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*5 Takeaways From the New Hampshire Primary*

Donald Trump made history with a second straight victory, as Nikki Haley and her supporters look increasingly adrift in his Republican Party.

The much-fabled power of New Hampshire’s fiercely independent voters wasn’t enough to break the spell Donald J. Trump has cast over the Republican Party.

Brushing aside Nikki Haley a little over a week after he steamrolled her and Ron DeSantis in Iowa, Mr. Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate who was not a White House incumbent to carry the nation’s first two contests. His winning margin of 11 percentage points in moderate New Hampshire demonstrated his ironclad control of the party’s hard-right base and set him on what could very well be a short march to the nomination.

For Ms. Haley, the former South Carolina governor, it was a disappointing finish in a state she had poured considerable resources into carrying. Her efforts to cobble together a coalition of independents and anti-Trump Republicans, with support from the state’s popular governor, were no match for Mr. Trump’s legions of loyalists.

Even though Ms. Haley is vowing to fight on, the difficult terrain ahead in South Carolina means that this first-in-the-nation primary could turn out to be the last.

Here are five takeaways.

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Mr. Trump onstage during his watch party in Nashua, N.H.
Mr. Trump delivered angry remarks in Nashua, N.H., after his victory, repeatedly attacking Nikki Haley. Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
Trump demonstrated his command of the G.O.P. in a purple state.
In 2016, Mr. Trump’s win in New Hampshire put him on a path to the nomination and ultimately the presidency.

Eight years later, the state delivered again for him.

He performed well across nearly every demographic group, according to exit polls. He won every age group, among men and women.

In the final days, Mr. Trump sought to project an air of inevitability, hoping to avoid a protracted and costly fight as he resists efforts to convict him in a criminal trial before Election Day in November.

His success in New Hampshire was likely to lead to more pressure on Ms. Haley to drop out from his Republican allies, who include senators, House members and governors.

He won more than 50 percent of the vote, although his margin of victory decreased significantly from the primary in 2016, when he won New Hampshire by about 20 points over a crowded field. And he fell far short of his 30-point triumph in this month’s Iowa caucuses.

He seemed visibly aware of that fact when he took the stage on Tuesday night, and signaled an uglier next phase.

Using an expletive as he repeatedly attacked Ms. Haley, he said, “I don’t get too angry — I get even.”

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Supporters of Ms. Haley and President Biden standing together in Conway, N.H.
Supporters of Ms. Haley and President Biden in Conway, N.H. With the help of Democratic allies in the state, he won a write-in campaign in the party’s primary.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Haley has an incredibly rocky road ahead.
The contest now moves to South Carolina, the next competitive primary and one where Ms. Haley faces a steep uphill battle. Mr. Trump has led polls in her conservative home state by more than 30 points for months.

For Mr. Trump, drawing the contest to a close in South Carolina would allow his campaign to avoid the costly expense of Super Tuesday on March 5, when 16 states hold primary contests. He’s expected to unleash a barrage of harsh attacks, a tactic similar to the brutal campaign of humiliation he waged against Mr. DeSantis, who quit the contest on Sunday.

Already, Mr. Trump has argued that Ms. Haley is hurting the party’s chances in the fall by forcing him into an extended nominating contest.

“If she doesn’t drop out, we have to waste money instead of spending it on Biden, which is our focus,” he told Fox News shortly after the race was called.

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Ms. Haley greeting supporters after her loss in the New Hampshire primary.
Ms. Haley has been embraced by Republican traditionalists, but they are outnumbered in today’s party. Credit…Sophie Park for The New York Times
The old guard of the G.O.P. is a dwindling faction.
Tuesday night’s results showed that the time is coming to sit shiva for the Republican Party of the Bushes, Cheneys and Romneys. And the donor class that once played an outsize role in shaping the party is now a desperate group of bystanders.

Ms. Haley ran on a traditional Republican platform, one that has faded during the Trump years. She campaigned on issues like reducing federal spending, enacting a staunchly interventionist foreign policy and overhauling programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Her candidacy was embraced by the pre-Trump G.O.P., as the gang got back together for one last shot at the interloper.

Traditional party donors from Wall Street, who loathe Mr. Trump, poured money into Ms. Haley’s super PAC. And in New Hampshire, she seemed to have a political environment more hospitable than in Iowa, with a voting base that is less religious and more educated.

But on Tuesday, New Hampshire Republicans rejected Ms. Haley and her attempt to revive the old guard.

She insists her campaign is alive and well, marching to South Carolina, but the wing of the party she represents will come out of New Hampshire on life support.

