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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanA look at the Trump administration’s efforts to slash public media funding
The Trump administration wants to cut the federal funds that support public media. It would impact NPR, PBS and the roughly 1,500 local public media stations across the country. The White House drafted a memo that could make those cuts happen soon. William Brangham reports.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:
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Tariffs will cost families nearly $5K per year, Kentucky governor says
"That's months upon months upon months of groceries. That's months upon months of rent. That might be your entire annual deductible if you've got private health insurance coverage," he said. "No family will be able to get through that without being severely impacted and for those that are struggling to pay bills at the end of the month, it's enough to put you under."
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Activist provides support for Sudanese refugees terrorized by sexual violence
Amid Sudan's brutal civil war, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are using sexual violence to terrorize women and girls from non-Arab ethnic groups. These war crimes have sparked international outrage. Special correspondent Neha Wadekar and filmmaker Zoe Flood, with the support of the International Womenโs Media Foundation, spoke with survivors and a woman determined to help them heal.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:10 guards charged over fatal beating of a New York prisoner, including 2 with murder
The indictment says several guards severely beatMessiah Nantwi, a prisoner at the Mid-State Correctional Facility, who was hospitalized and died on March 1 โdue to massive head trauma and numerous other injuries to his body.โ
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Kennedy contradicts CDC on autism
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Kennedy bucks CDC on autism The HHS head does not believe the rising rate of autism spectrum disorder is linked to improvements in diagnostic practices, contradicting what the CDC says in a report. Greg Nash, The Hill...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:White House embraces Abrego Garcia fight
The White House is digging in on its refusal to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, viewing the controversial fight as a political winner that keeps the focus on an issue of strength for President Trump. Democrats and civil rights groups have been in an uproar about the removal...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:London mayor says US trade war would be 'bad for all of us'
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a Wednesday interview that a trade war between the United States and any country would be โbad for all of us.โ In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Khan said he hopes the United Kingdom secures a deal to mitigate the impact of President Trump's tariffs. Still, he warned of...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:White House invites Rachel Morin's mother to press briefing to share daughter's story
The mother of a Maryland woman who was killed by an individual who entered the country illegally addressed reporters at the White House on Wednesday as the Trump administration seeks to go on offense over the case of an individual who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachelโs 2023 killing became...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:When an earthquake hit, these elephants formed a protective circle around their youngest
When the ground started shaking, a herd of African elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed a protective barrier, known as an "alert circle," around their youngest. Experts say it's a demonstration of their sharp instincts, effective communication skills and strong family connection.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Trump administration plans to ask Congress to defund PBS, NPR
PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that the loss of funding would devastate local stations, "particularly smaller and rural stations who rely on federal funding for a larger portion of their budgets.โ
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Maryland senator meets with El Salvador’s vice president in push for Abrego Garcia’s release
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday and met with the country's vice president to push for the release ofKilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by theTrump administrationin March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Boat catches fire in Congo and capsizes, leaving at least 50 people dead, local official says
The motorized wooden boat with about 400 passengers caught fire near the town of Mbandaka, Compรฉtent Loyoko, the river commissioner, told The Associated Press.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:'Seriously broken' โ Paige Bueckers's new salary a reminder how little WNBA players earn
Basketball's newest star is projected toearnjust $78,831 US for her rookie year โ about $109,480 Cdn, or less than the real median household income in the States.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Mother of woman killed by Salvadoran fugitive speaks at White House news briefing
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press briefing Wednesday with Patty Morin, whose daughter, Rachel, was killed in 2023 while exercising on a popular hiking trail northeast of Baltimore.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:White House starting new media policy sharply curtailing wire service access
The White House has put forward a new media policy that sharply curtails access to Donald Trump by the news agencies that serve media outlets around the world.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Harvard’s fight against Trump could test limits of government power
Both sides are digging in for a clash that could test the limits of the governmentโs power and the independence that has made U.S. universities a destination for scholars around the world.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:1,900-year-old Roman papyrus details elaborate tax evasion scheme, research suggests
Historians have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus discovered in the Judean desert that details an elaborate tax evasion scheme, forgery and fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves by two men.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys want him hospitalized instead of in jail during retrial
Harvey Weinsteinโs lawyers are asking a judge to allow the ailing ex-studio boss to spend his nights at a New York City hospital instead of jail for the duration of his rape retrial.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Top UK court says definition of woman based on biological sex, excludes transgender people
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:California the 1st state to sue Trump administration over tariffs
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday his state will file a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs, which have set off a global trade war.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Trump isn't just a Canadian campaign issue. Australia grapples with its U.S. relationship in election
U.S. President Donald Trump is looming large in the final weeks of Australia's general election campaign, spelling trouble for conservative Opposition leader Peter Dutton just as a new poll shows Australians' faith in the United States at an all-time low.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:When China and the U.S. fight, who wins?
