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Former President Joe Biden’s U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen blasted President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Monday, saying the return of American manufacturing is just a “pipe dream” that may not even be a “desirable goal.”

Yellen, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018 prior to heading the Treasury from 2021 to 2025, took to CNBC’s Squawk Box to spew her anti-American rhetoric:

“Things have been just chaotic,” the former secretary said. “The reciprocal tariffs put on and paused … This is really creating an environment in which households and businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about what’s going to happen — it makes planning almost impossible.”

At one point in the interview, she revealed that she does not believe in “American manufacturing”:

“Perhaps it’s to bring back American manufacturing, but I really think that’s a pipe dream, and not something that is likely to be accomplished,” she said, referring to Trump’s efforts to bring jobs back to the United States.

“And we could even raise questions about whether or not, in a broad-based way, that’s a desirable goal,” she added.

A firing squad in South Carolina is set to execute a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times and set him on fire.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets on Friday.

It will be the second such execution in the state this year but only the fifth in the U.S. since 1977. South Carolina carried out the firing squad execution execution of Brad Keith Sigmon last month in what was the first execution to use the method in the country in 15 years.

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer who was killed at the same spot on his farm property where he and his wife got married. She was the one to find his body.

"His heart and mind are full of hate and malice," prosecutor David Pascoe told jurors during Mahdi's trial, according to an archived story in The Times and Democrat. "(He's) the epitome of evil."

Chicago has cancelled its Cinco de Mayo Parade, held annually in the sanctuary city, over fears of ICE raids.

Organizers announced on Thursday that the parade, which was set to be held on the Southwest Side of the city next month, has been cancelled as Trump's war on illegal immigrants has sparked fear across the country.

'Our people are scared,' said Hector Escobar, President of the Casa Puebla & Cermak Road Chamber of Commerce.

Escobar told ABC 7: 'See, some of them, they don't even want to go to work and some of them, they've taken a high risk. And definitely, it's not much to celebrate.'

The fifth of May festivities originally celebrated the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.

Activists then later rediscovered the holiday and transformed its meaning into a day of ethnic pride, and now it resonates with many as a celebration of Mexican American culture.

Chicago became a target of the Trump Administration very early on in the President's second term.

Soon after Inauguration Day, the sanctuary city saw one of the first big raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The funeral of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amir Mohammed Rabee was held Monday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one day after the dual national from New Jersey was shot and killed there. Two other teenage boys, one whose family told CBS News he is also a U.S. citizen, were shot but survived.

Rabee's father told CBS News on Monday that his son's siblings live in the U.S., but that Amir and his parents were living in Turmus Ayya, in the central West Bank, where the teenager was attending school.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that IDF soldiers had "identified three terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving. The soldiers opened fire towards the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists."

Along with its statement, the IDF released a 10-second video clip that appears to show three people throwing items. The people are not identifiable in the grainy video.

Rabee's father said his son cannot be identified in the video, and he believes the three teenage boys were shot while throwing stones at an almond tree.

"The video they [IDF] published is not right, and no one can prove my son was there," Rabee's father told journalists on Monday. "Unfortunately, the U.S. embassy believed the Israeli narrative based on unclear video, but the U.S. embassy turns a blind eye on videos filmed by people and journalists of settler violence — killing, burning and stealing, guarded by the IDF."

No matter where you live in America, there's a tornado radar system in your region scanning the skies to keep you informed. But the aging technology, which dates back to 1988, is in desperate need of an upgrade.

Tornado activity across the U.S. is increasing, with more than 470 tornadoes reported through early April. The National Weather Service has also issued the most tornado warnings in nearly 40 years. In the first week of April, there were 487 warnings issued across 17 states in the path of 71 million Americans.

"We have to go about a process of replacing and upgrading our weather radars across the country," said DaNa Carlis, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Severe Storms Laboratory.

Carlis helped design an upgrade called Phased Array Radar, which can scan the sky and send data back to forecasters every 30 to 60 seconds, he said. The update time for the current technology is about 4 to 6 minutes.

"Minutes matter when it comes to forecasting severe weather and tornadoes," Carlis said.

The issue also hits close to home for Carlis. The existing technology was relatively new, when two tornadoes touched down near Tulsa, where he was in high school in 1993. Seven people died and 130 were injured.

CBS News was there when Carlis returned to his old high school and spoke to students about how the work his lab does could save lives.

"It's going to be what allows us as the federal government to provie you information to protect yourself, protect your family and protect your property as well," Carlis said.

That's especially important because tornadoes are now occurring in every state, detected by NOAA's nearly 160 radars.

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies, Guatemala's Culture and Sports Ministry announced this week.

The enormous city-state of Tikal, whose towering temples still stand in the jungle, battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for dominance of the Maya world.

