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Top News Stories for Thursday, May 22nd 2025
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Despite a brief market scare, the richest 10 Americans got $365 billion richer over the past year, according to a new analysis from Oxfam. The stunning increase in wealth amounts to a gain of roughly $1 billion per day for those billionaires. By contrast, the typical American worker made just over $50,000 in 2023. Oxfam found that it would take a staggering 726,000 years for 10 US workers at median earnings to make ...
Source: cnn.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
A federal judge has said the deportation of eight men to South Sudan "unquestionably" violated his order that migrants must be allowed to challenge their removal to third countries. Judge Brian Murphy's finding on Wednesday was the latest turn in a fast-evolving dispute. One day earlier, he ordered US authorities to keep custody of the men, over concerns that the US had violated his injunction against sending ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Public health experts on Tuesday warned Tuesday that forthcoming Food and Drug Administration guidance on the Covid-19 vaccine would "cause confusion" and result in fewer people getting inoculated against the virus that killed 350,000 people in the U.S. before the shots became available. Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the agency's vaccine division, and Dr. Martin Makary, the FDA commissioner, wrote in the New England ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is set to have her first appearance in federal court Wednesday The interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, charged McIver, a twice-elected member of Congress, this week with two counts of assaulting, resisting and impeding an officer. McIver has denied the charges, and Democrats have rallied to her defense. The prosecutor's complaint ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who oversees the jail where last week, announced Tuesday that she is suspending her reelection campaign, just hours after fielding tough questions from local leaders at a tense city council meeting. "I am temporarily suspending my re-election campaign. I cannot spend a moment putting politics over your needs," Hutson said in a statement posted on social media. The sheriff's ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Proposed changes making their way through Congress would benefit many employees, but some details are still in flux. Listen to this article · 6:19 min As a slogan in last year's presidential campaign, "no tax on tips" was short, memorable and effective. As tax policy, it is more complex. On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed the No Tax on Tips Act , following through on a vow made by both President Trump ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
The Justice Department moved Wednesday to drop police-accountability agreements with Minneapolis and Louisville, abandoning the Biden administration's attempt to reshape law enforcement in cities where high-profile killings by officers ignited widespread outrage. Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department's civil rights division, also said the government would close Biden-era investigations of multiple ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, died Wednesday morning at 75. He "passed away peacefully at his home this morning surrounded by family," Connolly's family said in a statement. In November, Connolly announced he'd been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and would take part in chemotherapy and immunotherapy. In April, he announced he would from his role as the top Democrat on the House Oversight ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
A federal agent, an expert on abuse trauma and a former executive assistant testified Wednesday in Sean "Diddy" Combs' federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. The agent and the assistant gave further testimony on Combs' drug possession, while the forensic psychologist spoke in general terms about how victims of abuse tend to behave. The assistant, George Kaplan, is set to resume testifying Thursday morning. ...
Source: cnn.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
"Why? Because Andrew Cuomo is the last person they want as mayor," the ad says. "If Donald Trump doesn't want Andrew Cuomo as mayor, you do." to Congress last year about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as it spread through nursing homes. The person was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. In other times, revelations so close to an election that a major ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. in paring down the size of the government. And Bannon, who for years has thrown barbs at Musk, highlighted what he said was the turning point for the Tesla CEO. "You could feel it. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily restored Rep. Laurel Libby's ability to vote while she appeals a censure order for identifying a high school transgender athlete in a critical social media post. Libby was censured in February by Democrats in the Maine House for a social media post that sparked the state's ongoing conflict with the Trump administration over transgender athletes participating in girls sports. ...
Source: wbur.org
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Over 2 dozen salmonella illnesses in 15 states have been linked to the cucumbers: FDA Cucumbers grown by Bedner Growers and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales are being recalled as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigates a salmonella outbreak linked to the product. Some of the cucumbers potentially contaminated with salmonella were sold at three Bedner's Farm Fresh Market locations in South ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
More than two dozen tanks, 34 horses, 50 helicopters and thousands of troops — many in period costume from past wars — will be part of the sweeping military celebration in D.C. next month to honor the Army's 250th birthday, officials said Wednesday, offering new details on the multimillion-dollar event. The festivities for June 14 — which is also President Donald Trump's 79th birthday — will ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. posted Tuesday from "Original Sin" by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson detailed the pay disparity that caused such bitterness. The president ordered the campaign to "pay Mike ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
May 21 (UPI) -- The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to block proceedings on a case looking to get information on the Department of Government Efficiency. In an application to stay the orders of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking documents about DOGE under the Freedom of Information Act, Solicitor General John Sauer wrote that DOGE is exempt from such ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
UKHSA says risk to public very low after detection in genetic material of mosquitoes caught in Nottinghamshire West Nile virus has been detected in genetic material of mosquitoes collected in Britain for the first time, the UK Health Security Agency has reported. The agency assessed the risk to the general public as "very low" and said there was no evidence of transmission to humans or that the virus had become ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 -
Weary defendants have been told time and time again that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but that old adage has never stopped Kristi Noem . The Department of Homeland Security head was asked to define habeas corpus during a congressional hearing on Tuesday and offered something like the procedure's exact opposite. (For the unaware, habeas corpus is a right granted to prisoners that allows them to question ...
Source: salon.com
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 -
Norwegian energy company Equinor will resume construction on its offshore wind farm in New York, after the Trump administration lifted its order to halt work on the project. Empire Wind 1 will be the first offshore wind project to deliver electricity directly to New York City. The Interior Department under the Biden administration approved the project last year after Equinor signed a lease issued ...
Source: nbcnews.com