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Pope Francis lies successful authorities astatine St. Peter’s Basilica, wherever cardinals and mourners grant nan Holy Father, who died Monday, April 21. Also, President Donald Trump suggests that a waste and acquisition statement pinch China is feasible, stating that his 145 % fig for China will importantly decrease. These stories and much item your Unbiased Updates for Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Thousands stitchery to salary their respects arsenic Pope Francis lies successful state
Tens of thousands of group hold to salary their respects to Pope Francis arsenic he lies successful authorities astatine St. Peter’s Basilica successful Vatican City, Rome, connected Wednesday, April 23. A convoy of patriarchs, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, canons, and different priests carried Francis’ casket from nan Casa Santa Marta to nan Basilica, arsenic ample crowds of devoted Catholics filled nan streets.
A ample crowd gathered to salary their respects to nan precocious pontiff, prompting Vatican authorities to temporarily restrict nationalist entree to St. Peter’s Square owed to concerns astir overcrowding.
The basilica will stay unfastened until midnight connected Wednesday and Thursday, April 24. The nationalist mourning play will reason connected Friday, April 25, astatine 7 p.m. section time.
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This afternoon, a 2nd wide congregation is connected nan agenda. These gatherings hap regular among nan assemblage of cardinals, who negociate nan Vatican until they elite a caller pope. They are responsible for organizing nan ceremonial and preparing for nan forthcoming conclave.
Pope Francis’ decease connected Monday, April 21, followed a bid of declining wellness conditions. Earlier this year, he spent complete a period successful nan infirmary owed to double pneumonia. Ultimately, he succumbed to a changeable that resulted successful bosom failure.
His ceremonial will return spot Saturday, April 26, astatine 10 a.m. section time. Per his request, nan Vatican will hide Francis astatine nan Basilica of St. Mary Major, which lies extracurricular nan Vatican walls.
Trump hints China tariffs will driblet ‘substantially’
As nan waste and acquisition standoff betwixt nan United States and China continues, President Donald Trump has signaled that he will activity pinch China to find immoderate communal crushed connected nan levies.
Currently, China faces tariffs of 145% connected exports to nan United States, while Beijing has retaliated pinch tariffs of 125% connected American products entering China.
On Tuesday, April 22, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly told investors, successful a closed-door meeting, that nan existent tariffs are not sustainable and he expects “there will beryllium a de-escalation” successful nan “very adjacent future.” Trump expressed akin views during a Tuesday property convention astatine nan White House.
“I’m judge 145% is very high, and it won’t beryllium that high, it’s not going to beryllium that high,” Trump said. “It’ll travel down substantially, but it won’t beryllium zero. It utilized to beryllium zero. We were conscionable destroyed. China was taking america for a ride, and … It’s not gonna happen.”
Trump seems improbable to reverse his 10% tariffs connected China and complete 180 countries globally. However, nan Trump management has discussed pinch officials from Japan, India, South Korea, nan European Union, Canada, Mexico and different nations.
The White House announced that it now has 18 written proposals for waste and acquisition deals and has different 34 meetings pinch countries scheduled for this week. Wall Street yet reacted positively, pinch nan Dow up by much than 1000 points and futures rising again this morning.
Elon Musk said he intends to trim his engagement pinch nan Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. During a speech pinch Tesla investors connected Tuesday, April 22, he mentioned that nan clip he commits to nan cost-cutting task unit will “drop significantly” successful May.
The announcement comes arsenic Tesla’s banal value plummeted much than 50% from its astir caller precocious successful December 2024. The institution reported a 71% driblet successful profits and a 9% diminution successful gross for nan first 4th of this year.
Musk said he still plans to proceed his engagement pinch DOGE passim Trump’s term, but he told investors he will apt walk 1 to 2 days a week connected authorities issues moving forward.
After Tuesday’s convention telephone pinch Musk, investors sent Tesla shares up by much than 5% successful after-hours trading.
Judge seeks answers from Trump admin successful deported man’s case
Another cardinal ineligible deadline has arisen successful nan conflict betwixt nan Trump management and lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He is nan Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador successful March owed to what was initially wished to beryllium an administrative error.
However, nan Trump management has refused to bring him back, insisting that he’s a personnel of nan pack MS-13. The president moreover posted pictures of Garcia’s tattoos connected his Truth Social platform.
