Rubio Says U.S. to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress Soon – The New York Times

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  1. Rubio Says U.S. to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress Soon  The New York Times
  2. Live updates: Trump news, US immigration, tariffs and university funding | CNN Politics  CNN
  3. Rubio says Trump admin may soon "move on" from Ukraine-Russia peace efforts: "It's not our war."  CBS News
  4. Russia-Ukraine war live: Rubio threatens to walk away from peace talks as outline of US minerals deal revealed  The Guardian
  5. Rubio says US ready to 'move on' within days if no progress made on Russia-Ukraine peace deal  Fox News
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‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown – The Guardian

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  1. ‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown  The Guardian
  2. Amid ongoing war and blockades, Holy Land Christians insist on celebrating Easter  Catholic News Agency
  3. Easter celebrations in the Holy Land amid hardship and hope  Vatican News
  4. Israel restricts Christians' access to Holy Saturday celebrations in Jerusalem  Middle East Monitor
  5. CAIR Calls on Trump Admin to Demand Freedom of Worship for Palestinian Christians on Easter  CAIR
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Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in tented area for displaced in Gaza – BBC

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  1. Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in tented area for displaced in Gaza  BBC
  2. LIVE: Palestinians ‘charred beyond recognition’ in Israeli strike on Gaza  Al Jazeera
  3. Israel Strikes Area With Tent Camps for Displaced Gazans  The New York Times
  4. Wave of Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 across Gaza, says civil defence agency  The Guardian
  5. At least 37 people killed in Israeli strikes, most in displacement camps, Gaza rescuers say  France 24
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Pope’s Via Crucis meditations: Embrace God’s economy in a world of algorithms – Vatican News

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  1. Pope’s Via Crucis meditations: Embrace God’s economy in a world of algorithms  Vatican News
  2. Pope missing from Rome's annual Good Friday procession  RTE.ie
  3. Pope Francis’ 2025 Stations of the Cross meditations (full text)  aleteia.org
  4. Rome’s ancient Colosseum hosts Way of the Cross with pope’s theme of renewal  Catholic News Agency
  5. Changing the world demands changing direction, pope writes for Way of Cross  OSV News
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Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote

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Report finds over a quarter of Canadians exposed to ‘more sophisticated and more politically polarizing’ fake content

More than a quarter of Canadians have been exposed to fake political content on social media that is “more sophisticated and more politically polarizing” as the country prepares to vote in a federal election, researchers have found, warning that platforms must increase protections amid a “dramatic acceleration” of online disinformation in the final weeks of the campaign.

In a new report released on Friday, Canada’s Media Ecosystem Observatory found a growing number of Facebook ads impersonating legitimate news sources were instead promoting fraudulent investment schemes, often involving cryptocurrency.

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US strikes on Yemen oil terminal kill at least 58, Houthis say – BBC

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  1. US strikes on Yemen oil terminal kill at least 58, Houthis say  BBC
  2. Yemen’s Houthis vow to continue attacks after more than 70 killed in US airstrikes on port  CNN
  3. Destruction From U.S. Attack On Houthi Port Shown In Satellite Imagery  The War Zone
  4. US forces strike Yemen oil port in ongoing campaign against Houthis  Military Times
  5. U.S. strikes Yemen oil port in deadly escalation of Trump’s campaign against the Houthis  PBS
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Senate Democrat meets Ábrego García in El Salvador as legal battles continue – US politics live

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Visit by Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen comes as a federal appeals court rules against the Trump’s administration’s efforts to block return to the US

Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you all the latest news over the next few hours.

We start with news that Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen met in El Salvador with Kilmar Ábrego García, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.

James Comer, the chair of the House oversight committee, and Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Republican leadership, have launched an investigation into Harvard University, accusing the university of a “lack of compliance with civil rights laws”.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield.

The supreme court said it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump’s bid to restrict automatic birthright citizenship.

In their unanimous opinion issued today, a US appeals court warned the Trump administration that battles against the judiciary could undermine public confidence.

After weeks of strong rhetoric, the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday that he thought trade deals could be finished in the “next three or four weeks”.

Trump on Thursday extended a government-wide federal hiring freeze that was set to expire this weekend.

The Washington DC headquarters for the Department of Housing and Urban Development may soon be up for sale.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Rubio threatens to walk away from peace talks as outline of US minerals deal revealed – as it happened

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The Kremlin said on Friday that some progress had already been made in talks about a possible peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine but that contacts were rather complicated with the United States.

“Contacts are quite complicated, because, naturally, the topic is not an easy one,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “Russia is committed to resolving this conflict, ensuring its own interests, and is open to dialogue. We continue to do this.”

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Drummer for indie rockers the New Pornographers arrested over child sexual abuse images

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Joe Seiders in custody following search of home, vehicle and phone, after allegedly attempting to film child in California restaurant restroom

Joe Seiders, the American drummer with Canadian indie rockers the New Pornographers, has been arrested for possession of child sexual abuse imagery.

A statement made by the sheriff’s office of Riverside county, California, alleged that evidence has implicated Seiders in two incidents. On Monday 7 April, an 11-year-old boy reported that a man attempted to film him in a restroom of a fast food restaurant, and on Wednesday 9 April, police officers received another report from the restaurant, that a man was “entering and exiting the restroom with juvenile males at the business”.

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US ready to abandon Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress, says Marco Rubio

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Secretary of state threatens to pull plug ‘within days’, as Kyiv says it has signed mineral deal memorandum

The US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless there are clear signs a settlement can be reached, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said, as Kyiv says it has signed a memorandum with the US over a controversial minerals deal.

Speaking in Paris on Friday after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders, Rubio said Donald Trump was still interested in a deal. But he added that the US president had many other priorities around the world and was willing to move on unless there were signs of progress.

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