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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 3rd 2025
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
We're following the latest updates and analysis on the Donald Trump administration. Follow along live. Where do US-collected tariffs go? Tariffs are taxes on imports, collected by US border by Customs and Border Protection when foreign goods cross into the country. The money — about $80 billion last year — goes to the US Treasury to help pay the federal government's expenses. Congress has the authority ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
Democrats this week achieved their biggest gains to date in the second Trump era, winning a fiercely contested state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, while landing relatively strong showings despite losing two Florida special elections. The results Tuesday do not erase the long list of harsh realities for Democrats, who remain locked out of power in President Trump's Washington and severely limited in their efforts ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
I've been looking forward to the Nintendo Switch 2 ever since it was announced, but after Wednesday's launch event I'm not convinced I'll ever upgrade to the new console. That's because I have the distinct feeling that unlike its predecessor, this isn't a console designed for cozy gamers like me. Gaming means many different things to different people, and for a long time, I'd resigned myself to the idea that it ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
La implicación de Musk en la política de derecha contribuyó a una caída del 13 por ciento en las entregas en el primer trimestre, incluyendo fuertes descensos en lugares favorables a los vehículos eléctricos como Noruega. Si hay un lugar en el que Tesla debería prosperar, es en Noruega. Los vehículos eléctricos representan más del 90 por ciento ...
Source: nytimes.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
on Thursday said he will pull out of the city's Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent, arguing that his recently dismissed had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign. In a , Adams said he will not run in the Democratic primary in June because his criminal case "dragged on too long" while the "false accusations were held over me," preventing him from campaigning. "I firmly ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
The differences that are emerging among major law firms about how to respond to the blacklisting executive orders are likely to polarize and deeply divide the legal profession for a generation. First, there is a stark division among the firms that were blacklisted or anticipated that they would soon be. Three major firms, blacklisted by the White House, have now challenged the blacklisting, represented by three ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
DEIR EL-BALAH – Overnight strikes by Israel killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Thursday, a day after senior government officials said Israel would seize large areas of Gaza and across the Palestinian territory. Israel has vowed to escalate the nearly 18-month war with Hamas until the militant group returns dozens of remaining hostages, disarms and leaves the territory. ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
Israeli PM, who is wanted by the court, hails Viktor Orbán's 'bold and principled' decision to leave the 'corrupt' body Hungary will leave the international criminal court because it has become "political", the country's prime minister, Viktor Orbán , said as he welcomed his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanhayu – the subject of an ICC arrest warrant – to Budapest for an official visit. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
The National Weather Service received reports of nearly two dozen tornadoes touching down on Wednesday, with more tornadoes possible on Thursday in the mid-South. At least 10 tornadoes were reported in Missouri, while Kentucky reported six. There were also possible twisters in Illinois, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Extensive storm damage was also reported in Indiana, near Indianapolis. The Tennessee Emergency ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's auto tariffs, which went into effect at 12:01 am ET on Thursday, have the potential to upend a crucial American industry and raise the cost of tens of millions of cars sold every year across the country. Many products are likely to be subject to higher prices due to the tariffs. But none will cost Americans more, or shake as critical an industry as the tax on imported cars that just went ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is in Greenland for a three-day trip aimed at building trust and cooperation with Greenlandic officials at a time when the Trump administration is seeking control of the vast Arctic territory. Frederiksen announced plans for her visit after US Vice President JD Vance visited a US air base in Greenland last week and accused Denmark of underinvesting in the territory. Greenland ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
Luigi Mangione, facing a slew of federal and state charges in the slaying of health care CEO Brian Thompson, could be sentenced to death if he's convicted of federal murder charges in what criminal justice experts say was a rare but unsurprising move to . Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday she has instructed federal prosecutors to seek the ultimate punishment for Mangione, 26. He's charged in the federal ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
San Jose, Costa Rica — Carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause of death of the teenage son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, authorities in Costa Rica confirmed Wednesday night. They had reported earlier this week that it was suspected, after high levels of the toxic gas were detected in testing of the family's hotel room. Randall Zúñiga, director of the Judicial Investigation ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
Four names from the 2024 hurricane season – Beryl, Helene, Milton and John – were so destructive and deadly that they will no longer be used to name future tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins. The decision to retire these 2024 names was made during an annual meeting held this week by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) hurricane committee. This committee, ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 -
Comparing wealth and survival rates in the U.S. with those in Europe, researchers found that over a 10-year period, Americans across all wealth levels were more likely to die than their European counterparts. The findings were detailed in a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team led by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health. The analysis compared data from more than 73,000 ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
After 20 hours of standing on the Senate floor, delivering what would become a record-breaking speech about the need for resistance against the Trump administration, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said, in a weary voice: "Don't let this be just another day in America." By many indications, it was not. With 25 hours and 5 minutes in total, Booker broke the Senate speech record held by Sen. Strom Thurmond ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Val Kilmer 's longtime friends and costars are sharing tributes following his death on Tuesday, April 1, at the age of 65. Kilmer died after a battle with pneumonia, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer confirmed to the New York Times . He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, but later recovered she also noted . The actor famously starred in Top Gun opposite Tom Cruise , as Jim Morrison in The Doors, and in Batman ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The White House is reportedly getting closer to TikTok control of the popular video platform away from its Chinese parent company days ahead of the looming deadline. The Information said that Trump will announce plans for "TikTok America" later today. Why It Matters TikTok, a popular video-sharing application owned by the China-based company ByteDance, has faced significant legal and regulatory challenges in the ...
