The Odds: Fed rates and inflation

2026-04-29 9:53 AM EDT / CNN

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CNN News Central’s John Berman and Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten dig through what prediction markets are saying about Wednesday’s decision on interest rates from the Federal Reserve.

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特朗普会见石油公司高层讨论石油市场议题

2026年4月29日 22:10 / 联合早报

特朗普星期二（28日）会见了能源巨头雪佛龙首席执行官沃思（图）及其他能源公司的高层，讨论了包括美国石油产量、石油期货、海运和天然气在内的一系列议题。 （路透社）

特朗普星期二（28日）会见了能源巨头雪佛龙首席执行官沃思（图）及其他能源公司的高层，讨论了包括美国石油产量、石油期货、海运和天然气在内的一系列议题。 （路透社）

白宫官员星期三说，美国总统特朗普会见了雪佛龙及其他能源公司高层，讨论如果需要对伊朗港口实施长达数个月封锁，可采取哪些措施来稳定石油市场。

路透社报道，白宫一名官员星期三（4月29日）说，特朗普星期二（28日）会见了能源巨头雪佛龙及其他能源公司的高层，讨论包括美国石油产量、石油期货、海运和天然气在内的一系列议题。

雪佛龙发言人说，雪佛龙首席执行官沃思出席了这次的会议，讨论因美伊战争而动荡不安的全球石油市场。

据报道，财长贝森特、白宫幕僚长怀尔斯、总统特使威特科夫以及特朗普女婿库什纳也出席了这场会议。

这名白宫官员称：“这些企业高管一致高度评价特朗普总统为释放美国能源主导地位所采取的行动，并认为总统当前在做的一切都是正确的。”

另据《华尔街日报》星期二引述美国官员报道，特朗普已指示助手准备对伊朗实施长期封锁，以迫使伊朗在核问题上做出让步。

伊朗驻埃及开罗利益代表处负责人菲尔多西普尔同日称，美国试图以海上封锁迫使伊朗接受美方单方面要求是徒劳的，伊朗可以利用与周边国家的陆地边界绕过封锁。

US Supreme Court backs anti-abortion pregnancy centers in New Jersey case

2026-04-29 14:09 UTC / Reuters

By John Kruzel

April 29, 2026 2:09 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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• Summary

• Case stems from New Jersey attorney general’s subpoena
• Probe involves whether centers deceive potential clients
• These facilities try to steer women away from abortions

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Wednesday with the operator of Christian faith-based anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” in New Jersey that is trying ​to impede a state investigation into whether the facilities engage in deceptive practices.

The justices, in a unanimous decision, revived a ‌federal lawsuit brought by First Choice Women’s Resource Centers challenging a 2023 subpoena from the state attorney general seeking information on the organization’s donors and doctors. A lower court had thrown out the lawsuit.

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First Choice, which has five locations in New Jersey, had appealed the lower court’s determination that its federal lawsuit ​challenging then-Democratic Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s subpoena was premature in light of ongoing state court litigation over the matter.

The First Choice ​facilities seek to steer women away from having abortions. Platkin issued the subpoena as part of a ⁠state investigation into whether First Choice deceived donors and potential clients into falsely believing the facilities offered abortions and other reproductive healthcare ​services in violation of a state consumer-protection law and other statutes.

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The subpoena sought First Choice’s internal records, including the names of its doctors and ​donors. First Choice has said this caused some donors to reconsider giving to the group.

The question of whether the facilities acted deceptively was not before the Supreme Court. Rather, the case explored if First Choice has the legal basis to bring a constitutional challenge to the subpoena in federal court, or if ​it must continue litigating the matter in state court.

President Donald Trump’s administration backed First Choice in the case.

Days before its records were due to ​be handed over in 2023, First Choice sued Platkin in New Jersey federal court, arguing that the subpoena chilled its First Amendment rights to free ‌speech and ⁠free association.

The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in 2022 overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.

Following that decision, Platkin’s office issued a consumer alert that warned the public that crisis pregnancy centers do not provide abortions and noted that such facilities “may also provide false or misleading information about abortion.”

Crisis pregnancy centers provide services to pregnant women with the goal of dissuading ​them from having an abortion. Such ​centers often do not clearly ⁠advertise their anti-abortion stance, and abortion rights advocates have called them deceptive.

First Choice was represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that has brought other cases on behalf of anti-abortion plaintiffs.

