Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. Here’s a big question to get things going: is Europe facing “civilizational erasure”? The United States thinks so in its latest National Security Strategy. Also this week it was announced that, from July, all newborns in the US will receive $1,000. What’s the catch? And finally, a trip to the “Poultry Capital of the World” to learn about the miserable lives of broiler chickens, which could be heading to Swiss shelves as part of a tariff deal. The priorities in American security policy have ‘fundamentally shifted’ under Donald Trump, according to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ): Europe now plays only a ‘problematic supporting role’ for Washington. The NZZ was reacting to the publication of the US National Security Strategy. The 33-page document “paints a bleak picture of the situation …