In order to understand Trumpโs tariffs we take a look at their primary target, China, and examine why many in that country view this as a historic opportunity, and Donald Trump as a โrevolutionaryโ figure.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:British Supreme Court unanimously rules legal definition of a 'woman' excludes trans women's identities
The United Kingdom's top court on Wednesday upheld an appeal by the campaign group For Women Scotland on whether transgender women are legally women under equality legislation.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:U.S. autism numbers rose in 2022, according to new CDC report
A new CDC report suggests autism diagnosis rates continue to rise in the U.S., sparking inflammatory rhetoric from government officials,while experts largely attribute the trend to improved screening and better understanding of the condition.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Foreign Affairs Dems press Rubio on Burma earthquake response, USAID cuts
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and 18 other Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee pressed the Trump administration to urgently provide aid for those impacted by the deadly Burma earthquake last month. In a Tuesday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the group addressed their concerns amid the โshutteringโ of the United States Agency...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Trump launches probe laying groundwork for tariffs on critical minerals
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the Commerce Department to open a national security investigation that would lay the groundwork for the administration to impose tariffs on critical minerals, the latest sector to potentially face tariffs as part of Trumpโs growing trade war. Trump signed an order initiating the probe, known as...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:White House removes wire spot from press pool
The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities. A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Zuckerberg suggested spinning Instagram offย into separate company
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in the face of growing antitrust concerns and competing interests with Facebook. The revelation comes from a 2018 document that was displayed as Zuckerberg took the stand in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:HHS cuts threaten HIV/AIDS response
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS cuts threaten HIV/AIDS response The Trump administration is potentially undoing decades of work to mitigate the HIV epidemic and holding up upcoming progress by slashing the countryโs public health workforce, experts say. AP When Health...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Trump executive order backs change to Medicare negotiation pushed by drug industry
A new executive order signed Tuesday by President Trump directs Congress to change a key provision of the law allowing Medicare drug price negotiations, a move that would fix one of the drug industryโs biggest complaints. The orderapplies to what the industry calls the Inflation Reduction Actโs โpill penalty,โ where small molecule drugs โ typically...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Judge presses Trump administration on why it hasn’t returned wrongfully deported man
A federal judge told Justice Department lawyers to cancel vacation as she launched rapid discovery in the case of a wrongfully deported man. Judge Paula Xinis scolded the Trump administration for doing โnothingโ to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from El Salvadorโs custody and return him to the United States. White House correspondent Laura Barrรณn-Lรณpez discussed more with Mary McCord.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Iran’s supreme leader downplays chance of deal from nuclear talks with U.S.
In our news wrap Tuesday, Iran's supreme leader said nuclear talks with the U.S. were "taken well" but downplayed prospects for a deal, Russia said negotiations with the U.S. were "constructive" but wouldn't give a timetable for peace in Ukraine, the CDC says nearly one in 31 U.S. children in has autism and Arkansas and Indiana moved to ban soda and candy from food stamp programs.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:House Democrat says DOGE access at NLRB, DOL may be 'technological malfeasance'
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is calling for an investigation into the Department of Government Efficiencyโs (DOGE) access to data at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Department of Labor (DOL). In a letter addressed to Luiz Santos, the acting inspector general for DOL,...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Billions in grants frozen after Harvard pushes back against Trump’s demands
Harvard became the first major school to push back against the Trump administration's efforts against colleges. The administration told Harvard it would lose federal funding if it didnโt change hiring practices and address allegations of antisemitism. But Harvard rejected that request, saying it can't "allow itself to be taken over." William Brangham discussed more with Cornell William Brooks.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:How college communities are reacting to funding threats, international student arrests
Recent threats to federal funding and arrests of international students have created a sense of unease on many college campuses. A trio of editors at student newspapers across the country share a unique perspective about what they are seeing on the ground and how campus communities are reacting.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source: