Voices, The Peoples News
April 3, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
New Test Spots Super-Resistant Honey Bees as Colony Losses Mount. The international research team, which included scientists from Vermont, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Australia, found that the UBeeO test identifies colonies resistant to several key threats: Varroa mites, multiple viruses, Vairimorpha (previously known as Nosema), and chalkbrood fungus.
https://scienceblog.com/564950/htmlcopybuzz-worthy-discovery-new-test-spots-super-resistant-honey-bees-as-colony-losses-mount#:~:text=The%20international%20research%20team%2C%20which,Nosema)%2C%20and%20chalkbrood%20fungus
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Not Just El Salvador: Trump Looking for Other Places to Deport People. Donald Trump is looking for other countries to help him defy a judge’s order.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193491/donald-trump-el-salvador-other-countries-deportations
A man came to the US to donate a kidney to his brother. ICE showing up as his doorstep interrupted that plan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-man-wants-donate-kidney-070035098.html
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades. President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing.
https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Iowa Republicans Want to Shield Pesticide Firms From Cancer Lawsuits. A bill threading its way through the state legislature would make it almost impossible to sue pesticide companies for health complications caused by their products.
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2025-04-02/iowa-bill-shields-pesticide-companies-bayer-roundup-cancer-lawsuits
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins. The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands
Stable Genius Trump Just Put Tariffs on a U.S. Military Base. Donald Trump imposed tariffs on an island inhabited only by American soldiers.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193523/donald-trump-tariffs-us-military-base
Trump has done it, imposing 10 percent tariff on all trading partners and double-digits tariffs on dozens of other countries
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/trump-tariff-trade-partners-liberation-day-00267350
GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the wealthy. Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/02/gop-plans-to-sidestep-senate-rules-to-force-4-6-trillion-tax-giveaway-for-the-wealthy/
# Education / Schools
Bill to close two schools for developmentally disabled clears House committee
https://www.news-journal.com/bill-to-close-two-schools-for-developmentally-disabled-clears-house-committee/article_2996c85c-244f-51af-90cf-6ab00a5dfcdd.html
Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say: A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are “safe” after FBI searches of their homes and Wang’s sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.
https://www.wired.com/story/xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-research-probe-china/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court. After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
https://www.realclearenergy.org/2025/04/03/cities_wanting_to_ban_gas_just_got_a_big_victory_1101252.html
Texas lawmakers move to restrict growth of wind and solar power
https://www.ehn.org/texas-lawmakers-move-to-restrict-growth-of-wind-and-solar-power-2671662717.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
The Ring of Fire Is Heating Up—Here’s What That Means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATLNaRJXHvw
# Food General News
Latest NewsUSDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg.’ More than $1 billion in assistance has been cut; millions of families could be affected.
https://capitalandmain.com/usda-cuts-hit-food-banks-across-the-country-this-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-3
Common Cooking Oil Fuels Aggressive Breast Cancer Growth. A dietary fat found in everyday foods from french fries to salad dressings may specifically drive the growth of the most difficult-to-treat form of breast cancer, according to groundbreaking research published last week in Science.
https://scienceblog.com/564914/common-cooking-oil-fuels-aggressive-breast-cancer-growth
Federal government cancels almost $1M in food shipments to Second Harvest Food Bank
https://www.yahoo.com/news/second-harvest-food-bank-hit-211414361.html
# General News
Trump official gives clearest indication yet that there are plans to put Donald Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/burgum-trump-face-mount-rushmore-b2724363.html
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars. Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of the order on “saving” the institution from “divisive, race-centered ideology.”
https://theconversation.com/with-its-executive-order-targeting-the-smithsonian-the-trump-administration-opens-up-a-new-front-in-the-history-wars-253397
Hundreds of federal buildings, some of them historic, are on the auction block as part of DOGE’s effort to privatize everything
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-federal-buildings-them-historic-110100707.html
# Gov / Politics
Trump is about to bomb Iran: US & Israel planning to unleash HUGE Iran blitz to destroy Ayatollah’s chilling nuke strength in ‘long overdue’ attack. An IDF source told The Sun Israeli forces have been working for months to clear the path for a major strike on Iran
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13923139/america-israel-iran-blitz-nuke-attack/
Take Trump’s Third-Term Threats Seriously. The president’s vaulting ambition may run afoul of the Constitution, but you can’t rule out the Supreme Court providing him with an assist.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-trumps-flirtation-third-term-might-really-about-2053853
Trump’s Latest Power Grab Aims at the Ballot Box: Trump’s 96th executive order of 2025 finally addressed the bugaboo of phantom election fraud and arrogated to the president powers held jointly by the states (which operate federal elections) and by Congress (which has explicit constitutional powers to regulate federal elections).
