News And Current Events

Can Trump fix collegiate athletics?

https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/donald-trump-commission-college-sports-issues.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5287750-nc-supreme-court-judges-concede-election/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-cartel-leader-ovidio-guzman-reaches-plea-agreement-over-drug-trafficking-2025-05-06/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/sacramento-man-sentenced-12-years-prison-38-million-catalytic-converter-theft-ring

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/largest-fentanyl-bust-dea-history-authorities-seize-over-400-kilograms-fentanyl-record

In his first interview since the end of his presidency, Biden warned that the Trump administration is eroding the world's trust in the US.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/07/biden-calls-trumps-russia-approach-appeasement-in-first-post-presidency-interview

Senate Democrat urges Bondi, Patel to probe anonymous pizza deliveries

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durbin-calls-doj-investigate-anonymous-pizza-deliveries-judges-homes

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

The strikes come after last month’s deadly attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/india/india-pakistan-jammu-kashmir-rcna205229

The blanket ban, expanding on a similar policy Trump proposed in his first term, has been blocked nationwide by lower courts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-implement-transgender-military-ban-rcna204135

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg1rgr25e7o

https://globalnews.ca/news/11166051/conservatives-caucus-meeting-pierre-poilievre-video/

The group was "covering their faces" and stacking furniture, the school said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/protesters-university-washington-building/story?id=121505881

Six strikes targeted Yemen’s Hodeidah port, the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/israel-us-airstrikes-yemen-houthi-rebels-ben-gurion-airport-rcna204915

"This attack is an example of the dangers they face when they show up to work every day."

https://thepostmillennial.com/three-officers-stabbed-in-coordinated-ms-13-gang-attack-at-virginia-state-prison

https://time.com/7282551/alcatraz-trump-rebuild-open-prison-island-judges-immigration-costs-history/

https://apnews.com/article/morocco-protests-ports-israel-palestinians-0e16988c3d5e30233382f32d6adbbc03

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5280368-ocasio-cortez-2028-presidential-bid/

https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/us-news/9-people-shot-at-a-restaurant-in-suburban-phoenix-police-say/

https://nypost.com/2025/05/01/us-news/trump-terminates-npr-pbs-federal-funding-with-sweeping-executive-order/

https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/business/robert-w-baird-workers-hospitalized-after-110-hour-work-week-report/

Mark Carney will meet Donald Trump next week

https://www.gbnews.com/royal/king-charles-queen-camilla-royal-visit-canada-donald-trump-threat

TRANSGENDER PEOPLE WHO move to Ireland from other countries are being told by the National Gender Service (NGS) they must join the waitlist and go through their assessment process before accessing healthcare in Ireland.

This is despite having legally changed their gender and previously accessed gender-affirming care in their home countries.

The NGS is requiring people who have already transitioned to join a years-long waitlist and prove they are ‘transgender enough’ once again.

The Journal Investigates has spoken to almost 20 transgender adults about their experiences with accessing transgender healthcare in Ireland.

Earlier this week, people told us the questioning that takes place during NGS assessments can feel traumatic and upsetting. These questions include asking about what pornography they watch or details about their sexual lives with their partners.

The NGS is the only provider of healthcare to transgender adults in Ireland.

The clinical lead for transgender healthcare in Iceland, Dr Beth McElrea, told The Journal Investigates that in her expert opinion, questions like these are “completely inappropriate”. This is because best practice, informed by the WHO guidelines, has moved away from this type of evaluation.

Since 2019, the World Health Organisation no longer views being transgender as a mental or behavioural disorder. Instead, they now see it as relating to a person’s sexual health.

The assessments were also described as “interrogations” by those who went through them and they felt compelled to share intimate details about themselves for fear of being denied healthcare.

The socialist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected claims made by far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday that Colombian drug trafficker Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego has formed an alliance with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Marxist terror group in Venezuelan territory.

Villadiego, also known as Chiquito malo (“Bad Little Boy”), is the current leader of the Colombian Clan del Golfo drug cartel, succeeding its previous leader Dairo “Otoniel” Úsuga David after he was arrested in 2021 and sentenced to 45 years on numerous drug trafficking charges in 2023.

Petro, through a Wednesday Twitter post, asserted that Villadiego had formed an alliance with ELN inside the territory of neighboring Venezuela. Petro added that Colombian authorities have already seized 32 tons of cocaine from the Catatumbo region and arrested “several mayors and politicians who were helping the drug traffickers.”

“Crop substitution in Catatumbo is essential to achieving peace. Violence in the Caribbean revolves around ports and extortion. I’ve decided to change the entire port administration,” Petro’s message said.

“There will be a special meeting today to intensify the offensive against Clan del Golfo,” he continued. “I expect from the Caribbean citizens, and with due confidentiality, information to find the leaders of the Clan.”

Petro’s statements drew fierce criticism from the socialist Maduro regime.

The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported on Wednesday that it had obtained a copy of an official letter sent by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry to its Colombian counterpart protesting Petro’s social media post and rejecting being held responsible for “dynamics that have their origin and expansion in Colombian territory.”