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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 30th 2025
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
Trump dice que podría liberar a Abrego Garcia de El Salvador, pero que no lo hará La declaración de Trump debilitó las declaraciones anteriores de sus principales asesores y son una señal clara de la intención de su gobierno de redoblar la apuesta y desafiar a los tribunales. El presidente Donald Trump, cuyo gobierno ha insistido en que no tiene la capacidad de regresar a ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2025 -
and a sometime antagonist, Michigan Gov. , reflect the Democratic governor's efforts to move past last year's hard-fought campaign and find common ground with the Republican president — at risk of political backlash. Whitmer, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, shared a hug with Trump as he arrived in her home state on Tuesday, less than a month after she shielded her face from cameras during an It's ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
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 -
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 -
April 30 (UPI) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court has temporarily removed a state judge who was arrested last week on allegations of helping an undocumented migrant evade capture. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was effectively temporarily suspended from her duties on Tuesday, according to an order from the state's high court. "[I]n order to uphold the public's confidence in the courts of this state during ...
Source: upi.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 -
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 -
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 -
Meta Platforms is launching a stand-alone artificial intelligence app and taking on ChatGPT maker OpenAI as the AI race intensifies. The news confirms previous CNBC reporting from February, citing sources familiar with the matter. Meta's debut of a stand-alone Meta AI app follows similar efforts by Google and Elon Musk's xAI. In this article Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
CHATHAM, Ill. (AP) — A crash through an after-school building in a small city outside of Springfield, Illinois, that killed three children and a teenager and left several others injured isn't believed to be a targeted attack, authorities said Tuesday. The car left the road for unknown reasons, traveled through a field and into the side of the building in Chatham on Monday afternoon, Illinois State Police said ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
By Florida is on the verge of banning local governments from adding fluoride to tap water, ending decades of a practice that's hailed by dentists and medical groups but under fire from top health officials in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. The Florida House on Tuesday passed a farm bill that includes a ban on fluoridation of drinking water under a provision that creates new restrictions on what local governments ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Husband of Kamala Harris calls move political and decries turning historical atrocity into 'a wedge issue' The Trump administration has fired several members of the US Holocaust Memorial Council appointed by Joe Biden , including Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris . Emhoff described the move as a political decision that turned "one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue". He said he had been ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
At a markup session held by a U.S. House committee on the Republican Party's recently unveiled higher education reform bill Tuesday, one Democratic lawmaker had a succinct description for the legislation. "This bill is a dream-killer," said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) of the so-called Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan, which was introduced by Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
A top Senate Democrat accused Ed Martin Monday of dodging or giving false answers to questions by a committee weighing his nomination as President Donald Trump's pick to serve as U.S. attorney for D.C. — such as by claiming he hadn't seen photographs of a man he praised who had posed as Adolf Hitler and made statements supporting Nazi ideology. Sen. Dick Durbin (Illinois), the top Democrat on the Judiciary ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Reddit responded on April 28 to news that a group of researchers had conducted a secret experiment using artificial intelligence chatbots in one of its most popular forums. The actions of those involved in the experiment have raised questions about whether deception is ever justified when conducting research on human subjects. A team of unnamed researchers at the University of Zurich conducted an unauthorized, ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
The media organization said the White House emailed three of the company's five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of the company's board. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, the media organization said the White ...
Source: nytimes.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 -
– It took well over a century for the to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian's Wall in northern England. It took less than three minutes to cut it down in an "act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage," a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. Grainy black and white video of the tree's dramatic felling on Sept. 28, 2023 in ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 -
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) announced her campaign for Senate in Minnesota on Tuesday, becoming a top contender to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) at the end of next year. The 53-year-old congresswoman cited disarray in President Donald Trump 's administration as reasons for jumping into the race, including Trump's efforts to profit off the presidency and his and billionaire Elon Musk's ...
Source: huffpost.com