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A man and a woman walking in shadows in a conference center. The man is holding write-in Biden signs on a post, and a table has more signs.
Supporters of a write-in campaign for Mr. Biden gathered for a watch party on Tuesday night. His name was not on the ballot in the state after a clash over its diminished status on the nominating calendar. Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Biden, Democratic grumbling aside, is cruising to renomination.
President Biden did not submit his name for the New Hampshire ballot, after the state refused to comply with a new Democratic nominating calendar that made South Carolina the first primary contest. Yet a scrappy write-in campaign run by the president’s allies delivered a victory for him nonetheless.

His most significant challenger — Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota — was on track to capture little more than 20 percent of the vote. The self-help author Marianne Williamson, who mounted a second bid for the Democratic nomination, was far behind with just 5 percent.

Democrats have spent months pining for another option, raising worries about Mr. Biden’s age in polls, focus groups and even “Saturday Night Live” sketches. But these results underscore the reality of the Democratic nominating process: Mr. Biden faces no real opposition.

For years, many Democrats questioned whether Mr. Trump would complete his comeback and become the 2024 nominee. Now that he is ascendant, Mr. Biden and his party are turning their attention to the general election and preparing to transform the race into a debate over whether a polarizing and criminally indicted former president is fit to return to office.

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Donald Trump’s mug shot is illuminated on a mobile billboard, seen from in between snow-covered houses after dark.
Mr. Trump’s mug shot displayed on a mobile billboard in Rochester, N.H. He is facing 91 criminal charges in four cases.Credit…John Tully for The New York Times
Trump’s strength may not translate to the general election.
Despite his robust showing, the results offered warning signs for Mr. Trump ahead of November.

A significant slice of Ms. Haley’s support came from unaffiliated voters who wanted to send a message about stopping Mr. Trump — a reminder that he owns Republicans, but doesn’t own everybody else.

While Mr. Trump won the race, he failed to rack up the kind of numbers that would be expected of someone essentially running as an incumbent. He has been behaving as one as part of his strategy in battling the 91 criminal charges he is facing both in courts of law and courts of public opinion.

But only about half of those who voted in the New Hampshire primary said they would consider him fit for the presidency if he were convicted of a crime, according to CNN exit polling. Those who might not vote for him with a criminal conviction, assuming a trial takes place this year, remain a minority. But in a close fall campaign, such factors could matter.

On the flip side, the issues that exit polls suggested are driving a number of voters, including immigration, are ones that the Trump team expects to benefit him in a general election. And even with divisions within the Republican Party, the vast majority of its voters view someone wearing their partisan jersey as preferable to Mr. Biden.

*Trump’s Win Adds to Air of Inevitability as Haley Sharpens Edge*

The former president’s victories in Iowa last week and in New Hampshire on Tuesday leave his main Republican rival, Nikki Haley, with an uphill battle.

Donald J. Trump’s victory in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday provided him the second of an opening pair of wins in the Republican nomination fight that accelerated his push for the party to coalesce behind him and deepened questions about the path forward for Nikki Haley, his lone remaining rival.

The defeat of Ms. Haley in New Hampshire came eight days after the former president trounced Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida so thoroughly in Iowa that it drove Mr. DeSantis from the race. Mr. Trump and his allies have turned his twin early wins into a milestone — declaring, after just the first two contests, that the party needs to unite behind him now to prepare for a rematch in November between Mr. Trump and President Biden.

No Republican candidate has ever won the first two states and then not ultimately secured the presidential nomination, a fact that Mr. Trump himself noted in his victory speech in Nashua, N.H.

“When you win Iowa and you win New Hampshire, they’ve never had a loss — there’s never been — so we’re not going to be the first, I can tell you,” Mr. Trump told the crowd.

Regardless of what comes next, the win on Tuesday sealed Mr. Trump’s status as the party’s standard-bearer in the history books: Before Mr. Trump, the only Republicans who have ever won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary have been sitting presidents.

The race was called on Tuesday night by The Associated Press the moment the last polls closed, sapping any drama from the outcome. Minutes later, Ms. Haley raced to speak first at her own election party in Concord, N.H., forcefully pressing her case that nominating Mr. Trump would be tantamount to conceding the general election to Democrats.

“You can’t fix the mess if you don’t win an election,” she said. “A Trump nomination is a Biden win and a Kamala Harris presidency.”

Ms. Haley pledged to press forward despite the loss on Tuesday. “New Hampshire is first in the nation — it is not the last in the nation,” she declared. “This race is far from over.”

Before Mr. Trump even took the stage on Tuesday night, the former president called Ms. Haley “delusional” in a social media post, one of several he wrote in all capital letters while she spoke.

