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Apr 26, 2025 - World

Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, allegedly "intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject" whom agents were intending to detain at her courthouse, FBI director Kash Patel said in a post on X.

Apr 26, 2025 - World

President Trump acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be "tapping me along" following another round of missile strikes in Ukraine.

Apr 26, 2025 - World

Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward say a huge industrial project will imperil its recovery from 2005’s Hurricane KatrinaResidents ofNew Orleans’ Ninth Ward, an area many declared dead after Hurricane Katrina, know their history – and the resurgent arts district that marks their comeback. They worry that a huge industrial project would bury the great resurrection. And it’s only the latest crisis with which they have grappled.For all its grandeur and rocking street pageants, New Orleans faced another crisis after the New Year’s Day terrorist attack killed 14 on its globally famed Bourbon Street. Would the killings turn away tourists? The city doubled down on security as it hosted the NFL’s Super Bowl in February, with help from the state government. Lavish media coverage followed. The city rolled into Mardi Gras in early March, with crowded parades, nightclubs, restaurants and art galleries, a healthy boost for New Orleans’s $8bn tourist economy. Continue reading...

Apr 26, 2025 - World

David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long gameDavid A Graham doesn’t say he read Project 2025 so you don’t have to, but it might be inferred.The Atlantic staff writer’s new book, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America, is a swift but thorough overview of the vast far-right plan for a second Trump administration that achieved notoriety last year. Over just 138 pages, a passing dream next to the Heritage Foundation’s 922-page doorstop, Graham considers the origins of Project 2025, its aims and effects so far.The Project is published in the US by Random House Continue reading...

Apr 26, 2025 - World

Nearly nine months after losing chunks of the Kursk region to a surprise Ukrainian incursion, Russia announced that its troops have fully reclaimed the border territory.