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WORLD NEWS FLASH<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UNITED STATES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not even done with its first 100 days yet, the Trump Administration has dropped the hammer on more liberal education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, on April 11, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) referred its Title IX investigation into the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for further enforcement action. Simultaneously, ED will initiate an administrative proceeding to adjudicate termination of MDOE\u2019s federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These actions are a direct result of MDOE\u2019s continued refusal to comply with Title IX. ED issued a noncompliance finding on March 19, and sent a final warning letter to the state on March 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state\u2019s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students\u2019 safety, privacy, and dignity,\u201d said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department. Governor Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom – be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a directed investigation of MDOE, ED\u2019s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that MDOE has practices and policies that violate Title IX, including allowing males to compete in female sports and occupy women-only intimate spaces. MDOE refused to comply with OCR\u2019s proposed Resolution Agreement to resolve its Title IX violations voluntarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. President Trump\u2019s Executive Order Keeping Men out of Women\u2019s Sports articulates United States policy, consistent with Title IX, to protect female student athletes from having \u201cto compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, on April 14, the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism released the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarvard\u2019s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe disruption of learning that has plagued campuses in recent years is unacceptable. The harassment of Jewish students is intolerable. It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Joint Task Force to combat anti-Semitism is announcing a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60M in multi-year contract value to Harvard University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MASS SHOOTING UPDATE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information from 4-15-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Mass Shooting Stats: (Source: Mass Shooting Tracker, https:\/\/www.massshootingtracker.site\/data\/?year=2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Total Mass Shootings: 95<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Total Dead: 125<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Total Wounded: 374<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Shootings Per Day: 0.90<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Days Reached in Year 2025 as of April 15: 105<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    WORLD<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    NATIONS REACT TO U.S. TARIFFS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Global trade could shrink by three percent as a result of the United States\u2019 new tariff measures which in the longer term could reshape and boost as-yet untapped regional commercial links, a top UN economist confirmed on April 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cThere will be shifting, I think, in supply chains, there will be a reassessment of global alliances. There will be geopolitical shifts and economic as well,\u201d said Pamela Coke-Hamilton, head of the International Trade Centre (ITC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Speaking in Geneva after the April 9 announcement by the White House of a 90-day pause on \u201creciprocal tariffs\u201d for most countries with the exception of China, Mrs. Coke-Hamilton noted that exports from Mexico had already been \u201chighly impacted\u201d by earlier seismic changes to US trade policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cCountries like Mexico, China and Thailand, but also countries in southern Africa are among the most affected, alongside the US itself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While the 90-day pause on the so-called reciprocal tariffs applies to imports from most countries and brings down rates to a still hefty 10 percent, tariffs on imports from China currently stand at 145 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    China, meanwhile, has raised tariffs against US exports – in effect import taxes on goods – to 125 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Already, Mexico\u2019s products for export have shifted away from markets such as the US, China, Europe and other Latin American countries to make \u201cmodest gains\u201d instead in Canada, Brazil \u201cand to a lesser extent, India,\u201d the ITC chief insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Other countries have followed suit, including Vietnam, whose exports \u201care redirecting away from the US, Mexico and China\u201d, while \u201cincreasing substantially\u201d towards the EU, Republic of Korea and others, said Mrs. Coke-Hamilton, whose UN specialized agency offers assistance to developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The problem for emerging economies is that they are less well equipped to \u201cpivot\u201d when faced with \u201cinstabilities\u201d, the ITC chief explained, since they often lack the manufacturing diversity and ability to add value to raw commodities of more industrialized nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Especially vulnerable trading partners of the US include Lesotho, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Madagascar and Myanmar that are \u201cthe most exposed\u201d, she continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Confirming that the World Trade Organization (WTO) had estimated that commerce between China and the US could drop by up to 80 percent if the highly unusual situation continues, the ITC Executive Secretary pointed out that they constituted only \u201cthree percent to four percent of world trade\u2026(so) there is 96 percent out there that is still trading and that will trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nonetheless, the impact of the \u201cindeterminate extension of 90 days on and on\u201d has not been good for global commerce and \u201cdoes not necessarily lend itself to stability,\u201d Mrs. Coke-Hamilton continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cIrrespective of whether there is an extension, on and on, the fact that there is no stability, there is no predictability will affect trade and firms and decisions that are being made in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She added: \u201cThis would not be the first time that there have been tremors in the world economic system. We have seen it over the last 50 years in different dispensations. This one is probably a little more harsh, a little more tremulous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    MIDDLE EAST<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ISRAEL KNOCKS OUT HOSPITAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cAl Ahli Hospital is out of service,\u201d WHO spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris told UN News, after the airstrike early on April 13. \u201cThe pharmacy was destroyed, many of the different buildings and services were destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some 40 patients whose condition is too critical to be moved from the health facility are continuing to receive care, while the 50 other remaining patients – including the child who died – were evacuated to other medical centers shortly before the attack began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The situation remains critical and medical supplies of all kinds are now \u201cdesperately low,\u201d WHO\u2019s Dr. Harris said, before expressing deep concern for the safety of health personnel at the stricken hospital. Until Sunday’s strike, Al Ahli was the main hospital dealing with the casualties from Israeli airstrikes. Now, most casualties are sent to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The UN health agency says that only 21 of Gaza\u2019s 36 hospitals now remain partially functional. Almost all of them have been damaged in the war, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel in October 2023 in which some 1,250 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Leading