Far to the north in Mexico, just outside present day Mexico City, Teotihuacan — "the city of the gods" or "the place where men become gods" — is best known for its twin Temples of the Sun and Moon. It was actually a large city that housed over 100,000 inhabitants and covered around 8 square miles.

The still mysterious city was one of the largest in the world at its peak between 100 B.C. and A.D. 750. But it was abandoned before the rise of the Aztecs in the 14th century.

Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, said that the Teotihuacan altar was believed to have been used for sacrifices, "especially of children."

"The remains of three children not older than 4 years were found on three sides of the altar," Paiz told The Associated Press.

"The Teotihuacan were traders who traveled all over the country (Guatemala)," Paiz said. "The Teotihuacan residential complexes were houses with rooms and in the center altars; that's what the residence that was found is like, with an altar with the figure representing the Storm Goddess."

Researchers posted video on social media showing aerial footage of the altar as well as detail of the structure's interior.

"It's something unique in Guatemala, nothing similar had been found," Paiz said in a statement.

It took archaeologists 1½ years to uncover the altar in a dwelling and analyze it before the announcement.

Edwin Román, who leads the South Tikal Archaeological Project within the park, said the discovery shows the sociopolitical and cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan's elite between 300 and 500 A.D.

Román said the discovery also reinforces the idea that Tikal was a cosmopolitan center at that time, a place where people visited from other cultures, affirming its importance as a center of cultural convergence.

María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, said the discovery confirms "that there has been an interconnection between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like."

"We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was a practice; it's not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies," she said.

The altar is just over a yard wide from east to west and about 2 yards from north to south. It is about a yard tall and covered with limestone.

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, stated that he has no intention of sending Kilmar Armando Abrego García back to the United States, following his deportation back to his native country.

Despite a previous Supreme Court decision stating that the Trump administration should take “steps to facilitate” the possible return of the purported MS-13 member living in Maryland, who was deported to the Central American country, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele asserted on Monday that he is powerless to send the man back to the United States.

Additionally, Salvadoran officials, including the president, are not obligated to adhere to rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court.

El Salvador is a sovereign nation with its own laws and judicial system.

U.S. Supreme Court rulings apply only within the jurisdiction of the United States. While there may be extradition treaties or international agreements between the U.S. and El Salvador, any cooperation based on those is voluntary and subject to Salvadoran law, not U.S. court mandates. The U.S. may request that El Salvador take certain actions, like extradition or deportation, but compliance is up to Salvadoran authorities — including the president and their legal system.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Benjamin Osorio, told ABC News that he had “very serious concerns” about Bukele’s statement. According to Osorio, President Trump and Bukele are “both incentivized” to avoid bringing Abrego Garcia back.

“Bukele’s doing this because that’s obviously what Trump wants, right?,” Osorio said. “Because if they bring [Abrego Garcia] back, it’s going to be a media frenzy, and this guy’s gonna be all over the news, and then we’ll know about his experience.”

The Salvadoran president elaborated further on his perspective regarding the issue.

“I hope you are not suggesting that I smuggle terrorists into the United States,” Bukele told reporters while sitting alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. “Of course, I’m not going to do it.

“The question is preposterous,” he added. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”

Kilmar Abrego García and over 260 other suspected gang members were sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, last month in accordance with the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.

Meanwhile, Abrego García’s family denies the Trump administration’s arguments in court filings that he is “confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source.”

Belarus will soon accept up to 150,000 migrant workers from Pakistan, the Eastern European country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has said.

Lukashenko made the announcement after a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Minsk on Friday.

The Belarusian leader said that Sharif and him had agreed that “in the near future [Pakistani] specialists in various fields will be sent [to Belarus]; the fields of our choosing. The leadership of Pakistan will help us select such people.”

“Let it be 100,000 or maybe 120,000 or 150,000 of these specialists. We are ready to accept them in Belarus and create the necessary conditions for them to work here,” he said.

POINCIANA, Fla. (Gray News) – An assistant principal at a middle school in Florida was arrested after allegedly forcing a student to massage her feet and saying inappropriate things to him.

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Dr. Keiva Lark, 53, has been charged with lewd/lascivious conduct and lewd offense against a student by an authority figure.

The investigation began on April 4 after the head principal of Lake Marion Creek Middle School reported the incident to police.

Deputies say the 13-year-old student was sent to Lark’s office for throwing balls of paper across a classroom during a test.

While in the office, according to two witnesses and the victim, Lark told the victim to rub her feet “since he didn’t have anything better to do with his hands.” She allegedly took off her shoes and placed her legs across the boy’s lap, and he did as he was told.

Witnesses then heard Lark scolding the boy for not rubbing her feet “correctly,” and she demonstrated on his arm and shoulder how she wanted to be massaged.