April 2024

Unbiased headline news for Tuesday April 30, 2024 – An Israeli authority figure conveyed that the government is actively working to avert potential arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking officials. The ICC, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, affirmed that “an ongoing independent investigation in relation to the Situation in the State of Palestine” is underway, but the ICC would “have no further comment to make at this stage.” Reports suggest Israel is now pursuing diplomatic avenues in an effort to prevent the issuance of such warrants. — In a surprising visit to Kyiv on Monday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that assistance was forthcoming, following a winter marred by incremental Russian advances in their invasion of the neighboring nation. Acknowledging delays by the United States and other allies in providing additional aid to Ukraine, Stoltenberg commended the country’s valiant defense in limiting Moscow’s successes and expressed confidence in their prospects for turning the tide. — A proposal championed by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz to provide airport security escorts for lawmakers faced obstruction. The provision, part of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, would have facilitated special security escorts at airports for legislators and judges facing credible threats. However, the plan encountered objections from House Homeland Security ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson, resulting in its failure, according to The Hill. — The Biden administration announced substantial fines against four of the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally disseminating information about their customers’ locations. The fines, totaling nearly $200 million, were levied against AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon after an investigation revealed they had sold access to their customers’ location information to third-party aggregators and location-based service providers, the Federal Communications Commission stated in a statement. — An American tourist facing over a decade of imprisonment in the Turks and Caicos islands after ammunition was discovered in his luggage said he’s striving to FaceTime with his children back home as frequently as possible in case he ultimately ends up incarcerated. Watson is out on bail, but he said he can’t leave the country and has to check in at a local police station twice a week. He’s facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years behind bars. — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Elon Musk challenging a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to obtain prior approval for certain social media posts related to Tesla, the electric vehicle company he leads. The justices did not provide commentary in upholding lower-court rulings against Musk, who argued that the requirement amounts to “prior restraint” on his speech in violation of the First Amendment. The case stems from messages Musk posted on Twitter in 2018 in which he claimed he had secured funding to take Tesla private. — It’s been nearly one month since California raised the minimum wage at certain restaurants, shedding light on a course correction that many view as long overdue. The newly elevated compensation benchmark marks a pivotal juncture for restaurants to remain competitive in an already challenging post-pandemic landscape. The industry, renowned for its thin margins, is once again being pushed to make monetary and operational adjustments to stay afloat, all without compromising consumer expectations. — In 2022, video footage of a great-grandmother thwarting a robbery outside her California home went viral. Now she’s running for City Council. Faye Taylor could be seen charging out of her home and throwing a cane at a man who was allegedly trying to steal an elderly woman’s purse. Now Taylor, 77, who works as a longshoreman at the Port of Oakland, says she’s running for Oakland City Council, District 3, after witnessing what she says is an uptick in crime in her community.

Unbiased headline news for Tuesday April 30, 2024 – World Central Kitchen has resumed its operations in Gaza, four weeks after a tragic incident where seven aid workers were killed by Israeli air strikes, as announced by the organization. The nonprofit, founded by renowned chef José Andrés, had temporarily suspended its vital food aid delivery operations in Gaza following the devastating killings. Prior to the April 1 strike that claimed the lives of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, the organization had been sending approximately two tons of food to Gaza. World Central Kitchen stated that they will now utilize every possible means, including land, air, and sea, to ensure the delivery of food aid to those in need. — Ohio State University has become the latest campus to witness protests against Israel’s ongoing military operations against Hamas in Gaza. Overnight clashes between protesters and police on the university grounds resulted in over a dozen arrests. According to university spokesperson Benjamin Johnson, those who refused to disperse after warnings were arrested and charged with criminal trespass, citing rules prohibiting overnight events. A preliminary report indicated that a total of 36 arrests were made, including 16 students and 20 individuals unaffiliated with the university. — In a tragic incident in southern Germany, two Ukrainian men, aged 23 and 36, who resided in the county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were stabbed to death on the premises of a shopping center in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. Shortly after the killings on Saturday evening, police authorities arrested a 57-year-old Russian man as a possible suspect in the brutal slayings. The investigation into the motives behind the murders is ongoing. — Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in the Chinese capital on Sunday, coinciding with the nation’s carmakers exhibiting their latest electric vehicle models at the Beijing auto show. During the meeting, Premier Li Qiang expressed to Musk his hope that the U.S. will work more closely with China on “win-win” cooperation, citing Tesla’s operations in China as a successful example of economic collaboration, according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV’s main evening news program. — Ireland’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Simon Harris, has instructed his government to formulate a plan to facilitate the return of asylum seekers to Britain. Harris has directed Justice Minister Helen McEntee to deliver proposals to the cabinet next week, addressing the issue after stating that a recently implemented British plan to deport asylum seekers who arrive in Britain to Rwanda has led to an 80% increase in recent asylum seekers entering Ireland through its land border with Northern Ireland. — In a concerning incident in Woodstock, northern Illinois, three children aged 12 and 13 were injured when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill and into a concrete baseball dugout on Saturday morning. The children, along with one other, were inside the parked minivan when it is believed to have accidentally slipped into drive while the radio was being adjusted. The three injured children were hospitalized with mild to moderate injuries. — The Massachusetts State Police have successfully dismantled a burglary ring that allegedly stole more than $4 million worth of jewelry, predominantly from the homes of South Asians across over two dozen communities. Four individuals, including two brothers, were indicted on April 18 after a nine-month investigation, facing 95 counts of unarmed burglary and breaking and entering a dwelling house in the daytime with intent to commit a felony. — Pope Francis embarked on his first trip outside Rome in seven months, visiting Venice for a packed itinerary that included an art exhibition, a stop at a prison, and a Mass celebrated in St. Mark’s Square. The dizzying morning visit, which culminated with the Mass, represented an increasingly rare outing for the 87-year-old pontiff, who has been hindered by health and mobility issues that have precluded any foreign trips so far this year. “Venice, which has always been a place of encounter and cultural exchange, is called to be a sign of beauty available to all,” Francis remarked during his visit.

