My Today's WorldView debut on how affordable, high-quality Chinese EVs have presented for a dilemma for Biden as he tries to electrify America's roads while protecting US industry: washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/…

Tuesday: Secretary Antony Blinken visits a warehouse in Jordan where first aid to Gaza via Erez was being prepared.

Wednesday: Jordan says first aid to Gaza via Erez was ransacked by Israeli settlers.

Israeli police say 4 men under investigation in the West Bank for blocking aid trucks.

Munition dropped right through the World Central Kitchen logo

• The Mexican President reading aloud today the phone number of the NYT’s Mexico City bureau chief during a press conference is a whole different level of press bullying.

• A strategy to kill a story that the NYT is preparing about alleged ties of his Govt to drug traffickers

South America has been hit especially hard by the “one-two punch” of El Niño plus global warming.

Here are five of the ways the continent is being impacted. wapo.st/3SLMyQB

The Netflix series about cocaine “godmother” Griselda Blanco has unnerved Colombians, who want to move beyond stereotypes about drugs and violence. wapo.st/3ukP08J

Colombia would like to move on from its reputation for narco violence. Netflix’s “Griselda” isn't helping Bryan Pietsch 정동수 reports from Bogotá
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wildfire in Bogotá 🫨

As a former member of the WaPo Seoul crew I can attest that this is one of the brightest and kindest teams you’ll ever work with. Apply!

We're hiring a copy editor in Seoul! Tell your friends. We're a fun crew doing fascinating and important work. (I am not the hiring manager for this role but am happy to answer q's.) washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/washingt…

Smart story from Rest of World lamle:

Drivers pay out of pocket for online cash orders, expecting to be paid back by the customer — but, in Vietnam, the customers could disappear.

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WaPo copy editors are the backbone of our paper. We are losing so many good people.

Stunning moment: At a town hall in Berlin, N.H., Nikki Haley was asked by a voter what was the cause of the Civil War. She said the war was about government interfering in people’s freedoms. The voter then called her out for not mentioning slavery.

🚨 The Washington Post Guild has reached a tentative agreement with The Washington Post after 18 months of contract negotiations.

This deal is the best contract Washington Post employees have seen in 50 years.

12 out of every 14 container ships that normally pass through the Suez Canal are now rerouting all the way around southern Africa, fearing Houthi attacks.

It’s a reverberation of Israel’s war in Gaza that could upend global trade for months to come: washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/…

The three hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were carrying a makeshift white flag when a soldier who felt threatened opened fire, a senior Israeli military official said Saturday, adding that an investigation was underway. wapo.st/3tmC81f

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.