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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal Party won the Canadian election in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)2025-04-29T07:38:41Z Prime Minister Mark Carneys Liberal Party has won Canadas federal election, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U.S. President Donald Trumps threats to Canadas economy and sovereignty. The Liberals are projected to win more of Parliaments 343 seats than the Conservatives in Mondays contest. It isnt clear yet if they will win an outright majority, at least 172, or will need to rely on one or more smaller parties to pass legislation. Trumps threats of tariffs and suggestions that Canada should become the 51st state upended the race, as polls showed Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party with comfortable leads only months ago.___This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

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Mons. Angelo Becciu presides over an eucharistic liturgy, at the St. John in Latheran Basilica, in Rome, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File )2025-04-29T08:01:27Z VATICAN CITY (AP) The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vaticans trial of the century announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from participating in the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope for the good of the church.Cardinal Angelo Becciu s status has dominated discussions in the days after Pope Francis death amid questions about whether he would participate in the conclave to elect his successor.After his 2020 downfall, Becciu had said he would not participate in any future conclave. But in recent days he had asserted he had a right to enter the Sistine Chapel with other cardinals on May 7.On Tuesday, the 76-year-old Italian issued a statement through his lawyers that said: Having at heart the good of the church, which I have served and will continue to serve with fidelity and love, as well as to contribute to the communion and serenity of the conclave, I have decided to obey as I have always done the will of Pope Francis not to enter the conclave while remaining convinced of my innocence. Becciu was once an influential Vatican chief of staff who was a leading papal contender himself. But he fell from grace in 2020 when Francis forced him to resign his job as head of the Vaticans saint-making office and his rights as a cardinal because of allegations of financial misconduct. Becciu denied wrongdoing but was put on trial in the Vatican criminal court and convicted of finance-related charges in December 2023. He is appealing the conviction and 5 1/2-year prison sentence and had participated in the pre-conclave meetings, including on Monday. Becciu rose to prominence and power under conservative Pope Benedict XVI and is very much affiliated with the conservative Vatican old guard. While he initially became a close adviser to Pope Francis, Beccius subsequent downfall at the hands of Francis might suggest he would vote for someone keen to undo some of Francis reforms. At 76, Becciu is under the age limit of 80 and technically eligible to vote, but the Vaticans official statistics list him as a non-elector. The Vatican document regulating a conclave, known by its Latin name Universi Dominici Gregis, lays out the criteria for electors, making clear that 80 cardinals under 80 have the right to elect the pope, except those who have been canonically deposed or who with the consent of the Roman Pontiff have renounced the cardinalate. It adds that after a pope has died, the College of Cardinals cannot readmit or rehabilitate them.There has never been any clarity on what exactly Becciu renounced or how: The one-line statement issued by the Vatican press office on Sept. 24, 2020, said merely that Francis had accepted Beccius resignation as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and his rights connected to the cardinalate. There is no indication he has been sanctioned canonically.After he forced Beccius resignation, Francis visited Becciu on occasions and allowed him to participate in the life of the Vatican. But Francis also changed Vatican law to allow the city states criminal tribunal to prosecute him. Italian daily Domani reported last week that during the initial pre-conclave discussions, Becciu was presented with two letters signed by Francis before he died indicating he should not participate in the conclave. Beccius reference of Francis will in his statement Tuesday suggests that the letters were the tipping point that convinced him to withdraw from the vote.Questions, meanwhile, have continued to swirl about the integrity of the trial that convicted Becciu and eight others. During the proceedings, the court heard that Francis intervened on several occasions on behalf of the prosecutors and that the prosecutions prime witness against Becciu was coached and manipulated by outsiders.The appeal is scheduled to begin in September.___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. NICOLE WINFIELD Winfield has been on the Vatican beat since 2001, covering the papacies of St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and the Francis pontificate and traveling the world with them.

