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Overnight News Digest: Canada's Mark Carney wins full term as prime minister [1]
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Date: 2025-04-28
NY Times (gift link)
Canada’s Liberal Party won Monday’s national elections with voters giving a full term as prime minister to Mark Carney, according to the national broadcaster CBC/Radio Canada, choosing a seasoned economist and policymaker to guide their country through turbulent times. The full results should be available later Monday or early Tuesday. But the voters’ decision sealed a stunning turnaround for the Liberal Party that just months ago seemed all but certain to lose to the Conservative Party, led by the career politician Pierre Poilievre. Mr. Carney has been prime minister since March, when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down.
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The rapid remaking of a nation, in 100 days
BBC
During last year's presidential campaign, Donald Trump constantly repeated his intention to bring about dramatic change as soon as he returned to the White House. But few expected it to come at such breakneck speed. In the three months since he took the oath of office, the 47th president has deployed his power in a way that compares to few predecessors. In stacks of bound documents signed off with a presidential pen and policy announcements made in all caps on social media, his blizzard of executive actions has reached into every corner of American life. To his supporters, the shock-and-awe approach has been a tangible demonstration of an all-action president, delivering on his promises and enacting long-awaited reforms.
BBC
Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families' lawyers. One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said. Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice for their citizen children to be removed with them. "Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws," he said, adding the mothers were in the US illegally. Trump faced a backlash during his first term for a policy that separated thousands of children from their parents.
x The CBC projects the Liberals will win more of the 343 seats than the Conservatives. PM Carney is projected to win his Nepean seat with nearly 68% of the vote, but it’s unclear if the Liberals will secure a majority. 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.io/olijer
[image or embed] — aljazeera.com (@aljazeera.com) April 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BBC
At least 68 African migrants have been killed in a US air strike on a detention centre in Houthi-controlled north-western Yemen, the armed group's TV channel says. Al Masirah reported that another 47 migrants were injured, most of them critically, when the centre in Saada province was bombed. It posted graphic footage showing multiple bodies covered in the rubble of a destroyed building. There was no immediate comment from the US military. But it came hours after US Central Command announced that its forces had hit more than 800 targets since President Donald Trump ordered an intensification of the air campaign against the Houthis on 15 March.
Deutsche Welle
Canadians head to the polls on Monday for a consequential election that could define the ongoing relationship against a backdrop of fraught relations with the US government. The return of US President Donald Trump has shaken Canadian politics, potentially swinging what was looking like a likely return to power for the Conservative Party at the start of the year into a toss-up with the incumbent Liberal Party. With polls tightening, there remains the possibility that no one party will get the majority required to govern outright, which will mean smaller parties will be courted to provide "supply and confidence" — a guarantee to support budget measures and back the government in confidence votes. Whatever Canadians decide, the next government will need to chart a challenging course, amid tensions with the United States as well as a difficult social and economic picture at home.
Deutsche Welle
India incursion 'imminent', Pakistan defense minister says Pakistan's defense minister said a military incursion by India was imminent after the Kashmirattack which claimed the lives of 26 people. "We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now," Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Reuters, adding that "strategic decisions" have been taken. Asif also said the country would only use its nuclear weapons in the case of a "direct threat to our existence." The Pakistani defense minister is a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, which has historically pursued peace talks with neighboring India.
The Guardian
Tens of millions of people across Spain and Portugal have been plunged into a huge power blackout blamed by the Portuguese operator on extreme temperature variations, leaving them without trains, metros, traffic lights, ATMs, phone connections and internet access. People were trapped in lifts, stuck on trains, stalled in traffic and abandoned in airports. Hundreds stumbled along pitch-black metro tunnels using their phone torches; others scrambled for basics in supermarkets that could only take cash, or began long trudges home from work. Mobile networks went down and internet access was cut as power failed at 12.33pm (1133 BST). Hospitals postponed routine operations but used generators to attend to critical cases, and while electronic banking was able to function on backup systems, most ATM screens were blank.
The Guardian
A host of CBS’s 60 Minutes flagship news show rebuked the show’s corporate owners on Sunday evening, part of a dispute over journalists’ independence amid a lawsuit from Donald Trump and attempted sale. For decades, the broadcast news program has been a destination for investigative journalism and home to America’s most venerated broadcast journalists – including Sunday evening’s host Scott Pelley. However, a rift has grown between journalists on the show and the corporate owners of CBS , Paramount Global, as leaders of the company seek to sell it to Skydance Media, a merger that needs federal approval.
The Guardian
An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years. Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington. Ward holds a green card but has convictions for drug possession from 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged, her family said. The latest evidence of a crackdown on documented migrants under President Donald Trump prompted an expression of concern from the Irish taoiseach, Micheál Martin. “Where people have green cards and citizenship rights there shouldn’t be an issue so we will be pursuing this on a bilateral basis to make sure that those who are legitimately entitled to be in the US are free from any challenges or difficulties of this kind,” he told RTÉ on Monday. Ireland’s department of foreign affairs said it was providing consular assistance.
Reuters
PARIS/DUBAI, April 28 (Reuters) - Iran has proposed meeting the European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal possibly in Rome this Friday if talks resume with the United States, four diplomats said on Monday, cautioning that there has yet to be a response from the Europeans to the idea. Iran is looking to build on the momentum of nuclear negotiations with the United States that resumed in Oman on Saturday and after talks with Russia and China last week. Omani officials have said a new round of U.S.-Iran talks could be held on May 3 in Europe. No formal decision has been taken. Iran's reach out to Britain, France and Germany, known as the E3, suggests Tehran is keeping its options open, but also wants to assess where the Europeans stand on the possible re-imposition of U.N. sanctions before October, when a resolution ratifying the 2015 accord expires.
NPR
Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR. Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks. Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information. A spokesperson for the Department of Energy flatly denied that Farritor and Ramada had accessed the networks.
NPR
Altadena, CALIF — More than three months after 16,251 homes and other buildings were destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades fires, rebuilding has begun. Now that burned debris has been removed from lots, both Los Angeles city and county have started issuing building permits. Among the many decisions homeowners face is whether to rebuild with all-electric appliances or re-install gas ones. California's policy is to transition away from burning climate-warming natural gas in buildings and switching to electric . Climate activists hope to convince homeowners to make that choice, but requiring all-electric homes of people who just had their lives upended by a wildfire is proving challenging. "I love cooking with gas. I didn't learn how to cook with electric," says Shawn Maestretti, a landscape architect whose Altadena home burned in the Eaton fire.
While Social Security Administration website issues continue, where to reliably get information from the agency becomes more ambiguous.
C/NET
The Social Security Administration has been reeling from dramatic changes over the past few months that have affected beneficiaries across the country, stirring widespread anxiety. In February, the agency laid off 7,000 employees. This has resulted in challenges with finding a reliable way to contact the SSA over the phone, while the official website seems to be struggling to stay online. According to a report from The Washington Post last week, the Social Security Administration website issues have left beneficiaries unable to log in. There have been spates of intermittent uptime and crashes caused by an influx of traffic due to an expanded fraud-checking system that wasn't tested at scale.
x The new normal 📲 A sprawling network of Signal group chats involving hundreds of top business executives, Silicon Valley leaders, and journalists, as well as legal and economic analysts, has massively reshaped national politics since the pandemic.
[image or embed] — The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) April 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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