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Overnight News Digest February 25, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-02-25
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Chicago Sun-Times: Palestinian American mother testifies during murder trial: ‘My son screaming, screaming, screaming' by Sophie Sherry
Hanan Shaheen told jurors Tuesday that her Plainfield landlord stabbed her 6-year-old son to death after attacking her while yelling “You Muslim must die.” Shaheen was the first witness called to the stand in the murder trial of Joseph Czuba. The 73-year-old Plainfield man is charged with stabbing her and killing her son, Wadee Al Fayoumi, after becoming radicalized by conservative commentary about the war in Gaza. Shaheen testified that she told Czuba she was Muslim and from Jerusalem when she moved into his property in 2021, and that he expressed no issue at the time with her religion or nationality. That changed, she said, after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel. A few days later, Shaheen said she saw Czuba in one of the home’s common areas, and he told her; “Your people are killing Jewish [people] and babies in Israel. Muslims are not welcome here, not in my home.”
Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday muscled a multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint through the House by the narrowest of margins — a crucial step for Republicans as they embark on advancing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. The vote was 217-215, with Republicans casting all of the votes in favor of the budget resolution. Just one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., joined all Democrats in voting against it. The vote came after a dramatic day of arm-twisting in the House, with Johnson hosting multiple meetings in his office to win over GOP holdouts and Trump personally calling many of those same individuals. "We got it done," Johnson said after the vote. "This is the first important step in opening up the reconciliation process. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us. We are going to deliver the America First agenda." The budget measure calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts. It includes more than $100 billion in new spending on immigration enforcement and the military.The New York Times:
The New York Times: Trump Plans ‘Gold Card’ Alternative to Green Cards for ‘High Level People’ by Shawn McCreesh
President Trump on Tuesday previewed his plans for a new visa program he was calling the gold card, describing it as “somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication.” The blingy new program would allow “very high-level people” a new “route to citizenship,” Mr. Trump said. The price tag, he said, would be about $5 million. Mr. Trump revealed his gold card plan to reporters in the Oval Office, where he was signing his latest round of executive orders, including one related to tariffs on copper imports. His commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, filled in some of the details. Mr. Lutnick explained that “the Trump gold card,” as he called it, would replace the EB-5 visa program, which similarly provides a pathway to citizenship for wealthy foreign investor types but has been an avenue for fraud. Mr. Lutnick implied that the administration would be more discerning as to who might qualify for a gold card, though details were scant at this early stage.
Mother Jones: Amid Chaos, New Report Reveals 40 Percent of DOGE Cuts Save No Money by Julianne McShane
Guardian: Trump says Zelenskyy set to visit White House on Friday to sign minerals deal by Andrew Roth
Donald Trump has said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to visit the White House on Friday to sign a rare earth minerals deal to pay for US military aid to defend against Russia’s full-scale invasion. The announcement followed days of tense negotiations between the US and Ukraine in which Zelenskyy alleged the US was pressuring him to sign a deal worth more than $500bn that would force “10 generations” of Ukrainians to pay it back. Media outlets reported late on Tuesday that the terms of an agreement had been reached. “I hear that he’s coming on Friday,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Certainly it’s OK with me if he’d like to. And he would like to sign it together with me. And I understand that’s a big deal, very big deal.” According to the Financial Times, which first reported the deal, the new terms of the deal did not include the onerous demands for a right to $500bn in potential revenue from exploiting the resources, which include rare earth metals and Ukrainian oil and gas resources.
DW: South Korea's Yoon unapologetic for martial law decision by Felix Tamsut and Mahima Kapoor
Beleaguered South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol said the country had been facing an "existential crisis" when he declared martial law in December last year. Yoon remained defiant as as he faced Seoul's eight-judge strong Constitutional Court reviewing whether to uphold his impeachment over the short-lived martial law declaration. If the court upholds the parliament's decision to impeach Yoon, he will be removed from office less than three years into a five-year term. According to Yoon, "external forces, including North Korea, along with anti-state elements" within South Korean society were "working together to seriously threaten our national security and sovereignty". "This was never a decision made for my personal benefit as Yoon Suk Yeol," he told the court.
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