Source: newsweek.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Mike Johnson's Attempt to Kill a Vote Really Backfired This Week House GOP leadership fought as hard against this as they have against anything. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the beginning of the year, a bipartisan group of younger members of Congress introduced a resolution that would allow members who are new parents to vote by proxy for 12 ...
Source: slate.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
A majority on the US Supreme Court seemed to doubt South Carolina's claim that Medicaid recipients can't sue over the state's decision to exclude a Planned Parenthood affiliate from its program. In their questions during arguments Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett appeared concerned that people on Medicaid wouldn't have any other way to challenge a state's decision to nix their ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Lawsuit alleges department's ending of wide array of grants is 'unlawful' and poses 'serious harm to public health' Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia are suing the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr , alleging the abrupt terminations of $11bn in public health funding were "harmful" and "unlawful". The lawsuit , filed in federal court in Rhode ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Musk's political activism and support for President Trump has drawn protests Tesla on Wednesday announced that its first-quarter deliveries dropped 13% amid slowing consumer demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and controversy surrounding CEO Elon Musk's political involvement in the Trump administration. The automaker delivered 336,681 vehicles in the first quarter, a decline from 386,810 units a year ago. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Public health groups representing thousands of researchers and scientists sued the Trump administration Wednesday over actions that led to the termination of research grants funded by the National Institutes of Health. The American Public Health Association, Ibis Reproductive Health, the United Auto Workers union, and other researchers said in a complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Latest security flap again focuses scrutiny on Waltz after he earlier added journalist to Yemen war-planning chat Michael Waltz, the embattled national security adviser to Donald Trump , and other members of the national security council have reportedly used personal Gmail accounts to conduct government business. The apparent use of Gmail, a relatively insecure method of communication for high-level government ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains. A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults' risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%. The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is part of growing understanding about how many factors influence ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US federal prosecutors to seek death penalty in healthcare executive murder case US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Bondi described Mangione's alleged act as a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination" and suggested ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work. It was not immediately clear how many employees had received notice Tuesday morning. The US Department of Health and Human Services has not responded to CNN's request for comment. HHS Secretary ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
A former canvasser for Elon Musk's America PAC operation—which mobilized voters to sign a sketchy "petition" during last year's presidential election— has sued the billionaire , accusing him and his political organization of failing to pay him at least $20,000. The former canvasser, who is described as a Philadelphia man, hasn't revealed his real name, for fear of retaliation. "For his safety and ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration's acting commissioner is facing calls to resign after he issued an order — which was quickly rescinded — that to register their newborns for Social Security numbers at a federal office rather than the hospital. Newly unearthed emails show that the March 5 decision was made as political payback to Maine Gov. , a Democrat who has defied the Trump ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
An official reason behind the pause has not been announced ( JTA ) — Princeton University has become the latest in a string of Ivy League universities to have its federal funding threatened by the Trump administration amid investigations of antisemitism on campus. The university's president, Christopher Eisgruber, announced the cuts in an email to the Princeton community Tuesday morning. He wrote that the ...
Source: forward.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The United States Army has identified the fourth soldier who died in a March training accident in Lithuania as 28-year-old staff sergeant Troy S. Knutson-Collins of Michigan. The news comes after a weeklong search after the soldiers went missing. The Context On March 25, four U.S. soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, were reported missing from the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area ...
Source: newsweek.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The New York Yankees smashed 15 home runs in their first three games of the 2025 Major League Baseball season last week, largely thanks to a brand new tool: torpedo bats. These revolutionary new bats, which alter the design of the bat's wooden barrel, have other teams around the league taking notice and wondering if this could have a lasting impact on baseball. released news articles Lower barrel Unlike a ...