A locked garden gate is seen in Srinagar after it was closed by authorities as a precautionary safety measure following last week's deadly attack on tourists near the resort town of Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)2025-04-29T07:48:41Z SRINAGAR, India (AP) Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have temporarily shuttered more than half of the tourist resorts in the scenic Himalayan region after last weeks deadly attack on tourists raised tensions between India and Pakistan and led to an intensifying security crackdown in Kashmir.At least two police officers and three administrative officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with departmental policy, said Tuesday that the decision to shut 48 of the 87 government-authorized resorts was a precautionary safety measure. They did not specify for how long these places would be out of bounds for visitors.The decision comes a week after gunmen killed 26 people, most of them Indian tourists, near the resort town of Pahalgam.The massacre set off tit-for-tat diplomatic measures between India and Pakistan that included cancellation of visas and a recall of diplomats. New Delhi also suspended a crucial water sharing treaty with Islamabad and ordered its border shut with Pakistan. In response, Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian airlines. India accuses Pakistan of backing the attackIndia has described the massacre as a terror attack and accused Pakistan of backing it. Pakistan has denied any connection to the attack, and it was claimed by a previously unknown militant group calling itself the Kashmir Resistance.Some tourists who survived the massacre have told Indian media that the gunmen singled out Hindu men and shot them from close range. The dead included a Nepalese citizen and a local Muslim pony ride operator.The region is split between India and Pakistan and claimed by both in its entirety. New Delhi describes all militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir as Pakistan-backed terrorism. Pakistan denies this, and many Muslim Kashmiris consider the militants to be part of a home-grown freedom struggle. Tensions spike between India and PakistanAs tensions escalate, cross-border firing between soldiers of India and Pakistan has also increased along the Line of Control, the de facto frontier that separates Kashmiri territory between the two rivals. On Tuesday, the Indian army in a statement said it had responded to unprovoked small arms fire from multiple Pakistan army posts for a fifth consecutive night.There was no comment from Pakistan, and the incidents could not be independently verified. In the past, each side has accused the other of starting border skirmishes in the Himalayan region.Pakistani troops shot down a small Indian spy drone that flew hundreds of meters into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, three Pakistani security officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity as they werent allowed to speak to the media. The drone was shot down on Monday in the border town of Bhimber, they said.Meanwhile, government forces in the region have detained and questioned nearly 2,000 people, officials and residents said. Many of the detained are former rebels fighting against Indian rule and others who officials describe as over ground workers of militants, a term authorities use for civilians suspected of associating with insurgents. Indian soldiers have demolished the family homes of at least nine suspected militants across Kashmir, using explosives.The regions top pro-India leaders have supported action against suspected militants but also questioned the demolitions.Omar Abdullah, the regions chief minister, said Monday that any heavy-handed tactics against civilians should be avoided. We should not take any step that will alienate people, Abdullah told the regions lawmakers during a legislative session.Ruhullah Mehdi, a lawmaker from the region in Indias national parliament, termed the demolitions of homes as collective punishment.Cancellations overwhelm Kashmir tourism industry Indian tourism has flourished in Kashmir after Prime Minister Narendra Modis government promoted visits to the region with the hope of showing rising tourism numbers as a sign of renewed stability there.Millions of visitors arrive in Kashmir to see its Himalayan foothills and exquisitely decorated houseboats, despite regular skirmishes between insurgents and government forces. According to official data, close to 3 million tourists visited the region in 2024, a rise from 2.71 million visitors in 2023 and 2.67 million in 2022. But last weeks attack has left many tourists scared and some have left the region. Widespread cancellations are also being reported by tour operators, with some estimates putting the number at more than 1 million.___Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report. AIJAZ HUSSAIN Hussain is a senior reporter for The Associated Press covering the Kashmir conflict, Indian politics and strategic affairs, and climate. He has worked for the AP for nearly two decades. twitter mailto SHEIKH SAALIQ Saaliq covers news across India and the South Asia region for The Associated Press, often focusing on politics, democracy, conflict and religion. He is based in New Delhi. twitter mailto

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People wait outside a closed train station, during a major power outage in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)2025-04-29T04:12:50Z MADRID (AP) Power had almost fully returned to Spain early Tuesday morning as many questions remained about what caused one of Europes most severe blackouts that grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs across Spain and Portugal.By 7:00 a.m. local time, more than 99% of energy demand in Spain had been restored, the countrys electricity operator Red Elctrica said. Portuguese grid operator REN said Tuesday morning all of the 89 power substations were back online since late last night after an absolutely unusual blackout and power was restored to all 6.4 million customers.On Tuesday morning, as life slowly returned to normal on the Iberian Peninsula, outside Atocha station, one of the busiest in the Spanish capital, people were once again crossing the street while looking at their cell phones, despite the internet connection being intermittent at times. Inside, hundreds of people waited to board trains or rebook those that had been canceled the previous day. Large groups of people milled around the screens, waiting for updates. Still, several people slept on the floor with blankets provided by the Red Cross for those who waited overnight at the station. The same scenes were replicated at Sants station in Barcelona. Classes were suspended in several regions. The Madrid Open, the tennis tournament being held this week, was still affected by the power outage after its cancellation the previous day and delayed the opening of its doors. Power had gradually returned to several regions across Spain and Portugal as the nations reeled from the