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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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Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff

10 min ago - Updated 5:55 PM EDT, April 24, 2025 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The largest union for federal employees is planning to lay off more than half of its staff nationwide after President Donald Trump’s executive actions have rapidly weakened the orga ... (AP)

California proposes to allow testing of driverless heavy-duty trucks

44 min ago - California regulators have released a new proposal to allow the testing of self-driving heavy-duty trucks on public roads. The state’s department of motor vehicles announced proposed regulations on Friday to allow the testing of driverless truck ... (The Guardian)

DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says.

51 min ago - Updated on: April 25, 2025 / 6:07 PM EDT Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, says it has saved $160 billion through its push to root out wasteful or fraudulent government spending. But that effort may also have come at a cost fo ... (CBS News)

Democratic lawmakers call for release of Tufts student from Ice detention

1 hr ago - Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT Last modified on Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.36 EDT A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald Trump administration to immediately release the Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk ... (The Guardian)

US judge blocks Trump from ending union bargaining for many federal workers

2 hrs ago - April 25, 2025 5:20 PM EDT Updated an hour ago April 25 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and co ... (Reuters)

Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled, organizers say

2 hrs ago - Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled, organizers say The Associated Press April 25, 2025, 5:58 PM FILE - The Kennedy Center is seen Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)(AP/Jacquely ... (Associated Press, via WTOP)

A.G. Bondi reverses Garland policy against subpoenaing journalists

2 hrs ago - A.G. Bondi reverses Garland policy against subpoenaing journalists Stating that leaks "undermine President Trump's policies," Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that "the news media 'must answer subpoenas' when authorized." CHRIS GEIDNER APR 25, 20 ... (LAWdork)

Senate Democrat on judge's arrest: 'Gravely serious and drastic move'

2 hrs ago - 04/25/25 1:41 PM ET Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) says the Trump administration’s arrest of a Wisconsin county judge for allegedly helping an immigrant avoid law enforcement is a “gravely serious and drastic move” that threatens to “ ... (The Hill)

Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report shows

2 hrs ago - Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, who died on 4 April 2024, was the son of top-ranking US spy Juliana Gallina An American man identified as the son of a deputy director of the CIA was killed in eastern Ukraine in 2024 while fighting under contract for the ... (The Guardian)

Voters See Trump's Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds

3 hrs ago - Voters believe President Trump is overreaching with his aggressive efforts to expand executive power, and they have deep doubts about some of the signature pieces of his agenda, a New York Times/Siena College poll found. The turbulent early months of ... (New York Times (Gift Link))

'Vaguely Threatening': Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal

3 hrs ago - April 25, 2025, 1:37 p.m. ET A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal, with questions that suggested without evidence that it was biased against ... (New York Times)

Sen. Tommy Tuberville is telling senators he plans to run for governor of Alabama

3 hrs ago - April 25, 2025, 11:23 AM EDT Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., is telling senators that he plans to run for governor of Alabama, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. One of the sources told NBC News, "He's been telling anyone and e ... (NBC News)

Matt Gaetz visited El Salvador's mega-prison and saw people drained of hope. He then pitched it to Stephen Miller

4 hrs ago - Friday 25 April 2025 16:47 BST Matt Gaetz visited the El Salvador mega-prison last summer and pitched the idea of sending migrants there to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, according to a report. Trump’s failed nominee ... (The Independent)

National Weather Service to resume balloon launches in Omaha; staffing set to increase, too

4 hrs ago - Julie Anderson Apr 25, 2025 Updated 1 hr ago Twice-daily weather balloon launches will be back on the schedule at the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska, and the office will get additional temporary staff next week, Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., ... (Omaha World Herald)

Law firm partners back Susman Godfrey in lawsuit over Trump executive order

4 hrs ago - An association of more than 700 partners at major U.S. law firms submitted a court brief on Friday supporting Susman Godfrey in its federal lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order against the firm. Trump's punitive orders ta ... (Reuters)

Consumer sentiment plunges 8%

4 hrs ago - Updated 10:46 AM EDT, Fri April 25, 2025 Washington CNN — Americans are still dreading a recession and rising inflation, even after President Donald Trump paused his massive tariff hike on dozens of countries. Consumer sentiment plunged 8% in ... (CNN Business)

There are nearly 900 measles cases in the US. Here's what you need to know

4 hrs ago - Cases have been confirmed in 29 states, according to CDC data. By Mary Kekatos and Dr. Jennifer Miao April 25, 2025, 12:09 PM ET The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention d ... (abc)

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

5 hrs ago - Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged April 25 with two felonies for her role in allegedly trying to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom. According to a 13-page complaint, Dugan, 65, is acc ... (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Mike Lindell lawyers threatened by judge over briefs loaded with AI-generated fake cases

5 hrs ago - April 25, 2025 6:52AM ET A federal judge put My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's lawyers "on notice" this week over nearly 30 citations in a legal brief submitted in a defamation lawsuit involving Eric Coomer, the former director of product security and str ... (Raw Story)

Exclusive: DOJ memo offers blueprint to Tren de Aragua deportation plan

5 hrs ago - Updated April 25, 2025, 10:07 a.m. ET Trump administration officials directed law enforcement nationwide to pursue suspected gang members into their homes, in some cases without any sort of warrant, according to a copy of the directive exclusively ob ... (USA Today)