It was a preview of a caustic and sometimes crude speech by the former president, in which he used the national platform of a victory address to bash his lone remaining rival, whose voters he would eventually need to win over in the fall.

“She didn’t win. She lost,” Mr. Trump said, calling her an “impostor” that he had beaten “so badly.” He mocked Ms. Haley for delivering an overconfident concession speech: “This is not your typical victory speech, but let’s not let somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night.”

Republicans began almost immediately to ratchet up pressure on Ms. Haley to quit.

“It’s time to drop out,” said Taylor Budowich, the chief executive of Mr. Trump’s super PAC. Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, who serves in the Republican leadership and had previously endorsed the former president, called Mr. Trump on social media the “presumptive” nominee. And Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who has been critical of Mr. Trump, formally backed him, declaring, “Republicans need to unite around a single candidate.”

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Ms. Haley, Mr. Trump’s former United Nations ambassador, had sought for months to narrow the 2024 primary to a one-on-one race with him. She got what she wanted on Sunday with Mr. DeSantis’s exit, giving her only a single full day before voting began in New Hampshire to prosecute her case to independent voters and Republicans that she would be the strongest Republican candidate against Mr. Biden.

In New Hampshire, she did everything she could, from pouring beers to holding babies, as she blitzed across the state alongside its Republican governor, Chris Sununu, who had endorsed her.

But New Hampshire voters appeared to look past Ms. Haley’s warnings that Mr. Trump, who has been indicted four times in the last year and faces 91 felony criminal counts, would bring “chaos” to the campaign trail and be uniquely vulnerable to defeat in a general election.

The attacks between Mr. Trump, 77, and Ms. Haley, 52, had sharply escalated in recent days.

He returned to his nativist playbook to emphasize her birth name, and then purposefully mangled it in social media posts, and even indulged in birther conspiracy theories about her eligibility to serve because she is the daughter of Indian immigrants (she was born in America). Ms. Haley questioned Mr. Trump’s mental acuity after he confused her name with Nancy Pelosi’s, using the incident to press for generational change.

In her concession speech on Tuesday, she cited that verbal slip-up as someone shouted “Geriatric!”

Ms. Haley told the crowd, “The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election.”

Now, Ms. Haley must find traction beyond the first two states, where almost all the campaigning and advertising had occurred. Her super PAC has spent more than $71 million so far — and 99.9 percent of those funds were poured into Iowa or New Hampshire, according to federal records.

Ms. Haley faces what could be an excruciatingly long month. She opted not to compete in the Nevada caucuses with Mr. Trump on Feb. 8 after the state party made rules favorable to him.

“I’m pleased to announce we just won Nevada,” Mr. Trump declared on Tuesday. The formal Nevada caucuses may still be two weeks away, but because Mr. Trump is the lone remaining serious G.O.P. candidate in the running for delegates, he is expected to win all of them.

The next significant clash between Mr. Trump and Ms. Haley will be Feb. 24, in the primary in Ms. Haley’s home state of South Carolina, where she once served as governor.

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Mr. Trump entering the stage at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., on Saturday. Mr. Trump and Ms. Haley’s next significant clash will be in the primary in Ms. Haley’s home state of South Carolina.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
As the calendar slows, it is Mr. Trump with the political momentum.

In the last 10 days, four of Mr. Trump’s vanquished rivals have all lined up behind him: Mr. DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota and South Carolina’s junior senator, Tim Scott, whom Ms. Haley first appointed to the Senate.

“You must really hate her,” Mr. Trump joked to Mr. Scott onstage on Tuesday.

Mr. Scott made his way to the microphone next to Mr. Trump and replied, “I just love you.”

On Monday, Mr. Trump was also endorsed by a Republican lawmaker from Ms. Haley’s home state, Representative Nancy Mace, whom Mr. Trump had tried to oust after she harshly criticized his conduct around the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Ms. Haley had campaigned with Ms. Mace in 2022.

“You’re seeing this unification moment happening, when in a normal primary you might see it happen in June or July,” Senator J.D. Vance, Republican of Ohio, who campaigned this week for Mr. Trump in New Hampshire, said in a brief interview. “You’re seeing it in January, because the race is effectively over.”

Ms. Haley has pledged to push forward.

“There are dozens of states left to go,” Ms. Haley said on Tuesday night. “And the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.”

The Haley campaign has already announced a $4 million ad campaign in South Carolina and has fund-raising trips to New York, Florida, California and Texas in the next two weeks to refill her coffers. Ms. Haley’s campaign and her allies have argued that Mr. Trump remains near the 50 percent mark in support in the first two states, a sign of potential vulnerability because as a former president he is universally known.