still-unexplained widespread blackout that had turned airports and train stations into campgrounds for stranded travelers. Monday night, many city residents, including in Spains capital of Madrid, went to sleep in total darkness. The normally illuminated cathedral spires of Barcelonas Sagrada Familia Basilica became indistinguishable from the night sky. Streets remained deserted even in neighborhoods where lights flickered back on, as people stayed home after a day of chaos. We have a long night ahead, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Snchez said when he addressed the European nation late Monday. We are working with the goal of having power restored to the entire country.In Madrid, cheers erupted from balconies where the electricity had returned. Subway service returning on Tuesday morningOn Tuesday morning, Madrids metro system was restored on all but one line, meaning that 80% of trains operated during rush hour.In Barcelona, the metro was also operating normally, but commuter trains were suspended due to electrical instability, the company that runs the service, Rodalies Catalunya, said on X. In other parts of the country, commuter and mid-distance services were also suspended or running at reduced capacity. As metro service stopped on Monday, train stations cleared out and shops and offices closed, and thousands of people spilled onto the streets of Madrid. Emergency workers in Spain said they rescued some 35,000 passengers stranded along railways and underground. The blackout turned sports centers, train stations and airports into makeshift refuges late Monday. We were in the north of Portugal and did get any notifications until we got here because of internet outage, said Ian Cannons, a British tourist trying to get home who was forced to spend the night in Lisbons airport. We cant book any hotels. Nothing.The Barcelona municipality distributed 1,200 cots to indoor recreation centers to host residents with no way to get home and international travelers left in limbo. All over Barcelona and Madrid, people were sleeping on train station benches and floors. Cash and radios in high demandAs internet and mobile phone services blinkered offline across Spain and Portugal, battery-powered radios flew off the shelves. Those fortunate enough to find service shared whatever news updates they could with strangers on the street.Lines snaked out of the few supermarkets running on backup generators in Barcelona and Lisbon as people stocked up on dried goods, water and battery-powered flashlights and candles. Clerks counted euros by hand, since many cash registers had stopped working.Hector Emperador, picking his kids up from school in Barcelona, said he resorted to raiding his sons piggybank to ensure he had cash on hand after ATMs and some online-banking services shut down. The coronavirus pandemic will be nothing compared to this, he said. Few gas stations were operating, sending the drivers who dared navigate without traffic lights scrambling for fuel. Residents with electric door keys found themselves locked out of their homes. The many inconveniences became a threat to survival for those with medical needs like refrigeration for insulin or power for dialysis machines and oxygen concentrators. Some hospitals but not all stayed open with the help of generators. Cause remains a mysteryOfficials did not say what caused the blackout, the second such serious European power outage in as many months after a fire at Heathrow Airport shut down Britains busiest travel hub on March 20. They said there was little precedent for this kind of widespread electric failure across all of the Iberian Peninsula, with a combined population of some 60 million. Across the Mediterranean Sea, Spains Balearic Islands and the territories of Ceuta and Melilla were spared. The Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa were also spared.We have never had a complete collapse of the system, Snchez said, explaining how Spains power grid lost 15 gigawatts, the equivalent of 60% of its national demand, in just five seconds.In his televised address late Monday, Snchez said that authorities were still investigating what happened. Portugals National Cybersecurity Center threw cold water on feverish speculation about foul play, saying there was no sign that the outage resulted from a cyber attack. Speaking to reporters in Brussels, Teresa Ribera, an executive vice president of the European Commission, also ruled out sabotage. Nonetheless, the outage is one of the most serious episodes recorded in Europe in recent times, she said.___Associated Press video journalist Helena Alves in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed to this report. SUMAN NAISHADHAM Naishadham is an Associated Press reporter covering Spain and Portugal. She is based in Madrid. twitter mailto

Elections Canada signage is seen as voters arrive at a polling station on Election Day in Halifax, Canada, Monday, April 28, 2025. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)2025-04-29T06:56:06Z TORONTO (AP) The Liberal Party has won the federal election in Canada, culminating a process marked by U.S. President Donald Trump threats on a trade war and of making the country the 51st American state. With this result, the Liberal Partys leader and current prime minister, Mark Carney, will remain in the job, and will form a new government with a new cabinet.Its still unclear if the liberals will have a majority in the Parliament or whether they will need to look for alliances with other parties.Heres what to know and what comes next:Who did Canadians vote for?Canadians voted for all 343 member of the House of Commons, one for each constituency. The winning candidates were those who finished first, whether or not they won a majority of the votes.A party needs 172 seats in Parliament for a majority.When will Canada have a new prime minister? The prime minister is chosen by parliament rather than elected directly by the voters. Historically, the party that assembles a majority in the House of Commons either alone or with the support of another party forms a government. Thats expected to happen in coming days.The leader of the party forming the government will be the new primer minister, who then has to pick a cabinet. The current liberal leader is Carney, who was sworn in on March 14 as prime minister after Justin Trudeau resigned. Now, he won a full term as the head of the government. What challenges will the new government face? The next primer minister and his government will have to address both external and internal challenges.Externally, the main one will be to manage a recently tense relationship with the United States, after President Donald Trump has been threatening Canada with steep tariffs and demands that Canada should become the 51st state. Internally, the new government will still have to deal with issues like rising food and housing prices and a surge in immigration.What is Carneys experience? Carney, a 60-years-old economist educated in the U.S. and England, had no experience in politics until he succeeded Trudeau as prime minister in March.He was a Goldman Sachs executive for more than a decade, until he started working in the Central Bank of Canada in 2003, as deputy governor.He was then the head of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and headed the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020. Now, after voters gave liberals the victory, Carney will be guiding Canada. