King Charles arriving for visit with Trump to highlight nations’ “special relationship.” Here’s what to know.

April 27, 2026 / 6:51 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — King Charles III and Queen Camilla are arriving in the U.S. on Monday for their first visit as monarchs. The trip, marking the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence, comes at a fraught time for the U.S.-U.K. relationship.

It’s not clear how their plans may be affected by additional security considerations after Saturday night’s attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where the president, vice president and Cabinet members were in attendance.

In a statement Sunday, the palace confirmed that the visit “will proceed as planned,” adding, “The King and Queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the Visit getting underway.”

The king and Mr. Trump are seeking to strengthen and signify their countries’ ties at a time when the U.S. war with Iran and the president’s derision of NATO threaten to undermine the “special relationship” the two allies have treasured since World War II.

“The visit will be an opportunity to recognise the shared history of our two nations; the breadth of the economic, security and cultural relationship that has developed since then; and the deep people-to-people connections which unite communities,” the palace said.

Charles and Camilla’s visit will feature the usual trappings of visiting royalty: meetings at the White House, an address to Congress and a state dinner hosted by the president. The two are also expected to head to New York on Tuesday to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and then make a stop in Virginia.

King Charles’ schedule in the U.S.

The king and queen are scheduled to arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon. They’ll have a private tea with the president and first lady, as well as a garden party.

They will be welcomed with a formal ceremony featuring a ceremonial military review. The king and Mr. Trump will hold a bilateral meeting, while the queen and first lady have their own meeting.

The king will address a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, and then a traditional state dinner takes place that evening at the White House.

Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he will be curious to hear what the king says in his address to lawmakers.

“I expect the speech to be at a rather high-level and my expectation is that it will be somewhat historical — acknowledging the United States came from a revolution against his country, but then how we’ve sort of overcome that,” Bergmann said.

The question will be, he added, whether the king hints at issues like human rights and freedoms that the U.S. and U.K. supported together after World War II, and whether the king leans into those principles in a way that might be seen as critical of the current administration.

The tense timing of the visit

Many Britons, like other Europeans, have been critical of the way Mr. Trump is handling his presidency, and the British public don’t want their leaders to be “supplicants,” said Bergmann. While Bergmann said his “baseline sense is this is going to be kind of a feel-good trip” focused on the historical ties of the two nations, Charles has a delicate role to play.

“He’s got some fine thread and he has to thread it through a very very fine needle,” Bergmann said.

President Trump and Britain’s King Charles III during the president’s second state visit to the U.K., at Windsor Castle, on Sept. 17, 2025. AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP/Getty

Mr. Trump has been highly critical of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s reluctance to join the U.S.-Israeli war effort or fight for the Strait of Hormuz, even as the U.K. has allowed the U.S. to use its bases for defensive operations. The president has also mocked the U.K.’s aircraft carriers as “toys.”

Mr. Trump told the BBC in a phone interview this week that his relationship with Starmer will only “recover” if Starmer reverses course on what Mr. Trump views as lax immigration policy.

Mr. Trump has expressed widespread frustration with NATO for the alliance’s refusal to join in the effort against Iran, which began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28. Mr. Trump has even raised the possibility of leaving NATO, of which the U.S. and U.K. are founding members.

Liana Fix, senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S.-U.K. relationship “has significantly deteriorated since the early days when Starmer was considered a ‘Trump whisperer.’

“The U.K.’s initial reluctance to allow the use of bases for the Iran war has strained not only Trumpists in D.C. but also the relationship with NATO, and undermined what was left of the belief in a special relationship,” she said.

Still, Charles is not Starmer, and has a more stately and less political role to play, Bergmann said.

Most Britons aren’t viewing the king’s trip favorably. A YouGov survey in late March found that 49% of the British public said the visit should be canceled, compared with 33% who said it should go ahead.

Simon Tisdall, a foreign affairs commentator for The Guardian, wrote that the king should speak plainly about Mr. Trump in his address to Congress. In a piece titled, “Protocol be damned,” Tisdall wrote that what he called Starmer’s “appeasement policy” has “miserably failed.”

“Trump will undoubtedly portray Charles’s attendance at a separate White House state banquet as a royal endorsement of his person and policies,” Tisdall wrote. “And it is precisely this galling prospect of a presidential propaganda coup that has led most people in Britain to oppose the visit. Starmer, in contrast, hopes it will set the badly soiled ‘special relationship’ back on track.”

