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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 30th 2025
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (AP) — Una coalición de sobrevivientes de abusos sexuales por parte del clero exigió el miércoles que los cardenales que participen en el cónclave para elegir a un sucesor de Francisco elijan a un papa que adopte una política de tolerancia cero universal contra las agresiones y que no tenga antecedentes en el manejo de estos casos. El grupo End Clergy ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
As many as 96% of enterprises are interested in deploying AI agents, but fears around data privacy, integration, and data quality may spoil the party. Research suggests almost everyone wants an AI agent -- they're the coolest thing since sliced data. But what exactly are these agents doing within enterprises? In many cases, their job may be to help build even more agents. In most instances, agents help IT ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — First came their much-analyzed Oval Office moment. Next, their subject-to-interpretation hug. The two interactions between President Donald Trump and a sometime antagonist, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer , reflect the Democratic governor's efforts to move past last year's hard-fought campaign and find ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
By April 30 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Tuesday to ease his tariffs targeting automobile and auto part imports, marking another drastic reversal of his tariff policy amid domestic industry concerns. The executive orders modify the 25% tariffs imposed earlier this month on automobile imports by removing additional tariffs that Trump had imposed on imported aluminum and steel. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday announced the department would eliminate an initiative created to increase women's participation in national security spaces, despite the program's bipartisan support from Congress and full backing from President Donald Trump. The bill establishing the Women, Peace and Security program was co-sponsored by two Trump Cabinet officials: Department of Homeland Security ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Imagine being able to access the internet from anywhere in the world, whether you're in a city or a remote area. For many of us, reliable internet is a given, but for millions, it remains a luxury. That's why Amazon's Project Kuiper is making headlines with its ambitious plan to bridge the digital divide. On April 28, 2025, the project took a monumental step forward by successfully launching its first full ...
Source: foxnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
News ) President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday to target sanctuary jurisdictions for violating, obstructing, and defying federal immigration laws, and bolster immigration enforcement by "empowering State and local law enforcement to firmly police dangerous criminal behavior and protect innocent citizens." The first order, titled "Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens," begins by ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. The U.S. is holding discussions "at multiple levels" with India and Pakistan, including contacts between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his counterparts, as Washington seeks to pull the nuclear-armed rivals back from the brink of war. Why It Matters Tensions reached crisis point after the Pahalgam ...
Source: newsweek.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over the fate of the nation's first religious charter school, in Oklahoma, which seeks to use government money to teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine. In earlier cases from ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended a county judge from performing her duties after she was charged with helping a migrant from Mexico briefly evade arrest. In a two-page order, the court barred Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan from exercising her powers as a judge for the time being. No dissents were noted from the state's high court, where liberals hold a 4-3 majority. The ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump marked 100 days of his second term on Tuesday. And it's been a lot. The Post's team has published all kinds of content looking at what he's done and what's ahead . You can see the big stuff in chart form here . But in this space, we focus on the politics. And of late, that's involved tracking fast-changing opinions about Trump and what he's doing. So for Trump's 100th day, we decided to take ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
UPS said Tuesday that it expects to cut 20,000 jobs this year and close 73 buildings in the next two months, as the company reduces its business with Amazon and faces wider economic uncertainty. The shipping giant said in its first quarter earnings news release that the moves were expected to save $3.5 billion this year, and were being conducted "in connection with our anticipation of lower volumes from our largest ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals acknowledged Wednesday the definitive word is still out about the Vatican trial that convicted Cardinal Angelo Becciu of financial crimes, in the latest twist to a drama that has dominated conversations leading up to the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor. Becciu, 76, is the once-powerful Italian cardinal who formally withdrew his participation in the ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Britain's military launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Tuesday with US forces, its defense ministry said – the first public acknowledgment of a joint operation since the Trump administration escalated the US campaign against the militant group. The strikes targeted "a cluster of buildings" south of the capital Sanaa used by Houthis to manufacture drones, which the group uses to attack ships ...
