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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 25th 2024
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. People have been talking about banning TikTok for longer than they haven't – but it could finally be on its way People have been talking about banning TikTok almost as long as it existed. The app was launched under that name in 2017 – and by 2019, it was already banned in much of ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Editor's Note: Norman Eisen is a CNN legal analyst and editor of " Trying Trump: A Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial ." He served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the first impeachment and trial of then-President Donald Trump. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. There are two Donald Trump election interference ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
April 25 (UPI) -- Dozens of demonstrators participating in pro-Palestine protests at university campuses throughout the country were arrested Wednesday evening, as schools struggle to contain growing anger over the Israel- Hamas war. At least 34 arrests were made as of 9 p.m. local time at the University of Texas, Austin campus, while an unconfirmed number of arrests were made during a protest at the University of ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The Supreme Court gave states the power to regulate abortions. Unfortunately, the Biden administration didn't get the memo. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, returning the question of how to regulate abortion to the state level, 14 of those newly empowered states have essentially banned abortions, although with various exceptions. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court once again heard arguments ...
Source: usatoday.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
By voiding noncompete clauses, the Federal Trade Commission may open employment options for IT pros and push employers to reevaluate strategies for protecting intellectual property. The Federal Trade Commission has voted to prohibit for-profit US employers from enforcing noncompete clauses in employment agreements. The FTC decision is expected to have significant ramifications for the IT talent market. Experts ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Suggestions that a top Donald Trump associate has been cooperating in the Arizona fake electors criminal investigation may encourage others to flip, a legal expert said. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance was reacting to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announcing that 18 people, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump's former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows , have been indicted as ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
THURSDAY, April 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- As bird flu continues to spread among dairy cows in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it will start requiring testing of the animals if they are moved across state lines. The "USDA has identified [bird flu] spread between cows within the same herd, spread from cows to poultry, spread between dairies associated with cattle movements and ...
Source: healthday.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Tennessee became the latest state to allow teachers to carry firearms inside K-12 public schools after lawmakers vowed action in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Nashville last year. Aidan Hale, a former student, entered the Covenant School on March 27, 2023, and killed three nine-year-old children and three adults before police shot the 28-year-old dead. There have been at least 15 school shootings in the ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Investors balked at the costs, sending Meta shares tumbling in after-hours trading. Not everyone is on board with Mark Zuckerberg's AI enthusiasm. Meta shares took a post-earnings battering in after-hours trading despite reporting better-than-expected revenues as investors balked at its AI spending plans . On a conference call with analysts, Zuckerberg said he'd become "more ambitious and optimistic on AI" ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Surgeon Robert Montgomery assists in lowering the gene-edited pig kidney into patient Lisa Pisano's abdomen on April 12, 2024 (Joe CARROTTA/AFP) Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the second time, a hospital said Wednesday, celebrating an advance in animal-to-human organ transplants. The procedure at NYU Langone Health in New York was carried out in April ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
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Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to whoever was responsible for fatally shooting a bottlenose dolphin found riddled with bullets on a Louisiana beach last month. The dead juvenile dolphin was spotted by a person on March 13 on West Mae's Beach in Cameron Parish, according to a Tuesday statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also known as NOAA. The dolphin had ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis The world's 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested. In a sign of growing ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
About 4.3 million U.S. workers who previously didn't qualify for overtime pay could soon receive time-and-a-half for working more than 40 hours a week thanks to a new rule from the Biden administration. The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday unveiled a new rule that will extend overtime pay to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or $58,656 annually. Previously, only workers who made $684 or ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
With the top-ticket races already decided, Pennsylvanians voted sparsely, perhaps begrudgingly, in the primary this week. An unofficial and preliminary estimate from the USA TODAY Network put voter turnout at less than 30%, several percentage points lower than turnout for the 2020 presidential primary. Nearly a quarter-million Pennsylvanians also voted against both President Joe Biden and his likely Republican ...
Source: usatoday.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Google says its protest investigation is over after a second round of terminations Google has completed a second round of terminations linked to the anti-Israel demonstrations held at the tech giant's offices last week. After protesters took over Google's corporate offices in New York , Seattle and Sunnyvale, California, on April 16 in 10-hour sit-ins, the company fired 28 workers the next day. This week, they ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
A campaign finance watchdog on Wednesday filed a Federal Election Commission complaint accusing former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, affiliated political groups, and an accounting firm of violating U.S. law in a scheme "seemingly designed to obscure the true recipients of a noteworthy portion of Trump's legal bills." The Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center (CLC) said that "evidence appears to ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Another chapter in the scandal-plagued career of New York Republican George Santos sputtered to an end this week as he abandoned his independent bid for a U.S. House seat on Long Island. "I don't want to split the ticket and be responsible for handing the house to Dems," Santos wrote in a social media post . "Staying in this race all but guarantees a victory for the Dems." Santos won his election in New York's 3rd ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
LOS ANGELES — A cameraman for Megan Thee Stallion says he was forced to watch the hip-hop star have sex with another woman and then was unfairly fired after enduring a hostile work environment. A lawyer for the singer describes the suit as an attempt to get money that Megan will fight in court. The photographer, Emilio Garcia, said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that he was trapped ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Elementary school cafeterias will be allowed to continue serving flavored milk such as chocolate and strawberry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The Biden administration had initially floated a ban aimed at cutting consumption of added sugars by younger children. The decision is one of several changes now locked in by the department's Food and Nutrition Service to its sweeping update to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
For decades, academic research has shown staffing levels reliably predict the quality of care in nursing homes. A USA TODAY analysis shows many southern states have the lowest staffing levels. Nearly all nursing homes in America will have to hire more nurses and aides under a new rule released this week that mandates a minimum level of staffing , although the gap is significantly wider in many southern states. Just ...
Source: usatoday.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
The Supreme Court appeared prepared to side with Starbucks in its request to curtail the National Labor Relations Board's authority in determining whether fired union activists should get their jobs back in a case that was argued before the court Tuesday. The justices heard Starbucks's challenge to a federal district court's 2022 decision to order Starbucks to reinstate a group of seven baristas who claimed ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Despite higher interest rates last month, new home sales rose in March due to limited inventory of existing homes, according to analysis from the National Association of Home Builders . However, the pace of new home sales will be under pressure in April as mortgage rates moved above 7% this month, which is expected to moderate sales and increase the use of builder sales incentives this Spring. Sales of newly built, ...
Source: lbmjournal.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Kirk Johnsen unzipped his khaki tent and popped just his head out first. "They want to criminalize us," said the 38-year-old, who has been living in an encampment about two miles from the Supreme Court, which on Monday heard arguments on anti-camping laws in Oregon. The case could have sweeping implications for homeless encampments across the United States. The encampment where Johnsen lives is a small community in ...
Source: post-gazette.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor ("DOL") issued final rules which expand what it means to provide fiduciary "investment advice" under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA") and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). Though the final rules broaden the definition of "investment advice," the circumstances under which advice ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Gateway Pundit, the popular far-right blog, is filing for bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits alleging it promoted bogus claims about the 2020 election, its founder announced Wednesday — though he vowed to continue publishing. Since its launch in 2004, the site has become a prolific clearinghouse for conspiracy theories about the election, school shootings, and other topics, helping to funnel such flimsy stories ...
Source: washingtonpost.com