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Unbiased headline news for Saturday April 27, 2024 – Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that resembled components of the unmanned aircraft. The Houthis said they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. — Russia launched a barrage of missile attacks against Ukraine overnight, in strikes that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Russia said its air defense systems had intercepted more than 60 Ukrainian drones over the southern Krasnodar region. Ukraine’s air force said that Russia had launched 34 missiles against Ukraine overnight, of which 21 had been shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. — Students protesting the Israel-Hamas conflict at universities across the U.S. vowed to keep their demonstrations going despite ongoing clashes with law enforcement. Early Saturday, police began clearing out a Pro-Palestinian student encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston. The school said the demonstration, which began two days ago, had become “infiltrated by individuals not affiliated with the university” with no connection to the school. — Residents began sifting through the debris after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions, then slamming an Iowa town. The tornadoes wreaked havoc in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes. There have been several injuries reported, but no fatalities. — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual misconduct, filing a motion on Friday to dismiss some claims. The motion filed in a New York court claims Combs cannot be sued because certain laws didn’t exist when Joi Dickerson-Deal made the allegations against him in 1991. The music mogul’s lawyers want certain statues from Dickerson-Deal’s claims such as revenge porn and human trafficking to be dismissed with prejudice. — Six people were shot outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital, police said. The shootings happened Friday around 11:30 p.m. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington. Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle said officers were called after a dispute started inside the nightclub and “spilled into the street.” The six people who were shot sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said. — A 14-year-old Florida boy told police he accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother after finding a gun in an alley near their home, authorities said. St. Petersburg police responded to the family’s home shortly after noon on Friday and found Amir Williams suffering from a gunshot wound, according to a police news release. The boy died at the scene. Amir was home with his older brother and 13-year-old sister, police said. The children’s mother wasn’t present at the time. — The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers. The union struck a four-year agreement with the German company on Friday evening, just before the expiration of the previous contract, which was enacted six years ago. It covers workers at various plants in North Carolina.

A North Carolina Pastor did not hold back when he shared his thoughts on the Trump Bible. He made it clear that if you are a true Christian, you cannot bring politics into the church. He gave specific details on what being a Christian is all about and what the bible stands for. He went on to say that creating you own version of the Bible is basically blasphemy. This is a video that everyone in the MAGA camp need to watch over and over again.

Unbiased headline for Thursday April 25, 2024 – The United Nations is demanding an independent probe into alleged mass graves found at two hospitals in Gaza that had been besieged by Israeli forces. U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker Türk issued the call, stating that “independent, effective and transparent investigations into the deaths” should be conducted. The hospitals in question are An Nasser Medical Complex, in Southern Gaza, and Al-Shifa Medical Complex, in Northern Gaza. They were surrounded earlier this year by Israeli soldiers searching for militants. — Hamas has released a video of injured Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The footage showed him delivering a lengthy statement that appeared to have been scripted by Hamas. In a Wednesday statement, Goldberg-Polin’s parents, through the Hostage Families Forum, said, “Hersh’s cry is the collective cry of all the hostages — their time is rapidly running out. With each passing day, the fear of losing more innocent lives grows stronger.” — The U.S. Department of State has called for an immediate cessation of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the breakaway Rapid Support Forces that endangers millions in Sudan. “We are alarmed by indications of an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces and its affiliated militias,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Wednesday in a press statement. — The Transportation Department has issued a final rule mandating airline carriers to promptly provide cash refunds to passengers when owed for scenarios like canceled or significantly delayed flights and delayed or lost baggage among other issues. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the new final rule was necessary to ensure passengers were made whole for flight disruptions at or near real-time so it can still be meaningful for them in their travels. The White House also announced that it will also target “junk fees” charged by airlines. — Michigan prosecutors have charged a father for violating the state’s newly enacted safe storage law after his son allegedly got access to a firearm and shot himself in the face in their home. Theo Nichols’ 8-year-old son was in “extremely critical condition,” at a Detroit hospital following the April 19 incident, police in Warren, Michigan, said at a news conference Wednesday. Investigators said the boy used a chair to access the handgun which was “unsafely” and insecurely stored on top of a kitchen cabinet. — About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who are not yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income, an AARP survey finds. About 1 in 4 have no retirement savings, according to research released Wednesday by the organization that shows how a graying America is worrying more and more about how to make ends meet even as economists and policymakers say the U.S. economy has all but achieved a soft landing after two years of record inflation. — As federal agencies and state partners continue investigating outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, more commonly referred to as bird flu, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it discovered fragments of the virus in some samples of milk. In an update from the FDA, the agency said it tested milk samples by polymerase chain reaction and found the presence of fragments of the virus, which is not the same as infectious virus and currently poses no increased risk to human health. — In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health, in New York City, performed the operation in two steps, the first being the implantation of the heart pump. The second took place days later, with the transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney and the pig’s thymus gland.