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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by Corey G. Johnson ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. A group representing firearms owners has asked three federal agencies to investigate how the gun industrys main lobbying group secretly used the intimate details of weapons buyers for political purposes.In making the request, Gun Owners for Safety cited a ProPublica investigation that detailed how the National Shooting Sports Foundation turned over sensitive personal information on gun buyers to political operatives while presenting itself as a fierce advocate for the privacy of firearms owners. The letter sent last week to the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives called the NSSFs secret program that spanned nearly two decades "underhanded.Gun owners privacy is not a partisan or ideological issue, wrote Malcolm Smith, a Gun Owners for Safety member. No matter the industry, exploiting customers private data like their underwear size and childrens ages in a secret scheme is reprehensible and cannot be permitted. Gun Owners for Safety has been operated since 2019 by the gun violence prevention organization Giffords, which was co-founded by Gabby Giffords, the Arizona lawmaker who survived an attempted assassination in 2011. It has chapters in nine states and consists of gun owners and Second Amendment supporters who believe in what they call common sense measures to reduce gun-related deaths like safety locks and improved background checks on firearm purchases.The ATF acknowledged receiving the letter but had no other comment. The FBI, FTC and NSSF didnt respond to ProPublicas questions and requests for comment.The NSSF previously defended its data collection, saying its activities are, and always have been, entirely legal and within the terms and conditions of any individual manufacturer, company, data broker, or other entity. The organization represents thousands of firearms and ammunition manufacturers, distributors and retailers, along with publishers and shooting ranges. While not as well known as the chief lobbyist for gun owners, the National Rifle Association, the NSSF is respected and influential in business, political and gun-rights communities.Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told ProPublica he agreed with Smiths call for an investigation. Last November, Blumenthal, then chair of a Senate subcommittee on privacy, asked the NSSF for details on the companies that contributed information to the trade groups database, the type of customer details that were shared and whether the data is still being used. The trade group did not answer the senators questions.The NSSFs disturbing, covert data collection raises serious safety and privacy concerns, Blumenthal said. And the American people deserve answers.Its unclear how successful any request for an investigation will be under the Trump administration, especially given the NSSFs past political support for the president.ProPublicas investigation identified at least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson and Remington, that handed over hundreds of thousands of names, addresses and other private data without customer knowledge or consent to the NSSF, which then entered the details into what would become a massive database. The database was used to rally gun owners electoral support for the industrys preferred candidates running for the White House and Congress.Privacy experts told ProPublica that companies that shared information with the NSSF may have violated federal and state prohibitions against deceptive and unfair business practices. Under federal law, companies must comply with their own privacy policies and be clear about how they will use consumers information, privacy experts said.A ProPublica review of dozens of warranty cards from those gun-makers found that none of them informed buyers that their details would be used for political purposes. (Most of the companies named in the NSSF documents declined to comment or did not respond to ProPublica. One denied sharing customer data, and the new parent company of another said it had no evidence of data sharing with the NSSF under prior ownership.)In 2016, as part of a push to get Donald Trump elected president for the first time and to help Republicans keep the Senate, the NSSF worked with the consultancy Cambridge Analytica to turbocharge the information it had on potential voters. Cambridge matched up the people in the database with 5,000 additional facts about them that it drew from other sources. The details were far-ranging. Along with the potential voters income, debts and religious affiliation, analysts learned whether they liked the work of the painter Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite.ProPublica obtained a portion of the NSSF database that contains the names, addresses and other information of thousands of people. ProPublica reached out to 6,000 people on the list. Almost all of those who responded, including gun owners, expressed outrage, surprise or disappointment over learning they were in the database.In his letter seeking an investigation, Smith noted that the FBIs new director, Kash Patel, has spoken out in favor of protecting gun owners privacy rights.Surely, then, Smith wrote, the FBI understands the importance of ensuring no organization or government agency maintains a secret database of firearm customers and gun owners. As many high-profile hacks and data leaks have shown, private data can easily be mishandled and exploited for nefarious purposes.Smith, a 69-year-old retired executive of J.P. Morgan bank and registered Republican, told ProPublica his love of guns started as a teen when his father bought him a Remington rifle for bird hunting. The passion intensified over the years, and Smith started collecting guns heavily in response to political efforts to restrict gun access.Anytime I heard Nancy Pelosi not like something, I felt like I had to have it, Smith said.But he joined Giffords in 2020 after growing uncomfortable with extremism in gun rights circles. More recently, he said, the Department of Government Efficiencys attempt to grab large amounts of confidential citizen data from the Social Security Administration and IRS inspired his request for government action. (DOGE officials did not respond to a request for comment.)The initial disclosures about the National Shooting Sports Foundation was an alarm bell. But now this is a four-alarm fire, Smith said. Were supposed to have some sort of privacy in our lives, and apparently the NSSF decided I didnt have to have it. And DOGE really thinks Im not entitled to it.

