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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 2nd 2025
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Donald Trump is expected to impose tariffs on "all countries" from Wednesday but Downing Street has admitted its negotiations have so far not managed to halt them. Sir Keir Starmer has said US-UK trade talks are "well advanced" ahead of tariffs expected to be imposed by Donald Trump on the UK this week - but rejected a "knee-jerk" response. Speaking to Sky News political editor Beth Rigby , the prime minister said ...
Source: news.sky.com
Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is at stake in race that's drawn powerful political interests
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
MADISON, Wis. – Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday against a Democratic-aligned challenger. Republicans including Trump and the world's wealthiest person, , lined up behind , a former state attorney general. Democrats like former President Barack Obama and billionaire megadonor George Soros backed , a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power and and to ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is for two reasons. First, prior to Roosevelt's election to a third term in 1940 there was a longstanding American tradition that presidents not serve more than two terms. This tradition was established by the decisions of early presidents such as George Washington , Thomas Jefferson and James ...
Source: theconversation.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Paris, France – On Sunday, an opinion poll predicted that Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of the French far right, would secure up to 37 percent of votes in the 2027 presidential election, more than 22 points higher than in 2022 and 10 points ahead of any other candidate. The "page has definitely turned", said Frederic Dabi, the head of pollster Ifop Opinion. He saw the poll as confirmation that Le Pen's ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Consejos para viajar a EE. UU.: presta atención a tu visa y apaga el celular Con el aumento de noticias sobre viajeros a los que se niega la entrada, es fundamental saber qué puede provocar un escrutinio adicional. Esto es lo que debes saber. En los aeropuertos y fronteras terrestres de todo el país, los turistas y otros visitantes que llegan a Estados Unidos han informado de que se han visto ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The Democrat broke the record for longest speech in Senate history on Tuesday night Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said as he began speaking on the Senate floor Monday night that he intended to disrupt "the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able," citing his belief that "our nation is in crisis." He wasn't kidding. Booker spoke through the night and into Tuesday morning. He ...
Source: rollingstone.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
We're still in the early days of AI adoption and promises abound of how it will revolutionize PR. Raquel P of Propellernet cuts through the noise by focusing on the small, critical ways the tech can help with everyday work. Open your LinkedIn right now and you'll see AI hyped as the ultimate PR game-changer, streamlining media monitoring, automating press releases, and optimizing campaigns with a few mystical ...
Source: thedrum.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
OpenAI has made its ChatGPT 4o image-generator tool available to everyone. In a post on X on March 31, the company's CEO Sam Altman said the AI image generation tool has "now rolled out to all free users!" The image generator has been in the news recently as people have been using it to generate images in the style of Studio Ghibli animation. The rush to use the image-generation feature in ChatGPT ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement: "Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crime and ...
Source: justice.gov
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
– The final U.S. soldier who has been found dead, bringing to an end a massive weeklong search for the four service members whose armored vehicle was pulled from a swampy training area, the U.S. military said Tuesday. were recovered Monday after U.S., Polish and Lithuanian armed forces and authorities dug the M88 Hercules vehicle out of a peat bog at the expansive Gen. Silvestras Žukauskas training ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, D. C. - House Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly adjourned the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday after losing a procedural vote that would have blocked consideration of a measure letting new parents vote by proxy in the legislative body. U.S. Rep. Max Miller of Bay Village, who has a one-year-old daughter , was the only Ohioan among nine Republicans who joined with Democrats in a 222 to 206 vote ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an "administrative error" and an "oversight" resulted in a Salvadoran man's deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director Robert Cerna said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was removed from the U.S. on March 15 as part of a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The Trump administration's plan to claw back about $11 billion in federal money previously allocated to the states for public health, mental health, and addiction services is unlawful, 23 states and the District of Columbia said in a new lawsuit Tuesday. The complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island said the cuts the US Department of Health and Human Services announced on March 24 ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The Save Act is aimed at cutting rare instances noncitizens vote – by making voter registration more difficult The myth that noncitizens are voting in large numbers in US elections wasn't quashed with Donald Trump's victory last year. Instead, a Republican bill that would make voting more difficult for millions of eligible US voters based on this false premise is expected to come up for a vote this week. The ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The fire department in Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble 91 hours after being buried when ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the government. At the National Institutes of Health , the world's leading ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal on Wednesday could be the biggest gaming news of the year. After surprising