The strategists leading the Trump campaign, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, predicted in their own memo ahead of the vote on Tuesday that Ms. Haley would be — in all capital letters — “demolished and embarrassed” in South Carolina if she did not quit the race before then.

Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist who had worked on a super PAC supporting former Vice President Mike Pence, said Ms. Haley had now ceded her best opportunity to score an outright early win.

“This is a black-and-white business — you either win or you lose,” Mr. Reed said, before invoking the famous rental-car commercial wars of the past. “It’s hard to go on being Avis — ‘We’re number two or number three!’ — behind Hertz.”

*Military Plane Crashes in Russia, Killing All Onboard, Moscow Says*

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the transport plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war and accused Ukraine of shooting it down. The claims could not be independently verified.

A large Russian military transport plane crashed on Wednesday in the Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine killing everyone on board, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, accusing Ukraine of shooting down the plane with missiles.

The Defense Ministry said that the plane had been carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were being transferred to the region from a military airport near Moscow to be exchanged for Russian service personnel. It accused Ukrainian forces of launching two missiles from the nearby Kharkiv region of Ukraine that struck the aircraft. The plane was also carrying six crew members and three other individuals, the ministry said.

The Russian claims could not be independently verified.

Officials in Kyiv did not comment directly on Moscow’s accusations that Ukraine shot down the plane but the military’s general staff headquarters issued a statement Wednesday afternoon asserting a right to target Russian military transport airplanes in the border region.

The statement, posted on the military command’s Facebook page, did not deny shooting down the plane. It said that repeated Russian missile strikes on the city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region had in the past week killed 16 people and wounded another 78 people and that Ukraine had responded by targeting missile launch sites and the logistics for missile deliveries.

“The armed forces of Ukraine will continue to take measures to destroy delivery vehicles and control the airspace to eliminate the terrorist threat,” the statement said.

The Belgorod region of Russia has a long border with Ukraine. Over the past few weeks, it has been the scene of frequent Ukrainian attacks, including a missile bombardment in December. It was also the staging ground for Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and for further Russian strikes against Ukrainian territory during the war.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said in a statement on social media that the plane had crashed in a field near a settlement in the Korochansky district. He said that emergency services were at the site and were investigating.

A video posted to Telegram and verified by The Times showed a large plane crashing and exploding in Yablonovo, a town in the Korochansky district. Tass, a Russian state news agency, published a video of the scene of the crash showing debris littering a snowy field.

In its statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine’s leadership was “well aware that, in accordance with established practice, Ukrainian servicemen were to be transported by military transport aircraft to Belgorod airfield today for exchange.”

“According to an earlier agreement, the event was to take place in the afternoon” at a checkpoint on the Russia-Ukraine border, the statement added.

The Ukrainian General Staff did not address whether prisoners of war were on the plane. Earlier Wednesday, Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, said in an interview with Radio Liberty that an exchange “planned for today is currently not taking place,” without elaborating.

The plane, an Il-76, was designed decades ago in the Soviet Union to perform military duties such as airlifting troops, cargo and weapons.

Former Ukrainian prisoners who were released in exchanges said that they had been transported on that model of airplane, said Olha Reshetylova, a coordinator for Media Initiative for Human Rights, a group that investigates potential Russian war crimes against prisoners of war. In an interview, she called for an investigation into the crash but said that those efforts would be “complicated by the fact that the crime took place on the territory” of Russia.

One former Ukrainian prisoner of war, Maksym Kolesnikov, confirmed in a social media post that prisoners were transported on military cargo planes but questioned the Russian assertion that only three guards escorted 65 prisoners. On his flight, he said, about 20 guards flew with 50 prisoners.

Andrei V. Kartapolov, a Russian lawmaker and retired general, said at a session of the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, that the Il-76 had been shot down by three Ukrainian missiles. He did not provide any evidence for his claim, and it could not be independently verified.

Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging prisoners since the start of the war through deals brokered by a third-party, such as Turkey or the United Arab Emirates. Those deals have been very complicated, with the sides meticulously negotiating every detail.

In early January, after a long pause in exchanges — following the release in Turkey of five former commanders of Ukraine’s garrison in the Azovstal steel plant, which angered Moscow — Russia and Ukraine conducted the largest swap of prisoners since the start of the war.

Prisoner exchanges are politically sensitive in Ukraine and the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that it goes to great lengths to negotiate for releases. Families, some of whom have waited for months with little information about loved ones in captivity, have held street protests in Kyiv, the capital. The Ukrainian authorities typically do not release, even to families, the names of those to be released before exchanges.