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2025-04-29T09:30:46Z TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) Chinese authorities say 22 people have been killed and 3 injured in a fire at restaurant in the northern city of Liaoyang. No word was given on the cause of the fire, which broke out shortly after noon, but images from the scene showed huge flames spurting from the windows and doors of the two- or three-story building. A slightly longer report released several hours later through the provincial radio and television bureau said the fire had been extinguished and the search for survivors ended. As is usual in China, no additional information was given about the possible cause of the fire. However, a long list of responding regional politicians from the governor down was provided, along with a pledge to get to the bottom of the disaster and severely punish those responsible. Industrial accidents occur frequently in China, usually due to staff ignoring safety features due to a lack of training or pressure from their superiors. Poorly maintained infrastructure, illegally stored chemicals and a lack of fire exits and fire retardant, often abetted by corruption, are often factors in such disasters. If the fire began in the kitchen, it may be related to the traditional use of large open fires over which iron woks are used to braise dishes. Diners across China also enjoy a dish known simply as hot pot in which meat and vegetables are stewed over open flames. Liaoyang, in Liaoning province, is part of Chinas rust belt, a former industrial powerhouse that has fallen on hard times with considerable population outflow. This story has been corrected to say that the fire occurred in the city of Liaoyang, which is in Liaoning province.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)2025-04-29T08:29:14Z DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) Clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital early Tuesday between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, leaving at least four people dead, a war monitor and an activist group said.The fighting in the southern Damascus suburb of Jaramana broke out after an audio clip circulated on social media of a man attacking Islams Prophet Muhammad. The audio was attributed to a Druze cleric, who later denied being involved.Druze cleric Marwan Kiwan said in a video posted on social media that he was not responsible for the audio, which angered many Sunni Muslims and led to the fighting in Druze neighborhoods in Jaramana.I categorically deny that the audio was made by me, Kiwan said in the video. I did not say that and whoever made it is an evil man who wants to incite strife between components of the Syrian people. The Interior Ministry said in a statement it was investigating the audio clip, adding that its initial probe showed the cleric was not responsible. The ministry urged people to abide by the law and not to act in a way that undermines security. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least four people were killed in the clashes while the activist media collective Suwayda 24 said five people were killed and 12 were wounded.Syrian Druze gunmen have clashed in recent weeks with government security forces in Jaramana. On March 1, Israels Defense Ministry said the military was instructed to prepare to defend Jaramana, asserting that the minority it has vowed to protect was under attack by Syrian forces.The Druze religious sect is a minority group that began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Over half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981. The worst internal clashes in Syria since the fall of President Bashar Assad in early December occurred last month in the countrys coastal region and involved members of the minority Alawite sect that the former president belonged to.The clashes between Assad loyalists and government forces were accompanied by revenge killings that left more than 1,000 people dead, including hundreds of civilians, according to a war monitor. The Associated Press has not been able to independently verify the figures.

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President Donald Trump speaks as he welcomes the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team to the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-04-29T11:01:34Z WARREN, Mich. (AP) President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark the first 100 days of his second term, staging his largest public event since returning to the White House in a state that has been especially rocked by his steep trade tariffs and combative attitude toward Canada. Trump is making an afternoon visit to Selfridge Air National Guard Base for an announcement alongside Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Hes expected to speak at a rally at Macomb Community College, north of Detroit, allowing him to revel in leading a sprint to upend government and social, political and foreign policy norms. His Republican administrations strict immigration polices have sent arrests for illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border plummeting, and government-slashing efforts led by billionaire adviser Elon Musk have shaken Washington to its core. Its protectionist import taxes imposed on Americas trade partners have also sought to reorder a global economy that the U.S. had painstakingly built and nurtured in the decades after World War II. Trump has also championed sweeping U.S. expansionism, refusing to rule out military intervention in Greenland and Panama, suggesting that American developers could help convert the war-torn Gaza Strip into a Riviera-like resort and even suggesting annexation of Canada. I run the country and the world, Trump told The Atlantic magazine in an interview. He told Time of his first 100 days, I think that what Im doing is exactly what Ive campaigned on. That doesnt mean its popular. Only about 4 in 10 Americans approve of how Trump is handling the presidency, and his ratings on the economy and trade are lower than that. Additionally, 46% of U.S. adults approve of Trumps immigration policies, with about half of Americans saying he has gone too far when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the country illegally. Just 33% of Americans, meanwhile, have a favorable view of Musk, the Tesla CEO and worlds richest person, and about half believe the administration has gone too far in working to pare back the government workforce.The bottom line for the first hundred days is, lots of damage being done to the fundamentals of our government, said Max Stier, founding president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit dedicated to better