The relationship between Charles and Trump

Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was adept at keeping peace with Mr. Trump during his first term, using her diplomatic skills honed through decades on the throne. Charles has also had plenty of practice in the area of diplomacy, Bergmann said.

Though this is his first visit as king, it will be far from the first meeting for the two. Mr. Trump has called Charles a “friend.”

Mr. Trump told the BBC this week he thinks the king’s visit could help repair U.S.-U.K. relations.

“Absolutely,” the president said. “He’s fantastic. He’s a fantastic man. Absolutely the answer is yes.”

“I know him well, I’ve known him for years,” Mr. Trump told the BBC. “He’s a brave man, and he’s a great man. They would absolutely be a positive.”

It’s not clear exactly when they first met, but it was more than two decades ago, when Mr. Trump was a businessman in New York society. Photos show Melania and Donald Trump chatting with Charles at an event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2005.

In this photo from Nov. 1, 2005, then-Prince Charles chats with the Trumps at a reception at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Chris Jackson / Getty Images / MARK LARGE

More formally, the president and first lady visited with him in the U.K. in 2019, when Charles was still the Prince of Wales. The Trumps visited again in September 2025, attending an elaborate state dinner hosted by the king and queen at Windsor Castle.

Mr. Trump expressed his sympathy for the king after the king’s brother, Andrew, was arrested on suspicion of public misconduct in office related to revelations from the Epstein files. The king had already stripped Andrew of his royal titles due to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Mr. Trump called the situation with Andrew a “very sad thing.”

Charles’ last official visit to Washington was in 2015, while he was still prince, when he and Camilla met with the Obamas.

Fed likely to hold rates steady as Powell prepares for possible swan song

2026-04-27 10:09:48 UTC / Reuters

Fed likely to hold rates steady as Powell prepares for possible swan song

By Howard Schneider

April 27, 2026 10:09 AM UTC Updated 56 mins ago

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), at the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 10, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

• Summary

• Fed officials will decide whether to signal possible rate hikes amid oil shock
• Warsh confirmation may move forward after end of Powell probe
• Powell could still remain on Fed’s Board of Governors until 2028

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve policymakers will gather in Washington this week in what may be Jerome Powell’s last meeting as head of the U.S. central bank, with energy prices still elevated and the Iran war at a standstill and likely to prolong uncertainty about the economic and monetary policy outlook.

A May 15 ​endpoint for Powell’s eight years at the Fed’s helm now appears more likely after a major obstacle to the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of his appointed successor, Kevin Warsh, was removed on Friday. As a final act, Powell ‌will likely oversee on Wednesday another vote by the central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to hold its benchmark overnight interest rate steady in the 3.50%-3.75% range, where it has been since December.

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Still, the meeting and Powell’s press conference afterwards could settle key matters, including whether policymakers will nod to the potential for rate hikes later this year if inflation accelerates. The question of whether Powell will remain on the Fed’s Board of Governors even if Warsh is confirmed in time to run the next policy meeting in June also could be addressed.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dropped a controversial criminal ​probe of Powell over renovations of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington, potentially satisfying the demands of a key Republican senator who threatened to delay Warsh’s confirmation because of it.

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Powell also had made an end of the probe a necessary condition ​of leaving the Fed’s board. Although U.S. central bank chiefs traditionally have resigned their board seats when their leadership terms have expired, Powell said last month he might stay and would “make that ⁠decision based on what I think is best for the institution and for the people we serve,” a broader test connected with President Donald Trump’s efforts to encroach on the Fed’s independence.

Powell could remain a Fed governor until January of 2028, the last ​full year of Trump’s presidency and a long epilogue for the man the president has nicknamed “too late” for failing to deliver the big rate cuts he demanded.

The current Fed chief will likely be quizzed on his plans as well as on the economic substance of ​a policy debate still clouded by the U.S.-Iran war. The FOMC’s latest statement will be released at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), with Powell’s press conference to follow half an hour later.

When the war started on February 28, central bankers said the impact on inflation and economic growth would hinge on how quickly it ended and whether oil prices reversed to pre-war levels of around $70 a barrel. Eight weeks later, the bombing has paused but economic warfare is still underway, with the U.S. blocking Iranian ships from leaving the Strait of Hormuz, Iran preventing other vessels from passing through the vital ​waterway, and the disruption to global oil and other supply chains at a point where policymakers are taking inflation risks more seriously.