After First ​Choice’s federal lawsuit, Platkin sought to enforce the subpoena in state court. A state judge in ​2024 declined First ⁠Choice’s request to quash the subpoena for the time being, ordering the parties to negotiate a narrower subpoena. The judge said that the constitutional issues could be litigated going forward.

In the federal case, U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp dismissed First Choice’s complaint, finding that its federal claims were premature ⁠because it ​could continue to make its constitutional claims in the state court and did ​not face any immediate threat of being held in contempt.

The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision in 2024 upheld Shipp’s ruling, prompting First Choice ​to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case in December.

Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham

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在黎巴嫩，一名因战乱而流离失所的妇女在临时难民营等待领取粮食。 （路透社）

一份报告指出，由于以色列与真主党之间爆发新一轮战争，预计黎巴嫩将有逾120万人面临严重饥饿。

法新社报道，这一数字由联合国粮食及农业组织（FAO）、世界粮食计划署和黎巴嫩农业部在一份联合声明中公布。

声明称，根据分析结果，在今年4月至8月期间，预计将有“约124万人……面临危机级别或更严重的粮食不安全状况”。

相关评估来自“综合粮食安全阶段分类”系统，这是一个由联合国支持、专门监测饥饿和营养不良状况的机构。

声明指出，与3月战争爆发前相比，有关情况出现了“显著恶化”。当时估计约有87万4000人或约占人口17%，正经历急性粮食不安全。“情况恶化是因为冲突、人口流离失所以及经济压力所致。”

根据黎巴嫩官方数据，自4月17日达成停火协议前，以色列和真主党之间长达六周的战事，已在黎巴嫩造成逾2500人死亡、逾100万人流离失所。

声明警告说：“如果缺乏持续而及时的人道主义援助和生计支持，急性粮食不安全状况很可能进一步加剧。”

报告：黎巴嫩预计逾120万人将面临严重饥饿

2026年4月29日 22:35 / 联合早报

在黎巴嫩，一名因战乱而流离失所的妇女在临时难民营等待领取粮食。 （路透社）

一份报告指出，由于以色列与真主党之间爆发新一轮战争，预计黎巴嫩将有逾120万人面临严重饥饿。

法新社报道，这一数字由联合国粮食及农业组织（FAO）、世界粮食计划署和黎巴嫩农业部在一份联合声明中公布。

声明称，根据分析结果，在今年4月至8月期间，预计将有“约124万人……面临危机级别或更严重的粮食不安全状况”。

相关评估来自“综合粮食安全阶段分类”系统，这是一个由联合国支持、专门监测饥饿和营养不良状况的机构。

声明指出，与3月战争爆发前相比，有关情况出现了“显著恶化”。当时估计约有87万4000人或约占人口17%，正经历急性粮食不安全。“情况恶化是因为冲突、人口流离失所以及经济压力所致。”

根据黎巴嫩官方数据，自4月17日达成停火协议前，以色列和真主党之间长达六周的战事，已在黎巴嫩造成逾2500人死亡、逾100万人流离失所。

声明警告说：“如果缺乏持续而及时的人道主义援助和生计支持，急性粮食不安全状况很可能进一步加剧。”

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The US Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a group of faith-based “crisis pregnancy centers” in New Jersey to fight a subpoena from the state’s Democratic attorney general.

The decision may make it easier for liberal and conservative groups to challenge similar investigatory subpoenas.

At a time when red and blue states are often pursuing radically different policies on abortion, immigration and LGBTQ rights, the religious nonprofit First Choice Women’s Resource Centers framed its inability to make its case in federal court as a threat to any group that could be targeted by state officials.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a unanimous court.

“Since the 1950s, this court has confronted one official de­mand after another like the Attorney General’s,” Gorsuch wrote.

“Over and again, we have held those demands burden the exercise of First Amendment rights. Disputing none of these prece­dents but seeking ways around them, the Attorney General has offered a variety of arguments. Some are old, some are new, but none succeeds.”

The nonprofit First Choice runs five centers in New Jersey that are designed to advise women against having an abortion.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, a Democrat, subpoenaed the centers in 2023 as part of an investigation into whether the nonprofit violated consumer fraud laws. State officials said the group’s marketing may have left some patients with the impression that they could receive abortions at the facilities.

The state sought advertisements, donor information and the identities of medical personnel working at the pregnancy centers. The subpoena was issued more than a year after the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade, which set off a scramble by conservative and liberal states to either limit access to abortion or enshrine legal protections for the procedure in state law.