government.Stier noted that thered been a lot of interest in this idea of trying to make our government more efficient, and what weve seen instead is the most substantial destruction of our core governmental capabilities in history.Michigan was one of the battleground states Trump flipped from the Democratic column. But its also been deeply affected by his tariffs, including on new imported cars and auto parts. Michigans unemployment rate has risen for three straight months, including jumping 1.3% from March to reach 5.5%, according to state data. Thats among the highest in the nation, far exceeding the national average of 4.2%.Automaker Stellantis halted production at plants in Canada and Mexico after Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported vehicles, temporarily laying off 900 U.S. employees. Industry groups have separately urged the White House to scrap plans for tariffs on imported auto parts, warning that doing so would raise prices on cars and could trigger layoffs and bankruptcy. That seemingly would make the state an odd choice for Trump to hail his own accomplishments. Im not sure that he is at all interested in doing the smart thing, said Bernie Porn, a longtime Michigan pollster. He is what I would call an in-your-face president. This is what Im going to do. Trump is also visiting Selfridge, which was established after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, and the community college campus in Warren. Both are near the Canadian border and home to many people with deep business and personal ties to that country. Michigan always feels very, very positively toward Canada, said the pollster, who noted that its voters cant be reacting well to the kinds of things hes done. Typically, presidents use the 100-day mark to launch multiple rallies. But Trump is doing only the Michigan stop before giving the commencement address at the University of Alabama on Thursday. Administration officials say the Republican president is at his most effective staying at the White House, having meetings and speaking to reporters nearly every day. Indeed, Trumps Macomb Community College speech will be one of the few large in-person crowds hes addressed since Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.Except for a trip to tour hurricane damage in North Carolina and wildfire devastation in Southern California and a Las Vegas speech that included briefly chatting with gamblers on a casino floor, Trumps early months have been characterized by little domestic travel. The exceptions have been flying most weekends to golf in Florida or attend sporting events, including the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500, where Trump relished the crowds but didnt speak to them. The limited travel to see supporters is a major departure from his first term, when Trump held major rallies in Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky before celebrating 100 days in office with a Pennsylvania speech in 2017.Also in the spotlight will be Whitmer, who is frequently mentioned as a future presidential candidate. Long a Trump critic, Whitmer has sought to find common ground with the president lately, visiting him at the White House and discussing the future of Selfridge specifically. Whitmer is concerned about the A-10 aircraft stationed at the base being phased out, though Trump recently said he hoped to keep Selfridge open, strong, thriving.The Michigan pollster noted that Whitmer has continued to criticize Trump on key issues like the environment. But, he added, She does, I think, more so than a lot of other Democrats, realize that the guys in office, and it probably makes sense to try and to the extent possible on those things where they agree work together with him. WILL WEISSERT Weissert covers national politics and the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto JOEY CAPPELLETTI Cappelletti covers politics and state government for The Associated Press in Michigan. He is based in Lansing. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

This image taken from video provided by WCIA shows first responders working the scene after a car smashed through a building during an after-school program, killing multiple people Monday, April 28, 2025, in Chatham, Ill. (WCIA via AP)2025-04-29T11:32:27Z CHATHAM, Ill. (AP) Authorities said Tuesday they believe a crash through an Illinois after-school building that killed three kids and one teenager wasnt targeted.A car traveled through a field, then smashed through a building in a small city of Chatham outside Springfield, Illinois, on Monday afternoon. In an update Tuesday morning, police said two 7-year-olds, an 8-year-old and an 18-year-old were killed. Six more children were taken to hospitals and one remains in critical condition.The Illinois driver, who was not injured, was taken to a hospital for evaluation and police said toxicology reports were pending. Police havent said if the driver was arrested or taken into custody.The cause was under investigation, but police said the crash doesnt appear to be a targeted attack.Mondays crash was the latest instance of people driving vehicles into groups of people across the globe. Only two days earlier, a car plowed through a crowded street during a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, killing 11. The struck building and facilities in Illinois house Youth Needing Other Things Outdoors, which holds after-school programs and summer camps, according to its website. I am horrified and deeply saddened by the deaths of children and numerous injuries in Chatham this afternoon, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement Monday. My heart is heavy for these families and the unimaginable grief theyre experiencing something that no parent should ever have to endure. He said his office was monitoring the situation and was ready to lend support.As evening fell Monday, police cars with lights flashing still blocked streets leading to the building. On its Facebook account, the Chatham Police Department asked for prayers.A terrible tragedy has occurred here that has affected all of us, the message ended.By Monday night, some members of the community and beyond had changed their Facebook profile photos to an image of a red ribbon and the words Chatham Strong.___Associated Press reporter Lisa Baumann contributed to this report from Bellingham, Washington. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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Over the last few weeks multiple media outlets have reported on data analytics company Palantirs closer collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the agency carries out Trumps mass deportation efforts. 