Source: cnn.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
A coalition of two dozen states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Tuesday, accusing Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service of unlawfully dismantling AmeriCorps, which describes itself as the country's "only federal agency for community service and volunteerism." In a news release, the coalition said the administration's 90 percent reduction in AmeriCorps' workforce has hampered "the agency's ability ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Teenager held on suspicion of killings after incident at hair salon in university city north of Stockholm, say prosecutors A 16-year-old has been detained on suspicion of shooting and killing three people in the city of Uppsala, according to Sweden's prosecution authority. "An intensive investigation is underway. We are now gathering information and the police are conducting door-to-door inquiries and interviewing ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced expansions of HPE Aruba Networking and HPE GreenLake cloud to help enterprises modernize secure connectivity and hybrid cloud operations by blending multi-layered and zero trust approaches to protect against threats. These new expansions include: New cloud-based access control security capabilities of HPE Aruba Networking Central, which accelerate enterprise-grade zero trust ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
The health secretary is set to have ample opportunity to exert his influence, if he chooses to do so Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on It's been less than three months since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the U.S. health secretary and already there have been many signs the longtime critic ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
JB Pritzker greeted Rep. Maggie Goodlander with a joke. Answering his own question about how the New Hampshire congresswoman's first few months in office have been, the Illinois governor laughed: "Awful, right?" But the conversation immediately became a mini-huddle about the debates they've each been having with friends at law firms over conceding to President Donald Trump 's demands and the conversation Pritzker ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Karoline Leavitt had blasted the purported decision by Amazon at a Tuesday morning presser Amazon on Tuesday denied a report that the e-commerce giant would soon display how much President Donald Trump's tariffs will add to the cost of each item for sale on its site after the White House called the reported move a "hostile and political act." "The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store considered the ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney 's Liberals fell short of winning an outright majority in Parliament on Tuesday, a day after the party scored a stunning comeback victory in a vote widely seen as a rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump. The vote-counting agency Elections Canada finished processing nearly all ballots in an election that could leave the Liberals just three seats shy of a ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The company unveiled a stand-alone Meta AI app on Tuesday, coinciding with LlamaCon, its first AI developer event. Meta AI's app gives users access to an AI assistant, similar to other AI apps like OpenAI's ChatGPT app. Meta's main pitch to users is that its new AI assistant app, which is built on Meta's latest Ahead of the app's arrival, Meta onboarded creators so the feed wasn't a content desert and also sought ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Crew members jump out of Super Hornet before jet and towing tractor fall into the Red Sea US sailors had to leap for their lives when a fighter jet fell off a navy aircraft carrier that was reportedly making evasive maneuvers to avoid Houthi militant fire in the Red Sea on Monday. The F/A-18 fighter Super Hornet jet, along with the vehicle towing it into place on the deck of the USS Harry S Truman, rolled right out ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The Philadelphia Eagles visited the White House on Monday to celebrate their Super Bowl LIX championship alongside President Donald Trump. But the absence of several players at the gathering, including Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts , has caused a stir online. A " schedule conflict " reportedly kept Hurts from attending, according to a White House official. Ahead of the team's visit, the star athlete dodged answering ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Four people were killed, including children, and several others were injured after a vehicle crashed through a building hosting an after-school camp in Illinois, striking multiple people inside and outside the structure. The crash took place about 3:20 p.m. Monday in the small town of Chatham, about 12 miles south of the state capital, Springfield. Two 7-year-olds, an 8-year-old and an 18-year-old were killed, ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
LONDON — President Donald Trump is pushing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war, threatening to walk away if a deal becomes too difficult — and causing alarm bells in Europe about how to fill the gap. Ukraine's European allies view the war as fundamental to the continent's security, and pressure is now mounting to find ways to support Kyiv militarily — regardless of whether Trump ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The assessment, mandated by Congress, is used by federal and local governments to prep for climate disasters Donald Trump 's administration has dismissed all contributors to the US government's flagship study on how to prepare for climate change impacts , prompting strong criticism from experts over a "senseless" move. The climate assessment is used by federal and local governments to understand how to prepare for ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Jose Castro, 41, was the sole person killed after a boater struck the ferry from behind, injuring about 10 others. Ferry rides had only recently become a pastime for Jose Castro, who enjoyed the cheap tickets and relaxing ride after long shifts as a U.S. Postal Service worker, relatives said. That turned tragic Sunday. Castro, 41, was the sole person killed aboard a Clearwater ferry that was plowed from behind by ...
