Good morning!🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m Nicole Fallert. I want to sit in peace with these elephants. Take a glimpse at Wednesday’s news: President Trump decides size of tariffs President Donald Trump plans to launch sweeping reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday. Though details surrounding Trump’s economic policy remain unclear, Trump has promoted his Wednesday announcement as “the big one,” calling the … Read more
Alvaro Murillo  | Reuters SAN JOSE, April 1 (Reuters) – Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.” Arias, 84, … Read more
Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali  | Reuters WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reinforced U.S. military capability in the Middle East with more warplanes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, amid a more than two-week-old U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen and mounting tensions with Iran. The Pentagon’s brief statement did not … Read more
James Mackenzie  | Reuters JERUSALEM, April 2 (Reuters) – Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population. Israeli leaders have been encouraged by signs of protest in Gaza against … Read more
In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies like the CDC, support staff, specialists, and scientists were hit with DOGE pink slips. ‘We’re going to consolidate:’ RFK, Jr. on HHS layoffs 10,000 job cuts expected at HHS as part of major restructuring. Fox – 5 NY Top officials at the FDA were … Read more
Republicans look to maintain majority in Congress In the aftermath of the withdraw of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador, Congressional Republicans now turn their focus to upcoming special elections in Florida to keep their majority. Fox – 35 Orlando Is that a patch of blue sky? Democrats, who haven’t had much good news … Read more
Wisconsin Supreme Court race attracts wealthy partisan donors Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race has become the country’s most expensive judicial election ever. Billionaire Elon Musk is the biggest spender. Liberal judge Susan Crawford has won Wisconsin’s high-stakes state Supreme Court race, beating her conservative opponent Brad Schimel late Tuesday evening, according to NBC News and CNN. … Read more
Sen. Cory Booker gives record-breaking Senate speech
‘Tesla Takedown:’ Protesters rally outside Tesla dealerships across US Protesters organized nationwide against Tesla CEO and White House adviser Elon Musk. An Idaho man faces one count of aggravated battery after police alleged that he struck a man with his car at the same time as a protest at a Tesla showroom in Meridian. The … Read more