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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Christians in Jerusalem readied themselves to mark another Easter as Israel continues to fight the terror group Hamas across the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities still drafted special permits to allow nearly 10,000 West Bank Palestinian Christians into Jerusalem to celebrate Holy Week, the Israeli Embassy told the Vatican. Vatican News estimated that about 50,000 West Bank residents would like to celebrate Holy Week in Jerusalem, though only about 20% could actually enter the city.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee remained in lockdown Thursday afternoon after an on-campus shooting earlier in the day left a number of people wounded. An active shooter was reported near the school’s student union around noon, according to school officials.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Former New York Police Department Sergeant Michael McMahon received a sentence of a year and a half in prison on Wednesday for acting as an illegal agent on behalf of the Chinese government, according to the Department of Justice. The former cop’s sentence included an $11,000 fine.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed an increase from one in 150 children diagnosed with autism in 2000 to one in 31 children in 2022. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the data during a Wednesday press conference and said the chances of a boy being diagnosed with autism was now one in 20. Kennedy vowed to identify the root causes behind the spike in autism.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Authorities arrested three protesters for allegedly disrupting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Tuesday night town hall outside Atlanta. Police had to use a Taser to subdue one protester, according to attendee reports. Online footage of the meeting showed police struggling with a man before Greene started talking. Greene moved forward with her town hall with constituents despite the initial interruption. What has Greene said about the incident?
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Department of Homeland Security officials arrested over 1,000 illegal migrants engaged in unauthorized employment since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to a Tuesday statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This sweep made history as the agency’s highest arrest rate, according to Homeland Security Investigations acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledged President Donald Trump’s Monday comments about sending incarcerated U.S. citizens to El Salvador while she spoke with Fox News’ Jesse Watters later that evening. The Americans Trump referenced are dangerous criminals convicted of heinous crimes and need to be locked up as long as legally possible, she said. If more U.S. prisons need to be built to hold them, then that’s what will happen, she added. What did Trump say?
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday requested that the Department of Agriculture remove soft drinks and candy from the state’s food stamp program in an attempt to improve residents’ health. She also asked the government to add rotisserie chickens to subsidized foods under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, in Arkansas.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against tech conglomerate Meta began Monday with CEO Mark Zuckerberg taking the stand in defense of his company owning Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The FTC sued Meta in 2020, alleging that the social media giant illegally maintained a social network monopoly. Prosecutors described Meta’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp as anticompetitive, alleging the company only purchased the platforms to quash competition from the up-and-coming rivals.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Christina Grube
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told the media during a joint appearance with President Donald Trump Monday that it would be impossible to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele questioned how his country could smuggle a terrorist back into the United States. Bukele’s response came after the Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that the Trump administration must facilitate Abrego Garcia's removal from the Salvadoran terrorist prison and his return to the United States.
