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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 29th 2025
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children to Honduras: a 4-year-old who was actively receiving treatment for a rare form of stage 4 cancer, his 7-year-old sister, and a 2-year-old girl who was separated from her father and expelled with her undocumented pregnant mother. The mothers were coerced into taking their U.S. citizen children and prohibited from communicating with other family ...
Source: democracynow.org
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has described his first 100 days in the White House in glowing terms, claiming the past three months have been some of the "best" in the modern era of presidential administrations — but poll after poll shows that most Americans disapprove of his actions and leadership style since taking office. In a recent interview with Time magazine about his time in the White House so far, Trump gave ...
Source: truthout.org
Palestinian envoy tells UN court Israel is killing Gaza civilians. Israel says it's being persecuted
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Palestinian diplomat told the United Nations' top court on Monday that Israel is killing and displacing civilians and targeting aid workers in Gaza, in a case that Israel criticized as part of its "systematic persecution and delegitimization." Israel denies deliberately targeting civilians and aid staff as part of its war with Hamas and did not attend the hearing at the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
While Biglaw's response to executive orders is at the center of the storm, this is a crossroads moment for everyone in the legal profession. Silence or passive compliance sends a message. So does courageous, principled resistance. Here are steps you can take to speak up and push back. President Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders in March 2025 targeting major law firms. These orders penalized certain ...
Source: attorneyatwork.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
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Source: bbc.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. 'I'm having a lot of fun, considering what I do,' says Trump of his second term as he says this time he runs the country and the world The president acknowledged that this time around, he is running 'the country and the world' President Donald Trump says he is "having a lot of fun" and he reflected on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress turn in earnest this week to their biggest challenge of Donald Trump's presidency: trying to bridge internal divisions over proposed cuts to Medicaid and popular green energy initiatives to pay for a landmark tax-cut bill they hope to enact by June. After a two-week recess marked by some heated encounters with constituents back home, Republican lawmakers in the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
DEA agents raided the club in Colorado Springs in the early hours of Sunday as Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration enforcement continues. More than 100 immigrants have been taken into custody following a federal raid at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado. Video posted online by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) showed agents announcing their presence outside the premises in Colorado Springs in ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
By Dan Levine and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven Democratic senators are asking the U.S. Justice Department for information about changes to its civil rights division made by President Donald Trump's administration including reassigning several career officials who had held leadership positions. The senators, all members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter dated on Friday to top ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump will sign executive orders the White House says will help law enforcement implement his sweeping deportation agenda by cracking down on places that restrict cooperation with immigration enforcement. "Later this afternoon, President Trump will sign an executive order on law and order and another executive order on sanctuary cities," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
Embattled Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar says he will step down on June 15, nearly three months after Israel's government voted for the first time ever to dismiss the head of the security agency. "My love for the homeland and my loyalty to the state are the foundation of every decision I have made in my professional life," Bar said at an event memorializing fallen Shin Bet agents. "So it is tonight as well." In his ...
Source: cnn.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
TORONTO (AP) — Canadians will decide Monday whether to extend the Liberal Party's decade in power or instead hand control to the Conservatives. They'll pick either Prime Minister Mark Carney or opposition leader Pierre Poilievre to lead the way forward, but the election is also a referendum of sorts on someone who isn't even Canadian: Donald Trump . Until the American president won a second term and began ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump is accused of having started a global trade war. That's wrong. The U.S. Congress is responsible for it, and only the U.S. Congress can stop it. If the core institution of American democracy cannot reassert its clear constitutional authority over U.S. trade policy, then the chaos of the past two months will continue for the next four years. Indeed, trade may ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Monday, Apr 28th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called out "do-nothing Democrats " in a speech on Sunday night and offered a contrasting viewpoint to California Governor Gavin Newsom , as the potential rivals lay the ground for 2028. Pritzker delivered the keynote address at the New Hampshire Democratic Party 's ...
Source: newsweek.com
Sunday, Apr 27th, 2025 -
Greenland's freshly elected prime minister begins his first official visit to Denmark on Sunday as US President Donald Trump eyes the Danish autonomous territory. Jens-Frederik Nielsen leads Greenland's new coalition government, after his centre-right Democrats party won a legislative election in March. It will be his first visit to Denmark since taking office. It also follows a visit to the Arctic territory ...
Source: digitaljournal.com