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Brent crude futures , the global oil benchmark, have risen about 50% since the start of the war. The resulting surge in ​gasoline and energy prices last month helped propel the U.S. Consumer Price Index to its biggest increase in nearly four years. While expected to hold interest rates steady, U.S. central bankers will have to decide if it’s time to nod to the possibility of hiking borrowing costs if ‌inflation continues to ⁠accelerate. The prospect of rate cuts, at least, has dwindled, with bond markets positioned for the Fed’s policy rate to remain where it is through at least the middle of 2027.

“The longer energy prices remain elevated and the strait is constrained, the greater the chances that higher inflation gets embedded across a wide variety of goods and services, various supply chain effects start to emerge, and real activity and employment start to slow,” Fed Governor Christopher Waller said last week in his final public comments on policy before this week’s meeting, tempering his previous call for lower rates to support a job market he still worries is softening.

The Fed may have to deal with both a weakening labor market and high inflation, a situation that is “very complicated for a policymaker,” Waller said.

While Waller said that dilemma ​could mean holding rates steady, an increasing number of his ​colleagues were already noting the possible need for rate hikes ⁠during their discussions at the March 17-18 meeting, teeing up a debate over whether this week’s policy statement would include language indicating the Fed’s next rate change could be in either direction, which would mark a significant shift. The central bank was expected to resume its rate cuts later this year, but has been on hold since December, with inflation about a percentage point above its 2% ​target.

Monetary policy right now “is in a good place, and I think it’s probably going to be appropriate to maintain policy at this level for some time,” St. Louis Fed President Alberto ​Musalem said in a Reuters interview earlier ⁠this month.

Like other central bank officials, Musalem said an extended period of high oil prices could raise underlying “core inflation,” not just prominent headline prices like that of gasoline. He noted that, “at that point, the risk of de-anchoring inflation expectations would become relevant. Right now, inflation expectations medium to long term are very anchored, but they would become relevant, and at that point it might be appropriate to raise rates.”

Few U.S. central bank policymakers would argue against the current hold on rates at this point, with even their most vocal advocate for cheaper money, Fed ⁠Governor Stephen Miran, ​recently saying he is considering slowing his recommended pace of rate cuts because the inflation outlook had become “a little bit less favorable.”

The open issue is whether ​the Fed’s policy statement changes to acknowledge possible hikes in borrowing costs as a next step, and how Powell characterizes the discussion.

The Fed “will stay firmly on hold at its April meeting,” Bank of America economists wrote in a note last week. “Upside risks to inflation from the Iran war haven’t dissipated. The labor data have ​improved. The big question is whether the forward-guidance language in the statement will indicate that risks to policy are two-sided. We think it won’t, but it’s a close call. Powell is likely to sound hawkish.”

Reporting by Howard Schneider; Editing by Dan Burns and Paul Simao

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内坦亚胡再次推迟出席涉贪案听证会

2026年4月27日 19:33 / 联合早报

以色列检方指控总理内坦亚胡犯有受贿、欺诈和背信三项罪行。图为内坦亚胡2025年4月21日在特拉维夫地方法院出席涉贪腐案庭审。 （路透社）

以色列检方指控总理内坦亚胡犯有受贿、欺诈和背信三项罪行。图为内坦亚胡2025年4月21日在特拉维夫地方法院出席涉贪腐案庭审。 （路透社）

以色列媒体报道，以色列总理内坦亚胡再次推迟出席涉贪腐案听证会，原定听证会临时取消。

《耶路撒冷邮报》报道，内坦亚胡涉贪腐案听证会原定星期一（4月27日）举行，但开始前约一个半小时，内坦亚胡的律师突然以“安全安排”为由，要求取消出席听证会。

法庭几小时后正式通知，当天的听证会取消。在此之前，这次听证会已经历大约六周延期。

以色列检方2020年初正式起诉内坦亚胡，指控他犯有受贿、欺诈和背信三项罪行。

法院同年5月首次开庭审理内坦亚胡涉贪腐案，他因此成为以色列首名接受司法审理的在任总理。

以媒报道，如果受贿罪名成立，内坦亚胡可能面临最高10年监禁的刑罚；欺诈和违背公众信任指控对应的最高刑罚为三年监禁。

自审理启动以来，内坦亚胡已多次以战事、外访、健康等理由，请求取消听证会或推迟作证。

美国总统特朗普多次要求以色列总统赫尔佐格赦免内坦亚胡，但美媒早前引述消息人士报道，赫尔佐格决定暂不赦免内坦亚胡，而是将启动调解程序，推动达成认罪协议。

Supreme Court to debate whether police may seek sweeping cellphone location data in investigations

2026-04-27T09:00:51.398Z / CNN

By John Fritze

3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2026, 5:00 AM ET

The sun rises above a facade of the US Supreme Court building on March 31.

