 25 years ago by offering them a ride under false pretenses, and allegedly attempting or successfully raping them, according to law enforcement officials.The Charles County Sheriff’s Office reopened a cold case into an alleged serial rapist who, between November 1996 and August 2003, picked women up in Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s County, Maryland, before driving them to Charles County. Once there, the unknown man allegedly physically attacked and sexually assaulted his victims.Investigators describe the suspect as a Black man who at the…

Campaigning across the country is well underway and in Edmonton, more election signs are slowly showing up. The upcoming election brings some changes for Edmontonians in terms of new candidates and new ridings. The Conservative Party, Liberal Party, NDP and others are starting to list their candidates throughout Edmonton and the surrounding region.Not only are there new candidates this time around, there are also new ridings. Previously there were eight ridings in Edmonton; this election there are nine with most redrawn. Other boundaries in the capital region have been redrawn as well. Trending Now Political scientists say this could make…

Spending on climate adaptation and resilience continues to fall short even as the federal budget reveals spending on disaster response payments is blowing out.

Dry conditions are expected to persist in the wildfire-hit region on Wednesday, the safety ministry said. Climate change is projected to make wildfires more frequent, Lee said, as wildfires that ravaged part of Los Angeles in January and a recent wildfire in northeast Japan are still relatively rare. “We have to admit large-scale wildfires are going to increase and prepare more resources and manpower,” he told a local television station. The casualties included four people who were trying to escape the fire but their vehicle was overturned. Three died and one was injured, Yonhap news agency reported. The blazes that…

Reports of past meddling by the Indian government roiled Canada’s general election on Tuesday, putting Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader and the main challenger to Prime Minister Mark Carney, on the defensive.Canadian intelligence officials said Indian agents and proxies raised money and organized support for Mr. Poilievre in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership race that he won, Canadian news media reported on Tuesday. Intelligence officials said there was no evidence that Mr. Poilievre or people close to him were aware of the interference.There was no indication that the meddling influenced the outcome of the leadership race, which Mr. Poilievre…

President Trump’s nominee to run the Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano, faced questions about customer service, erroneous payments and concerns about potential interests in privatizing the agency during a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Some Senators also tried to nail down Bisignano’s stance on efforts by the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to cut costs at the agency by firing workers and closing offices. They also asked him point blank if he’d block DOGE workers from accessing Americans’ personally identifiable information. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, pointed to a March 24 statement from a former senior SSA employee…

President Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon on Tuesday for Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden whose congressional testimony two years ago helped fuel House Republicans’ investigation into the Biden family.Mr. Archer had been convicted in a fraud case, and was sentenced in 2022 to a year and a day in prison.The pardon erases the conviction and also tens of millions of dollars in forfeitures and restitution that Mr. Archer had been ordered to pay. Mr. Archer was pardoned before he served any of his prison sentence.Mr. Archer earned fans on the right — including in…