condemnation for the attack and repeating calls for a ceasefire, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted that hospitals have special protection under international humanitarian law: \u201cAttacks on health care must stop. Once again we repeat: patients, health workers and hospitals must be protected. The aid blockade must be lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Aid teams highlighted how the hospital strike has already put \u201can immense additional strain\u201d on the war-shattered enclave\u2019s remaining partially operational hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cMass casualty events are now the norm and those hospitals that are treating trauma patients are doing so amid severe shortages of critical supplies, including critical medicine,\u201d Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, told UN News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It has now been seven weeks since crossings were closed to all relief supplies meant for the people of Gaza, and nearly a month since Israeli bombardment resumed in the enclave amid disagreement between Israel and Hamas over the terms of a ceasefire extension that include the release of all hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    According to OCHA, more than 390,000 people have been displaced since Israeli bombing began again on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In recent days, top UN officials have rebuffed Israeli assertions that there was enough food to feed all Palestinians, insisting that they were \u201cfar from the reality on the ground.\u201d The global body\u2019s top emergency relief official, Tom Fletcher, also stated that aid teams are “deliberately blocked from saving lives in Gaza,\u201d leading to further civilian deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    According to the Gazan health authorities, well over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed and 115,688 Palestinians injured during the conflict. This includes 1,449 people killed and 3,647 injured since the escalation of hostilities on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cSupplies that we had are rapidly running out and we’re running out of food of medicine, of shelter and every other life-critical item if the situation does not change immediately,\u201d Ms. Cherevko stressed. \u201cThe catastrophe that is in Gaza will become worse and the needs of the people will become even higher. This cannot continue. Civilians must be protected and the crossings must be reopened immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    INDIA<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    MUMBAI BOMBING SUSPECT EXTRADITED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On April 9, the United States extradited convicted terrorist Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan, to stand trial in India on 10 criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Rana\u2019s extradition is a critical step toward seeking justice for the six Americans and scores of other victims who were killed in the heinous attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rana, 64, is charged in India with numerous offenses, including conspiracy, murder, commission of a terrorist act, and forgery, related to his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks committed by Laskhar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Between November 26 and 29, 2008, ten LeT terrorists carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks in Mumbai. They infiltrated the city by sea and then broke into teams, dispersing to multiple locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Attackers at a train station fired guns and threw grenades into crowds. Attackers at two restaurants shot indiscriminately at patrons. Attackers at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel gunned people down and detonated explosives. Attackers also shot and killed people at a Jewish community center. When the terror finally subsided, 166 victims, including six Americans, were dead, along with all but one of the LeT terrorists. Hundreds more were injured, and Mumbai sustained more than $1.5 billion in property damage. The attacks were among the most horrific and catastrophic in India\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    India alleges that Rana facilitated a fraudulent cover so that his childhood friend David Coleman Headley (Headley), a U.S. citizen born Daood Gilani, could freely travel to Mumbai for the purpose of conducting surveillance of potential attack sites for LeT. As India alleges, Headley had received training from LeT members in Pakistan and was in direct communication with LeT about plans to attack Mumbai. Among other things, Rana allegedly agreed to open a Mumbai branch of his immigration business and appoint Headley as the manager of the office, despite Headley\u2019s having no immigration experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On two separate occasions, Rana allegedly helped Headley prepare and submit visa applications to Indian authorities that contained information Rana knew to be false. Rana also allegedly supplied, through his unsuspecting business partner, documentation in support of Headley\u2019s attempt to secure formal approval from Indian authorities to open a branch office of Rana\u2019s business. Over the course of more than two years, Headley allegedly repeatedly met with Rana in Chicago and described his surveillance activities on behalf of LeT, LeT\u2019s responses to Headley\u2019s activities, and LeT\u2019s potential plans for attacking Mumbai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After the attacks were complete, Rana allegedly told Headley that the Indians \u201cdeserved it.\u201d In an intercepted conversation with Headley, Rana allegedly commended the nine LeT terrorists who had been killed committing the attacks, saying that \u201c(t)hey should be given Nishan-e-Haider\u201d – Pakistan\u2019s \u201chighest award for gallantry in battle,\u201d which is reserved for fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    India\u2019s pending proceedings against Rana are not the first proceedings in which Rana has been accused of conspiring to commit violent acts of terrorism. In 2013, Rana was sentenced to 14 years in prison following his trial conviction in the Northern District of Illinois for conspiring to provide material support to LeT and to a foiled LeT-sponsored terrorist plot in Copenhagen, Denmark. As part of those same criminal proceedings, Headley pleaded guilty to 12 federal terrorism charges, including aiding and abetting the murders of the six Americans in Mumbai and later planning to attack a Danish newspaper, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In June 2020, the United States acted on a request for Rana\u2019s extradition submitted by the Republic of India, which Rana contested for almost five years. On May 16, 2023, a U.S. magistrate judge in the Central District of California certified Rana\u2019s extradition to India. Rana then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California denied on August 10, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On August 15, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that decision. The Supreme Court likewise denied Rana\u2019s petition for certiorari on January 21, 2025. The Secretary of State issued a warrant ordering Rana\u2019s surrender to Indian authorities. Both the district court and the Ninth Circuit denied Rana\u2019s application for a stay of extradition, and on April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Rana\u2019s application for a stay of extradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On April 9, the U.S. Marshals Service executed the Secretary\u2019s surrender warrant by surrendering Rana to Indian authorities for transportation to India. Rana\u2019s extradition is now complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The extradition litigation was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John J. Lulejian and David R. Friedman and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Bram M. Alden of the Central District of California and Deputy Director Christopher J. Smith, Associate Director Kerry A. Monaco, and former Associate Director Rebecca A. Haciski of the Criminal Division\u2019s Office of International Affairs. The U.S. Marshals Service and attorneys and international affairs specialists in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of International Affairs provided support to this extradition. The FBI\u2019s Legal Attach\u00e9 Office in New Delhi also provided assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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