⚠️Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed. #ClimateCrisis
“Among the ideas that advisers have presented to #Trump is a cut to the federal payroll tax, said one of those people, a move that could 👉🏼lower the flow of money into the Social Security and Medicare trust funds and open Trump to criticism from Democrats that he is torpedoing the safety net for elderly Americans.👈🏼 Trump has signaled he is open to the idea.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-mulls-middle-class-tax-cut-he-eyes-return-office-2024-04-17/
NEW: U.S. cyber agency CISA has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft.
CISA said the latest theft of government email presents "a grave and unacceptable risk" to U.S. federal agencies.
Microsoft first disclosed the breach in January. In March, the company said the attack was "ongoing."
President #Biden just announced the White House has approved the cancellation of nearly $6 billion in federal student debt for 78,000 eligible public service workers — including teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
👎🏻NYT—The NFL star Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota governor, top the running mate list of the longshot candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy said he had been speaking with Rodgers “pretty continuously” for the past month.
“But, the driver said, #Trump never lunged for the steering wheel or physically accosted the agents, contradicting the most sensational and hotly disputed elements of testimony given to the House #Jan6 committee by a White House aide. The transcript of the driver is the first extensive eyewitness account of what happened in the armored vehicle to be made public.”
🤨”Marianne Williamson announced she is unsuspending her Democratic presidential campaign.
In a statement, released the day after the Michigan primary in which a sizable amount of Democratic voters selected "uncommitted" ..Williamson pointed to what she said was the president's vulnerability in a general election..”
The State of Texas doesn't want to comply with a federal statute about providing pregnant employees with reasonable accommodations, so it asked a federal judge to declare Congress invalid. He agreed, finding the entire 2023 federal appropriations to be void, but limiting his relief to just the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
"Kenneth #Chesebro, atty who helped devise #Trump campaign fake electors plot, concealed secret Twitter acct from #Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in election subversion scheme..