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-latest-power-grab-aims-at-the-ballot-box.html
Trump’s illegitimate power grab brings US closer to dictatorship. Experts warn president’s blatant violations of law could upend US government’s system of checks and balances
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/trump-vance-constitutional-crisis
This Is Not About Antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump Dismantling the American Dream. I accompanied one of the students who fled Trump’s crackdown. It gave me clarity on what’s at stake.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/01/trump-ice-deport-students-immigrants-american-dream/
Trump officials are analyzing how much it will cost the federal government to take control of Greenland
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-greenland-denmark-jd-vance-b2726308.html
Trump Imposes Trillions Of Dollars In New Taxes On Americans. After weeks of hype, Trump announced new 10% across-the-board tariffs, giving the nation its biggest tax increase in decades.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariff-tax-increase_n_67ed8bf6e4b085e8ccf43e9a
‘Bit of a mess’: NY Times finds many of Trump’s executive orders make no sense
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-muddle-of-exec-orders-are-more-for-show-than-offering-any-real-substance/
Ray Dalio says tariffs have an important consequence: They can prepare the US for a great conflict or war
https://www.businessinsider.com/ray-dalio-tariffs-prepare-us-great-clash-peer-war-consequence-2025-4
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
A Lawyer’s Crusade Against “Copaganda.” How police and the media manufacture surges in crime
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-crusade-against-copaganda-100000363.html
‘Patently frivolous’: Lawyer slams appeal of cops seen on bodycam shooting man in head while he called 911
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/patently-frivolous-lawyer-slams-appeal-of-cops-seen-on-bodycam-shooting-man-in-head-while-he-called-911/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Arson Evidence Doesn’t Hold Up. Florida Is About to Convict Her for Murder Anyway.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/florida-michelle-taylor-arson-fire-murder-trial/
# LGBTQ / Gender
Transgender veterans warn their VA benefits and services ‘are under attack.’ Trans people are twice as likely as US adults overall to serve in the armed forces. But we’re regularly told our careers and lives aren’t worth saving
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/transgender-military-ban-trump
# Medical / Health News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s entire Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office was fired
https://www.ntd.com/entire-cdc-foia-office-fired-as-health-agency-moves-to-centralize-structure_1058114.html
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH. Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/
The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the price.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday#:~:text=Robert%20F.%20Kennedy%20Jr.%20and,an%20April%20Fools’%20Day%20massacre
Why some doctors are pushing to end routine drug testing during childbirth. “The hurt that we do to people is overwhelming.” Hospitals routinely report parents to child welfare authorities based on error-prone drug tests. Some hospitals are changing policy as a result.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/hospital-connecticut-colorado-pregnancy-drug-testing
# Military / DOD / General News
New photos show Pentagon continuing mysterious buildup in the wake of Trump’s latest threats against Iran. Almost a third of the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of B-2 Spirit bombers have been sighted at a strategic Chagos Islands outpost as tensions rise in the Middle East
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-b2-stealth-bombers-diego-garcia-b2726153.html
# Military / General News / Global
Israel Bombs UN Clinic, Killing 22, Days After Gaza Medics Found in Mass Grave. Footage circulating in the aftermath of the attack showed a newborn who was decapitated by the bombing.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-un-clinic-killing-22-days-after-gaza-medics-found-in-mass-grave/
Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war. “We are threatened by Russia. We are threatened by Putin. We have to do whatever is needed to deter that,” Gen Carsten Breuer says.
https://www.pressreader.com/fiji/fiji-sun/20250403/281745570201761?srsltid=AfmBOoqQvd0di6WOV0Idoojm-Hm1WPOWz60gARO_hwGmVHgP3ezCBppx
# NASA / Space
CesiumAstro joins Taiwan’s initiative to build LEO ( Low Earth Orbit) satellite network
https://mobile-magazine.com/articles/behind-taiwans-first-leo-satellite-network-with-cesiumastro
# Pharmaceuticals
Study finds tariffs of medications could add $750 million in costs and cause supply shortages
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/trump-signs-orders-imposing-10-minimum-tariff-plus-broader-reciprocal-tariffs-and-de
# Security / Surveillance
Trump Reportedly Fires Several Members Of National Security Council
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13935562/trump-fires-three-national-security-officials/
# Social / Social Programs
Appeals court blocks DOGE effort to access Social Security data. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit dismissed the government’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction, and the case will proceed in the district court.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-blocks-doge-effort-193355395.html
67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns. “Instead of focusing on delivering benefits to seniors and people with disabilities, President Trump and unelected Elon Musk are systematically dismantling SSA.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/02/67000-could-die-waiting-for-benefits-under-musks-social-security-cuts-sanders-report-warns/
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s (DOGE) could make “backdoor” cuts to Social Security.
https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-warren-doge-social-security-warning-2052170
# Veterans / VA
‘There’s a war on vets’: Dems launch plans to counter Trump’s VA moves
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/02/theres-a-war-on-vets-dems-launch-plans-to-counter-trumps-va-moves/
Veterans could get service dogs for free under proposed legislation. The SAVES Act would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to award grants to nonprofits to provide service dogs at no cost to veterans with disabilities.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-04-02/veterans-ptsd-service-dogs-legislation-17346139.html
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