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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 1st 2025
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
Swaths of Republicans on Capitol Hill are scrambling to shield their states from Donald Trump's next wave of tariffs, a sign of the private alarm in the president's party about the impacts of his trade agenda. Trump has promised his rollout of global tariffs on April 2 will amount to a "Liberation Day" for the American economy. But dozens of GOP lawmakers worry privately that another round of tariffs will raise ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
A French court has imposed a jail sentence on far-right leader Marine Le Pen and barred her from seeking public office after it found her guilty of embezzling European Union funds. The Paris court ruled that Le Pen used more than 3 million euros ($3.3m) of European Parliament funds to pay members of her National Rally (RN) party. In the sentencing, the chief judge announced that the nationalist politician would not ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
March 31 (UPI) -- A magnolia tree reportedly planted near the White House's South Portico by former President Andrew Jackson is to be removed, according to President Donald Trump , who said it is a safety hazard. Trump announced the decision to remove the tree in a Sunday statement on his social media platform, Truth Social. "This tree is in terrible condition, a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
Tuesday's election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration's agenda. In mid-January, Brad Schimel, a Wisconsin circuit-court judge running for an open seat on the state Supreme Court, flew to Washington to attend Donald Trump's Inauguration . Schimel, a former attorney general under Republican Governor Scott Walker, told ...
Source: newyorker.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
PARIS (AP) — U.S. government efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives are not going down well on the European continent. Laurent Saint-Martin, France's minister for foreign trade, said the country won't compromise after the U.S. State Department demanded French companies drop diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives . In neighboring Belgium, where some companies reportedly received similar requests, the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
Danish officials have repeatedly told President Donald Trump that Greenland is "not for sale." Trump doesn't seem to care. The president continues to promote his vision for taking over Greenland , a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, arguing the island is needed to bolster US security and its stocks of strategic resources. During his joint address to Congress earlier this month, the president said the United ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said on Monday, as the military issued new evacuation orders and said "intense operations" were planned in the south of the enclave. The latest proposals would leave open a final agreement over ending the Israel-Hamas war that has destroyed wide ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Mar 31st, 2025 -
The so-called Save Act would strip millions of their access to the vote and make the process harder for everyone else T he first months of the new Trump administration have been dizzying with the breadth of executive actions to slash the social safety net, further enrich the wealthy, and inflame division based on outdated notions about culture and identity. While White House policy pronouncements have come with ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Mar 30th, 2025 -
The chair of Prince Harry's former charity , Sentebale, is alleging she experienced "bullying" from the Duke of Sussex and his PR "machine." In an interview with Sky News on Sunday, Dr. Sophie Chandauka made several claims about her past experiences with Prince Harry and the organization, including an incident at a polo fundraiser last year with Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex. Chandauka said in her interview that ...
Source: foxnews.com
Sunday, Mar 30th, 2025 -
Who is running Britain's economy – Rachel Reeves or Donald Trump? The chancellor's careful calculations for her spring statement are likely to be blown out of the water by a looming US trade war From more tax to rewriting budget rules: six alternative ways Reeves could raise money A s Rachel Reeves powered through her spring statement on Wednesday, telling the country she was "restoring stability to the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Mar 30th, 2025 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president said Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program, offering Tehran's first response to a letter President Donald Trump sent to the country's supreme leader . President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran's response, delivered via the sultanate of Oman, left open the possibility of ...
Source: military.com