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"The reason we're here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States," Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. "It's my job to figure out if you have to leave," ul-Haq continued. "It's also my job to figure out if you should stay." The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
President Donald Trump radically softened some of his most severe rhetoric after CEOs of the nation's biggest retail chains warned him of looming price rises and empty shelves. The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday and told him that although prices were steady at that moment, his trade policies could have devastating effects within just two weeks with supply chains disrupted, Axios reported.
The same criminal group behind the DOGE Big Balls ransomware attack has just upped the ante. A newly updated ransom note sent to victims is now trolling Elon Musk and DOGE with a demand for, are you sitting down, one trillion dollars.
We need a conversation thread everyday here in this echo chamber.
At least 26 tourists have been killed and 36 wounded in Indian-controlled Kashmir in the north after gunmen opened fire at a beauty spot near the resort town of Pahalgam, nicknamed 'Mini Switzerland.' The nationalities of the victims haven't been disclosed yet. Authorities blamed it on the resistance fighting Indian rule which deploys 500,000 soldiers in Kashmir. The attack seemed to have been timed to coincide with JD Vance's four-day tour of India and PM Nahendra Modi's visit to Saudi Arabia. Read more
For the next five months, a custody battle raged between the boy's father and his relatives, between Cuba and the U.S., until April 22, 2000, when a SWAT team of federal agents rushed the home of the boy's Miami relatives with semi-automatic weapons in a predawn raid. He was reunited with his father within hours. The Herald went to press that morning with a front page that said "SWAT team takes Elian." Here's an excerpt from one of the related stories: Read more
The Japanese have just been in Washington. Their experience apparently was they went to talk to the American leadership on this matter, and the American leadership said 'what are you offering?' And the Japanese said 'well, what is it that you want?' And the Americans could not explain what they wanted.'
A swimmer is missing following an extremely rare shark attack off the coast of northern Israel about 25 miles north of Tel Aviv. Sharks are known to gather there where warm water is discharged by a local power plant, and especially at this time of year, but they are usually harmless. There have been no recorded fatal shark attacks in waters off Israel since the country was founded in 1948. Below Israelis admire a shark in the same area in 2021. Pre-attack video of the shark captured here: twitter.com Read more
An effigy of Donald Trump was marched through the streets before being shot and burned as part of Easter Sunday celebrations in Spain. Every Easter, locals in the town of Coripe, Seville, string up a Judas' figure representing a public figure whose actions are deemed to be morally reprehensible'. Video shows the Trump doll, sporting a dark navy suit, red tie and unmistakable shock of blonde hair, leading a town parade at gunpoint before being hung from a tree in the town square and shot at with rifles from close range.
The burning of Judas' effigies is a common ritual amongst Christian communities as part of traditional Easter celebrations.
1) President Zelensky will attend Pope Francis' funeral at the Vatican, as will Trumpf and King Charles. The sidebar conversations will be something to note. Lipreaders might be helpful to some intelligence agencies. 2) The Kremlin is satisfied with US statements that Ukraine will not join NATO. Trumpf considers Ukraine's non-membership of NATO to be part of any diplomatic settlement to end the war. 3) Russia lost 1,130 soldiers KIA and WIA over the past day. Total Russian losses since Feb 2022: 943,060 (+1,130) troops. 4) Japan's Kyushu University Institute has agreed to provide Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Note Bene: Russia and Japan never signed a peace treaty at the end of WWII so technically they are still in a state of war. 5) Poor little puppy rescued under rubble after Russian missile attack in Sumy Oblast: t.me Read more
Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight evacuated on emergency slides onto the Orlando International Airport tarmac in Florida after an engine caught fire. Flight 1213 was pushing back from the gate for departure at 1115HRS when the emergency began. 282 passengers were on board the full-capacity flight (an Airbus A330), as well as ten flight attendants and two pilots. There were no initial reports of injuries. Read more
Former Tesla Engineer Says Elon Musk Threatened to Deport Her Team for Pointing Out a Problem With the Brakes "
He's pure evil."
Bitcoin and crypto prices are treading water after U.S. president Donald Trump's trade war sparked market chaos that's threatening to spiral into a full-blown "U.S. dollar confidence crisis."
It's always interesting when a Republican says what many other Republicans are thinking, out loud. Read more
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly
NPR has reached out to the White House for comment.
This comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to find himself mired in controversy. NPR has also confirmed with the same official that Hegseth shared details ahead of last month's Yemen strikes with his wife and brother in a Signal chat on his personal phone, minutes after being updated by a senior U.S. military official. The news of the second Signal group chat about the mission was first reported by The New York Times.
In March, Hegseth shared details about action against Houthi targets in Yemen in a Signal chat with top White House officials that accidentally included a journalist.