Garcia’s family insists that he is not a pack member. They, on pinch a group of Congress members, are moving to person him returned to nan U.S.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has fixed nan management until coming to respond to Garcia’s lawyers’ efforts regarding ineligible and actual information. She wrote that nan government’s objections and mischaracterizations of tribunal orders “reflect a willful and bad religion refusal to comply pinch find obligations.”
She ruled earlier this period that nan management must “facilitate” Garcia’s return. So far, that has not happened.
Uvalde City Council approves 2022 simple schoolhouse shooting settlement
Nearly 3 years aft a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers successful 1 of nan deadliest schoolhouse shootings successful U.S. history, nan metropolis of Uvalde, Texas, has reached a colony pinch nan victims’ families.
An lawyer representing nan families of nan Robb Elementary School victims confirmed that nan colony was approved by a unanimous ballot astatine a metropolis assembly gathering connected Tuesday night. The nonstop position person not been released.
The families sought a financial colony from nan city’s security and urged Uvalde constabulary to instrumentality caller fittingness standards and heighten serviceman training.
City officials informed News 4 San Antonio that a memorial, included successful nan agreement, will beryllium group up successful nan municipality square.
That news outlet is besides reporting that nan authorities is considering allocating costs to support a imperishable memorial for nan Robb Elementary victims.
An investigative committee from nan Texas House of Representatives revealed “systemic failures and mediocre determination making” successful really nan constabulary handled nan consequence to nan 2022 shooting. The investigators recovered that it took rule enforcement 77 minutes to prosecute and neutralize nan shooter.
NFL draft: Despite deficiency of hype, top-line prospects are crippled changers
The NFL draught will return spot connected Thursday, April 24, and rumors are flying arsenic teams look to waste and acquisition up to get their astir coveted player.
Tennessee, however, said it will not waste and acquisition nan first wide prime and is poised to return a backmost first overall.
Straight Arrow News sports newsman Chris Francis looks astatine immoderate of this year’s draught prospects, who are successful statement to beryllium crippled changers, here.
[CRAIG NIGRELLI]
GOOD MORNING
I’M CRAIG NIGRELLI
IT’S WEDNESDAY APRIL 23RD 2025
AND THESE ARE YOUR UNBIASED UPDATES:
POPE FRANCIS LIES IN STATE AT ST. PETER’S BASILICA, AS CARDINALS AND MOURNERS PAY TRIBUTE TO THE HOLY FATHER,WHO DIED AT MONDAY AT 88-YEARS-OLD.
ALSO — A THAWING OF TRUMP TARIFF TALK WHEN IT COMES TO CHINA. THE PRESIDENT HINTS THAT A TRADE DEAL IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS. WHY HE SAYS HIS OWN FIGURE OF 145 %, SLAPPED ON CHINA, WILL COME DOWN SUBSTANTIALLY AND WHAT HAPPENS FROM HERE.
L3: THOUSANDS GATHER TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS AS POPE FRANCIS LIES IN STATE
THIS MORNING — TENS OF. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE WAITING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO POPE FRANCIS AS HE LIES IN STATE AT ST. PETER’S BASILICA IN VATICAN CITY IN ROME.
FRANCIS’ CASKET WAS CARRIED IN A PROCESSION OF PATRIARCHS, CARDINALS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, CANONS AND OTHER PRIESTS FROM THE CASA SANTA MARTA TO THE BASILICA AS THRONGS OF FAITHFUL CATHOLICS LINED THE STREETS.
SO MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP TO HONOR THE LATE PONTIFF — VATICAN AUTHORITIES HAD TO TEMPORARILY STOP MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FROM ENTERING ST. PETER’S SQUARE OVER FEARS ABOUT OVERCROWDING.
THE BASILICA WILL BE KEPT OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY… AND THE PUBLIC MOURNING PERIOD WILL END ON FRIDAY AT 7 P-M LOCAL TIME.
A SECOND GENERAL CONGREGATION IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS AFTERNOON.
THE CONGREGATIONS ARE A DAILY GATHERING OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS — WHO GOVERN THE VATICAN UNTIL A NEW POPE IS CHOSEN. THEY PLAN THE FUNERAL AS WELL AS THE UPCOMING CONCLAVE.
