The poll, which gathered respondents from 1,545 U.S. adults nationwide, had a margin of error of about 3 percentage points. AdvertisementThe Trump administration has mulled deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, Reuters reported on Wednesday. AdvertisementSome 37% of Americans overall approve of the war, the poll found. Some 63% of Republicans - and 34% of Americans overall - said they would support deploying a small number of special forces troops to Iran. Fifty-five percent of respondents in the poll said they opposed deploying any ground troops, whether the scale of operations be large or small.

California is suing the Trump administration over its decision to roll back the endangerment finding , the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific conclusion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, state officials announced Thursday. Its rollback will disrupt the regulatory landscape and result in significant increases in greenhouse gas emissions, which drive climate change, they said. The lawsuit will ask the court to vacate the EPA’s repeal and restore greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles. “The science doesn’t lie: Climate change and [greenhouse gas] emissions are harming public health and causing devastating and ever-worsening disasters. But many experts say reducing those emissions is critical for curbing climate change, as the transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

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Afroman is seen on the stand Tuesday at a courthouse in West Union, Ohio, in an image taken from local news video. God bless America!” the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict as supporters rallied behind him. He said on the stand that the raid traumatized his children, who were 10 and 12 at the time. “These guys with their rifles are crying about my comedy songs.”AdvertisementMeanwhile, as the jury deliberated Wednesday, an entirely different Adams County Sheriff’s Office was feeling online heat linked to the trial: the office in Colorado’s Adams County. “The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has received a flood of social media comments, DMs, and phone calls about the #Afroman defamation trial,” the Colorado department said on X.

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich said she's willing to work with teachers unions on screen time issues. “We don’t want to immediately tune someone out just because of our perceptions about their organization,” said Melissa Peterson, lobbyist for the Iowa State Education Association. She welcomes Moms for Liberty to the table, “if they want to use their powers for good.”To the teachers union, Moms for Liberty CEO Tina Descovich said, “Welcome to the fight.”Descovich still thinks national teachers unions are “despicable,” but said she’s happy to work with state groups. The Kansas branch of the National Education Association opposed legislation prohibiting elementary students from using computers or tablets at all. Attacking ed tech allows Moms for Liberty to tap into a populist energy with broader appeal by directing criticism toward companies and devices.

Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham has suffered a collapsed lung and will miss at least two weeks with less than a month remaining in the NBA's regular season, the team announced Thursday. Cunningham was injured Tuesday night when he collided with Washington's Tre Johnson while diving for a loose ball during the first quarter of the Pistons' 130-117 victory over the Wizards. The Pistons said at the time that Cunningham was suffering back spasms. ESPN reports that the "collapse of Cunningham's lung is considered mild" and "there is some optimism that Cunningham will be back in time for the start of the playoffs." The Pistons, who currently have a 3.5-game lead over the Boston Celtics atop the Eastern Conference standings, wrap up their season April 12 against the Indiana Pacers.

"Shlomo Klapper, chief executive and founder of the company behind Learned Hand, said it is already being used by court systems in 10 states. We need to build the right tools so courts are equipped to deal with this tsunami," he said. But he described the use of AI to generate rulings as "problematic. Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT. Learned Hand, he said, is not meant to replace judges but rather give them more time to actually make decisions rather than sit buried under impossible caseloads.

Amid shocking news about labor leader Cesar Chavez, a rally is held Wednesday in Fresno as farmworkers and supporters push to change a Labor Department rule that would lower wages. Explosive allegations that Cesar Chavez abused girls and sexually assaulted his fellow labor activist Dolores Huerta decades ago are roiling the farmworker community, leaving many stunned at the revelations. Some farmworker advocates said they were reeling from the news about Chavez, who became a defining figure in the movement for farmworker rights. As people reacted to the news of Cesar Chavez, Fresno State covered up its statue of the labor leader with a box. In Fresnco, Lisa Alvarado holds a pin of Dolores Huerta, who said she was assaulted by Cesar Chavez, leading to two pregnancies.

Barcelona, Spain (CNN) — James “Jimmy” Gracey, an American college student reported missing in Spain earlier this week, has been found dead, a spokesperson for the Barcelona police told CNN. He was reported missing after he failed to return that morning to his short-term rental, his family said. The employees also said friends of Gracey went to the nightclub in the last few days, trying to get more information. At the University of Alabama, James Gracey was an honors student in the accounting program, his aunt Beth Marren O’Reilly told CNN. Last year, another US college student went missing while on spring break.

“Five were killed in the old city of Nablus during an Israeli raid there, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Also in the lowly sixth paragraph, CNN’s Salman and Gold quote Lapid: the “terrorist laboratory of Lions’ Den was severely damaged.”A comparison to coverage at other media outlets exposes the gravity of CNN’s strenuous efforts to bury the Lions’ Den, and the resulting false suggestion that raging Israeli soldiers are killing off peaceful Palestinian civilians. “The predawn raid targeted the Nablus-based militia known as the Lions’ Den, which emerged this year and does not answer to any of the established Palestinian factions. “Israel has blamed the Lions’ Den for a rise in shootings that it says are aimed at its troops and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including one that killed a soldier this month. CNN, for its part, lent a protective hand to the Lions’ Den, as diligently as a vigilant lioness watching over her charges.

Republicans are pushing to enact the most significant federal intervention into voting in generations. While encouraging that the Save America Act is unlikely to become law, it’s troubling that Washington’s urge to nationalize elections hasn’t subsided. It would also nearly eliminate mail-in voting while requiring voters to show government-issued ID at polling locations. A federal law already mandates that states require voters in national elections to attest, under penalty of perjury, that they are U.S. citizens. The Save America Act would override the preferences of each state, leaving only narrow exceptions for members of the military or some disabled Americans.

A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. Hawkins said the aircraft landed safely and the incident is under investigation. “This incident is under investigation.”The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. The US has lost other aircraft in the war thus far, though none known to have been hit by enemy fire.

A storm at sea damaged containers on the OOCL Sunflower, shown berthed at the Port of Long Beach. Dozens of shipping containers on a vessel at the Port of Long Beach were lost or damaged after heavy weather sent them toppling over in the harbor, the Coast Guard said. The OOCL Sunflower was completing a trans-Pacific voyage from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, when 32 containers fell overboard, according to the Coast Guard. Another 57 containers were reported damaged after the ship berthed at the Port of Long Beach. There have been no initial reports of hazardous releases, loss of containment or pollution from the damaged containers.

Win McNamee/Getty ImagesRep. Lauren Boebert, a staunch Trump ally, told CNN she would not support more money for Iran under any circumstance. I am so tired of spending money over there,” Boebert told CNN. Behind the scenes, some Republicans have joined Democrats in pressing administration officials about the war’s costs, multiple sources told CNN. Roy, Burchett and Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee told CNN they want the money offset. As Republicans await the formal funding request from the White House, many are hoping to see a major deescalation in the coming weeks.

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