The crash comes as the fighting along the front line in southeastern Ukraine has bogged down into a vicious but mostly stationary battle in trenches.

Military assistance for Ukraine has been cast in doubt as the U.S. Congress delays a vote on aid. Frontline commanders have said that artillery ammunition is running low, and the country is preparing for a mobilization that will most likely prove unpopular domestically.

With prospects for advances on the ground uncertain, Ukraine has turned to long-range strikes with drones and sabotage operations inside Russia that target military and fuel infrastructure. The tactics have included sabotage and commando raids near the border, including in the Belgorod region.

*A Nationwide Shutdown Tests Milei’s Tough Medicine for Argentina*

Liquor and wine advertised with printed signs to accommodate the frequent price changes this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentine unions are striking to protest President Javier Milei’s economic policies, which have accelerated inflation. He says they are needed to fix the country.

It has been six weeks since President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and since then, gas prices have doubled, inflation has soared and the value of the national currency has plummeted.

Such turmoil, he had warned, should be expected. Fixing decades of economic problems would first require more pain, he said.

Yet on Wednesday, many Argentines plan to take to the streets to show they have already had enough.

Argentina’s largest labor unions plan a nationwide strike — including workers in transportation, construction, health care, food services, energy and banking — to protest Mr. Milei’s planned overhauls, arguing they would weaken protections for workers and the poor. More than 100,000 people are expected to demonstrate across the country.

Pablo Moyano, a union leader, told reporters that Mr. Milei “is crapping on Congress and crapping on workers.” Mr. Milei has shot back that the protest shows “there are two Argentinas” — one stuck in the past and another that “puts us on the path to be a developed country.”

Still, more Argentines appear to agree with Mr. Milei. Despite the economic chaos, Mr. Milei’s approval rating has stayed high, or even risen along with prices. Recent surveys show 58 percent of Argentines support him, two percentage points higher than his share of the November presidential vote.

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A gas station attendant pumps gas into a vehicle.
Gas prices have doubled since President Javier Milei took office in Argentina about six weeks ago.
In response, Mr. Milei, a libertarian economist and television pundit who rode a brash political style to the presidency, has been trying to capitalize on his political honeymoon by quickly overhauling as much of Argentina as he can.

After cutting spending, laying off public workers and devaluing the currency, he has turned his focus to sweeping legislation that would have consequences for the economy, elections, labor, public safety, the environment, the arts, science, health and even how Argentines divorce. The omnibus bill would also consolidate more power in his hands.

That has sparked the blowback from labor. The unions already won a preliminary injunction this month against some of Mr. Milei’s efforts to amend labor laws via presidential decree, and now they aim to show their might with massive demonstrations on Wednesday.

Labor revolts have derailed government campaigns to make significant changes in Argentina before, but Mr. Milei is signaling that he will take a tougher stance against protests that turn disruptive. He has proposed docking the pay of government workers who partake in demonstrations, and increasing penalties against people who block roads so that they could face potential prison time.

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Prices are written in chalk at a produce shop in Buenos Aires.
Chalk boards are used by shops in Buenos Aires to allow for price changes. Argentina’s inflation rate rivals that of Lebanon for the highest in the world.
He has also moved fast. In his first days on the job, Mr. Milei made deep federal spending cuts, laid off thousands of government workers and halved the number of federal ministries to nine from 18. He also officially devalued the Argentine peso by more than 50 percent, bringing the government exchange rate much closer to the market’s measure of the currency — but also causing prices to soar.

From November to December, prices increased 25.5 percent, compared with 12.8 percent a month prior.

Argentina’s annual inflation rate is now at 211 percent, which puts the nation of 46 million roughly on par with Lebanon for the world’s highest inflation. Argentina’s prices are climbing faster than those in Venezuela, where years of economic collapse had led many Venezuelans to emigrate to Argentina. Now some are reconsidering.

“I’m seeing a lot of Venezuelans leave the country,” said Andreina Di Giovanni, 35, a Venezuelan immigrant in Buenos Aires who owns a shop that sells Venezuelan food. “Some are migrating elsewhere; some are going back to Venezuela.”

She said her business is struggling, with falling sales and rising costs, but she said it was too early to blame the new president.

Mr. Milei is hoping many Argentines are willing to give him a long leash to fix the country’s long-running economic woes, and for now, some are going along.

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Downtown Buenos Aires this week. Mr. Milei’s approval rating has stayed high, or even risen along with prices.
Stella Body, 70, said she was technically retired but continues to work full-time as a cosmetologist to afford the rising prices. To her, it was a worthy sacrifice for Mr. Milei’s plan. “We won’t see positive outcomes for at least a year,” she said. “Nothing can be fixed in a month.”

