Services sector PMI increases 0.8 point to 51.6 in April. Prices paid index highest since January 2023; orders rise. Tariffs, government funding cuts worrisome for businesses.
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys and convicted seditionist in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege, thanked Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago for his pardon and got an "I love you guys" from the president, according to Tarrio and a New York Times report. Read more
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Under Secretary Noem's leadership, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is working relentlessly to remove criminals and sexual predators from American communities. This week, ICE New York City and Memphis placed immigration detainers on two criminal illegal aliens accused of heinous crimes. Read more
At least three people have died and five more were wounded after multiple shooters opened fire Sunday night in Glendale, Arizona, police said. Public information officer Moroni Mendez of the Glendale Police Department said at a news conference Sunday night: "There are three dead people from this incident, and there's a total of five other victims having sustained some sort of injury from either shrapnel or gunshot wounds." An unidentified witness told NBC affiliate KPNX of Phoenix that the restaurant El Camarn Gigante was holding a family-friendly Cinco de Mayo party with dozens of people of all ages in present at the time of the shooting.
The Trump administration has created a human rights crisis with its draconian, made-for-TV campaign of mass deportation. As arrests ramp up across the country, three people died inside immigration jails and detention centers in April alone, bringing the total number of people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since Trump returned to office to at least seven, according to the Detention Watch Network and media reports. However, multiple studies by physicians and human rights groups have shown that dozens of people have died preventable deaths in jails and prisons run by ICE and its contractors in the past, and advocates say conditions are rapidly deteriorating as the Trump administration packs facilities as part of his war on immigrants.
A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. The data stolen by the hacker contains the contents of some direct messages and group chats sent using its Signal clone, as well as modified versions of WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat. TeleMessage was recently the center of a wave of media coverage after Mike Waltz accidentally revealed he used the tool in a cabinet meeting with President Trump.
Brazilian police thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gagas historic concert that drew over two million people to Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The plot was orchestrated by a group promoting hate speech and the radicalization of teenagers, including self-harm and violent content as a form of social belonging. "The suspects were recruiting participants, including minors, to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails," the police said in a statement. A man described as the group's leader was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, while a teenager in Rio de Janeiro was detained for storing child pornography. Authorities carried out over a dozen search and seizure warrants across the states of Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul, and Sao Paulo. Read more
Seattle police are searching for Sedrick T. Stevenson (28) after he fled from SEA-TAC Airport and boarded the northbound light rail train. A contracted agent was attempting to transport the suspect, when the agent lost control of him at the ticket counter. Stevenson is wanted on warrants out of Bowling Green, KY. The agents chased him but were not able to catch the handcuffed and manacled prisoner. Read more
Abdul Rahman Waziri, the father of two infant daughters and an Afghan refugee who fought alongside US Special Forces, was shot dead in Texas after a dispute over a parking space. Waziri fled to the US to escape the Taliban and was killed in the parking lot of his west Houston apartment complex. Witnesses said they saw the suspect vandalizing Waziri's car, and then the fight broke out. After the fight ended, the shooter retrieved his gun and fatally shot Waziri several times. Although the suspect was arrested, the DA declined to press charges. Read more
James "Jim" Joseph Rodden, 44, an assistant chief counsel for ICE who represents the agency in immigration hearings in the Dallas area, appears to be behind the account, which regularly shares racist and anti-immigrant takes, the Texas Observer reported. Read more
US President Donald Trump says he plans to hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs, as he ramps up trade disputes with countries around the world. Trump said he was authorising the US Trade Representative to start the process to impose the levy because America's movie industry was dying "a very fast death". He blamed a "concerted effort" by other countries that offer incentives to attract filmmakers and studios, which he described as a "National Security threat".
President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island that has been closed for more than 60 years. In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, "For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That's the way it's supposed to be." Read more
For years, President Donald Trump blamed "communists" for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents " from judges to educators " as threats to American identity, culture and values. Read more
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that a ceasefire with Russia in its more than three-year-old war was possible at any moment and called on Kyiv's allies to apply greater pressure on Moscow to put the measure in place. Zelenskiy, speaking at a joint news conference in Prague alongside Czech President Petr Pavel, said that unless increased pressure were applied, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin would take no real steps to end the conflict.
