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• Republikan menggunakan manuver legislatif yang akan melewati filibuster Senat untuk mengirimkan miliaran dolar kepada Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), menurut laporan POLITICO dari Washington pada 1 Mei 2026. • Langkah ini dimaksudkan untuk memperkuat kapasitas penegakan hukum ICE di tengah fokus Presiden Trump untuk mempertahankan mayoritas Republik di House dalam pemilu sela mendatang, dan terjadi saat pemerintah menghadapi kritik atas kebijakan perbatasan dan deportasi. • Para kritikus memperingatkan bahwa pendekatan ini dapat mempermanenkan penegakan hukum imigrasi yang sangat restriktif selama bertahun-tahun, sementara GOP berargumen bahwa hal itu akan meningkatkan keamanan dan menjaga pemerintah agar tetap memegang janji kampanyenya.

• Opsi kepemimpinan menjadi fokus di tengah kekhawatiran atas kekalahan pemilu, dengan sekutu wali kota Greater Manchester meningkatkan persiapan untuk tampil kembali • Andy Burnham memiliki rencana untuk kembali ke Westminster ‘dalam hitungan minggu’, kata para sekutu • Saat perhatian Westminster tertuju pada ruang komite dan lobi pemungutan suara parlemen minggu ini, masa depan politik Keir Starmer sedang ditentukan di tempat lain.

Seluruh penumpang di dalam pesawat Cessna 421C tewas setelah kecelakaan larut malam di kota berjarak 40 mil di sebelah barat daya ibu kota negara bagian, Austin

Eksklusif: Wali kota Greater Manchester dikabarkan telah mengidentifikasi kursi di mana para anggota parlemen (MP) bersedia menyingkir untuk memungkinkan pencalonan kepemimpinan. Andy Burnham memiliki rencana kredibel untuk kembali ke Westminster “dalam hitungan minggu”, kata para sekutunya, dengan wali kota Greater Manchester tersebut diperkirakan akan menggunakan pertarungan pemilihan sela (byelection) untuk menetapkan agenda baru bagi pemerintah. Burnham, yang dihalangi oleh badan pengatur Labour untuk mencalonkan diri dalam pemilihan sela Gorton dan Denton pada Februari, telah mengidentifikasi beberapa kursi di mana para anggota parlemen siap menyingkir demi mendukung upayanya menduduki kursi kepemimpinan. Lanjutkan membaca...

Kesepakatan dengan perusahaan kecerdasan buatan memicu kekhawatiran atas pengeluaran publik, keamanan siber, dan pengawasan domestik Daftar email Breaking News US untuk mendapatkan peringatan buletin di kotak masuk Anda Pentagon menyatakan pada hari Jumat bahwa pihaknya telah mencapai kesepakatan dengan tujuh perusahaan kecerdasan buatan (AI) terkemuka: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, dan Amazon Web Services. “Kesepakatan ini mempercepat transformasi menuju pembentukan militer Amerika Serikat sebagai kekuatan tempur berbasis AI dan akan memperkuat kemampuan kombatan kita untuk mempertahankan keunggulan pengambilan keputusan di seluruh domain peperangan,” kata Pentagon dalam sebuah pernyataan. Lanjutkan membaca...

• Anthony Odiong dituduh melakukan pelecehan seksual terhadap tiga jemaat perempuan yang rentan secara spiritual di Waco • Rencana sedang berjalan bagi keuskupan agung Katolik Roma New Orleans untuk menghapus nama seorang pastor dari kapel yang ia bantu bangun di luar kota seiring mendekatnya persidangan pidana di Texas bagi pastor tersebut atas dakwaan pelecehan seksual terhadap tiga jemaat perempuan yang rentan di sana, menurut laporan Guardian • Anthony Odiong dilaporkan telah mengumpulkan $600.000 untuk membangun dan kemudian membuka Our Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapel di Luling, Louisiana, pada tahun 2020, saat ia menjadi pastor di gereja yang berdekatan, bertahun-tahun sebelum pihak berwenang mendakwanya secara pidana di Texas, tempat ia juga pernah melayani sebelumnya

Pejabat senior polisi memperingatkan kaum muda yang terjerumus ke dalam ekstremisme kekerasan seiring Alfie Coleman dinyatakan bersalahSemakin banyak kaum muda yang tertarik ke dunia ekstremisme kekerasan, seorang pejabat senior polisi memperingatkan, saat seorang neo-Nazi muda dinyatakan bersalah karena merencanakan serangan senjata massal setelah tertangkap dalam operasi penyamaran MI5.Alfie Coleman, mantan pekerja supermarket dari Great Notley di Essex, menyusun daftar kebencian berisi rekan kerja dan pelanggan yang ia labeli dengan hinaan rasial atau sebagai “race traitors”. Ia menulis sebuah “manifesto” dalam buku harian dan mengidentifikasi target potensial, termasuk “lord mayor of London” dan sebuah masjid. Lanjutkan membaca...

• SoftBank sedang mempersiapkan Roze AI, yang menggabungkan robotika, pusat data, dan infrastruktur AI untuk IPO di AS dengan target valuasi $100 Miliar. • Masayoshi Son mendukung ventura ini, dengan potensi pencatatan saham publik paling cepat pada akhir 2026 atau 2027. • Para eksekutif merencanakan hari analis pada bulan Juli, meskipun belum ada produk atau rencana pendapatan yang diumumkan.

Cabang FT dari NUJ menyatakan tidak ada ‘alasan yang kuat’ terkait kewajiban bagi staf editorial untuk berada di kantor empat hari seminggu. Jurnalis di Financial Times tengah berselisih dengan manajemen publikasi tersebut terkait rencana untuk memerintahkan staf kembali ke kantor empat hari seminggu pada akhir tahun ini. Anggota serikat pekerja Financial Times secara bulat telah memberikan suara untuk menggunakan prosedur sengketa perusahaan atas usulan tersebut, berargumen bahwa manajemen “belum memberikan alasan yang meyakinkan” atas perlunya beralih dari praktik tiga hari di kantor saat ini. Lanjutkan membaca...

• Pemilih Virginia sedikit menyetujui rencana redistrikasi kongres yang didukung Demokrat yang membahayakan beberapa petahana Republikan. • Langkah ini menggambar ulang batas wilayah untuk menguntungkan Demokrat di distrik-distrik kunci, menggeser keseimbangan untuk pemilihan tengah tahun 2026. • Pertempuran redistrikasi pesisir ini menyoroti ketegangan nasional terkait peta yang adil dan keuntungan partisan.

Sekretaris perumahan dan menteri perumahan menjadi pihak terbaru yang mengkritik ide tersebut, yang juga telah dikesampingkan oleh No 10

Labor under pressure to scrap group voting tickets as Avi Yemini details plan to funnel votes to conservative parties at state election A rightwing provocateur’s plan to register the “Free Palestine party” and use it to funnel votes to conservative parties in Victoria’s state election has renewed concern over the state’s voting system.Avi Yemini, a former Israeli solider and self-styled investigative journalist who creates content for his YouTube channel Rebel News Australia, on Tuesday announced plans to register the party, which he said would “flow our preferences on to parties that want to free Palestine from Hamas” in the November poll. Continue reading...

Downing Street says focus to remains on cutting bills, backing renters and lowering energy pricesDowning Street has dismissed a freeze on private sector rents even as Rachel Reeves left the door open to the idea, after the Guardian revealed the chancellor has been considering it as an option to cut the cost of living.A No 10 spokesperson said on Tuesday freezing private sector rents was “not the approach we will be taking” after sources told the Guardian it was Reeves’s preferred solution for dealing with a spike in housing costs in the wake of the Iran war. Continue reading...

Tim Heidecker could take over for Alex Jones as the head of conspiracy website Infowars in days as part of the Onion's acquisition. The comedian, actor and musician told As It Happens about his plan to get people laughing and smiling on a platform that inspired anger and fear.

US generated more power from renewables like solar and wind than fossil fuels recently for a full month in a firstDonald Trump has wielded the full might of his administration to crush the progress of clean energy, which has called a “scam” and “stupid”. But there are signs this assault is not going to plan.In March, the US generated more of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind than it did via gas, the first time clean energy has surpassed the planet-heating fossil fuel for a full month nationally, according to data from the Ember thinktank. Continue reading...

Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdownLabor unions, democratic organizations and community groups are organizing an economic blackout this year to commemorate May Day, International Workers Day, inspired by the economic blackout in Minnesota during the massive ICE operation in the state.May Day Strong events are being planned across the US, with organizers calling for “no school, no work, no shopping”, in protest of government policies they say put billionaires’ needs above those of workers. Continue reading...

FTSE 250 firms Paragon and OSB Group, owner of Kent Reliance and Precise Mortgages, slide on London Stock ExchangeRachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war falloutBusiness live – latest updatesShares in some of the UK’s biggest buy-to-let lenders such as Paragon and One Savings Bank have fallen after it emerged that the chancellor may make private landlords commit to a one-year rent freeze.In an effort to protect households from rising living costs as a result of the Iran war, Rachel Reeves is considering whether to ban landlords in England from increasing rents for a limited period of time, the Guardian revealed on Monday night. Continue reading...

