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Colin Carroll, the chief of staff of Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, has been placed on administrative leave, two defense sources said Wednesday, the third such appointee to be placed on leave reported this week.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/third-pentagon-appointee-administrative-leave/index.html Ed Martin, the Trump administration’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he’s made in the past few years, including many on far-right outlets and Russian-state me...
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/politics/ed-martin-failed-to-report-media-appearances-senate/index.html To understand Donald Trump’s second term, just look at the fights he picks.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/politics/trump-administration-deportations-transgender-athletes-universities/index.html CNN’s Elle Reeve talks with supporters and opponents of President Trump in South Dakota. Here’s what they think now, with tariffs looming.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/video/south-dakota-trump-tariffs-elle-reeve-digvid Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman tells CNN’s Omar Jimenez the White House’s escalating attacks on Harvard University are “unprecedented.”
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/politics/video/harvard-irs-threats-bruce-ackerman-lcl-digvid
Economy
Worried about high mortgage payments? Wells Fargo’s Ernest Campbell breaks down three ways you can make your mortgage more affordable.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/15/business/video/how-to-lower-interest-rates-digvid The long-simmering showdown between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is heating up.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/economy/trump-fed-chair-powell-termination/index.html The European Central Bank cut its main interest rate to 2.25% from 2.5% Thursday, citing worries about rising trade tensions as Donald Trump’s tariffs have sparked a global trade war.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/economy/ecb-cuts-interest-rates-tariffs-intl/index.html Get the latest news on Canada from Mail Online.
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/canada/index.html Welcome to Zero Hour, where it’s always later than you think. America was convinced tech would complete our mastery of the world. Instead we got catastrophe—constant crisis from politics and the economy down to the spiritual f...
https://theblaze.com/podcasts/zero-hour-with-james-poulos/
Tech
Imagine a world without the internet, or GPS, MRNA vaccines or the touchscreen on your iPhone. The science and technology that have become integral to our daily lives may never have existed, experts say, were it not for research f...
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/universities-funding-trump-cuts/index.html Follow FRANCE 24’s coverage of events in Paris and across France, Corsica and the French overseas territories. An insider look at French politics, culture, society, technology and sport through on-the-ground…
https://france24.com/en/france/ FRANCE 24’s analyses of the economic events and technological innovations shaping our world, including economic trends, energy markets, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and space exploration.
https://france24.com/en/business-tech/ The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of endangered and threatened species
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/proposed-rule-change-endangered-species-triggers-alarm-environmentalists-120887003 Sci/Tech
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Sports
When Coca-Cola fully took control of BodyArmor in 2021 in a $5.6 billion deal, the company announced it had a goal of it “becoming the #1 global sports drink” and toppling PepsiCo’s Gatorade from its top-selling position.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/food/bodyarmor-rebrand/index.html Follow FRANCE 24’s coverage of the major sporting events from across the globe, including match results, portraits and interviews. From the Olympics to the World Cup to the African Cup of Nations, follow…
https://france24.com/en/sport/ Check out the latest UK and world news headlines on sports, entertainment, celebrities, health, science, TV and more from MailOnline.
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Space
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chem...
https://cnn.com/2025/04/17/science/life-on-alien-planet-strongest-evidence/index.html FRANCE 24’s analyses of the economic events and technological innovations shaping our world, including economic trends, energy markets, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and space exploration.
https://france24.com/en/business-tech/ The space on Great Jones Street has shifted gears since it was first announced in 2023
https://hellomagazine.com/celebrities/826909/angelina-jolie-atelier-jolie-not-what-expected/ Gayle King has responded to backlash over her Blue Origin flight, which saw an all-female crew take an eight-minute trip into space.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-backlash-expensive-blue-origin-flight-1236370552/ Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for April 17, 2025.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trivia-quiz-daily-slate-science-space-nature-time.html
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