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Senior Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow

"Russian authorities have launched an investigation after a senior military officer was killed Friday after a vehicle exploded in the town of Balashikha in the Moscow region, the country's Investigative Committee of Russia said. Investigators said in a statement Friday that they had opened a criminal case into the death of Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik." ...

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Four States Have Asked USDA to Let Them Ban Soda, Candy From Food Assistance Program

April 24, 2025, at 4:41 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Republican states have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to let them ban soda, energy drinks and other food items from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, according to an agency spokesperson. President Donald Trump's administration has said it will hastily approve such waivers submitted by states as part of its agenda to "Make America Healthy Again," a slogan popularized by health ...

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Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks

Thu, April 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT The State Department is eliminating the Office of Global Change, which oversees international climate change negotiations for the United States. Staff were told about the move verbally Thursday afternoon, according to three people who were granted anonymity to speak about the decision to avoid reprisal. The news thrust the office into chaos and raised questions among staff about when the office would be permanently shuttered. “This will hamstring internatio ...

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Trump administration replaces lawyers in NYC congestion pricing challenge

April 24, 2025 4:37 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is replacing lawyers in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan after they accidentally filed an internal government letter that cast significant doubt on the Transportation Department's effort to kill New York's congestion pricing program in New York, a government spokesperson said. Lawyers for the U.S. Attorney's Office erroneously filed an April 11 letter late on Wednesday that said it ...

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US emergency agency plan requires nearly all staff to be deployed, draft memo shows

April 24, 2025 7:05 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that manages disasters plans to require nearly all employees, including full-time headquarters and regional staff, to be deployed to emergency zones, according to a draft memo to agency employees seen by Reuters. This spring, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will assign all full-time employees roles in leading, managing and supporting disaster response and recovery, according to the draft me ...

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Experiments to dim the sun given green light

Research into whether the sun could be dimmed to combat global warming will be given the go-ahead by the government within weeks and £50 million is expected to be spent on experiments and analysis. The geo-engineering techniques that will be explored include spraying aerosolised particles high into the stratosphere to deflect a small fraction of the sun’s energy away from the Earth. Early modelling studies have suggested that this may cool the planet relatively cheaply. Advocates have pointed ...

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Trump scraps $3.8B contract for immigrant detention camp -- days after issuing it

April 24, 2025 12:57PM ET In an unusual move, the administration of President Donald Trump has canceled a $3.8 billion contract to build an immigrant detention camp in Fort Bliss, Texas, just days after issuing it. That doesn’t mean the job won’t go forward. Sources told ProPublica the administration still intends to move ahead with the plan to build a tent detention camp at Fort Bliss. A site visit for interested contractors took place on Wednesday. The job promises to be highly sought afte ...

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DOJ accidentally files document outlining flaws with Trump administration's plan to kill NYC congestion pricing

April 24, 2025, 12:52 PM Lawyers with the Department of Justice accidentally filed a document overnight that outlined a series of legal flaws with the Trump administration's plan to kill New York City's congestion pricing tolls. In an 11-page letter to the Department of Transportation, lawyers with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York wrote that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy's attempt to terminate congestion pricing faces "considerable litigation risk ...

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Trump administration says it sent 4 alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador despite court order

The Trump administration is acknowledging it deported four noncitizens to El Salvador despite a court order barring the removal of people to countries other than their place of origin without an opportunity to raise concerns about their safety. In a series of court filings overnight, Justice Department lawyers argued that the court order was not violated because the removal of four alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was carried out by the Department of Defense -- not the Depa ...

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States could lose infrastructure funding over immigration, DEI: Transportation secretary

04/24/25 2:44 PM ET Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned states Thursday that they will lose federal funding for roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects if they continue to foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs; impede President Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts; or defy other directives from the administration. “Federal grants come with a clear obligation to adhere to federal laws,” Duffy said in a statement released alongside a letter that he sent to all ...

