Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer

Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under “troubling circumstances,” says the ACLU of Louisiana

Rolling Stone

Breakthrough multiple sclerosis therapy by UCSF doctor transforms treatment for millions

Drugs targeting the B-cell culprits in the relapsing form of MS can leave patients essentially symptom-free. Millions of people worldwide are on the drugs, the first line of which were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017.

San Francisco Chronicle

100 Days. That’s All It Took to Sever America From the World.

In 1941, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt marshaled support for the fight against fascism, his chief antagonists were isolationists at home. “What I seek to convey,” he said at the beginning of an address to Congress, “is the historic truth that the United States as a nation has at all times maintained clear, definite opposition to any attempt to lock us in behind an ancient Chinese wall while the procession of civilization went past.” Roosevelt prevailed, and that victory expanded America’s relationship with the world in ways that remade both.

Eighty-four years later, President Trump is systematically severing America from the globe. This is not simply a shift in foreign policy. It is a divorce so comprehensive that it makes Britain’s exit from the European Union look modest by comparison.

The New York Times (Gift)

GOP Medicaid debate intensifies as Republicans search for cuts

“The federal government is paying 90 percent of the Medicaid expansion. What we have talked about is moving that 90 percent level of the expansion back toward the more traditional level,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said in an interview Monday on Fox Business.  

“Nobody would be kicked off Medicaid as long as governors decided they wanted to continue to fund the program,” Scott said.  

The Hill

Chaos unleashed by Musk’s Doge is starting to wane – what does that mean?

Cheatham, 45, a lawyer who worked at the United Nations for 10 years in New York, Iraq and Libya, was among staff fired by email. He added: “Elon Musk has the nerve to tweet that USIP was helping support terrorists. I’ve put my own personal life in danger in 27 post-ISIS cities. He has no earthly idea what it means to try to prevent extremism, terrorism and violence in this world.”

Cheatham warned that Musk’s approach of treating government like the private sector is disastrous. “It’s one of the worst things that’s ever happened to this country in modern history since the civil war, this absolute destruction of the state,” he said.

The Guardian

The Coming Economic Nightmare

Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

The Atlantic

Trump administration restores status of international students after abrupt terminations

“We have not reversed course on a single visa revocation. What we did is restore SEVIS access for people who had not had their visa revoked,” a spokesperson for the DHS wrote in a statement to ABC News when asked how many of the SEVIS statuses it had terminated in recent weeks will be restored.

ABC News

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

ProPublica

Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing

According to a U.S. official, the woman’s work visa expired around 2017, and she was marked for removal from the United States a few years later. She and the Coast Guardsman were married early this year, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an enforcement incident.

Central Illinois Proud

DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say

The goal is to create a massive repository of data pulled from various agencies, according to sources familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to talk about it. The administration has previously sought to centralize information from a number of agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and Health and Human Services, among others.

CNN

The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old

The U.S. is survived by a country of the same name, the United States of America, now a presidential dictatorship.

San Francisco Chronicle

Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet

The president’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them.

The Atlantic

‘Protect the Dolls’ T-shirt becomes a fashion symbol for trans rights

When the designer Conner Ives took his bow after his London fashion week show this February, he wore a T-shirt that proclaimed “Protect the Dolls”. Two months later, the design – and its message supporting trans women, who are affectionately called “dolls” in the LGBTQ+ community – has become ever more popular.

The Guardian

Democrats embrace the f-bomb

“I think that in the case of the Democratic candidates … the swearing reflects their sense of crisis,” said Michael Adams, a lexicography expert and author of the book “In Praise of Profanity.” 

“There’s just a point at which the usual vocabulary will not be sufficiently expressive in the moment,” Adams said. “I suspect that this is a ‘no, I really mean it,’ type of emphasis … All of the niceties, all of the conventions, all that stuff — we have to put that aside because the situation in which we find ourselves is so dire politically, culturally and historically, that we just need to act.”

The Hill

American Values Are Threatened by the American President

This Is Not the America My Immigrant Father Was Determined to Reach

The New York Times (Gift)

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts

The exact numbers and demographics of the workers affected by the ongoing federal job cuts are hard to come by. But the government’s latest public data from September 2024 shows Black people make up 18.5% of the federal civilian workforce, while their share of the general U.S. population, according to the 2020 census, stands at 14.8%. At some agencies, including the Departments of Education, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development, Black employees make up about a third or more of the staff.

NPR

Elon Musk’s lack of math skills is making me nervous

Writer Jill Lepore has been studying Musk’s vision of the future since 2021and concludes that he does a lot of his thinking through the lens of science fiction — without understanding the “fiction” part. “He misreads everything that he reads,” she told New Yorker editor David Remnick in an interview. Otherswho have followed Musk’s obsession with travel to Mars are already aware of his trouble with concepts such as distance and time.

The Washington Post (Gift)

A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

The lawsuit said the policy put in place by President Donald Trump has been subject to his “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority.”

It challenged Trump’s claim that he could arbitrarily impose tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The suit asks the court to declare the tariffs to be illegal, and to block government agencies and its officers from enforcing them.

The Grio

Your Home Without China

It’s hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products.

Many essentials are imported almost entirely from China — and with new tariffs, they’re likely to become more expensive.