Source: tampabay.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Back in college, my beloved LED star string lights from Ikea made my dorm room a total vibe . When guests left, those lights were all they could talk about. However, Ikea stopped selling those specific lights by the time mine died (for good). I searched Google and Amazon for similar lights for a couple of years before letting them go, bummed that these lights I loved would be just a blast from the past. ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is poised to become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over the concerns of dentists and public health advocates who say the mineral is a safe, effective way to protect people of all ages from developing cavities. Florida lawmakers gave final approval to the bill Tuesday after Utah became the first state to pass a ban last month. The Republican-led ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has fired former second gentleman Doug Emhoff from the board that oversees the Holocaust Museum. "Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council," Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a vice president, said in a statement Tuesday. "Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday. These chemicals, known as phthalates (pronounced tha-lates), were responsible for more than 350,000 deaths worldwide in 2018, researchers found. About 75 percent of the deaths were in Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Consumer confidence declined for fifth consecutive month in April Consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in nearly five years in April as concerns about tariffs and trade uncertainty weighed on the economic outlook. The Conference Board said Tuesday its consumer confidence index fell 7.9 points to 86 in April, which is the lowest reading since May 2020. Economists polled by Reuters had projected the index ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Republican lawmakers on Monday introduced a proposal to overhaul the nation's student loan system, including eliminating a popular repayment plan that had helped millions save money on their debt payments. The proposal, which was released by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, would save more than $330 billion, according to a statement by Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, a Republican from ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
A federal judge blasted the Trump administration's termination of immigration records for thousands of foreign students in the United States as "arbitrary and capricious," demanding that the government provide detailed explanations as to why and how the records were terminated and what this means for students. "I think we all agree it was arbitrary and capricious," Judge Ana Reyes said about the Trump ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
U.S. employers posted 7.2 million vacancies in March, down from 7.5 million in February and 8.1 million in March 2024, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. It was the fewest number of openings since September and below the 7.5 million that economists had forecast. But the department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary also showed that the number of Americans quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
April 29 (UPI) -- Mexico has agreed to immediately transfer water to the United States and increase the U.S. share of water flow from their shared rivers, after the Trump administration threatened its southern neighbor with tariffs if it did not fulfill its end of a water-sharing agreement. The United States and Mexico announced the agreement in separate statements on Monday. The 1944 Water Treaty between the two ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
April 29 (UPI) -- Israel's head of domestic intelligence, Ronan Bar, announced his resignation five weeks after his firing by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was immediately blocked by the Supreme Court . "After 35 years of service, in order to allow an orderly process for appointing a permanent successor and for professional handover, I will end my role on June 15," Bar said Monday at a memorial event for the ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Ed Martin's Senate testimony contradicts multiple podcast interviews with Nazi sympathizer Ed Martin, the Trump-nominated prosecutor who apologized last week for his past praise of a Nazi sympathizer , is facing fresh congressional scrutiny over his claim that he wasn't aware of the full extent of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli's antisemitic views and conduct. Newly surfaced videos and podcasts suggest Martin may have ...
Source: forward.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The antisemitism task force's report contrasted with one focused on anti-Palestinian bias Harvard released two reports Tuesday that describe widely divergent views of campus life over the past two years, with students on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict describing incidents of discrimination and alienation at the nation's most prestigious university. The highly anticipated report with findings from ...
Source: forward.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion Reddit users who were unwittingly subjected to an AI-powered experiment have hit back at scientists for conducting research on them without permission – and have sparked a wider debate about such experiments. The ...
Source: newscientist.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit organization created by Congress that provides funding to public broadcasters such as NPR and PBS, sued the Trump administration Tuesday after the president attempted to fire three of its board members. In its complaint, filed in federal district court in D.C., the CPB and the three board members — Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman and Diane Kaplan — said ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
New research identifies 56 risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest and finds up to 63% of cases might be avoidable. Drinking white wine and Champagne, eating more fruit and keeping waistlines slim could reduce the risk of sudden cardiac arrest, according to a new study. Experts have suggested thousands of cardiac arrests could be prevented by tackling health and lifestyle issues. They found a higher ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The results from an ambitious cancer study are giving hope that immunotherapy drugs alone can treat some gastrointestinal tumors, eliminating the need for severe, life-altering surgeries and other harsh therapies. For as long as cancer treatment has existed, "cutting it out has been the best way to cure it," said Luis Diaz, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Protesters opposing possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in public schools demonstrate on the steps of the State Department of Education during their monthly board meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. January 28, 2025. REUTERS/Nick Oxford Immigration agents gave a mother less than two minutes to decide the fate of her children – one of whom is a 2-year-old U.S. citizen – before ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The federal government has opened an investigation into the Harvard Law Review "based on reports of race-based discrimination permeating the operations of the journal," according to an from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At issue is whether the law review's policies for membership and article selection violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on race, color and ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — A prosecutor said Tuesday that two men embarked on a "moronic mission" to cut down the famous Sycamore Gap tree in northern England in an "act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage." The tree, revered for its symmetrical perch between two hills along ancient Hadrian's Wall, was cut down in the early hours of Sept. 28, 2023, damaging the stone wall as it crashed to the ground. Although the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Angie Craig on Tuesday became the latest Minnesota Democrat to enter the increasingly competitive race for a U.S. Senate seat currently held by the retiring Sen. Tina Smith. In her launch video , Craig vows to "break through the chaos" and fight back against "a president trampling our rights and freedoms as he profits for personal gain, and a cowardly Republican Party rolling over ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The Google Threat Intelligence Group today released its annual 2024 zero-day trends report, surprisingly finding that there was a reduction in zero-day threats exploited in the wild last year despite a long-term upward trend. A zero-day threat is a type of cyberattack that targets a software vulnerability unknown to the maker of the software or product and because it's unknown, no patch or fix is available at the ...
Source: siliconangle.com