Mr. Milei is also attracting support from conservatives abroad. Last week, he gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he argued that unfettered capitalism is the only model to reduce poverty and that socialism, feminism and environmentalism threaten global progress by pushing government regulation.

“You are heroes,” he told the Davos crowd. “You are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we’ve ever seen.”

The speech went viral, promoted by various conservative and right-wing voices as a clear distillation of what was wrong with modern society.

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Mr. Milei campaigning in October.
“Good explanation of what makes countries more or less prosperous,” Elon Musk said when sharing a video of the speech. Later, the billionaire posted a doctored image of a man watching Mr. Milei’s speech while having sex, a post viewed 113 million times.

A Brazilian politician later posted that she played the speech for her unborn baby in the womb, and Donald J. Trump weighed in on his Truth Social platform, saying that Mr. Milei was “MAKING GREAT PROGRESS” in his effort to “MAKE ARGENTINA GREAT AGAIN!”

The International Monetary Fund, which is still owed the vast majority of a $44 billion loan program with Argentina, has also praised Mr. Milei, saying that he and his economic team have moved quickly to “rebuild reserves, correct relative price misalignments, strengthen the central bank’s balance sheet, and create a simpler, rules-based, and market-oriented economy.”

At the center of Mr. Milei’s efforts to tackle the country’s chronic financial troubles is the omnibus bill he is trying to push through Argentina’s Congress.

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Signs in support of Mr. Milei for president plaster a wall, with others calling for a general strike in Buenos Aires.
“There are two Argentinas,” Mr. Milei said in a radio interview this week. One side of the country is stuck in the past, he said, and the other “puts us on the path to be a developed country.”
With more than 500 provisions, the legislation would reduce regulations, weaken labor unions, privatize most state companies, eliminate election primaries, increase export taxes and remove some environmental protections. The bill would also give Mr. Milei emergency powers for at least one year to carry out his economic plans.

The sweeping measures are needed “to keep the current crisis from becoming a social catastrophe of biblical proportions,” Mr. Milei said in an address to the nation when announcing the legislation. Congress “will have to choose whether it wants to be a part of the solution or to continue being a part of the problem.”

Ricardo Gil Lavedra, a constitutional lawyer who has served as a congressman and Argentina’s justice minister, said that, without significant congressional support, Mr. Milei appears to be trying to move quickly while he has high approval ratings, knowing soaring prices could give him a short window of time to act.

But packing so many provisions into a single bill, and moving to consolidate more power in the presidency, is worrisome, he said.

“It’s impossible for people to have an idea of the enormous number of proposals Milei has sent,” he said. “They cover dozens and dozens and dozens of laws, often on deep topics, so I think the population generally doesn’t know what is being discussed.”

Still, pushback from unions and Congress is a sign of democracy working, Mr. Gil Lavedra said. “We must cooperate with a new government facing a very difficult situation, which has the support of a large number of Argentines,” he said. “But at the same time, we must keep Argentina within the framework of a constitutional democracy.”

*Turkey Backs Sweden’s NATO Bid*

The vote in the Turkish Parliament puts the Nordic nation closer to joining the military alliance, easing months of friction that have impeded efforts by the West to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine.

Turkey’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to allow Sweden to join NATO, putting the Nordic country one step closer to entering the military alliance and easing a diplomatic stalemate that has clouded Turkey’s relations with the United States and hampered Western efforts to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine.

The measure passed after a vote of 287 to 55, with four abstentions in the 600-member body. It will go into effect once it is published in the country’s official gazette, usually a swift formality. That would make Hungary the only NATO member that has not approved Sweden’s accession, depriving the alliance of the unanimity required to add a new member.

The bill’s passage is a big moment for NATO, paving the way for expanding its deterrence against Russia at a time when some of its members are struggling to provide Ukraine with enough arms to roll back Russia’s invasion.

NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said in a statement late Tuesday that he welcomed the news from Turkey, according to Reuters. But, he said, “I also count on Hungary to complete its national ratification as soon as possible.”

He continued: “Sweden has fulfilled its commitments. Sweden’s membership makes NATO stronger and all of us safer.”

Sweden’s accession would open a vast stretch of Nordic land to potential military operations by the alliance and extend to Sweden the other members’ automatic protection should it come under attack.

“Being a full-fledged ally means that if Sweden is under pressure or attack, there is no debate” over whether NATO would defend it, said Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary general. “As we see very clearly with Ukraine, you can be the closest NATO partner, but if you’re not an ally, the debate is different.”

Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, wrote on the platform X that Turkey’s approval of Sweden’s bid had been a priority for Mr. Biden. “Sweden is a strong, capable defense partner whose membership in NATO will make the U.S. and the Alliance safer and stronger,” Mr. Sullivan wrote.

Despite Tuesday’s vote, Sweden’s swift accession is not guaranteed. Turkey could delay filing its formal approval with the alliance, and it remains unclear when Hungary, whose Parliament is in recess until Feb. 15, might provide its assent.

Still, Sweden’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, praised the “positive” developments in Turkey, writing on the social media platform X, “Today we are one step closer to becoming a full member of NATO.”

On Tuesday before the vote, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary invited Sweden’s prime minister to Hungary to “negotiate” Sweden’s accession, suggesting that Hungary may seek concessions in exchange for its support.

“I am convinced that strong mutual trust must be the foundation of any political and security arrangements between Sweden and Hungary,” Mr. Orban wrote in a letter to the prime minister, which was initially reported by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet and confirmed by Swedish officials.

Mr. Orban said he believed that “a more intensive political dialogue can help strengthen the mutual trust between our countries.”

Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom of Sweden responded that he did not see “any reason to negotiate,” but that the two countries could “have a dialogue and continue to discuss questions,” according to the Swedish news agency, TT.

The vote in Turkey came nearly two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when Sweden and Finland, which had been militarily nonaligned for years, formally applied to join the alliance. The process requires the unanimous support of the body’s members (now 31), and most quickly granted their approvals.

But Turkey and Hungary, whose leaders have both maintained cordial relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia throughout the war in Ukraine, held out. Hungarian officials have pushed back on Swedish criticisms of the state of Hungarian democracy, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey accused the two Nordic nations of neglecting his country’s security concerns by failing to crack down on dissidents whom Turkey considers terrorists.

Officials from other NATO countries quietly accused Mr. Erdogan of leveraging the alliance’s rules for domestic political gain while publicly lobbying Turkey to change its stance.

Sweden has taken extensive steps to assuage Turkey’s objections, including by amending its Constitution to allow for tougher antiterrorism laws.

In March, both Hungary and Turkey changed course on Finland, and their respective parliaments approved the country’s accession. It joined NATO soon after.

The president of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, wrote on social media Tuesday that he was “very happy that the Turkish Parliament has voted to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership.” He added: “Sweden’s membership will improve security in the Baltic Sea area and make the entire alliance stronger. When Sweden is a member, Finland’s membership is also complete.”

He was joined in his sentiment by leaders in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

Even after Finland’s acceptance into NATO, Mr. Erdogan continued to resist Sweden’s bid, offering reasons that changed over time and prompting a diplomatic guessing game over what issue he would drag into the debate next.

Before a summit in July, Mr. Stoltenberg announced that Turkey had agreed to back Sweden’s accession bid. Days later, Mr. Erdogan told the Turkish news media that Sweden still needed to do more and that the issue rested with Parliament, not with him.

Also hampering talks over the issue were public burnings and desecrations of the Quran by protesters in Sweden, which prompted Turkey to accuse the Swedish authorities of not doing enough to combat Islamophobia.

Mr. Erdogan also linked the Sweden issue to Turkish demands from other NATO members. He suggested that simultaneously with Turkey backing Sweden, the United States approve the sale of a $20 billion package of American-made F-16 fighter jets and upgrade kits for jets that Turkey already has. The Biden administration has said it supports the deal, but it has faced resistance in Congress, with members citing the country’s human rights record and its stance on Sweden, frustrating the Turks.

Sweden’s approval appeared to be moving forward in December, when the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee passed the measure and sent it to the full assembly, in which Mr. Erdogan’s political party and its allies hold a majority. But it was not scheduled for a vote until this week.

Sinem Adar, an associate at the Berlin-based Center for Applied Turkey Studies, said that it remained unclear what Mr. Erdogan had gained by holding up Sweden’s bid and that the move had cost Turkey by making the country appear unpredictable and unreliable to its NATO allies.

“There is a very significant erosion of trust, which was already weakened, between Turkey and its allies in NATO because at a very important geopolitical moment, Turkey put its own interests ahead of the interests of the alliance,” she said.

Hungarian officials have said they would not block Sweden’s bid if Turkey approved it, but the timing of Hungary’s decision was not immediately clear, nor were the reasons for its foot-dragging.

Over the past year, Hungary has given a wide range of explanations for the delay. It initially cited technical reasons related to the Parliament’s schedule but later complained about a video shown in Swedish schools that cast Mr. Orban’s government in a bad light.

