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#10 Founder Klaus Schwab to Step Down as World Economic Forum’s Chair - Reuters, MAGA Voice, BRICS News, Shadow of Ezra, and Concerned Citizen on X
The World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, will "start the process" of stepping down as chair of its board of trustees, a spokesperson for the Geneva-based institution told Reuters on Thursday.Schwab said the forum, which convenes annual gatherings in the Swiss resort of Davos, must recover its "sense of mission" after a period of turmoil, the Financial Times first reported, citing a letter to trustee board members and confirmation by two people with knowledge of the situation...
#9 Trump Administration Fires National Security Agency Chief and Deputy Director - The Mirror US, Jack Paso, Chris Bing OSINTdefender, The Bulwark, and Breaking 911 on X
The Trump administration has dismissed National Security Agency (NSA) chief Timothy Haugh and Deputy Director Wendy Noble. The Washington Post reports that both current and former officials are in the dark about the reasons behind Haugh's termination and Noble's reassignment following her move to a position within the Pentagon's office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. William Hartmann, US Cyber Command deputy, has been appointed as the acting NSA director, while Sheila Thomas will serve as the acting deputy. According to ABC News, Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the leading Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has called for an explanation for the dismissals...
#8 Pro-life Activist Savannah Craven Beaten and Bloodied by Abortion Supporter During NYC Street Interview - Roberto Wakerell-Cruz for Post Millennial, Lila Rose, Andy Ngo, and Adam Francisco on X
Savannah Craven, a pro-life activist with Live Action, was attacked in New York City while interviewing people on the street on Thursday. She had been asking them, “Do you know what Planned Parenthood does?” when a pro-abortion supporter started talking to her. At first, the woman engaged in conversation, but after realizing Craven was pro-life, she became angry and started punching her in the face, leaving her bloody...#7 Researchers Create Sound that Bends Through Space to Reach Just One Person - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Bi Xia, Nirmata, and Kaleidospace on X
Thanks to rapid advances in technology, the world we live in is extensively changing before our eyes. Soon, thanks to researchers at Penn State, you may be able to enjoy your favorite podcast or music without headphones and without disrupting those nearby. Using what they call “audible enclaves,” acoustics professor Yun Jing and his team have developed a way to confine sound—a vibration that travels through the air as a wave—to specific small zones where only the intended listener can hear it, even in close quarters like a car or right in front of the speaker, or picking someone out in a crowd, while others nearby hear nothing...#6 Trump Publicly Backs France’s Far-Right Figurehead Le Pen After Her Conviction - Todd Symons for CNN, Elon Musk/Donald J. Trump (community note), Inevitable West, BRICS News, and Western Decline on X
S President Donald Trump has thrown his support behind another embattled far-right European leader, backing Marine Le Pen after French presidential hopeful was convicted of embezzlement and barred from political office. “FREE MARINE LE PEN,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday, calling the court ruling a “Witch Hunt.” The message is the latest high-profile endorsement from his administration of a far-right party in Europe and comes as Trump upends decades of post-World War Two security guarantees towards the continent with his “America First” foreign and trade policies...
#5 EU Seeking to Fine X $1 Billion for DSA Violations - Andrew Hutchinson for Social Media Today, Mike Lee/Watcher Guru (community note), Libs of TikTok, Nick Sortor, and Wall Street Apes/Mike Benz on X
This could end up prompting a significant escalation in already tense U.S. and EU relations. As reported by The New York Times, the EU Commission is currently finalizing plans to issue Elon Musk’s X with a penalty in the range of $US1 billion for violations of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The penalty relates to an investigation launched by EU officials back in 2023 around X’s revised approach to content moderation and how that had seemingly allowed the amplification of misleading claims...
#4 US Senate Confirms Trump Loyalist to Lead Justice Department Civil Rights Unit - Sarah N. Lynch for Reuters, Nick Sortor, MAGA Voice, Robby Starbuck, and Dhillon Law Group on X
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, in a 52-45 vote. One Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, voted no along with Democrats. Dhillon will oversee criminal and civil work ranging from hate crime prosecutions and voting rights litigation to investigating law enforcement agencies for engaging in patterns of discrimination...#3 China to Impose Tariffs of 34% on All U.S. Goods From April 10 - Reuters, Mario Nawfal, Investing.com, Bitcoin Magazine, Bach,
China on Friday announced a slew of additional tariffs and restrictions against U.S. goods as a countermeasure to sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The Finance Ministry said it would impose additional tariffs of 34% on all U.S. goods from April 10. Beijing also announced controls on exports of medium and heavy rare earths, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium, to the United States, effective April 4. “The purpose of the Chinese government’s implementation of export controls on relevant items in accordance with the law is to better safeguard national security and interests and to fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation,” the Commerce Ministry said in a statement...
#2 Nominee for South Carolina’s Top Doctor Toppled by Lingering COVID Anger - Jeffrey Collins for AP/ The Washington Times, April Cromer, Kelly McCarty, Senator Matt Leber and Evan Mulch on X
South Carolina Senate committee rejected the Republican governor’s nominee to be the state’s top doctor after hours of hearings dominated by the state’s response to the COVID pandemic. Just one of 13 Republicans on the Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted for Dr. Edward Simmer’s nomination to lead the new Department of Public Health - in contrast to the Republican-dominated Senate’s overwhelming endorsement of Simmer in 2021 as head of the state’s old public health and environmental agency...
#1 RFK Jr. Announces HHS Reinstating Some Programs, Employees Cut by Mistake - Cheyenne Haslett for ABC News, End Tribalism in Politics, Marcia Brown, Dorrit Reiss, and Washington Examiner on X
On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services this week, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut. "We're streamlining the agencies. We're going to make it work for public health, make it work for the American people," Kennedy said. "In the course of that, there were a number of instances where studies that should have not have been cut were cut, and we've reinstated them. Personnel that should not have been cut were cut -- we're reinstating them, and that was always the plan."