The New York Times (Gift)

Trump Administration to Judges: ‘We Will Find You’

The arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over allegedly obstructing the apprehension of an undocumented immigrant is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary. You can just ask Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,” Bondi told Fox News, commenting on Dugan’s arrest. “They’re deranged. I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not. We are sending a very strong message today: If you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are. If you are helping hide one, if you are giving a [gang] member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you, and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”

The Atlantic

The NATO Country With No Military Gets Serious About Defense

“There is never been public support in Iceland for a military, and I don’t think there will be in the foreseeable future,” said Frostadottir, who took office in late December. “That doesn’t mean we can’t have active defenses, and that we can’t have active alliances, and defenses are important.”

The Wall Street Journal (Gift)

German, Austrian ministers in Damascus for talks on Syrian refugees

“We know how tense the security situation is and how precarious the humanitarian situation still is,” Faeser said. She said she nevertheless wants to talk to Syria’s government about prospects for the return of refugees.

“Our top priority is that criminals and Islamists are deported as quickly as possible,” she added.

dpa International

Canada’s Constitution – and the heroes who forged it – made us who we are as a country

When the American poet Robert Frost wrote that “two roads diverged in a wood,” he probably wasn’t thinking of constitutional law. But it fits. Go down the Canadian road, and the woods are filled with living trees, changing, adapting, growing. The American road? The trees have become frozen in distant times.

The Globe and Mail

A stunning reversal of fortunes in Canada’s historic election

In the final hours of a 36-day campaign, Donald Trump’s shadow looms over everything. The winner of Monday’s election is likely to be the party able to convince voters they have a plan for how to deal with the US president.

National polls suggest the Liberals have maintained a narrow lead entering last stretch.

BBC

Pope Francis’ record on LGBTQ+ issues were always mixed at best

The Pope’s welcoming messages were often contradicted by himself and by other Church statements.

LGBTQ Nation

Car plows through Vancouver Filipino festival, killing at least 11

At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured when a man with a history of mental health issues rammed an SUV through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver, police said on Sunday.

Police arrested a 30-year-old Vancouver man at the scene of the incident on Saturday evening, describing him as having had a “significant history” of interactions with authorities involving mental health. They said there was no evidence of terrorism.

Reuters

50 years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam tweaks the story of its victory

For weeks, Vietnam has been preparing this city for the anniversary of a defining moment in the nation’s history: On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese forces stormed the Presidential Palace in Saigon, the governing seat of the Republic of Vietnam, just days after U.S. troops had withdrawn. The victory of the communist regime over the U.S. allied armies in the south effectively ended a costly, three decades-long conflict and unified the country.

Fifty years later, Vietnam is celebrating April 30 like never before. But amid the fanfare of parades, fireworks and airshows, a long-standing debate over what to call the holiday continues, a subtle acknowledgment of the lingering scars of a contentious war.

The Los Angeles Times

Toll from Iran port blast hits 40 as fire blazes

The blast occurred on Saturday at Shahid Rajaee Port in southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of world oil output passes.

With choking smoke and air pollution spreading throughout the area, all schools and offices in Bandar Abbas, the nearby capital of Hormozgan province, were ordered closed to allow authorities to focus on the emergency effort, state television said.

Al-Monitor

The fall of Hudson’s Bay: How Richard Baker presided over the failure of a retail icon

“There was more than enough capital generated through monetizing assets in the Canadian business to make the Bay as a department store very successful,” said Mark Foote, a veteran retail executive who spent four years with the Bay as president of Zellers before the discount stores were sold to Target Canada. “They monetized a lot of things in that company, and the money didn’t go back into the business. It went into acquiring a whole bunch of other retail banners,” he said.

The Globe and Mail

Beijing seizes tiny sandbank in South China Sea

The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a regional dispute with the Philippines.

State broadcaster CCTV released images of four officers, wearing all black and holding the Chinese flag, stood on the disputed reef of Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands.

The channel said China had “implemented maritime control and exercised sovereign jurisdiction” on the reef earlier in April.

The Philippine government has yet to formally respond. Both China and the Philippines have staked their claims on various islands and zones. Their dispute has been escalating, with frequent confrontations including vessels colliding and scuffles.

BBC

S Korea’s main opposition party taps former chief as presidential candidate

Democratic Party of Korea names Lee Jae-myung as its candidate for the snap presidential election set for June 3.

AlJazeera

Israel says it strikes Hezbollah missiles in southern Beirut

The Israeli army said on Sunday it struck a southern Beirut building being used to store precision missiles belonging to Hezbollah.

Reuters

Pope Francis’ Tomb Adorned with Single White Rose in First Images as Mourners Line Up to Pay Respects

The simple stone tomb displays the late pope’s name “Franciscus” in Latin alongside a single white rose and a crucifix on the wall.

Pope Francis was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Maggiore church — also known as the Basilica of St. Mary Major — in Rome in a private ceremony after his funeral, attended by around 250,000 people, on the morning of Saturday, April 26, in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City. 

People

Report: Johann Wadephul to become Germany’s new foreign minister

Johann Wadephul is set to become Germany’s new foreign minister, German media reported on Sunday.

The Table Media portal said that the 62-year-old Wadephul, from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is to be the country’s top foreign policy official, replacing Annalena Baerbock.

dpa International

Far-right Bardella says would stand for French president if Le Pen barred

The party leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella said he would stand for president in 2027 with the backing of Marine Le Pen if the three-time presidential candidate was barred from taking part, in an interview published Saturday.

The New Arab