But while the case had ties to the abortion debate, it actually touched on different legal disputes over the power of state officials to investigate – and the power of federal courts to intervene. Underscoring that point, First Choice attracted an unusual group of supporters, including the US Chamber of Commerce, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

The Trump administration also sided with the pregnancy centers, arguing that the nonprofit faced a credible threat of being forced to turn over the documents. But the administration was quick to assert that its own subpoenas, issued by federal agencies, are subject to different rules.

New Jersey argued that the type of subpoena at issue in the case isn’t “self-executing,” which means Platkin needed to get a court to enforce it. Because New Jersey courts had not yet ordered the production of documents from First Choice under threat of contempt, the state said, it was too soon for the group to try to seek intervention from federal courts.

A divided 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ruling that the center’s claims were not ripe for federal review.

During oral arguments in December, a majority of the Supreme Court – both conservative and liberal justices – expressed concern with New Jersey’s argument. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative, at one point suggested that it seemed “kind of obvious that there’s some kind of objective chill from a subpoena on speech.”

Chief Justice John Roberts, another conservative, seemed incredulous at the notion that New Jersey’s subpoena didn’t involve the First Amendment.

Weighing on the case was a 2021 Supreme Court precedent in which a majority invalidated a California rule requiring charitable organizations to disclose the names of contributors. Both that appeal and the current case from First Choice leaned on a landmark civil rights-era decision from 1958 in which the court struck down an Alabama subpoena requiring the NAACP to disclose its membership list.

Such compelled disclosure, the court said in a unanimous decision in the NAACP case, would violate the right of people to associate with the group because they would reasonably fear retaliation for being named.

加拿大枪击案受害者家属起诉OpenAI

2026年4月29日 23:13 / 联合早报

加拿大一起大规模致命枪击案受害者家属，星期三（4月29日）在美国起诉OpenAI和公司首席执行官奥特曼。 （路透社）

加拿大一起大规模致命枪击案受害者家属星期三（4月29日）在美国起诉OpenAI和公司首席执行官奥特曼，指控OpenAI早在案发前八个月已将枪手识别为“可信威胁”，却未报警。

路透社报道，这起诉讼已提呈旧金山联邦法院，指控OpenAI高管之所以没有联系警方，是因为担心这会暴露ChatGPT平台上大量与暴力有关的对话，从而危及公司即将进行的近1万亿美元（约1.28万亿新元）规模首次公开募股的进程。

今年2月，不列颠哥伦比亚省图姆布勒里奇镇发生校园枪击案，嫌疑人曾使用ChatGPT查询与犯案相关内容。事件共造成九人死亡，包括嫌疑人。

OpenAI的发言人称，这场枪击事件是“一场悲剧”，并强调公司对利用其工具协助实施暴力行为采取零容忍政策。

OpenAI首席执行官奥特曼上周对此致歉，承认公司未能及时向执法部门通报嫌疑人曾使用的ChatGPT账号。这个账号早在案发前约八个月已因违反使用政策被封禁。

原告代表律师埃德尔森说，他计划在未来几周内代表其他受此次枪击事件影响的人，针对OpenAI再提起二十多起诉讼。

Florida House advances redistricting bill that aims to give GOP 24-4 congressional advantage

April 29, 2026 / 11:31 AM EDT / CBS News

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The Florida House on Wednesday approved a new congressional map proposed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that aims to give Republicans four more seats as the party seeks to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.

The map will now go to the Florida Senate, where the Republicans also have a two-thirds majority. Three Republicans on Florida’s Senate Rules Committee voted against the map on Tuesday, with one GOP state senator in Tuesday’s committee hearing vocally pushing back against the map. But there would need to be seven GOP defectors to sink its passage.

Florida is currently represented by 20 Republicans and seven Democrats, with one Democratic-leaning seat vacant after Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned earlier this month. DeSantis’ proposed map aims to eliminate or shrink Democratic-leaning districts in Tampa, Orlando and parts of the state’s southeast coast.

The vote came hours after the Supreme Court narrows a section of the Voting Rights Act that requires some states to create majority-minority districts. At least one of the districts that DeSantis had redrawn was a majority Hispanic district in central Florida.

In committee hearings on Tuesday, attorney Mohammed Jazil did not answer if the maps complied with that provision. But there were other objections that the proposed map violates a 2010 provision to the Florida Constitution known as the Fair Districts Amendment.

