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April 25 Afternoon Brief
In U.S. news
A shooting at a Chicago hospital left one police officer dead and another critically injured. Officials say the suspect is in custody. In Georgia, two wildfires have destroyed more than 120 homes and are still threatening property and lives, with strong winds raising the risk of further spread and smoke already traveling across a wide area.
In Kentucky, a couple has been sentenced to nearly 20 years each after pleading guilty to severe child abuse tied to neglect, confinement, and forcing children to go without food and water. The court heard one child had been, in effect, starved to the edge of survival, which is about as grim as a criminal case gets. Separately, Arizona is suing to block a planned ICE detention facility in Surprise, saying the site was bought without the required environmental review and is in the wrong place for detainees and nearby emergency services.
President Trump is also pressing again to scrap the Senate filibuster so Republicans can pass the stalled SAVE America Act. The push is familiar, the rhetoric less so. That is not a compliment.
In Europe
In Hungary, outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not take a seat in parliament after leading his party into opposition following a heavy election defeat. In France, President Emmanuel Macron said the EU’s mutual assistance clause is real, not decorative, and argued that Europe can defend itself, pointing to military aid sent after a drone attack on a British airbase in Cyprus.
Elsewhere
In London, a woman and a child died after getting into difficulty in the water at a park, and police are working to identify their next of kin. It is being treated as a tragic incident.
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