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April 29 Afternoon Brief
In Washington
House Speaker Mike Johnson held off a Republican revolt for now, which is becoming a recurring job requirement in a razor-thin majority. The goal is to keep a few high-profile bills moving without the whole place sprinting off in different directions.
Also on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced questions over the Iran war during a budget hearing, with lawmakers pressing him on the Pentagon’s spending and the conflict’s scope. Separately, President Trump’s Fed pick, Kevin Warsh, cleared another Senate hurdle and is headed for a full vote.
In Florida, lawmakers approved a new congressional map designed to boost Republicans ahead of the midterms. The timing was, let’s say, convenient, with the Supreme Court also having just weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act.
Internationally
U.S. prosecutors have charged the governor of Sinaloa and nine other current and former Mexican officials with taking part in a broad conspiracy to help a cartel move drugs and weapons. It is a serious case, and one that will put fresh strain on an already tense U.S.-Mexico relationship.
In Ukraine, acting U.S. Ambassador Julie Davis will leave her post in June and retire from the Foreign Service. The State Department denied a report that she was stepping down because of frustration with Trump.
In Hungary, opposition leader Péter Magyar says frozen EU funds should be released soon after his trip to Brussels, following his party’s landslide election win.
And in London, two Jewish men were stabbed in what authorities are treating as a terrorist attack. Police say a man with a knife was seen running through the area before the assault.
In crime and courts
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide after police say she fatally stabbed her boyfriend during an argument over dinner plans. The case is moving forward on a $2 million cash bond.
In Kentucky, Joshua Cottrell pleaded guilty in the killings of a mother and her 13-year-old daughter and received life in prison without parole. Investigators have not said what led to the deaths.
In business and markets
A new Kearney study says Trump’s tariffs did not bring a meaningful near-term return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Imports from China fell, but companies largely shifted sourcing to other Asian countries instead of bringing production home. Tariffs, it turns out, are not magic. Just expensive punctuation.
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By IniaesIn Washington
House Speaker Mike Johnson held off a Republican revolt for now, which is becoming a recurring job requirement in a razor-thin majority. The goal is to keep a few high-profile bills moving without the whole place sprinting off in different directions.
Also on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced questions over the Iran war during a budget hearing, with lawmakers pressing him on the Pentagon’s spending and the conflict’s scope. Separately, President Trump’s Fed pick, Kevin Warsh, cleared another Senate hurdle and is headed for a full vote.
In Florida, lawmakers approved a new congressional map designed to boost Republicans ahead of the midterms. The timing was, let’s say, convenient, with the Supreme Court also having just weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act.
Internationally
U.S. prosecutors have charged the governor of Sinaloa and nine other current and former Mexican officials with taking part in a broad conspiracy to help a cartel move drugs and weapons. It is a serious case, and one that will put fresh strain on an already tense U.S.-Mexico relationship.
In Ukraine, acting U.S. Ambassador Julie Davis will leave her post in June and retire from the Foreign Service. The State Department denied a report that she was stepping down because of frustration with Trump.
In Hungary, opposition leader Péter Magyar says frozen EU funds should be released soon after his trip to Brussels, following his party’s landslide election win.
And in London, two Jewish men were stabbed in what authorities are treating as a terrorist attack. Police say a man with a knife was seen running through the area before the assault.
In crime and courts
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide after police say she fatally stabbed her boyfriend during an argument over dinner plans. The case is moving forward on a $2 million cash bond.
In Kentucky, Joshua Cottrell pleaded guilty in the killings of a mother and her 13-year-old daughter and received life in prison without parole. Investigators have not said what led to the deaths.
In business and markets
A new Kearney study says Trump’s tariffs did not bring a meaningful near-term return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Imports from China fell, but companies largely shifted sourcing to other Asian countries instead of bringing production home. Tariffs, it turns out, are not magic. Just expensive punctuation.