everyone with a teaser of the new console back in January , Nintendo will hopefully give some more details about the Switch 2, such as how much it'll cost, what games are coming out and when it will launch . Nintendo has kept details about the Switch 2 under wraps since January. What is known is that the ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The Trump administration has sought to punish universities financially, saying they have not done enough to combat antisemitism or comply with other administration priorities. The Trump administration moved this week to suspend dozens of federal grants to Princeton University, the fourth Ivy League school that has seen its financial support from Washington reduced or explicitly threatened since March. Christopher ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Washington — President Trump's string of executive orders in recent weeks that target major law firms mark the latest front in his effort to settle long-held scores with political opponents. But the broadside has been met with alarm about the damage the punishments could do to the viability of the firms and, crucially, the threat they pose to the rule of law. The executive orders signed by Mr. Trump have so ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The quandary over the Yankees' new technology is solvable, but first MLB must take it on the chin and usher in a temporary ban n its brief moment of fame, the torpedo bat has made quite the impression in MLB. Over the weekend, the New York Yankees used the bat, designed by an MIT-educated professor, as an instrument of destruction against the hapless Milwaukee Brewers. Since then, I've heard about the bats so often ...
Source: theguardian.com
Supreme Court appears to favor Catholic charities group's quest for state unemployment tax exemption
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared to side with a group of Catholic charities in northern Wisconsin that sought a religious exemption from the state's unemployment tax. During oral arguments, the justices appeared to support the idea that Catholic Charities Bureau and its subsidiary entities were entitled to the same exemption that Wisconsin provides to churches, religious schools and groups operated ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
President Trump's chaotic tariff policies continue to rock U.S. stock markets , which just ended their worst quarter in years . But for some investors, all of this uncertainty has a big gold lining. The price of gold has been hitting all-time highs this week, as investors snap up something that's often seen as a safe haven. Early Tuesday, gold futures hit a new record price of $3,177 per ounce, before falling back ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Live Nation said it stops over 200 million bots a day The head of one of the biggest companies in entertainment is praising the administration's move to cut down on price-gouging that has proliferated in the concert industry. Live Nation Entertainment Inc. CEO Michael Rapino thanked the administration for "taking ticket scalping head-on," saying the order will protect American consumers and artists. The ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Monday night, sending four amateur astronauts on an unprecedented journey around Earth's poles. The mission is traveling where no crew has gone before, and SpaceX just revealed the first views of the planet's chilly polar regions from above. SpaceX released a short video taken from the Dragon crew vehicle, showcasing the incredible view from the freshly launched Fram2 mission. "First ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Over recent years, the "Tush Push" has become a virtually unstoppable play for the Philadelphia Eagles . The short-range play, which involves the whole offensive outfit pushing the quarterback a few yards, has been a key element in the Eagles' success of late , helping the team win the Super Bowl this past season. But could we have seen the last of the "Brotherly Shove"? The future of the play could be decided on ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
TikTok users may be experiencing some déjà vu this week. The popular short-form video app's future is once again uncertain as a potential ban in the United States could be just days away. TikTok's parent company ByteDance is on the hook to sell the app's US operations by April 5, after President Donald Trump extended the deadline in January, or face a ban in the United States. What happens on — ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Paige Bueckers and her UConn teammates didn't cut down the net after securing a trip to the Final Four, even though a ladder was set up and ready to go. The reason was simple: The Huskies aren't done yet. Bueckers carried UConn to their record 24th national semi-final in the women's NCAA Tournament , scoring 31 points on Monday night in a 78-64 victory over Southern California, which couldn't overcome the loss of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Taipei, Taiwan — The Chinese military announced large-scale drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Tuesday that include an aircraft carrier battle group, as it again warned the self-ruled island democracy against seeking formal independence. The joint exercises involve navy, air ground and rocket forces and are meant to be a "severe warning and forceful containment against Taiwan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The bodies of Red Crescent and UN workers, missing for around eight days, have been found buried under sand in a mass grave. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has denied killing innocent medical workers. The father of a paramedic killed by Israel in Gaza has told Sky News he would have been on the mission to rescue wounded colleagues, but was ill that day and so his son went instead. "It was supposed to be me, you ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on Boeing's Starliner again. SpaceX recently ferried the duo home after more than nine months at the International Space Station, filling in for Boeing that returned to Earth without them last ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Find out how to provide OpenAI with your input about its upcoming open language model, which Sam Altman stated will be a "reasoning" model like OpenAI o1. Developers have the opportunity to weigh in on OpenAI's latest project. On March 31, the AI giant published applications for feedback sessions on an upcoming open language model, the second such model since OpenAI's LLMs went private after GPT-2. It will be ...
