Sylvia Poggioli met Pope Francis while working for NPR
Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, was the first-ever Latin American pope. He was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2013-2017. In his 12 years as Pope, he took on a number of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI had announced his resignation on Friday after 12 years as Pope.
The Supreme Court decision affects deportations under the Alien Enemies Act
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Trump administration again this week to block deportations at several Texas detention centres, including Bluebonnet, a facility in Texas. The ACLU sued the administration again this week, in order to block deportations. ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said migrants at Bluebonnet Detention Facility were being loaded onto buses for removal late Friday.
The Supreme Court decision on Alien Enemies does not mean that Venezuela’s citizens will be deported immediately
The US government has said 137 migrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua, including a group of men sent to a prison in El Salvador, have been deported under the Alien Enemies Act. There are no deportation plans on Friday or Saturday, but the government can remove people on Saturday, a lawyer for the justice department said.
the US leads a team in Paris as the leader of the French team seeks unity
US Senator Marco Rubio, who is currently in France for peace talks with Russia, said, “I think the key question right now is when the Europeans will say to Trump, ‘OK, you can have a deal with Putin but it’s our duty not to respect it’.” Rubio further said that the US won’t let peace talks “drag on for weeks or months”.
In a single attack, Trump called for the dismissal of the Fed Chair
US President Donald Trump called the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s annual economic report a “complete mess”, arguing that oil prices were down, groceries were down and the US was getting “Rich on Tariffs”. “Oil prices are down, groceries are down, and US is getting RICH ON TARIFFS,” Trump tweeted. This comes after Powell said tariffs were “highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation”.
A senator from Maryland tried to visit a deported person
US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who’s on a trip to El Salvador, said that he plans to ask the embassy to ask for the return of 29-year-old Abrego Garcia. Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen, was deported last month despite being granted protections by a judge years earlier over concerns for his safety if he were to return there.
A lawmaker tried to visit a man who was deported
US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who has travelled to El Salvador to visit his cousin Abrego Garcia who was deported to US despite being in the country legally, said El Salvador’s government declined his requests for both. The Trump administration designated the Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), which it claimed Abrego was a member of, as a crime gang.
Stem-cell therapies might be a hit in Japan
A group of US scientists has injected induced pluripotent stem cells, which are capable of becoming any cell in the body, into patients with Parkinson’s disease. The stem cells were injected to 18 sites across the putamen in both hemispheres, “to roughly fill up that region of the brain”. The stem cells have survived and are safe one year after surgery.
Stem-cell therapies may soon pay off for Japan
A study found that autologous transplantation of iPS-cell-derived DA progenitors is a safe andeffective regenerative therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Researchers used iPS-cell-derived progenitors, which are made from cells of the person in need of treatment, in a single case study. The results were seen in four individuals for whom those natural cornea-building stem cells had been depleted.
Trump wants to cut funding for PBS and NPR
The White House has said taxpayers have been subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread “radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news'”. It added that there is “trash” that passes as news and “intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints”. This comes in the wake of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing in late March.