‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump's ‘first friend’ Elon Musk's Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war  —  Canada's EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.  —  Business Today Desk

Elon Musk's Team Now Has Access to Treasury's Payments System  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk's representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.  — 1.4k

Doug Ford announces Ontario ban on American liquor in response to U.S. tariffs  —  U.S. President Donald Trump imposing a 25% tariff on most Canadian imports beginning Tuesday  —  Ontario Premier Doug Ford has ordered the LCBO to strip its shelves of American products in response …

‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump  —  More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.

The power of independent journalism: From her Brooklyn apartment, she ‘scooped’ the nation's media  —  First word of the Trump administration's since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her Brooklyn apartment.

Don't Believe Him  —  This is an edited transcript of an audio essay on “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.

Trump Kicks Aside Congress With Sweeping Claims of Presidential Power  —  With aggressive reading of Constitution, president aims to upend balance of power in Washington  —  WASHINGTON—In laying out the checks and balances of democracy, authors of the U.S. Constitution imagined that the president …

Critical FAA warning system outage could cause ‘residual’ flight delays today  —  Flights across the US could experience “residual delays” Sunday morning as the Federal Aviation Administration works to restore a critical warning system that experienced an outage Saturday night, according to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

The Logic of Destruction  —  What is a country?  The way its people govern themselves.  America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws.  The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together.

Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump's Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I.  —  The Education Department told employees of the suspensions in letters on Friday.  Some of those put on leave said they had only a minimal connection to diversity or equity efforts.

Florida Republicans just declared war on each other  —  So far neither side is backing down, and there's a chance that the fight will drag on through the regular session that starts in early March and beyond.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida's Republican era of good feelings appears over.

Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings  —  Brian Driscoll pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed.  Driscoll has so far not handed over the names of thousands of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6th cases.