Source: techrepublic.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The major car companies say sales rose sharply in March, with most reporting double-digit gains. For some companies, the strong performance last month helped make up for a sluggish start to the year. Automakers sold nearly 1.6 million vehicles in the U.S. in March, up 13.6%. That brought total sales for the first quarter to more than 3.9 million vehicles, Motorintelligence.com said Tuesday. ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Members of President Trump's National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three US officials. The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writers Hooters is going bust. The U.S. restaurant chain, known for chicken wings and its skimpy "Hooters Girls" wait-staff outfits , has filed for bankruptcy protection. HOA Restaurant Group filed the motion for Chapter 11 protection Monday in the North Texas Bankruptcy Court in Dallas. It's the latest legacy restaurant chain to run into financial trouble ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , denied on Tuesday that he had ever worn a Make America Great Again hat, despite comments by the president saying otherwise. "Now, let me just start out by asking about some hyperbole that may have been out there in the press. Gen. Caine, did you wear a MAGA hat in front of the ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
In Pictures An Israeli air strike on a building in the Lebanese capital Beirut targeting a member of Hezbollah has killed at least four people. The surprise attack came at about 3:30am (00:30 GMT) on Tuesday during the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday marking the end of the Ramadan fasting month. The second strike on the city in three days has raised fears that the shaky ceasefire between Israel and the armed Hezbollah ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
By LAURA UNGAR, Associated Press Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it's still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn't speak for 18 years after a stroke . Doctors implanted ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Fasting every other day can prompt more weight loss than simply cutting calories, a new clinical trial shows. People who undertook 4:3 intermittent fasting lost just under 8% of their body weight within a year, compared to a 5% loss among people who cut their daily calories by about a third, researchers reported Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine . In 4:3 intermittent fasting, people restrict their calorie ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — The White House's firing of a career federal prosecutor last week was one in a series of Trump administration moves that have undermined the post-Watergate separation between the White House and the Justice Department — and spread fears about political interference in ongoing criminal cases. Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Schleifer, based in Los Angeles, was told by a White House official in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Sending encrypted emails today involves a nightmare of certificates and administrative headaches. Google says it's ready to make things easier. Strong encryption is the foundation of just about every security and privacy-related feature in the modern computing landscape. Your smartphone is encrypted by default, so its contents are only available when you unlock it with biometrics or a PIN. Your Windows PC is ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Google will expand immersive ads to many more publishers across AdMob and Ad Manager on the online game platform Roblox. The partnership, announced Tuesday, streamlines implementation for app publishers in video formats, 2D and 3D. Roblox has expanded the collaboration through a suite of measurement tools and partnerships with Integral Ad Science (IAS) and Kantar, as well as verification companies DoubleVerify and ...
Source: mediapost.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
A box truck crashed into a building Tuesday afternoon in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood and then hit several pedestrians, injuring at least six, the city's police and emergency services said. During a press conference, authorities called it a "tragic accident" and said there was no indication the crash was intentional. WBUR is a nonprofit news organization. Our coverage relies on your financial support. If you ...
Source: wbur.org
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
A Win for Repro Rights: Alabama Can't Charge Activists Helping Patients Get Out-of-State Abortions "As the adage goes, be careful what you pray for." In the nearly three years since the US Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion, grassroots abortion funds and advocates have facilitated care for thousands of patients living in states where abortion is banned, helping them find providers in other ...
