The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a worldwide news organization that provides news coverage from around the globe through various platforms, including its website, a weekly magazine, daily news briefings, email newsletters, an Amazon Kindle subscription, and a mobile site. Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, who established the Church of Christ, Scientist, the publication had a print circulation of 75,052 as of 2011.

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How to reuse exhaust from jets and store energy in sand

2 days ago | csmonitor.com | Cameron Pugh |Troy Sambajon

A Texas airport is harnessing the wind power of jets at takeoffThe American company JetWind Power uses giant turbines to capture forceful air from planes and transform it into electricity. Dallas Love Field has served as a testing ground since 2021. Five solar-powered turbine “pods” on the tarmac collect wind, which started powering device-charging stations in the terminal in November. Eight more pods will follow.
Amid deportation dispute, Trump and courts square off on who has last word

5 days ago | csmonitor.com | Henry Gass

The Trump administration’s running battle with the federal courts reached a critical juncture this week, heightening a constitutional dispute that has defined its first three months in power. President Donald Trump and his deputies have raised the question of whether they need to comply with court orders they disagree with. But developments in a pair of immigration-related cases are raising key questions: Can the executive branch ignore court rulings?
Remember the opioid crisis? 46 states recorded a decline in overdose deaths.

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Troy Sambajon |Jacob Turcotte

The United States is seeing a sudden drop in overdose deaths. The country saw a 25.7% decline in drug overdose deaths in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the lowest number of overdose deaths in a 12-month period since 2020. Some 46 states reported a decline from 2023 to 2024. Virginia observed the most drastic reduction in deaths – a 41.6% decline.
Slapped with tariffs, some US trade partners lean toward Beijing

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Ned Temko

So much is changing, so jarringly, in America’s relations with China that it’s easy to overlook another equally dramatic diplomatic shift that could well decide how and when their tariff war ends. It involves relations not with America’s main rival power, but with its friends.
California designs a trade plan to blunt tariffs. Be careful, China expert says.

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Ali Martin

| As President Donald Trump takes fast-changing swipes at U.S. trade relationships around the world, California Governor Gavin Newsom is challenging the president’s authority and taking steps to curb economic blowback. California launched a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday, aimed at the executive privilege President Trump has cited to impose tariffs without Congressional approval under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. At the same time, Mr. Newsom has said...
So you say you want a revolution? Massachusetts marks 250th anniversary of war.

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Peter Grier |Cameron Pugh |Jacob Posner |Melanie Freeman

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Why Trump’s ‘madman theory’ tactics could run aground amid trade reversals

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Laurent Belsie

It’s hard to keep up with President Donald Trump’s trade policies. Every few days a new threat of tariffs or retreat from them emerges. The chaos has Americans and the world wondering whether there’s a method behind the apparent madness. There is, negotiation experts say. Mr. Trump is employing a specific strategy to wring trade concessions from other nations. But 85 days into his administration, market jitters and commercial realities have begun to set in, limiting his options.
Lessons from the suburbs: Good garden shears make good neighbors

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Murr Brewster

I bought the old house with the double lot in 1978. The neighborhood was affordable, which is to say, undesirable. The ambience of the nearby commercial street owed much to iron grates and plywood. There were only three working business establishments, all of them taverns that loudly disgorged their patrons at 2 a.m. That first year, we swept up a lot of broken glass inside. Our new TV walked out after three days. We had our insurance agent’s phone number memorized.
Pakistani women stitch a new future for themselves while shattering barriers

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Hasan Ali

| In an industrial workroom in the heart of Rawalpindi, Nasreen Aziz is busy embroidering a pattern on a piece of fabric. A mother of four, Mrs. Aziz first came to work at the Behbud Association of Pakistan in 2001 when it became clear that her husband was struggling to provide for their family. Though she had always been interested in needlework, it was here that she honed her skills and received training to make clothes to a professional standard. “When a woman starts earning, people start...
How a deportation case is turning into a tussle over presidential authority

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Caitlin Babcock

Americans are waiting to see whether their country will correct what the Justice Department has called a mistake – a deportation that the Supreme Court has also called illegal.