404 Media first reported that Palantir was awarded tens of millions of dollars to work on improving ICEs immigration targeting and enforcement systems. A day later, 404 Media published an article based on internal Palantir Slacks and a wiki which showed the company was engaged on a six-month project to help find the location of people flagged for deportation. That same day, ICE published a procurement document laying out similar details of the project, called ImmigrationOS, Business Insider reported.WIRED then reported that DOGE is building a master database to track down immigrants, likely to be hosted on Palantir-developed software. Last week CNN corroborated that reporting and said that Palantir is involved in building the database. U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly said in a letter to the oversight body for the Social Security Administration (SSA) that an agency whistleblower told them the master database will use data from SSA, IRS, and Health and Human Services (HHS). 404 Media also reported that ICE plans to bring together data from HHS, the Department of Labor (DOL), and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).Internally Palantir has justified its closer relationship with ICE because it believes its work can promote efficiency, transparency, and accountability and enable fair treatment of immigrants. ICE continues to deport some people with no due process.Do you work at Palantir or an agency connected to this work? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.It is rare for outsiders to see a tech companys justification for working on such a divisive project. For that reason 404 Media is publishing the full wiki page in which Palantir discusses the project and the ethics around it.404 Media has retyped the wiki to protect the source who provided it and spelled out some acronyms where necessary.A Palantir spokeswoman told 404 Media in an email Palantir's work with the U.S. Government has spanned many administrations, as we have worked with the Department of Homeland Security since 2010 and are non-partisan. While unfortunate that this internal communication has leaked, we hope it reflects the careful consideration that we apply to all our sensitive work. It is core to who we are to maximize our team's collective perspective and hold as sacred dialogue and debate around our work given the power of our platforms.Palantir's language about fair treatment and legal protections inverts the reality unfolding before us: government agents abducting a Columbia student and permanent resident at his citizenship interview, and deporting a Maryland father to a prison overseen by a dictator, despite courts deciding he could stay and compelling the government not to remove him, Laura Rivera, an attorney at Just Futures Law, previously told 404 Media in an email. Palantir distorts the truth to obscure its complicity in carrying out an authoritarian agenda, supplying one of the world's most powerful domestic surveillance agencies with tools to enable their mass surveillance not only of immigrants, but of all of us, she added.ICE did not respond to a request for comment.The full wiki follows below.[The wiki starts by saying Palantir has worked with ICE since the fall of 2010 as part of Operation Fallen Hero]Palantir has been steadfast in its support of HSI's [Homeland Security Investigations, a part of ICE] pursuit of transnational criminal activity, primarily focused on counter-narcotics, counter-human trafficking, counter-child exploitation and counter-IP infringement investigations. We count this work as some of our most impactful in the United States.Over the last few years, our work at HSI has remained relatively steady-state. ICM [Investigative Case Management system, a long running ICE people search tool Palantir has worked on] had a minor expansion in 2024 to include the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which conducts internal investigations of ICE employees and handles detainee abuse claims. In late 2022, our prior Gotham analytics platform, FALCON, was sunset and replaced by an internal HSI development effort (RAVEn). From that point through early March 2025, our HSI contractual and program footprint has been focused solely on the ICM deployment.During this period, Palantir engaged with HSI senior leaders to express our support for their mission and our concerns with the impact of their procurement efforts on operations in the field. As an example, when FALCON was sunset in late 2022 it had almost 3700 active users. RAVEn, by contrast, had a very small fraction of active users by fall 2024 after 5 years of development. Despite our continued engagement, HSI remained committed to their in-house development roadmap through the fall of 2024.In late 2024, HSI leadership re-engaged Palantir about the state of their development efforts and market research to bring commercial software back into the investigative space. Coupled with the incoming administration's priorities, HSi's vision grew substantially more inclusive of ICE-wide efforts by March 2025. At that time, the HSI leadership team sought our assistance to accelerate mission progress across the agency.Two main factors drove HSI's new sense of urgency: 1) clear failure by custom-developed projects to deliver real results for the field and 2) a renewed focus across ICE on immigration enforcement, which shined a light on the agency's data systems challenges and shortcomings. Because of this urgency, Palantir participated in a three week prototyping sprint at the HSI Innovation Lab. Based on the results of that sprint, we expanded the scope of our contract for the prototyping period.Palantir is aligned with enabling immigration-focused agencies to utilize our platform to better track the immigration lifecycle and serve our national security while also promoting efficiency, transparency, and accountability. We provide the tools for our customers to enable fair treatment and legal protections for individuals across the spectrum of immigration status.See previous ICE PCL [Privacy and Civil Liberties] FAQs for historical background covering our work with this customer, as well as ongoing exploratory discussions with partner agencies in DHS, including Customs and Border Protection (CBP).ScopeThe primary focus of Palantir's initial three week sprint was centered on providing immigration enforcement agents with improved awareness about the criminality and location of individuals who have already received a final order of removal. The goal was to show how the platform could help make field operations more efficient and increase focus on the most serious criminals. This effort also helps to build transparency and accountability into the enforcement