POPE FRANCIS’ DEATH ON MONDAY CAME AFTER A SERIES OF WORSENING HEALTH PROBLEMS — INCLUDING A DIAGNOSIS OF DOUBLE PNEUMONIA THAT PUT HIM IN THE HOSPITAL FOR MORE THAN A MONTH EARLIER THIS YEAR. HE ULTIMATELY DIED OF A STROKE THAT LED TO HEART FAILURE.
HIS FUNERAL IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS SATURDAY AT 10 A-M LOCAL TIME, WHICH IS 4 AM EASTERN TIME HERE IN THE U.S., AFTER WHICH, HE WILL BE ENTOMBED AT BASILICA OF ST. MARY MAJOR — WHICH LIES OUTSIDE THE VATICAN WALLS — PER HIS REQUEST.
L3: BESSENT: CHINA TARIFFS ‘UNSUSTAINABLE;’ TRUMP: THEY’LL DROP ‘SUBSTANTIALLY’
AS THE TRADE STANDOFF BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA CONTINUES, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS NOW SIGNALING HE’S WILLING TO WORK WITH CHINA TO FIND SOME COMMON GROUND ON THE LEVIES.
RIGHT NOW — CHINA IS FACING 145 PERCENT TARIFFS ON GOODS THAT IT SENDS TO THE UNITED STATES, WHILE BEIJING HAS RESPONDED WITH ITS OWN TARIFFS OF 125 PERCENT ON AMERICAN GOODS HEADING THERE.
ON TUESDAY, TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT REPORTEDLY TOLD INVESTORS, IN A CLOSED-DOOR MEETING, THAT THE CURRENT TARIFFS ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE AND HE EXPECTS “THERE WILL BE A DE-ESCALATION” IN THE “VERY NEAR FUTURE.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP ECHOING THAT WHILE SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE TUESDAY.
“I’m judge 145 percent is very precocious and it won’t beryllium that high, it’s not going to beryllium that high.”
“It’ll travel down substantially, but it won’t beryllium zero. It utilized to beryllium zero. We were conscionable destroyed. China, was taking america for a ride, and… It’s not gonna happen.”
“But they’re gonna do very well, and I deliberation they’re going to beryllium happy, and I we’re gonna unrecorded together very happily and ideally activity together.”
AND WHILE PRESIDENT TRUMP APPEARS TO HAVE NO PLANS TO ROLL BACK HIS BASELINE 10 PERCENT TARIFFS ON CHINA AND MORE THAN 180 COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS MET FOR TALKS WITH COUNTERPARTS FROM JAPAN, INDIA, SOUTH KOREA, THE EUROPEAN UNION, CANADA AND MEXICO, AMONG OTHER NATIONS.
THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCING THAT IT NOW HAS 18 WRITTEN PROPOSALS, ON PAPER, FOR TRADE DEALS, AND THEY HAVE ANOTHER 34 MEETINGS WITH COUNTRIES, SLATED FOR THIS WEEK. WALL STREET FINALLY REACTED POSITIVELY WITH THE DOW UP BY MORE THAN 1000 POINTS AND FUTURES ARE UP AGAIN THIS MORNING.
L3: MUSK TO DEVOTE LESS TIME TO DOGE AS TESLA SHARES PLUMMET
ELON MUSK SAYS HE PLANS TO SCALE BACK HIS WORK WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY, TELLING TESLA INVESTORS TUESDAY THE AMOUNT OF TIME HE DEDICATES TO THE COST-CUTTING TASK FORCE KNOWN AS DOGE, WILL “DROP SIGNIFICANTLY” NEXT MONTH.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AS TESLA’S STOCK PRICE HAS PLUMMETED MORE THAN 50 PERCENT FROM ITS MOST RECENT HIGH IN DECEMBER.
THE COMPANY REPORTED A 71 PERCENT DROP IN PROFITS AND A 9 PERCENT DECLINE IN REVENUE FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR.
MUSK SAYS HE STILL PLANS TO CONTINUE HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH DOGE THROUGHOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TERM, BUT HE TOLD INVESTORS HE WILL LIKELY SPEND ONE TO TWO DAYS A WEEK ON GOVERNMENT ISSUES MOVING FORWARD.
