News And Current Events

https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/trump-appoints-fox-news-host-mark-levin-and-others-to-lead-revamped-homeland-security-advisory-council/

Pro-Israel US singer-songwriter reworks ode to anguished superhero to honor the resilience of ‘superhuman’ captive families ‘over 17 months of unimaginable torment and devastation’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/five-for-fighting-serenades-superhero-alon-ohel-other-hostages/

Police identified the shooter as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner – a student at Florida State University

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fsu-shooter-ided-used-sheriff-deputy-moms-weapon-killing-police

Ruling upholds order for US to 'facilitate' return of deported Maryland illegal immigrant

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/appeals-court-denies-doj-bid-block-return-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-prison

Leon judge says she was obliged to ignore his documented proof.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u-s-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/israel-hamas-war/2025/04/17/id/1207296/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62glp2kx15o

The university wrote on X that an active shooter was reported and instructed those on campus to shelter in place

https://www.foxnews.com/us/active-scene-report-shooter-florida-state-university-shelter-place-ordered

Campaigners say authorities should be doing more to clean up waters around city of nearly 5 million people

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/17/kicking-up-a-stink-row-over-sewage-pollution-blighting-cape-towns-beaches

Dayton will host the alliance’s parliamentary assembly 30 years after the Bosnian peace accords were signed there

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/nato-dayton-ohio-trump

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kristi-noem-harvard-foreign-students/2025/04/17/id/1207242/

Assad al-Nassasra's fate had remained unknown since he was targeted along with other Palestine Red Crescent Society medics in Rafah.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-convoy-gaza-medics-killed-idf-red-cross-detained-rcna201477

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/democrats-el-salvador-trump-deportation-cecot

https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/world-news/uk-supreme-court-rules-transgender-women-does-not-fit-legal-term-woman-in-landmark-decision/

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.

The National Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami is not expected.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/52-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-julian-california-san-diego-county-rcna201187

The Trump administration is also now claiming that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not deported by mistake, as the Justice Department stated, but was “the right person sent to the right place.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/president-el-salvador-wont-return-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna201136

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/man-arrested-setting-pa-governors-mansion-ablaze-forcing-shapiro-and-family-flee

In less than a month, Americans without a star on their driver’s license may face potential delays or even be turned away when trying to board domestic flights, federal officials said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/passengers-will-soon-need-real-id-board-domestic-flights-tsa-warns

Video captured by NBC News’ crew showed children crowding around a soup kitchen, desperate to bring food home to their families.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/children-gaza-hunger-aid-blockade-israel-rcna201085