Trump lashes out at conservative justices
During a Republican fundraising dinner in Washington Wednesday night, Donald Trump blasted U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, two members of the court’s conservative majority. Trump said that Coney Barrett and Gorsuch made him sick. “They sicken me cause they’re bad for the country,” Trump said. Trump assailed them and the other justices who voted to strike down the trade tariffs Trump imposed when he claimed that there was an emergency that allowed him to do so. During the fundraiser, the Republican party presented Trump with a new Republican Party award that they created for Trump.
Documents shredded after Epstein’s death
Employees of the Trump administration’s Bureau of Prisons shredded documents at the Manhattan prison where pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died within days of his death, the FBI has been told. The Miami Herald reported that at least three garbage bags filled with shredded documents were taken outside to a dumpster by a prisoner who had been pressed into service by the Bureau of Prisons employees. The newspaper reported that a corrections officer called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center and reported that he had “never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster.”
Travel chaos continues at airports
For the tenth time, Republicans in Congress have killed a plan that would have funded the Transportation Security Administration and allowed TSA workers at airports to return to work. It’s reported that President Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to kill the proposal from Democrats. Airports across the country are bracing for another surge of weekend travelers as the partial government shutdown drags on, pushing TSA wait times to record highs. More than 450 TSA airport screeners have quit and an estimated 10% have called in sick. With no deal yet to fund the Department of Homeland Security — and lawmakers set to leave for a two-week recess on Friday — the outlook is increasingly uncertain. Waits of three hours for p[assenger screening were reported at LaGuardia Airport yesterday and there were four hour delays at Newark.
Social media verdict against Meta and YouTube
Meta and YouTube were found liable on Wednesday in a landmark case over social media addiction. A California jury concluded that the companies designed their platforms to foster compulsive use, knew the risks, failed to warn users and caused substantial harm to a young woman’s mental health. The companies were ordered to pay $6 million in damages — a relatively small sum for the tech giants, but one that analysts say could serve as a blueprint for hundreds of similar lawsuits. If losses mount in those cases, total damages could climb into the billions, CNN tech reporter Clare Duffy said.
Iran prepares for U.S. invasion of Kharg island
As tensions rise across the Middle East, Iran has been laying traps on Kharg Island, preparing for a potential U.S. attempt to seize the key oil hub, according to multiple people familiar with U.S. intelligence. The Trump administration is weighing whether to use troops to take the island in the northeastern Persian Gulf — which handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports — as leverage to force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, CNN has reported. But officials and military experts warn that such an operation would carry major risks, including significant U.S. casualties, given the island’s layered defenses. Separately, Israel says it killed a key Iranian Navy commander involved in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Record warmth in the west
A record warm March has melted an already abysmal snowpack across the western U.S., with the impacts clearly visible in satellite imagery. That’s raising alarms ahead of summer in a region that relies heavily on mountain snow for its water supply. Snowpack in the western U.S. typically reaches its peak by late March or early April, but it is currently at record lows, which means a host of potential impacts, including greater wildfire risk and reduced water availability in river basins, meteorologists say. That includes the Colorado River Basin, which has long been mired in water scarcity.
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