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How China is responding to pressure from Trump as trade war brews
The developing U.S.-China trade war keeps ratcheting up, with reports Sunday that China has suspended exports of rare earth minerals. Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Lutnick said that the electronics the Trump administration exempted from reciprocal tariffs could be subject to different levies in the future. Katrina Northrop, China correspondent for The Washington Post, joins John Yang to discuss.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:
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News Wrap: Russian missiles kill more than 30 people in Ukrainian city of Sumy
In our news wrap Sunday, two Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Sumy and killed at least 34 people during Palm Sunday celebrations, police say an arsonist attacked Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro’s residence, the Trump administration says the Maryland man it wrongly deported is alive in El Salvador, and the White House physician said Trump is in excellent health.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:How the Telegram app became a hub for hate crime and radical extremists
A joint investigation by ProPublica and PBS Frontline into the shadowy world of online hate networks and the platform Telegram is detailed in a new documentary, “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram.” The investigation identified 35 crimes linked to the platform, including bomb plots, stabbings and shootings. John Yang speaks with A.C. Thompson, a reporter who worked on the project, to learn more.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Why insurance companies are denying coverage for prosthetic limbs
More than 2 million Americans are living with limb loss. A federal report says that number is expected to almost double by 2050. Recent reporting by KFF Health News found that many who have lost limbs are hitting roadblocks when they try to get insurance to cover the cost of prosthetic limbs. Ali Rogin speaks with KFF Health News contributing writer Michelle Andrews to learn more.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Digital technology gives a groundbreaking new look at the Titanic’s wreck site
This week marks 113 years since the sinking of the Titanic. Now, there’s a new tool to explore it: a full-scale digital twin of the wreckage created with cutting edge 3D scanning technology. That’s the subject of a new National Geographic documentary, “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.” John Yang speaks with Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson for more.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Kellogg condemns Russia's attack on Palm Sunday gathering in Ukraine
Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, condemned Russia’s attack on a Palm Sunday gathering in Ukraine. “Today's Palm Sunday attack by Russian forces on civilian targets in Sumy crosses any line of decency,” Kellogg said in a post on the social platform X. "There are scores of civilians dead and wounded. As a...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Stephen Miller: Trump 'saving the West from complete economic domination'
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said on Sunday that President Trump’s recent steps on tariffs are preventing China from achieving “complete economic domination” on the world stage. “History will record that the actions President Trump has taken in recent days were the beginning of saving the West from complete economic domination by...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
Military academies could increasingly show what President Trump wants to see from public schools and colleges. While K-12 districts and universities are fighting back against book removals; transgender athlete bans; and the termination of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, the administration has a far freer hand at military institutions. Military schools fall...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Johnson: US must 'eliminate people on Medicaid' who are not 'eligible to be there'
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Republicans would protect entitlement programs as they press ahead with deep cuts to federal spending, but he added the government must “eliminate people on Medicaid” who are not “eligible to be there.” “The president has made absolutely clear many times, as we have as well, that we're...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:House Democrat blasts tariffs reversals: 'Chaos and confusion isn’t good for anybody'
Rep. Gabe Amo (D-R.I.) on Sunday criticized President Trump’s approach to tariffs, saying the “chaos and confusion” caused by his strategy have not helped anyone. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” the Rhode Island Democrat urged his GOP colleagues to “speak up” against the tariffs. “I wish that Republican colleagues in both chambers...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Reps. Luna and Garcia should make their next JFK hearing a fair fight
The Oversight and Government Reform's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing on the JFK files, but the hearing was a disappointment for anti-conspiracy critics as no one present was interested in making the case that Lee Harvey Oswald was the intellectual author of the assassination.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Israel intensifies deadly strikes across Gaza and hits a major hospital in the north
A wave of Israeli strikes acrossGazaon Sunday hit a hospital and other sites, killing at least 21 people, including children, asIsrael vowed to expand its security presencein the small coastal strip.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Pennsylvania police make arrest after suspected arson at governor's mansion
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated overnight from the official governor's residence after someone set fire to the building, police said Sunday.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Warren: Democrats 'don’t have to wait' for courts to 'step in' to fight Trump tariffs
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on Democrats to fight against President Trump's tariffs rather than waiting for courts to potentially intervene. Warren joined ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday, where she was asked about the challenges to the tariff rollout and her call for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate if Trump allies...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:GOP senator on Trump tariffs: 'What’s the endgame here?'