AFTER TUESDAY’S CONFERENCE CALL WITH MUSK — INVESTORS SENT TESLA SHARES UP, MORE THAN 5 PERCENT IN AFTER-HOURS TRADING
L3: JUDGE WANTS MORE ANSWERS FROM TRUMP ADMIN IN MISTAKENLY DEPORTED MAN’S CASE
ANOTHER KEY LEGAL DEADLINE IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND LAWYERS FOR KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA.
HE’S THE MARYLAND MAN DEPORTED TO EL SALVADOR IN MARCH IN WHAT INITIALLY WAS DETERMINED TO BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR.
BUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS NOW REFUSING TO BRING HIM BACK, INSISTING THAT HE’S A MEMBER OF THE GANG MS-13.
THE PRESIDENT EVEN POSTING PICTURES OF GARCIA’S TATTOOS ON HIS TRUTH SOCIAL PLATFORM.
GARCIA’S FAMILY INSISTS HE IS NOT A GANG MEMBER.
THEY, ALONG WITH A GROUP OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, ARE TRYING TO GET HIM RETURNED TO THE U.S.
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE PAULA XINIS HAS GIVEN THE ADMINISTRATION UNTIL TONIGHT, TO ANSWER AND RESPOND TO EFFORTS BY GARCIA’S LAWYERS WHEN IT COMES TO LEGAL AND FACTUAL INFORMATION. SHE WROTE, THAT THE GOVERNMENT’S OBJECTIONS AND MIS-CHARACTERIZATIONS OF COURT ORDERS, QUOTE – ” REFLECT A WILLFUL AND BAD FAITH REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH DISCOVERY OBLIGATIONS.”
SHE HAD RULED EARLIER THIS MONTH, THAT THE ADMINISTRATION MUST “FACILITATE” HIS RETURN –BUT SO FAR THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED.
L3: UVALDE CITY COUNCIL APPROVES SETTLEMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASS SHOOTING
NEARLY THREE YEARS AFTER A GUNMAN KILLED 19 STUDENTS AND TWO TEACHERS IN ONE OF THE DEADLIEST SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN U-S HISTORY — THE CITY OF UVALDE, TEXAS HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH VICTIMS’ FAMILIES.
AN ATTORNEY, REPRESENTING THE FAMILIES OF THE ROBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VICTIMS, CONFIRMS THE SETTLEMENT WAS APPROVED BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT. THE EXACT TERMS HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED.
THE FAMILIES HAD REQUESTED A MONETARY SETTLEMENT BE PAID OUT BY THE CITY’S INSURANCE — AND FOR UVALDE POLICE TO ADOPT NEW FITNESS STANDARDS AND BOOST OFFICER TRAINING.
CITY OFFICIALS TELL NEWS 4 SAN ANTONIO THAT A MEMORIAL — WHICH WAS PART OF THE AGREEMENT — WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN THE TOWN SQUARE.
THAT NEWS OUTLET IS ALSO REPORTING THE STATE IS CONSIDERING SETTING ASIDE FUNDS TO SUPPORT A PERMANENT MEMORIAL FOR THE ROBB ELEMENTARY VICTIMS.
A TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE FOUND THERE WERE “SYSTEMIC FAILURES AND POOR DECISION MAKING’ IN THE POLICE RESPONSE TO THE 2022 SHOOTING. INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED IT TOOK POLICE 77 MINUTES FOR OFFICERS TO CONFRONT AND KILL THE GUNMAN.
L3: NFL DRAFT: DESPITE LACK OF HYPE, TOP LINE PROSPECTS ARE GAME CHANGERS
FINALLY THIS MORNING — THE N-F-L DRAFT IS TOMORROW, AND RUMORS ARE FLYING AS TEAMS LOOK TO TRADE UP TO GET THEIR MOST COVETED PLAYER.
TENNESSEE HOWEVER SAYS IT IS NOT TRADING THE FIRST OVERALL PICK AND POISED TO TAKE A QUARTERBACK FIRST OVERALL.
STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS SPORTS REPORTER CHRIS FRANCIS HAS A LOOK AT SOME OF THIS YEAR’S DRAFT PROSPECTS, WHO ARE IN LINE TO BE GAME CHANGERS.
THESE ARE YOUR UNBIASED UPDATES FOR THIS WEDNESDAY.
WE’LL SEE YOU BACK HERE TOMORROW.
FOR ALL OF US HERE AT STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS — I’M CRAIG NIGRELLI.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!
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