Mr. Grand, the former NATO assistant secretary general and now a defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said that he assumed leaders in Budapest and Ankara were coordinating their moves and that he had become “more cautious” about predicting Sweden’s quick entry into the alliance.

But after nearly two years, he added, “I think we are now at the point where it becomes sort of ridiculous to further delay it.”

*Is It Bad to Wash Your Hair Every Day?*

The ideal lathering schedule varies from person to person, experts say. Here’s how to tell what may work for you.

Q: I’ve heard that washing your hair every day can strip it of its natural oils, making it dry and brittle and causing scalp irritation. Is that true? And what if I exercise regularly?

Whether you should lather up daily depends on a number of factors, said Dr. Murad Alam, vice chair of the department of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Among them, he said, are your hair’s texture, how oily it gets, how processed it is, your lifestyle habits and your age.

Shampoo cleanses your scalp and hair by removing environmental contaminants like dirt and pollen, as well as dandruff, sweat and hair-care products.

It also dissolves sebum, an oily, waxy substance produced by the sebaceous glands near your hair follicles. Sebum keeps your scalp from becoming too dry, said Dr. Rosemarie Ingleton, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and protects the skin from infection.

But if sebum builds up, she said, it can cause problems.

When to wash daily
Using shampoo every day, Dr. Alam said, can be the right choice for people with oilier scalps where sebum can accumulate, making the hair limp, greasy and possibly smelly.

Those with fine hair, Dr. Alam said, may also find that it becomes greasy more quickly, because there is less hair to absorb the oil. For them, a daily lather may be warranted.

Daily washing may also be needed, Dr. Alam added, if you frequently use products such as gels or hair sprays, which can build up on your scalp and cause irritation — or even hinder hair growth by clogging the hair follicles.

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When to avoid daily shampooing
Not all hair textures can tolerate a daily wash, Dr. Ingleton said, including curly or coily hair, which may dry out, become brittle or break if washed daily or even every couple of days. If you’re Black, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends washing your hair every week or every other week.

Dr. Shereene Idriss, a dermatologist and founder of Idriss Dermatology in New York City, has stricter recommendations for washing, regardless of how fine or oily hair is.

“When it comes to your scalp health, I do not regularly recommend washing your hair every day,” Dr. Idriss said, adding that it could lead “to irritation, inflammation and other scalp problems.”

Chemical treatments such as hair dyes and relaxers can make the hair shaft more prone to damage, Dr. Alam said. He recommended washing chemically treated hair two to three times a week.

Certain medications such as statins, antihistamines and diuretics, for example, may also increase skin and scalp dryness, Dr. Alam said. If you take them, he added, wash your hair with a gentle shampoo that contains moisturizers to prevent dryness and irritation.

It can also be helpful to use shampoo with warm instead of hot water, since lathering with hot water can remove too much oil from the scalp, Dr. Alam said.

“While it may seem that getting the scalp squeaky clean and without any oils is optimal, keep in mind that the scalp is a living part of your body, and not a dinner plate in your dishwasher,” Dr. Alam said.

Age can also dictate your shampooing schedule, Dr. Alam said. Sebum production is typically slow during early childhood, goes into overdrive during puberty, levels out during adulthood and slows down gradually after age 70. So if you are older, your scalp might be drier, and it may not require a daily scrub.

What to do if you exercise regularly
If you habitually work out and you’re an excessive sweater, Dr. Alam said, the salt from sweat can clog your pores and hair follicles. That may require a daily wash or rinse “to clean out the salt and secretions,” he said. “If you do not at least rinse your hair afterward, you can get inflammation of your hair follicles, which is called folliculitis, and pimples on your scalp.”

This becomes even more important if you have oily hair, Dr. Idriss said. You may need to wash it every day, she added, but you don’t always need to use shampoo.

“Alternating a shampoo wash with a water rinse every other day can help minimize stripping your scalp of oil,” Dr. Idriss said. And drenching your hair with plain water, she added, “can be enough to get you to the next day.”

If you just can’t skip the shampoo, Dr. Idriss said, opt for a mild formula that has “sulfate-free” or “gentle” claims on the label, and avoid hot water and excessive scrubbing, both of which can irritate the scalp.

As for drying, Dr. Alam recommended air drying whenever possible, “which is the least traumatic for your hair.”

If you wash your hair every day and your scalp is not irritated, your hair isn’t dry or brittle and you are not losing any hair, Dr. Alam said, “then keep doing what you are doing.”

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*MAESTRO FEDERICO LA MONT*

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