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When an investigation into a Virginia bank robbery went cold a few years back, local police turned to Google.

Authorities served the tech giant with a “geofence warrant,” which required the company to parse location data on millions of people to find a handful whose cellphones pegged them within 300 meters of the bank at the time of the robbery.

With the data in hand, police solved their case. They also triggered a constitutional challenge that is now before the Supreme Court.

The justices will debate Monday whether the sweeping warrants, which are directed at tech companies rather than individual suspects, are consistent with the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches.

At a time when Americans store vast amounts of data online, the court’s decision could make it easier for law enforcement to solve crimes but also expose troves of personal information to authorities.

“It’s huge,” said William McGeveran, dean of the University of Minnesota Law School and an expert in data privacy law. “The issues involved apply to any of the digital technology that is tracking your location, which is a lot of things.”

In Virginia, police say Okello Chatrie passed a note urging a bank teller in 2019 to “hand over all the cash” and demanded “at least 100k and nobody will get hurt and your family will be set free.” Initially, police were unable to identify a suspect, but officers noticed on security cameras that the suspect was using his phone before the robbery. That’s when they sought the location data from Google.

After police identified Chatrie, authorities executed federal search warrants and found “robbery-style demand notes” in his bedroom, nearly $100,000 in cash and a 9 mm pistol. Police say Chatrie confessed to the robbery and was ultimately sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.

Chatrie entered a conditional guilty plea but reserved the right to appeal over the geofence warrant. The Richmond-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him, holding that the warrant didn’t constitute a “search” for Fourth Amendment purposes. After all, the court reasoned that when people allow tech companies to collect data they generally do so voluntarily. It is an argument that the Justice Department, which is defending the warrants, relies on heavily.

Chatrie “took no steps to protect his location from disclosure, such as pausing the Location History feature he had enabled or adjusting, deactivating, or forgoing his cellphone during his crime,” US Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court.

But Chatrie’s attorneys argue that the logic doesn’t apply to his case, in part because of a 2018 Supreme Court precedent. In that case, Carpenter v. US, a divided court ruled that law enforcement generally needs to establish probable cause before accessing cellphone tower data to identify the movements of suspects. If authorities need a warrant to get cellphone tower data, Chatrie’s attorneys said, then surely they also must obtain one to get data that is far more reliable.

The location data at issue in Chatrie’s case can identify a person’s location within 3 meters every two minutes.

“The technology may be novel, but the constitutional problem it presents is not,” Chatrie’s lawyer, Adam Unikowsky, told the Supreme Court. “The Fourth Amendment was born of the Founders’ revulsion for general warrants and writs of assistance — instruments that allowed the government to search first and develop suspicions later.”

In the Carpenter decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, was in the majority with the then-four-justice liberal wing. Three current conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — were in dissent.

Three justices have joined the bench since then, conservatives Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and liberal Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Unpredictable alliances

Geofence warrants have divided lower courts and Fourth Amendment cases can make for unpredictable alliances on the Supreme Court, which is attempting to square language that was ratified in 1791 with GPS trackers, chats with artificial intelligence and doorbell cameras.

In an important 1967 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment required federal agents to obtain a warrant before tapping a payphone. The decision established the idea that the Constitution protects against searches even absent a physical intrusion. A concurring opinion in that decision from Justice John Marshall Harlan II, nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, suggested that searches occur whenever the government infringes on a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

That idea has been a dominant force in the court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence for decades.

In 1979, the court ruled that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtained from the phone company a pen register — a device that recorded phone numbers dialed — from a suspect’s home. In that case, the court reasoned that the dialed numbers were “business records” and that a suspect did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy to them because he had voluntarily disclosed the number he dialed to the phone company.

More recently, in 2012, a unanimous court held that police could not place a GPS tracker on a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant. That decision, which was joined by five members of the current court, was important because it revived the idea that the Constitution protects people’s property from an unreasonable search. Computer data, Chatrie argues, is a form of a property — a modern analogue of the “papers and effects” specifically cited in the Fourth Amendment.