加拿大枪击案受害者家属起诉OpenAI

2026年4月29日 23:13 / 联合早报

加拿大一起大规模致命枪击案受害者家属，星期三（4月29日）在美国起诉OpenAI和公司首席执行官奥特曼。 （路透社）

加拿大一起大规模致命枪击案受害者家属星期三（4月29日）在美国起诉OpenAI和公司首席执行官奥特曼，指控OpenAI早在案发前八个月已将枪手识别为“可信威胁”，却未报警。

路透社报道，这起诉讼已提呈旧金山联邦法院，指控OpenAI高管之所以没有联系警方，是因为担心这会暴露ChatGPT平台上大量与暴力有关的对话，从而危及公司即将进行的近1万亿美元（约1.28万亿新元）规模首次公开募股的进程。

今年2月，不列颠哥伦比亚省图姆布勒里奇镇发生校园枪击案，嫌疑人曾使用ChatGPT查询与犯案相关内容。事件共造成九人死亡，包括嫌疑人。

OpenAI的发言人称，这场枪击事件是“一场悲剧”，并强调公司对利用其工具协助实施暴力行为采取零容忍政策。

OpenAI首席执行官奥特曼上周对此致歉，承认公司未能及时向执法部门通报嫌疑人曾使用的ChatGPT账号。这个账号早在案发前约八个月已因违反使用政策被封禁。

原告代表律师埃德尔森说，他计划在未来几周内代表其他受此次枪击事件影响的人，针对OpenAI再提起二十多起诉讼。

FBI to deliver ‘final report’ on missing scientists ‘shortly’ amid growing scrutiny

2026-04-29 11:05:57 EDT / Fox News

The White House requested the FBI review multiple state-level investigations to determine whether any are connected

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau will produce a report “in short order” after reviewing multiple state-level investigations at the White House’s request to determine whether any are connected.

“Those investigations are collectively being looked at by the FBI pursuant to (the) President, the White House’s request,” Patel told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday. “So we’re reaching out. We’ve already done it, we’re engaged. They’re all state cases, but we’re looking to see if there’s any connections, and we’re going to have a final report here in short order.”

He poured cold water on the idea that all the cases of mysterious deaths and disappearances that have resurfaced in recent weeks are connected — noting that some are not even scientists — but said the FBI is “just trying to do our homework.”

“We are trying to make sure, was there a connection? Did they, were they all working on the same thing or not? Those questions we’re answering right now with our state and local partners, and we’ll produce a report shortly.”

TWO MORE TRUMP ALLIES SAY BIDEN FBI SECRETLY SEIZED THEIR DATA AMID ‘WEAPONIZATION’ CONTROVERSY

At least a dozen cases involving scientists and others tied to government and defense research have drawn renewed attention in recent weeks, as federal authorities work to determine whether any are connected. The cases — which span disappearances, confirmed homicides and deaths previously ruled accidental — have circulated widely online and prompted questions about whether a broader pattern could pose a national security concern.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau will produce a report “in short order” after reviewing multiple state-level investigations at the White House’s request to determine whether any are connected.(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

The FBI declined to say how much of the report would be made public, noting the matter remains an active investigation.

President Donald Trump also has acknowledged the cases, saying his administration is working to determine whether the incidents are connected.

“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” Trump said to reporters April 16. “I just left a meeting on that subject.”

“The White House continues to coordinate across the interagency in order to investigate these events and provide transparency to the American people. We will not get ahead of the investigation,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital Wednesday.

The National Nuclear Security Administration has said it is aware of reports involving personnel across its labs and facilities and is reviewing the matter.

Steven Garcia, 48, left, who worked at the Kansas City National Security Campus, was reported missing Aug. 28, 2025, after leaving his Albuquerque home on foot carrying only a handgun. Center, Melissa Casias in a hat outside taken on an unknown date. Right, Ret. Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland in uniform taken on an unknown date.(New Mexico Department of Public Safety; Sierra Casias; United States Air Force)

At least a dozen cases involving scientists and defense-linked personnel have drawn renewed attention in recent weeks.

They include the disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, who oversaw classified research programs and vanished from his New Mexico home earlier in 2026, and the death of NASA-affiliated engineer Joshua LeBlanc, whose body was found in a burned vehicle hours after he was reported missing.

Also among the cases is Monica Jacinto Reza, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer who disappeared while hiking in California, and Melissa Casias, a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee who vanished in New Mexico after leaving work.

Monica Jacinto Reza, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer disappeared while hiking in California.(Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)

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Another case revealed by Fox News Digital involves Army biochemist Jude Height, whose 2022 death was ruled accidental after he was struck by a vehicle, but has since drawn renewed scrutiny from family members and former colleagues who say key details remain unexplained.

Authorities have not indicated that any of the cases are connected.