prioritization and tracking workflows through process mining metrics and near real-time updates to subject records reflecting both affirmative and derogatory changes to an individual's immigration status and criminality.Based on the success demonstrated in three weeks, ICE issued an update to our ICM contract to enable us to further configure this workflow (1, below) as well as two additional priority projects:1. Enforcement Prioritization and Targetingsupport the development of an accurate picture of actionable leads based on existing law enforcement datasets to allow law enforcement to prioritize enforcement actions.2. Self-deportation Trackingsupport tracking of voluntary returns to help ICE develop a more accurate understanding of individuals who voluntarily leave the United States; and3. Immigration Lifecycle Operationssupport deportation logistics planning and execution, including overlaying information about individuals being detained or removed with facility and transport resource availability.This new effort will last approximately six months and is concentrated on delivering prototype capabilities. How those translate into longer-term engagements and outcomesincluding questions of scope, primary partnering agency, technology components, etc.is currently TBD and we will aim to provide additional periodic updates as the situation develops.DiscussionA Layer DownWhat's consistent?Palantir remains fully committed to supporting HSI's transnational criminal investigative mission. We support data integration to drive investigations and analysis across HSI and partner agencies in areas ranging from countering human trafficking, stopping child exploitation, seizing illegal drugs, or supporting immigration enforcement actions. In addition, we will continue to pursue enhancements and new capabilities to ICM to provide deeper analytics and impact to HSI.Palantir remains committed to our enduring obligation to uphold privacy and civil liberty protections to the greatest extent possible through our product capabilities and impl [implementation] support efforts. Our work in this space is intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability. We believe these conditions are the necessary predicate to provide the tools to help ICE drive accurate enforcement actions and enable fair treatment and legal protections (including due process) for citizens and non-citizens.What has changed?The national conversation around immigration enforcement, both at the border and in the interior of the United States, has shifted. The country is experiencing an increased (and bipartisan) public desire for more focused effort on border security and the enforcement of existing immigration law. This was a prominent element of both parties' recent campaigns, and with this level of attention there is both a lot of opportunity to do good work, as well as risk of potential harm.Palantir has developed into a more mature partner for ICE. We recognize that to really support the agency's immigration enforcement mission, we must expand our aperture beyond HSI's ICM and even HSI. This means supporting workflows that are substantially distinct from our historical scope and into Enforcement and Remove Operations (ERO). Facilitating data integration across the space of border protection, detention, and removal, especially given the risks to individuals who may be involved in enforcement actions, is critical to that mission. We want to support the Government with technology that helps improve the accuracy, efficiency, and transparency of the mission.Risks and MitigationsPalantir is cognizant of the risks to privacy and civil liberties involved in these mission sets and how they may be influenced by shifts in priorities. Immigration enforcement may undergo significant changes due to any number of factors over the next few yearsagency consolidation, enforcement criteria, public opinion, agency and government priorities, the use of advanced Al, etc.and we will continue to support our teams partnering with ICE to help navigate the terrain as it comes into focus, while providing the tools that will enable the mission in the most accurate, efficient, and transparent way.Our approach to PCL will continue to be a key factor in this work, as it is across our commercial and government business. We recognize at the outset that the uncertainties and risks may shift the balance and focus of potential mitigations depending on how the agencies, policies, and priorties evolve over time.Many risks will not be within our means to addresssome are structural and must be considered as fully baked into the equation by virtue of a willingness to engage at all in these efforts. It's important to note that there will be failures in the removal operations process. While our goal is to provide the government the best solutions to help minimize those effects, we also recognize that technology is not a panacea that will ensure that no adverse outcomes occur.It's worth re-stating: we are pursuing this effort because we believe it is critical to national security and that our software can make a meaningful difference in the safety of all involved in enforcement actions. There are substantial areas of project scope, and product implementation, where we believe our work is well positioned to support meaningfully better outcomes:Data QualityA significant risk in immigration enforcement workflows stems from data quality issues. Agencies face challenges due to fragmented data environments and limited trust in data accuracy, which is crucial for informed decision-making. Core Foundry data quality tooling may serve as a critical component for ensuring that decisions and actions reflect the most precise views of individual status and risk profiles.Agency CoordinationInvolving numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in detainee processing can lead to miscommunications and duplicative or disproportionate actions. By integrating data, agencies can effectively deconflict their efforts, ensuring resources are focused on the most important enforcement initiatives.Additional TransparencyWe are working with the ICE team to update and review privacy and oversight documentation, such as applicable Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and System of Record Notices (SORNs), to ensure that formal requirements and public reporting are conducted faithfully and consistent with the law.PCL, leadership and legal team members will remain in close contact with the on-the-ground impl team to maintain a consistent understanding of facts on the ground, keep cadence with developments, issue spot new concerns, and help implement mitigation measures.

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