Government’s draft news bargaining incentive scheme includes 2.25% levy on local revenues of digital giantsAnthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on local revenues, warning digital giants should not be able to exploit the work of journalists to boost profits.Releasing an exposure draft for the government’s news bargaining incentive (NBI) scheme on Tuesday, the prime minister said platforms who sign new deals with publishers to pay for news content would receive offsets of between 150% to 170% from the new levy. Continue reading...

Australia is dependent upon UK’s ability to deliver new submarines, but report finds ‘cracks are already beginning to show’ “Cracks are already beginning to show” in the UK’s funding for the Aukus agreement that could derail the ambitious nuclear submarine plan, a British parliamentary inquiry has found, highlighting a threat to Australia’s security.UK shipbuilding has been under-funded for decades and the country’s submarine availability is “critically low”, the House of Commons defence committee’s report found. Continue reading...

Proposal from Ron DeSantis would net Republicans up to four additional US House seats ahead of midterm electionsRon DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, on Monday unveiled his proposal for redistricting his state’s congressional maps, a move he hopes will net his party up to four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections.The long-awaited reveal, which will be debated during a special session of Florida’s legislature called by DeSantis beginning Tuesday, is the latest, and possibly final, act of a nationwide “gerrymandering” battle for control of Congress sparked by Donald Trump that looks increasingly to be moving back in Republicans’ favor. Continue reading...

• Months after restoring federal family planning funding, Missouri's only Title X grantee program now confronts fresh challenges from U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. • The program provides essential reproductive health services amid ongoing political debates over federal support for family planning initiatives. • This development underscores persistent tensions in U.S. public health policy regarding access to contraception and reproductive care funding.

Millionaire funded operation called ‘pure animal cruelty’ after environment minister sent threats on social mediaFinal preparations are reportedly under way for a millionaire fundedplan to tow a sickly humpback whale into the North Sea.The 12-tonne whale, nicknamed Timmy, has been stranded on the Baltic Sea coastline for almost a month. A barge resembling a giant steel aquarium will attempt to transport Timmy 400km (248 miles) towards the North Sea, and then hopefully back to the Atlantic Ocean from where it is believed to have arrived. Continue reading...

Pesident presses case for controversial $400m project following White House correspondents’ dinner shootingThe shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel gives new urgency to the project to construct a 1,000-seat ballroom at the White House, Donald Trump claimed after the incident on Saturday night.The US president pressed the case for his controversial ballroom initiative at the press conference he held at the White House on Saturday and a social media post on Sunday, after an armed attacker was arrested as he rushed towards the Hilton’s ballroom, where Trump was attending the White House Correspondents Association’s annual dinner. Continue reading...

Liz Conmy’s death ‘is a profound loss’, Democratic party affiliate says following crash shortly after takeoffA small plane crashed just after taking off from Crystal airport north of Minneapolis on Saturday, killing a North Dakota state legislator and the pilot, authorities said.Liz Conmy, a North Dakota state representative from Fargo, was killed in the crash, her colleague, state senator Tim Mathern, told the Star Tribune. Continue reading...

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found at least 41m ppt in groundwater at former military facility in LouisianaDonald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a detention facility for children and their families on one the nation’s most Pfas-contaminated sites, which also serves as a hub for the president’s deportation program.The England air force base, now called England Airpark, is a sprawling former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwater have been found at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt). Continue reading...

Former Liberal party senator, who was elected to state upper house in March, says flights ‘worth every cent’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne Nation’s South Australian leader has paid back Australia’s richest person for private flights he took while campaigning in the state’s recent election.Cory Bernardi confirmed on Saturday that he had reimbursed a “substantial” sum of money to Gina Rinehart’s company S Kidman & Co, to comply with new state laws that prohibit political parties and candidates from receiving electoral donations or gifts from individuals, businesses or unions. Continue reading...

Languorous tree dwellers from Guyana and Peru died from ‘cold stun’ in warehouse with no power or running waterSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailWildlife officials in Florida said in a newly released report that dozens of sloths taken from South American rainforests for display at a controversial new tourist attraction in Orlando died in the care of their new owners.An incident report from the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission (FWC) said that 31 of the mammals procured from Peru and Guyana by the owners of a forthcoming attraction called Sloth World perished in a storage warehouse more than a year ago, between December 2024 and February 2025. Continue reading...