Source: motherjones.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Cyber experts urged lawmakers on the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection to reauthorize funding for the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program during a Tuesday hearing, calling it an "essential part of the country's national security strategy." In recent months, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has questioned the efficacy of the grant program, especially as the ...
Source: statescoop.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
A new blood test could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's. Beyond confirming the presence of the disease, the test also helps determine the stage of its progression. This may fundamentally change how physicians manage Alzheimer's care. The test was developed by experts at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Lund University in Sweden. Their studies indicate that a ...
Source: earth.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Oracle continues to publicly deny two separate data breaches despite emerging evidence of the breaches. Oracle's healthcare subsidiary, Oracle Health, has suffered a data breach, potentially exposing customers' sensitive data, the company told some of its customers. While Oracle has so far declined to publicly acknowledge the data breach and a separate one that came to light last week, Oracle Health, in private ...
Source: csoonline.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
April 1 (UPI) -- The United States has imposed sanctions against Chinese officials accused of committing human rights abuses in Hong Kong as it released its latest report on Beijing's influence over the city once celebrated for its democratic autonomy. The report to Congress covers the period between January and December of last year, finding that the governments of China and Hong Kong have continued to crack down ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! Librarians say the cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services will devastate museums and libraries in Maine and across the nation. Maine librarians are warning that ...
Source: pressherald.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A fire caused by a burst gas pipe spread to several homes and sent a fireball soaring into the sky outside Malaysia's largest city Tuesday, injuring more than 100 people. The towering inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights outside Kuala Lumpur was visible for kilometers (miles) and lasted for several hours. It happened during a public holiday as Muslims, who are the majority ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
The agreed-to merger between Rocket and Mr. Cooper is the first large domino to fall in what is shaping up to be another year of consolidation. Mortgage lenders are still dealing with overcapacity, and in the fourth quarter, swung back to losses on production. On a pro forma basis, Monday's deal would create an originator almost, but not quite as large as United Wholesale Mortgage. UWM did $38.7 billion in ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
News analysis The White House, for two months, has warmly embraced the Kremlin. But President Vladimir Putin of Russia has given little in return, despite his professed willingness to cooperate. His forces have carried on bombarding Ukraine, both on the front and deep into the Ukrainian heartland. He has barely budged in peace negotiations, freighting an agreement to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire with myriad ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
French antitrust authorities handed Apple a 150-million-euro ($162-million) fine on Monday over its app tracking privacy feature, which is also under scrutiny in several other European countries. The watchdog said the way Apple implemented its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) software was "neither necessary nor proportionate to the company's stated goal to protect user data" and also penalised third-party ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
The proposal is a response to House Speaker Daniel Perez's idea to reduce the state's sales tax. Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants to save Floridians about $1,000 on their property tax bills over the next year, escalating a dispute with the House speaker over how to cut taxes this year. During a Monday news conference, DeSantis said he wanted the state to pick up the tab for a portion of property taxes for about 5 ...
Source: tampabay.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
March 31 (UPI) -- Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sex crimes, said she has only days left to live after being hit by a bus and suffering kidney failure. Giuffre, a 41-year-old mother of three living in Australia with her husband, on Sunday shared a battered picture of herself from a hospital bed covered in bruises. "This year has been the worst start to a new year, but I won't ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
Report: IT officials who fought DOGE access put on leave and under investigation. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies," despite "objections from senior IT staff who feared it could compromise highly sensitive government personnel information" and lead to cyberattacks, The ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been suspended for 80 games without pay for performance-enhancing drug use. Major League Baseball announced on Monday that Profar tested positive for Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG) in violation of the league's joint drug prevention and treatment program. HCG is typically used as a fertility treatment for women but can be used as a masking agent to increase testosterone ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
With an open letter Monday addressed to the American people, nearly 2,000 scientists sounded the alarm on U.S. President Donald Trump's "wholesale assault" on science—warning that his administration's actions threaten the talent pipeline for the country's future scientists, the nation's "scientific edge," and more. The 1,900 scientists are all elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, ...
Source: commondreams.org