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May 2, 2025 - World

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) said he's "not afraid" of the Trump administration after receiving a warning about instructing state employees on how to handle a confrontation with ICE officials.Evers released a YouTube video Friday to hit back at "border czar" Tom Homan's suggestion that the governor was working to impede ICE arrests."The goal of this guidance was simple — to provide clear, consistent instructions to state employees and ensure they have a lawyer to help them comply with all federal and state laws. Nothing more, nothing less," Evers said."I haven't broken the law, I haven't committed a crime, and I've never encouraged or directed anyone to break any laws or commit any crimes."ALSO READ: Trump's top spy chief blasted as Raw Story exposes 'crazy' cash grabHoman told reporters at the White House Thursday to "wait to see what's coming" when asked about Evers' April memo advising state employees.One of the recommendations was to "contact the agency's legal counsel if ICE officers visit a state building and ask the officers to return at another time if a staff attorney is unavailable," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported."If you cross that line to impediment or knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien, that's a felony and we're treating it as such," Homan said.In his three-minute-long response, Evers described Homan's threat as "chilling.""We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official, or even everyday American citizens who have broken no laws, committed no crimes and done nothing wrong," Evers said. "And as disgusted as I am about the continued actions of the Trump administration, I'm not afraid."Last week, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested in Milwaukee and charged with two federal counts of allegedly "trying to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom." The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Dugan this week, "until further order of the court."Watch the video below or at this link.

May 2, 2025 - World

Polls have opened Australia’s general elections with high costs of living and a shortage of housing major issues in the campaign

May 2, 2025 - World

Rubio calls Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif ‘threat to US national security’ and says support for groups could lead to chargesThe United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a “transnational terrorist group”.The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115 people in the agricultural town of Pont-Sondé, were both covered by the move on Friday. Continue reading...

May 2, 2025 - World

MSNBC correspondent Tom Costello claimed Friday that an air traffic controller who "handles airspace" at the Newark, NJ, airport gave him some "rather concerning and startling information" about public safety. "He said, It is not safe. 'It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public," Costello said. "Really an incredible statement, unsolicited. He just said that to me, and separately, 'Don't fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs." Costello said that there were about two-hour delays for planes coming into Newark on Friday following a week of major delays due to staffing issues. "We've got a lot of problems going on," Costello said, including "equipment failures." "They have lost both radios and radars this week," Costellos said. "And because of the stress, some controllers have walked off the job."ALSO READ: Trump's top spy chief blasted as Raw Story exposes 'crazy' cash grab Newark Liberty Airport posted a statement to X advising, "Flights at @EWRairport continue to be disrupted due to @FAA staffing shortages, with delays and cancellations expected to continue throughout the day." Costello said that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was touring the Newark facility, along with the president of the air traffic controllers union, "trying to reassure the public and reassure controllers that they're working on this." "But," Costello added, "this is not going to be an easy fix by any means." Costello said that the nation is short some 3,000 air traffic controllers. "They need to staff up, they know that. They've been working on it for years," Costello said. "The trouble is, they're barely keeping up with the regular retirement age and rate. And, therefore, Secretary Duffy has announced a whole bunch of incentives, bonuses to try to get people to come apply for the academy, graduate, take a job in the control tower, stay on the job." Watch the clip below via MSNBC.

May 2, 2025 - World

Incoming chancellor must now decide whether to ban flourishing far-right party amid widespread discontentGerman spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ forceThe decision by Germany’s domestic spy agency to call the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party “extremist” amounts to the starkest move yet by authorities to try to stop the advance of the populist political force.Friday’s classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) will open up the possibility for the security services to monitor the country’s largest opposition party, including by recruiting people to inform against it and enabling interception of its communications. Continue reading...