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Top News Stories for Friday, April 26th 2024
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Uvalde parent Brett Cross has some words for Texas police, after their brutal crackdown on Texas university students protesting against Israel's war in Gaza. At the University of Texas at Austin Wednesday, more than 100 troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) showed up in full riot gear and military fatigues. They were deployed "at the direction of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, in order to prevent ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
O n Wednesday, Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to TikTok being banned in the U.S. if ByteDance, the app's Chinese-owned parent company, does not sell it within a year. Lawmakers are increasingly worried that the app could pose national security concerns to the U.S. if the Chinese government were to access data collected by the app. TikTok's CEO, Shou Zi Chew, spoke in front of ...
Source: time.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The Arizona state House of Representatives has passed a repeal of the 1864 territorial-era statute that banned abortion in nearly every circumstance. House Bill 2677 repeals the statute, which was re-implemented earlier this month by the state Supreme Court , whose conservative justices ruled that it was still in force absent federal protections for abortion that were ended when the federal Supreme Court overturned ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
A state grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday indicted Trump aide s including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and Boris Epshteyn, as well as s o-called "fake electors" who backed then-President Donald Trump in 2020, after a sprawling investigation into the alleged efforts to overturn 's win in the presidential election in the state. One month after the 2020 election, 11 Trump supporters convened at the Arizona GOP's ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
It must use it wisely S ince late February Russia's army has been creeping across eastern Ukraine. First the town of Avdiivka fell—Russia's biggest advance in almost a year. Next its soldiers occupied a series of villages farther west. Russia's progress is a reflection of its overwhelming advantage in firepower: on some parts of the front line, for every shell the Ukrainians have shot at Russian lines, the ...
Source: economist.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Commissioners voted 3-2 to revive net neutrality, which supporters said would prevent the internet from being intentionally blocked or slowed down. Opponents said the effort is unnecessary and violates the law. The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to reinstate net neutrality rules, bringing back Obama-era internet regulations that were abandoned in 2017. Commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of net ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The goal for a recent delivery of ATACMS, a coveted long-range missile system, is to put more pressure on Russian forces in eastern parts of occupied Ukraine. Ukrainian forces will be able to use a newly delivered, coveted long-range missile system to more effectively target Russian forces in occupied Crimea, senior Pentagon officials said on Thursday. After months of requests, Ukraine received a longer-range ...
Source: nytimes.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday seeking to block that prohibit workers from switching jobs within an industry. In a complaint filed in Texas federal court, the nation's largest business lobby argued that the antitrust and consumer protection agency lacks the authority to issue rules that define unfair methods of competition. The FTC Act, which ...
Source: abajournal.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Why it matters: Their actions, along with the recent flurry of union activity and a still-tight labor market, are helping swing the balance of power between capital and labor in the U.S. closer to workers Yes, but: Big legal hurdles could keep these new rules from taking effect. The big picture: There's an inherent imbalance of power between employers and the individual workers who serve at their discretion — ...
Source: axios.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The Campaign Legal Center watchdog is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate the payments immediately A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission has alleged that the Trump campaign and its related political committees have potentially violated federal law by concealing who is ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
UK and US leaders among those calling for release, as families renew pressure on Netanyahu to restart negotiations The leaders of 18 countries including the US and the UK have called on Hamas to free Israeli and dual-national hostages held in Gaza. "The fate of the hostages and the civilian population in Gaza , who are protected under international law, is of international concern," they said. "We strongly support ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Americans face potential tax surprise if Biden allows Trump-era law to expire President Biden vowed to let massive components of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire next year if he wins re-election, meaning that millions of Americans could soon face steeper tax bills. "Donald Trump was very proud of his $2 trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and biggest corporations and exploded the federal ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
"The United States assesses that Russia is developing a new satellite carrying a nuclear device." Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that. Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise. As one of the five permanent ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — The construction of a new port in Gaza and an accompanying U.S. military-built pier offshore are underway, but the complex plan to bring more desperately needed food to Palestinian civilians is still mired in fears over security and how the humanitarian aid will be delivered. The Israeli-developed port, for example, has already been attacked by mortar fire, sending high-ranking U.N. officials ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice Earlier this month, Brittany Thomas received a call that her 11-year-old daughter Janiyah had experienced a seizure at school. "She'd been seizure-free for about two years now," said Thomas, a resident of Flint, Michigan . "And they just came back." The call took Thomas back to April 2014, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip on Thursday increased the tally of bodies discovered in a mass grave on the grounds of a hospital to 392 from 283, amid conflicting accounts between Israel and Gaza authorities over how and when some of the bodies were buried. "This is the biggest mass grave since the beginning of the war," Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defense, a search and rescue department ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
ISTANBUL (AP) — A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders. The comments by Khalil al-Hayya in an interview Wednesday came amid a stalemate in months of talks ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
It's not often that candidates attack people who endorse them, but that happened on Wednesday night when Donald Trump fired off a rant aimed at Bill Barr . Trump noted that he's said a lot of mean things about his former attorney general. After the endorsement, however, the former president took back exactly one of those insults. "I called him 'Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy,'" Trump wrote in a ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Donald Trump 's latest effort to reverse his court-ordered $83.3 million payout to the writer E. Jean Carroll was rejected Thursday, leaving him on the hook for the damages she won in her defamation trial against him. The ruling comes in response to Trump's requests for a new trial and a reduced judgment against him in Carroll's defamation case, which she brought after Trump lied about sexually assaulting her. "Mr. ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
About 3.6 million Medicare enrollees may qualify for coverage of the anti-obesity drug Wegovy, according to a KFF analysis released Wednesday. But it could wind up costing Medicare nearly $3 billion a year and contribute to higher Part D premiums for all beneficiaries. Medicare announced last month that Part D drug plans could start covering Wegovy for beneficiaries who are overweight or obese and have a history of ...
Source: cnn.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