Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder, a number of religious leaders are expre...
about the dispute playing out between President Trump and Pope Leo.
“After Trump called the Pope week for criticizing Iran war and Trump briefly posting”
an image of himself looking Jesus like, Imperial Station to Rose reports. Pope Leo says he's not afraid of the president and notes that he's not a political figure, but rather a religious leader concerned with the gospel. Colonel Joseph Tubin, the archbishop of Newark, has issued a statement saying Pope Leo will continue to speak clearly against the war and other offenses against human dignity
and to call for dialogue. The Council on American Islamic Relations also put out a statement saying it stands in solidarity with the Catholic community. It goes on to say, quote, "The president's mockery of religion is both deranged and insulting." Jason D'Aros and PR News.
President Trump is refusing to apologize telling reporters Monday that he is not sorry for lashing out over Leo's opposition to the Iran war.
“Also Monday he sought to explain away the AI-generated photo saying he thought it showed”
him as a doctor.
A federal judge has dismissed President Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street
Journal. Trump sued over an article about a birthday greeting two decades ago to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And PR's David Fowcomplic reports. The Journal reported the greeting was part of a celebratory book put together in 2003 for
Epstein's 50th birthday by his girlfriend, She Lane Maxwell. Trump said it was fake and sued as a private citizen, though the Murdoch's are his political allies. The U.S. district court judge Darren Gales wrote that Trump had failed to alleged sufficiently that the Journal had acted with what's called actual malice, even knowledge a story is false
or failure to seek the truth. Gales found that the Journal had made numerous efforts to verify its reporting and he included Trump's denial. The judge left the door open to Trump refiling the suit, however, and a spokesperson for his legal team tells NPR it will do just that.
David Fowcomplic and PR news. A 20-year-old Texas man has been charged with attempting to kill open AI CEO Sam Altman. Matt Kobo is the FBI's acting special agent in charge in San Francisco. The defendant is alleged to having traveled across state lines with the intent to do a target in individual and a major technology company.
This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted, and extremely serious. According to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court Monday, Daniel Marino Gamma was a captured on surveillance video throwing in incendiary device at the gate of Altman's home last week.
He was arrested a short time later outside the headquarters of Open AI Police say he threatened to burn down the business. This is NPR news. Democratic California Congressman Eric Swallwell and Texas Republican Tony Gonzalez are stepping down from their house seats, both are bowing to pressure to leave Congress
or face expulsion following sexual misconduct allegations Gonzalez expected to file a retired later today when the House returns from its two-week Easter recess. Swallwell has not said when he will leave Congress. Tax returns do this Wednesday and PR's Steven Saub reports you're likely to get a bigger refund this year to last year's tax cuts.
So far, the average refund is about 11% higher than this time last year. So $350 more according to data from the IRS. Michael Pierce with Oxford Economics expects that average will go up. That's because higher income filers typically procrastinate on filing and seem to be benefiting more from the new tax changes.
But our forecast is that the average refund will end up being something like 20% bigger this time around, so something like $3,800 per household. While the deadline to file is Wednesday, you can request an extension and move the deadline until October 15th.
“But you should still pay any taxes you think you'll owe Wednesday to avoid having to pay”
penalties. Steven Saub and PR news former Yukon Starrie Zeefud is on her way to Dallas. She was the number one pick and Monday night, SWMBA drafts that Dallas wings selected fought at the outset of the draft in New York. And fresh off the winning the National Championship, UCLA had five players drafted in the
first round, breaking the record held by the 2002 Yukon team.