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Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations

45 min ago - April 25, 2025, 1:18 p.m. ET The Trump administration on Friday abruptly walked back its cancellation of more than 1,500 student visas held by international students, announcing a dramatic shift by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a court h ... (New York Times)

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile prepare to raise prices on consumers because of Trump's trade war

53 min ago - Fri, April 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM EDT The smartphone ecosystem has avoided the biggest brunt of President Trump's tariffs, for now. But if that for now ends, major phone carriers appear poised to dump the higher costs of smartphones onto the laps of co ... (Yahoo! Finance)

George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in federal fraud case

1 hr ago - April 25, 2025, 12:10 PM Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison -- the maximum -- in a New York federal court on Friday after pleading guilty to a series of fraudulent schemes. Santos, 36, wa ... (ABC News)

Fears of racial profiling swirl over registration policy for immigrants in the US illegally

2 hrs ago - Updated 12:02 AM EDT, April 25, 2025 PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration’s plan to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation is stirring up fears of heightened racial profiling ... (AP)

Michele Fiore is 3rd Scientologist Trump has pardoned (that we know of)

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Trump Appears Unaware Supreme Court Ruled 9-0 Against Him: 'That's Not What My People Told Me'

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FBI arrests Wisconsin Judge Dugan for obstruction, escalates Trump immigration enforcement effort

3 hrs ago - Published Fri, Apr 25 2025 10:37 AM EDT Updated 4 Min Ago Federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday after she allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said. Patel announced in an X post that Milwaukee ... (CNBC)

Product shortages and empty store shelves loom with falling shipments from China

3 hrs ago - April 25, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT Retailers are warning that U.S. consumers could once again be faced with empty store shelves and the kind of supply chain snarls that marked the Covid era if President Donald Trump's tariffs on China remain at their curren ... (NBC News)

Indiana Republicans take aim at public universities

4 hrs ago - Republican lawmakers dismantled several key tenets of the public higher education system, including tenure, with language slipped into the state budget bill at the last minute. -snip- State of play: Provisions eroding tenure and shared governance &#1 ... (Axios)

ICE to spend up to $45 billion on contractors for immigrant detention, deportation

4 hrs ago - April 25, 2025, 6:04 a.m. ET The Trump administration is preparing to dramatically escalate the number of private contractors it uses to help track, manage, detain and deport people living illegally in the United States, with an eye-popping potential ... (USA Today)

Hegseth's Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities, Analysts Say

4 hrs ago - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal phone number, the one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on the internet and public apps as recently as March, potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign adversaries. The ... (NYT)

US universities help foreign students weather Trump deportations

4 hrs ago - April 25 (Reuters) - From warnings not to leave the country to guidance on how to complete degrees, U.S. universities are advising foreign students how to withstand President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. First immigration agents arrested stu ... (Reuters)

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols still standing across the U.S., report says

4 hrs ago - April 24, 2025 / 10:02 PM EDT More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Of those symbols, 685 are Confederate monuments, the n ... (CBS News)

Swiss National Bank chairman rebuffs bitcoin as reserve asset

4 hrs ago - BERN, April 25 (Reuters) - The head of the Swiss National Bank said on Friday that cryptocurrencies failed to meet the institution's currency reserve standards, rebuffing calls by crypto advocates that it hold bitcoin as a hedge against growing globa ... (Reuters)

California passes Japan as fourth largest economy

5 hrs ago - 10 hours ago California's economy has overtaken that of the country of Japan, making the US state the fourth largest global economic force. Governor Gavin Newsom touted new data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the US Bureau of Economic ... (BBC)

UNRWA not immune from lawsuits in US, DoJ says, arguing Oct. 7 victims' suit can go ahead

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Trump says 'Crimea will stay with Russia' as he seeks end to war in Ukraine

5 hrs ago - Updated 8:10 AM EDT, April 25, 2025 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that "Crimea will stay with Russia," the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the war ... (AP)

Crowd turns rowdy at U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts' town hall in Kearney

6 hrs ago - MIKE KONZ Kearney Hub Apr 24, 2025 Updated 4 hrs ago KEARNEY, Neb. — A crowd of nearly 250 told U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts on Thursday what they think about President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Republican majorities in the U.S. House and Senat ... (Omaha World Herald)

Reproductive health group, ACLU sue Trump administration over Title X funding

6 hrs ago - 04/24/25 7:59 PM ET One of the country’s largest reproductive health advocacy groups is suing the Trump administration for withholding millions of dollars in federal family planning grants earlier this year. The National Family Planning and Re ... (The Hill)

Senior Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow

6 hrs ago - "Russian authorities have launched an investigation after a senior military officer was killed Friday after a vehicle exploded in the town of Balashikha in the Moscow region, the country's Investigative Committee of Russia said. Investigators said in ... (NBC News)