News And Current Events

A top emergency response official said more than 150 patients have been taken to different hospitals as search and rescue efforts remain underway Tuesday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/13-dead-90-hospitalized-roof-dominican-republic-club-collapses-rcna200158

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-supreme-court-chief-justice-roberts-blocks-court/

The Ukrainian president said he had instructed his Foreign Affairs Ministry to immediately contact Beijing and find out “how China is going to react to this.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-china-citizens-captured-zelenskyy-beijing-kremlin-rcna200174

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forward

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/hhs-mass-firings

A survey shows most Israelis support the High Court's ruling on Ronen Bar's dismissal. The Left and Center back the decision, while the Right opposes it.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-849336

Journalists would write fewer “fake news” stories if disputes over coverage could be handled through violence, U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin suggested on social media.

In a video posted over the weekend to his official X account, the Oklahoma Republican describes the 1890 killing of a former congressman, who was shot by a reporter in the U.S. Capitol. Mullin briefly pauses after finishing the story, then begins talking about journalists today.

“Now, there’s a lot we could say about reporters and the stories they write, but I bet they would write a lot less false stories — as President Trump says, ‘fake news’ — if we could still handle our differences that way,” Mullin says.

The 1:53 video was one of several Mullin posted late Friday and early Saturday as the Senate mulled the GOP budget plan, which ultimately passed.

Mullin recorded the video from the flight of stairs where he says the shooting occurred. He says stains from the former lawmaker’s blood can still be seen on the stone steps.

After Mullin makes his statement about reporters, the person recording him zooms in to show the blood-stained stairs, and then the video ends. By noon Sunday, the video had been viewed more than 26,000 times, attracting more than 2,100 “likes.”

A spokesperson for Mullin's office hasn't yet responded to questions about the senator's remarks.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/politics/supreme-court-el-salvador-abrego-garcia?Date=20250407&Profile=cnnbrk

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o

A proposed arms embargo proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) against Israel failed in the Senate on Thursday, with just 15 votes — all from Democrats — in favor, down from 19 votes for a similar proposal in November.

Sanders has been one of the most vocal opponents of the Israeli government in Congress. Though he acknowledged the horror of the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023, and said Israel should be able to defend itself, he has also pushed for an arms embargo that would prevent Israel from doing so.

In November, as Breitbart News reported, the Senate voted down three proposals by Sanders to block arms sales to Israel, with as many as 19 anti-Israel votes.

On Thursday, the Senate — now controlled by Republicans — defeated Sanders’s proposals even more soundly.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vaticans-foreign-minister-discusses-ukraine-with-russias-lavrov-2025-04-04/

Liberals will maintain their narrow majority on the court after Crawford’s victory in the first battleground state election of Trump’s second term.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

The Democratic senator from New Jersey broke the record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond in 1957, saying later that Thurmond’s record “always kind of just really irked me.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-cory-booker-holds-hours-long-overnight-speech-taking-aim-trump-adm-rcna199014

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/department-of-education-title-1-dei/2025/04/03/id/1205528/

The four soldiers disappeared during a training exercise last week when their armored vehicle became submerged in a peat bog.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fourth-missing-us-soldier-found-dead-lithuania-rcna199112

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mike-johnson-byron-donalds-florida/2025/04/03/id/1205527/

Three journalists summoned for open questioning, prompting AG and state attorney to defend practice due to nature of case; second businessman questioned over affair

https://www.timesofisrael.com/detention-of-key-qatargate-suspects-extended-till-friday-as-judge-criticizes-media-leaks/

https://nypost.com/2025/04/02/world-news/danish-prime-minister-heads-to-greenland-as-trump-seeks-takeover/

https://nypost.com/2025/04/02/us-news/anti-israel-cornell-university-student-fighting-trump-deportation-flees-us-before-ice-can-arrest-him/