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April 27, 2025
Several people killed after SUV rams into Vancouver street festival
Vancouver police say several people have been killed and multiple others injured after a driver of a black SUV drove into a crowd at a street festival Saturday evening. The incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was taking place. ... He said crews lifted a barricade that had been blocking traffic to allow a vehicle to enter. While some cars were being guided carefully through the crowds, Pangilinan said one car suddenl ...
Go to discussionTrump admin brainstorms aggressive tactics to clear homeless camps in cities and forcibly hospitalize people, report
Saturday 26 April 2025 21:14 BST Officials from the Justice Department who manage grant distributions are brainstorming ways to clear homeless encampments and increase the involuntary hospitalization of individuals with mental illnesses, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post. This represents the latest indication that the Trump administration is following through on commitments to aggressively remove homeless people from public spaces, as President Donald Trump spoke of during ...
Go to discussionMother of 1-Year-Old Married to US Citizen Deported, Separated From Baby
Published Apr 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM EDT Updated Apr 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM EDT Heydi Snchez Tejeda, a Cuban immigrant married to a United States citizen with whom she shares a baby daughter, was detained earlier this week and deported to Havana on Thursday on a flight carrying dozens of Cuban migrants, the Miami Herald reported on Saturday. Her husband, Carlos Yuniel Valle, said in Spanish in an emotional video posted on his Facebook account, "They separated a girl from her mother. They kill ...
Go to discussionCampgrounds, visitor centers at federal lakes are closing amid Trump's budget cuts
April 27, 2025, 12:03 AM TOPEKA, Kan. -- Campgrounds, boat ramps and other facilities in at least 30 locations at federal lakes and reservoirs in six states will be closed or have their hours curtailed as of mid-May as the Trump administration tries to rapidly shrink the U.S. government. Officials at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the lakes and reservoirs and their amenities for boating, camping, hiking and sightseeing, said they are dealing with staffing shortages and other ...
Go to discussionArrest made in the theft of Kristi Noem's purse and thousands in cash, source says
Arrest made in the theft of Kristi Noem's purse and thousands in cash, source says By Josh Campbell, Kit Maher and John Miller, CNN 2 minute read Updated 2:12 AM EDT, Sun April 27, 2025 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on March 27, 2025 in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images) Alex Brandon/Pool/Getty Images/File (CNN) -- An arrest has been made in the investigation of the theft of a high-end Gucci bag belonging to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a law enforcement sour ...
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