Google, which had received the majority of the warrants, changed its policy to shift how the data is stored. Because of that, the federal government had initially argued that the case was effectively moot.

But, McGeveran said, the principles at stake could nevertheless have as far reach as financial transactions, photos, emails and an incalculable amount of other information makes its way to online storage.

“It might not be the same kind of one-stop shopping for law enforcement,” he said, “but it’s still a technology that they’re very likely to use.”

GOP gubernatorial hopeful’s pro-Trump pitch to voters clashes with paper trail inside his own company

April 27, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News

FIRST ON FOX:** A billionaire gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, who has said there is “no bigger supporter of Trump right now than I am,” is facing questions after a healthcare company within his business empire criticized President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

Rick Jackson has spent months trying to cast himself as the race’s most pro-Trump candidate who will be Trump’s “favorite governor” despite Trump’s endorsement of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones. However, one of his companies has repeatedly criticized the OBBBA, a landmark GOP legislative package that Trump endorsed and signed into law last year.

Jackson Physician Search, a subsidiary of Jackson Healthcare, said on its website in September 2025 that the bill’s “sweeping cuts to Medicaid and ACA programs raise serious concerns about access, equity, and sustainability,” and warned that some hospitals may need to “adapt or close their doors.”

In a February 2026 recruitment report, the company also said the law was projected to cause “between 10 and 15 million people” to lose health coverage, while Medicare and Medicaid cuts were creating “significant financial pressure” across healthcare organizations and considerable “fear and uncertainty” about what lies ahead.

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Rick Jackson is running for governor in Georgia, promising to eliminate DEI policies.(Rick Jackson for governor/YouTube screenshot)

“Rick supports the Big Beautiful Bill. Period,” Mike Schrimpf, a spokesperson for Jackson’s campaign, told Fox News Digital. “Growing up in the projects, Rick believes in the dignity of work and is a strong proponent of work requirements for that reason. He has long opposed Obamacare and regularly touts President Trump’s healthcare policies, like TrumpRx, on the campaign trail. That’s why Rick Jackson will be Donald Trump’s favorite governor.”

Schrimpf added that “for months” Democrats have been attacking Jackson for his support of the OBBBA, noting “this attack makes about as much sense as accusing a pilot of hating to fly.”

At a campaign event last month in Thomasville, Georgia, Jackson told constituents that he thought there were “many parts” of the OBBBA that were “great,” and said he would be paying “40 percent more in taxes” if it had not passed, and defended work requirements in the bill by saying they motivate people to be productive and get off Medicaid.

“The worst thing that we can do is tell people — is get people relying on government where they have no incentive to work,” Jackson told constituents.

“It’s the most dehumanizing thing that you can do,” he continued. “God made us to be productive.”

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Jackson has also drawn himself closer to Trump by praising his tariff policies. “I believe in fairness,” Jackson said in March. “Don’t want somebody to take advantage of us in a business transaction. That’s what he’s trying to do. So I support.”

Meanwhile, Jackson, who reportedly modeled his campaign launch after Trump with a celebratory elevator descent, said he can’t name a single White House policy he disagreed with, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

Republican candidate for Georgia governor Rick Jackson is pictured next to President Donald Trump.(Rick Jackson/Getty Images)

But, despite these assertions from Jackson on the campaign trail, his remarks stand at stark odds with his physician search firm warning in a February white paper about “considerable fear and uncertainty” for what is to come as the result of the OBBBA.

“The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is projected to cause between 10 and 15 million people to lose health coverage,” the white paper notes, citing new public healthcare work requirements implemented by the OBBBA. “Medicare and Medicaid cuts are creating significant financial pressure across healthcare organizations,” it continues.

The same report, which includes comments from the firm’s senior leadership and other content on the search firm’s website, also slammed H-1B visa provisions in the OBBBA aimed at restoring integrity to the immigration program that has reportedly been rife with fraud, arguing it would be a net negative for the healthcare industry.

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The materials and resources also said OBBBA would promote physician burnout, would likely force rural hospitals to shut down, would discourage hopeful physicians from going to school, thus exacerbating the existing doctor shortage, and briefly emphasized the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs on physician recruitment.

“My team works with clients throughout the Midwest who are facing department closures if they can’t hire a physician or advanced practice provider. For proof, just look at the number of labor and delivery departments forced to close in the past few years,” said Senior Vice President of Recruiting at Jackson Physician Search, Tara Osseck. “Now, recent policy changes — including provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and increased fees affecting international visas — are adding new layers of complexity to an already challenging physician recruitment environment.”

