The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump administration poised to destroy one of the world’s most criticalclimate research centers. (WaPo)
   

• General testifies that he might kill suspected drug traffickers on American soil if Pete Hegseth ordered him to. (Intercept)
   

• Jeffrey Epstein got rich from simple fraud, not financial wizardry or international espionage. (NYT)
   

• Trump’s cuts cripple the National Labor Relations Board. (NYT)
   

• Few farms participate in programs that might protect farmworkers from exploitation. (ProPublica)
   

• U.S. will pay $450,000 to compensate each wildfire fighter who develops smoke-related cancer. (NYT)