News And Current Events

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

Hostages Forum, Tikva Forum say all hostages must be released in one go; Egyptian source says Hamas asked for more time to respond to latest hostage-truce proposal

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-tells-parents-of-hostage-israel-is-working-on-deal-to-free-10-captives/

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.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/politics/supreme-court-abrego-garcia?Date=20250410&Profile=cnnbrk

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/australia/australia-ivf-mix-up-intl-hnk/index.html

It’s an invasive practice that has been tackled by court rulings and government action. So why is it still going on?

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-04-10/kicked-out-of-school-for-being-pregnant-forcible-tests-violating-girls-rights-in-east-africa

The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday to limit federal district judges' ability to affect Trump administration policies on a national scale.

The No Rogue Rulings Act, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., passed the House and limits district courts' power to issue U.S.-wide injunctions, instead forcing them to focus their scope on the parties directly affected in most cases.

All but one Republican lawmaker voted for the bill, which passed 219 to 213. No Democrats voted in favor.

The Trump administration has faced more than 15 nationwide injunctions since the Republican commander-in-chief took office, targeting a wide range of President Donald Trump's policies, from birthright citizenship reform to anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Trump administration had pulled all nonessential funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections after allowing a 6-foot-1, 245-pound man who identifies as a woman to be housed in prison for women.

Bondi spoke to "Fox and Friends" host Lawrence Jones about several topics, including President Donald Trump’s authority to determine where federal funding is delivered.

"We can determine where that money goes — all federal money," Bondi said before directing the discussion to Maine. "What's happening there is they're not abiding by what President Trump said. They're allowing men [in] women's sports.

"And in the case right now, what we did last night, some breaking news — we pulled all nonessential funding from the Department of Corrections in Maine because they were allowing a man in a woman's prison, a giant 6-foot-1, 245-pound guy who committed a double murder with a knife, stabbed his parents to death and the family dog, and, he identified as a woman," she continued. "So, they were letting him be housed in a female prison? No longer. We will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country. No more of that."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o