“The implications are significant,” Osseck adds. “Coverage losses can lead to increases in uncompensated care, placing additional strain on already thin operating margins. When financial pressure mounts, healthcare organizations may delay service expansions, reduce hiring plans, or freeze recruitment altogether.”

Medicaid protesters hold signs challenging Republican reforms to the federal health insurance program near the U.S. Capitol building.(Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Caring Across Generations)

The OBBBA, a wide-ranging bill, included reforms to the federal student loan program aimed at making education more affordable. However, Regional Vice President of Recruiting at Jackson Physician Search, Tonya Hamlin, warned the reforms will actually make it harder for hopeful physicians to get to college.

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“These reforms could force students to absorb the difference through private loans or personal resources,” Hamlin wrote in a blog post on the search firm’s website. “They could also cause lower-income students to reconsider attendance altogether.”

Hamlin went on to warn that with fewer people able to go to medical school, the shortage of physicians will only get worse for hospitals and clinics.

“Despite these additional hurdles, clinicians and trainees must not be deterred,” Hamlin encouraged. “Stay focused on the higher purpose of your calling while staying informed, planning ahead financially, and engaging in ongoing advocacy.”

The Republican primary race for Georgia governor has been a messy one between Jackson and other frontrunner candidates, including Jones, Attorney General Chris Carr, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In particular, Jones and Jackson have been sparring over who is more aligned with Trump.

“This Primary Election is very simple,” Jones says on his campaign website. “There is one authentic conservative who has fought for President Trump.”

GOP candidates for Georgia governor, Rick Jackson and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, are pictured with President Donald Trump as they campaign as Trump loyalists.(Rick Jackson/Getty Images)

Jackson, meanwhile, donated $1 million to the president’s political action committee, MAGA Inc. less than two months before he jumped into the race in February and has faced backlash for cutting 6-figure checks to the presidential campaigns of Trump’s former GOP rivals during the 2024 Republican primary.

Jackson also reportedly ran an ad against Raffenspeger portraying him as the Biblical character Judas in an attempt to portray him as a traitor for defying Trump’s efforts to challenge Georgia’s 2020 election results.

The Republican primary to see who will move on to the general election in Georgia’s gubernatorial fight will take place on May 19. The first and only debate between the candidates is scheduled for Monday.

Fox News Digital reached out to Jackson Physician Search.

Suspect in White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to be arraigned in federal court today

April 27, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News

By Caroline Linton

Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork.

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The suspected gunman in the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinnerwill be arraigned Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C.

President Trump was evacuated after shots rang out at the annual media dinner, which was packed with more than 2,500 politicians, journalists and celebrities on Saturday night. Authorities said a Secret Service agent was struck by a round but was protected by a bulletproof vest and has since been released from the hospital.

Authorities were able to stop and apprehend the suspect, who was evaluated at a local hospital before being moved to a D.C. jail. The suspect has been identified as Cole Thomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Saturday night that Allen will be charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon, and predicted he will face more charges Monday.

“It is clear, based upon what we know so far, that this individual was intent on doing as much harm and as much damage as he could, and thankfully, because of the checkpoint right outside the ballroom where thousands of people were situated to hear the president of the United States, that checkpoint worked,” Pirro said. “There was no one who was injured, but it was clear where this defendant was going.”

The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation, and the Secret Service is investigating the suspect’s background to understand what precipitated the shooting.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday that investigators believe the suspect was targeting Trump administration officials.

CBS News obtained a copy of what investigators say is a”manifesto” that was written by Allen and left behind. In his alleged writings, Allen said he planned the attack because he didn’t want the “crimes” of the administration to “coat [his] hands.” He didn’t refer to Mr. Trump or the event by name, but allegedly said he intended to target administration officials “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”

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以色列士兵星期一（4月27日）走在黎巴嫩南部边境村落的街道上。画面可见，黎巴嫩百姓的家园已在猛烈炮火下化为遍地瓦砾，街道两旁的建筑物几乎全被炸毁，满目疮痍。 （法新社）