Source: theweek.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
What payment giants want from Apple Card – besides fees Apple's credit card portfolio has shaped up to be one of the most sought-after businesses in payments following the tech giant's split from Goldman Sachs in 2023. And while its popularity across the globe makes it an attractive acquisition to any major card issuer, Apple's wallet, Apple Pay, represents an even larger opportunity. Visa and American ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
A norovirus outbreak has affected over 230 passengers and crew during a 29-day luxury cruise from England to the Eastern Caribbean, as reported by the US health agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the CDC, 224 of 2,538 passengers and 17 crew members contracted the illness. The affected individuals were isolated, and the ship implemented sanitisation protocols, reports the New York Times. ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The $1 billion State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program runs out of money in September. Several state technology leaders urged a House subcommittee on Tuesday to reauthorize a federal cybersecurity grant program before its funding lapses in September. The $1 billion State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, known as SLCGP, was funded by the 2021 infrastructure law and is administered by the Cybersecurity and ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is increasing support and oversight for the air traffic controller team at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) following a fatal midair collision over the Potomac River that claimed the lives of 67 people. In a statement on Wednesday, the FAA announced it will increase operational supervisor staffing from six to eight people, and review certified professional ...
Source: foxnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
on Wednesday ruled for in its crackdown on following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use. But the justices' unanimous decision throwing out a federal appeals court ruling is not the final word in the case, and the FDA could change its approach now that President has promised to "save" vaping. The high court ruled that the FDA, during President Joe Biden's administration, did not violate federal law when it ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The launch will be livestreamed at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Amazon's Project Kuiper this month will launch more than two dozen satellites into space, a step the company said will lead toward bringing fast, reliable internet to customers worldwide. The mission, named "KA-01" for Kuiper Atlas 1, will launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida . ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Tony's Chocolonely said it's recalling some chocolate bars after 12 consumers reported finding "small stones" in the products. The recall covers two products, its 6.35 oz Dark Almond Sea Salt bar and the company's 6.35 oz Everything Bar, which is a milk chocolate bar with caramel, pretzel, almond nougat and sea salt. The small stones weren't filtered during a third-party's almond harvesting and almond ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
In the 22 days since Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador, his young son has sought comfort in the scent of his missing father's clothes. "He shows me how much he missed Kilmar," Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said in court documents. "He has been finding Kilmar's work shirts and smelling them, to smell Kilmar's familiar scent." ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The $299 Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were an unexpected hit, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stating in July that "demand is still outpacing our ability to build them." Now, Meta is giving the popular smart glasses, which sold more than a million pairs in less than two years , a $1,000 boost. According to a Bloomberg report , Meta is looking to bring its first smartphone-alternative glasses to market by the end of ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The inability to pay for healthcare in the U.S. has reached a new high, with more than one-third of Americans (35%), or an estimated 91 million people, reporting that they could not access quality healthcare if they needed it today, according to the latest West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index. The Index has been tracking healthcare affordability and access in the U.S. since 2021. Rates were higher ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Lower levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease , a new study says. People with low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol levels lower than 70 mg/dl had a 26% lower risk of dementia and 28% lower risk of Alzheimer's, compared to people with LDL levels above 130 mg/dl, researchers reported Tuesday in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry . ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
The Suffolk County district attorney is criticizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for interfering in a local prosecution, days after ICE detained a man who was on trial for allegedly lying on a driver's license form. "Our policy is that we can neither support nor interfere with ICE and the operations of their duties," DA Kevin Hayden said during a press conference Wednesday. "Now, if ICE interferes with ...
Source: wbur.org
Wednesday, Apr 2nd, 2025 -
Users will be able to log in to old accounts through mid-August Payment processing platform Zelle shut down its standalone application Tuesday, redirecting users to banks and credit unions offering its services instead. When attempting to sign in to the app, users are met with a message stating it's "no longer available for sending and receiving money." "You will be able to log in until August 11, 2025," the pop-up ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Meta 's head of artificial intelligence research is moving on. Joelle Pineau , who has been with the tech giant since 2017, announced her resignation on Facebook Tuesday (April 1). "Today, as the world undergoes significant change, as the race for AI accelerates, and as Meta prepares for its next chapter, it is time to create space for others to pursue the work," wrote Pineau, who heads Meta's Fundamental AI ...
Source: pymnts.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 -
April 1 (UPI) -- Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil's case will remain in New Jersey after a federal judge Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to transfer the case to Louisiana, where Khalil is being held. "The court's jurisdiction is not defeated by the petitioner having been moved to Louisiana," the judge ruled from Newark. In his ruling , U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz called the government's ...
Source: upi.com