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Citizen Frank
April 06, 2025
Good morning. It’s Sunday, April 6.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that about 50 nations have reached out to the US to discuss President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, however, he said that nothing will stop the levies from going forward.
Defending the president’s economic plan on Sunday, Lutnick said the calls from foreign officials prove that “these countries know that they’ve been ripping us off,” suggesting there was no room for negotiations.
“There is no postponing,” he told CBS’s Face The Nation. “They are definitely going to stay in place for days and weeks.”
The Trump administration has placed a Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer on leave for not “zealously advocating” its position in the case involving a Salvadoran man living in Maryland who was mistakenly deported last month.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office placed Erez Reuveni, who argued for the government, in Friday’s hearing in which a judge ruled Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be returned to the U.S. by Monday, on indefinite paid leave, Fox News has reported.
“At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States,” Bondi told the New York Times in a statement. “Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences.”
On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began the process of cutting its workforce by at least 25%.
In addition to the layoffs, the agency will also eliminate its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance.
In an email sent to employees on Friday, the agency noted that the reductions will “be implemented in phases” and employees will be offered early retirement incentives beginning next week.
A fundraiser for the Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf and leaving him to die in his twin brother’s arms has raked in over $60,000 as of Sunday — as the teen maintains he acted in self-defense.
The GiveSendGo campaign was purportedly set up by the family of Karmelo Anthony, 17, who cops say confessed to the horrific stabbing at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, last Wednesday.
The page claimed that the “narrative being spread is false, unjust, and harmful.”
A Texas DoorDash driver is “lucky to be alive” when he was stabbed at least 10 times by a suspected homeless man he tried to help outside a Waffle House before the madman stole the worker’s newly bought car.
Jackson Oltmanns finished his last food run and stopped at a Fort Worth Waffle House for a bite to eat at 2 a.m. when Quindarius Cartwright approached him on March 29, he said on a GoFundMe page.
Cartwright – described by Oltmanns as homeless and possibly on drugs – confronted the 28-year-old driver and asked for food money.
A high school-aged transgender-identifying track athlete reportedly came in last place against junior varsity boys two years before switching to compete against varsity girls and taking home first place.
Zachary Rose, who now identifies as Lia Rose, formerly competed against boys at Ida B. Wells High School in Portland, Oregon, according to a New York Post report. But after switching to girls’ varsity, Rose recently won the high jump at the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity Relays with a height of 4 feet, 8 inches. The athlete bested the girls in the competition by at least two inches.
Citing athletic.net, the Post noted that Rose, while competing on boys JV track in 2023, finished dead last with a jump of 4 feet, 6 inches.
Pope Francis made his first public appearance at the Vatican since he was discharged from the hospital on March 23 after a bout with pneumonia.
On Sunday, April 6, the 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church surprised onlookers when he made his way through St. Peter’s Square amid a Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers — where he was photographed shaking hands, waiving to faithfuls and sharing prayers.
According to the Associated Press, the pope began the outing by being pushed in a wheelchair while wearing nasal tubes, before he was brought to the front of the altar in the square. “Good Sunday to everyone,’’ he said, with the outlet noting that his voice sounded stronger than it did during his last public appearance on the hospital’s balcony. “Thank you very much.”
Dryden Brown believes we are on the precipice of a brave new world and he wants to pioneer it.
The 29-year-old has an audacious vision for a futuristic new city-state he’s planning to found, which will be called Praxis.
“The city will be incredibly beautiful,” Brown told The Post. “The architecture will be a fusion of classical aesthetics. We’re working on a fusion of gothic elements and space-age futurism. The architecture is going to be something you’ve never seen before.”
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