以色列与黎巴嫩真主党的停火协议延长后不久，边境局势便再度紧张。

以军星期天（4月26日）持续空袭黎南部，造成至少14人死亡，成为停火以来伤亡最严重的一天；双方互相指责对方违反停火安排。

以黎双方于4月17日启动为期10天的停火安排，并在4月23日同意将协议延长三周。不过停火未能完全止息炮火，以军近期仍多次在黎境内展开军事行动。

以色列政府重申，以军仍保留针对“即时甚至潜在威胁”采取先发制人打击行动的空间。目前，以军继续在边境约10公里纵深的“黄线”区域展开行动。

真主党领导人卡西姆拒绝黎巴嫩政府与以色列展开直接谈判，并提出结束冲突的五项条件，其中包括以色列停止对黎巴嫩陆海空的袭击、以色列从侵略的领土撤出、释放被关押的黎方人员、让流离失所者返回家园以及开展重建。（法新社）

以色列士兵星期一（4月27日）走在黎巴嫩南部边境村落的街道上。画面可见，黎巴嫩百姓的家园已在猛烈炮火下化为遍地瓦砾，街道两旁的建筑物几乎全被炸毁，满目疮痍。 （法新社）

以色列与黎巴嫩真主党的停火协议延长后不久，边境局势便再度紧张。

以军星期天（4月26日）持续空袭黎南部，造成至少14人死亡，成为停火以来伤亡最严重的一天；双方互相指责对方违反停火安排。

以黎双方于4月17日启动为期10天的停火安排，并在4月23日同意将协议延长三周。不过停火未能完全止息炮火，以军近期仍多次在黎境内展开军事行动。

以色列政府重申，以军仍保留针对“即时甚至潜在威胁”采取先发制人打击行动的空间。目前，以军继续在边境约10公里纵深的“黄线”区域展开行动。

真主党领导人卡西姆拒绝黎巴嫩政府与以色列展开直接谈判，并提出结束冲突的五项条件，其中包括以色列停止对黎巴嫩陆海空的袭击、以色列从侵略的领土撤出、释放被关押的黎方人员、让流离失所者返回家园以及开展重建。（法新社）

【红蚂蚁】能源危机敲响警钟 新加坡必须加速讨论“要不要核能”？

2026年4月27日 15:42 / 联合早报

小型模块化反应堆等新一代核能技术被视为新加坡减少化石燃料发电的潜在替代选项之一。 （示意图／ iStock）

电费涨价，相信已让不少本地家庭很是烦恼。

新加坡能源集团早前已经宣布，新加坡第二季度（4月1日至6月30日）的住家电价将上调2.1%。

雪上加霜的是，这波涨幅暂时还看不到尽头。

能源市场管理局预计，由于中东石油和天然气生产受严重影响，燃料价格在可预见的未来会持续偏高。

换句话说，未来几个季度电价还有可能进一步上涨，而且涨幅更大。

这也进一步凸显新加坡高度依赖进口能源的脆弱性，地缘政治危机等外部因素，都可能使新加坡的供电面临挑战。

新加坡有95%电力供应依赖进口天然气。尽管我国已未雨绸缪，提早确保能源进口来源多元化，暂时不至于“断气”，但买得到货，并不意味着价格不会变贵。

发电成本攀升会推高电价，商用与住宅电费的飙升，是最直接的冲击。但更令人担忧的是，商业用电成本上升将产生涟漪效应，进一步传导至社会生活的方方面面，包括引发百物上涨的连锁反应。

与此同时，本地用电需求仍在持续上升。

未来几年，数据中心及人工智能等产业的蓬勃发展，乃至人们因气候变暖而增加冷气的使用频率，都会持续推高新加坡的电力需求。

能源局局长潘国强去年曾指出，新加坡的用电量预计会在2025年至2035年年增2%至5%。

因此，加速研究并部署较不受外部因素影响的发电模式，已刻不容缓。

太阳能等可再生能源是选项之一。

政府早前宣布，新加坡已提前五年完成在2030年安装2千兆峰瓦（gigawatt-peak）太阳能装机容量的目标，并计划把2030年的目标提高至3千兆峰瓦。

然而，受限于新加坡狭小的国土面积，太阳能最多只能满足本地约10%的电力需求。

即使将太阳能的发电推至极限，碍于土地面积限制，太阳能最多也仅能支应本地约10%电力需求。（联合早报）

透过区域电网从马来西亚及印尼等邻国进口可再生能源是另一条出路，但这本质上无法完全排除外部因素的干扰。

众多选项中，核能发电或许是最具争议，但却也是性价比较高，且最能提升新加坡能源自主能力的潜在解决方法。

新加坡目前的官方立场是尚未决定是否采用，但正在积极研究核能的可行性。

政府已透过和其他国家合作，为可能的核能部署及安全能力提升，累积所需的知识及资源。

新加坡环境局上星期五（4月24日）宣布，我国已和国际原子能机构签署未来六年的技术合作框架，将核与辐射安全及核安保、环境、食品安全、人类健康、能源和工业应用，列为优先合作领域。