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said on Sunday said he’s questioning President Trump’s “endgame” in his approach to tariffs, saying the ongoing “volatility” isn’t good for businesses. “One thing I learned in the private sector is unpredictability can work pretty well in the negotiation, but the private sector — businesses want certainty. They want stability. They...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Convalescing pope opens Holy Week with in-person greeting in St. Peter’s Square
Aconvalescing Pope Francisgreeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week," in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-threateningbattle with double pneumonia.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Stephen A. Smith on Whitmer's White House appearance: 'She has no choice but to do that'
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith weighed in on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) appearance in the White House, saying she has no choice but to engage with President Trump. Smith joined ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday, where host Jonathan Karl asked him about Whitmer appearing to hide from the press after meeting with Trump....
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Live updates: Trump tariff whiplash to take center stage on Sunday shows
The whiplash from President Trump's fresh tariff agenda has lasted into the weekend as Trump's approval rating takes a dip as Republicans on Capitol Hill work to carry out his domestic agenda. Financial markets took a dramatic tumble after the president implemented a flat 10 percent tariff on all goods coming into the country, alongside steeper reciprocal...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Khanna believes manufacturing 'isn’t going to come here'
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) believes manufacturing “isn’t going to come” to the U.S. despite the Trump administration placing tariffs on countries to do so. Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he said he doesn’t think manufacturing for technology will come to the United States and that it...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Where Trump’s deportations are sending migrants
In the first few months of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken steps to carry out what he has previously said will be “the largest domestic deportation operation” in U.S. history. Experts say recipient countries are likely feeling economic and political pressure from the United States to accept deportees.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Bridgewater founder: 'We are at a decisionmaking point and very close to a recession'Â
Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said on Sunday the United States is "very close to a recession." In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Dalio expressed concern about a confluence of different economic and political factors that he said could send the U.S. economy into “something...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Ecuador holds runoff election between incumbent Noboa and leftist opponent González
Ecuadorians are voting Sunday in the country’s presidential election runoff, facing the choice between incumbent President Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Police arrest man after suspected arson attack at Pennsylvania governor’s residence
Sunday’s announcement came after Shapiro and his family were awakened by state troopers at about 2 a.m. and were evacuated from the official governor’s residence in the state capital of Harrisburg.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:U.S. won’t say whether it’s facilitating return of Maryland man from El Salvador prison
The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge Saturday that a Maryland man who wasmistakenly deportedlast month remains confined in anotorious prisonin El Salvador. But the government's filing did not address the judge's demands that the administration detail what steps it was taking to returnKilmar Abrego Garciato the United States.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Trump in 'excellent cognitive and physical health,' doctor says
Donald Trump's doctor says the oldest man to be elected U.S. president is 'fully fit' to serve as commander-in-chief as the White House released the results of Trump's physical exam from Friday.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Russian strikes kill more than 30 in Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations
The dead included two children, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said in a statement. A further 117 people were wounded, including 15 children, it said.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Israeli missiles strike Gaza hospital shortly after warning to evacuate
Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike which Israel said was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Israeli missiles hit last major functioning hospital in northern Gaza, knocking it out of operation
Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike Israel said was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Ukraine says more than 30 killed in Russian ballistic missile strike on Sumy
At least 34 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, officials say.
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Buttigieg says left won't have its own Joe Rogan: 'That’s not how it works'
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Democrats shouldn’t look for their version of podcaster Joe Rogan and instead should find other meaningful ways to connect with voters. The former White House official touted his visions for the future of the party’s appeal during a recent appearance on “The Weekly Show with John Stewart.” "My party’s...
Published on: April 12, 2025 | Source:Did Trump engage in insider trading? Experts say he’s unlikely to have legal troubles
A social media post on April 9, followed by a market-moving tariff announcement, led President Donald Trump’s critics to speculate that he might have profited from inside information. Legal and financial experts downplayed the idea that Trump’s message ran afoul of the law.
Published on: April 12, 2025 | Source:U.S. regulators order corrective action after Keystone Pipeline spill in North Dakota
U.S. federal regulators have ordered the Calgary-based operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused more than 556,000 litres of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota. South Bow, the pipeline operator, hopes to return to operations in the next few days.
Published on: April 12, 2025 | Source:Bolsonaro transferred to Brazil’s capital after being hospitalized with abdominal pain
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred Saturday by medical aircraft from northeastern Brazil to the capital Brasilia after being hospitalized with abdominal pain a day earlier.
Published on: April 12, 2025 | Source:Trump administration says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is 'alive and secure' in first update
The Trump administration provided a Saturday wellness report for the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in their first daily update mandated by a court order. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the White House to document reports on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Friday in an effort to determine if the...
Published on: April 12, 2025 | Source:Why voting rights groups warn the SAVE Act may make it harder for married women to vote
An estimated 69 million American women and 4 million men do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name.
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