此外，新加坡也与美国核能管理委员会签署合作备忘录，旨在提升核安全能力，这包括推出培训计划，让本地官员赴美参与课程与实习，累积实际经验，为未来可能部署核能做好准备。

无论最终是否采用核能，上述行动显示，新加坡已在努力打磨核能相关技术。

但除了在技术层面做好准备，是否采用核能这一重大能源转型，务必得取得社会共识，且相关对话宜早不宜迟。

在土地面积比新加坡广袤数倍的国家，如日本和德国，核能始终是社会长期争议。弹丸之地，人口又更密集的新加坡，抗拒声浪无疑会更加强烈。

实际上，新加坡所研拟的核能并非传统核能，而是更小更安全的小型模块化反应堆等新一代核能技术。

小型模块化反应堆的占地面积远小于传统核电站，且整体安全性能更高，所需的辐射缓冲带也大幅缩减。

新加坡研究采用的小型模块化反应堆等新一代核能技术并不像图中的传统核电厂那般占地甚广，且安全性更高。（路透社）

因此，在可能部署核能的对话中，当局有必要以通俗易懂的科普方式，让国人在资讯透明、充足的前提下参与讨论。

除了加深人们小型模块化反应堆等新一代核技术的认知，也应清晰坦诚地交代潜在风险及相应的安全管控措施。

小型模块化反应堆（SMR）模型。（联合早报）

过程中，当局或许还必须针对核反应堆可能的建造地点提出配套措施，例如评估附近房价是否因此受影响，当局会否提供相应补偿等。

一场仅超过一个月的地缘政治冲突便足以使全球能源供应陷入混乱，从民生及经济发展角度来看，新加坡都有必要务实考虑任何能把外部冲击降至最低的发电方案。

核能毫无疑问是选项之一，但由于其充满争议的本质，任何潜在的落实方案都必须在充分对话及足够共识下，才可推进。

涉枪杀三人的嫌犯林联（译音）星期一（4月27日）在柔佛哥打丁宜推事庭面控。 （星洲日报）

涉嫌在柔佛哥打丁宜开枪射杀三人的嫌犯星期一（4月27日）在哥打丁宜推事庭面对三项谋杀控状。这是马来西亚近年来死亡人数最多的枪击案。案件定5月13日移交至高庭审理。

71岁的被告林联星期一上午由警方押送至哥打丁宜推事庭。第一项控状指被告4月19日下午1时30分，在一家美食中心谋杀马国籍男子黄保顺。

第二项控状指被告在相同的时间地点谋杀越南籍女子陈氏珍。第三项控状指被告在相同时间地点谋杀马国籍男子陈伟华。（所有人名为译音）

被告的三项控状皆抵触刑事法典的谋杀条文。一旦罪成可被判死刑，或监禁至少30年但不超过40年。若未被判处死刑，则还须面对至少12下鞭刑。

通译员用华语向被告念出控状，并告知被告已71岁，因此得以豁免鞭刑。

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主控官依兹兰向推事诺卡丽达申请将案件移交高庭审理，并指被告抵触谋杀条文，因此建议不让被告保释。

被告的代表律师刘雪铟则向推事建议将下一个过堂日期定于5月13日，并获得推事批准。

柔佛州总警长拉哈曼日前在记者会说，被告是一名园主，已婚并育有四名子女。警方将调查报告呈交给总检察署后，总检察署指示以三项谋杀罪名提控被告。

这起枪击案于本月19日下午1时30分，发生在哥打丁宜成功花园的一家美食中心。被告向越南籍女死者讨债不果，并遭女死者找来的两名男子殴打。被告先离开现场，过后持枪返回并开枪打死三人。

拉哈曼说，被告与越南籍女死者是普通朋友。此案的导火线是一笔5万令吉借款造成的纠纷。他说，被告与女死者并无不当男女关系。

警方调查发现，被告2023年起多次借钱给女死者，累计5万令吉，但双方并未签署任何书面借据或协议。