Kent is a reporter and news anchor for WORLD Radio. He spent nearly two decades in Christian and news/talk radio before joining WORLD in 2012. He resides in Atlanta, Ga.
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Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents; Finland officially joins NATO, and Sweden is the next in line; US Secretary of State Tony Blinken is in Brussels meeting with Ukraine’s foreign minister to discuss ongoing aid to Ukraine; Kansas governor is set to veto a bill restricting transgender procedures for minors; Chicago residents choose a new mayor; and Wisconsin voters elect a new state supreme court justice
Trump is in Manhattan for his arraignment hearing, Finland has become a member of NATO, Finland’s prime minister lost re-election to a conservative candidate, lawmakers confirm that the Chinese balloon didn’t capture photos but did send electronic signals back to China in real time until the U.S. shot it down, oil prices are up six percent as OPEC nations cut production, and NASA has introduced the team of astronauts going to space for the Artemis 2 mission next year
Trump is expected to be arraigned and fingerprinted in Manhattan tomorrow ahead of a trial; former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson is running for President; dozens of people were killed by tornados in Arkansas and Illinois; more Russian airstrikes kill Ukrainians and the US promises more aid; Secretary of State Tony Blinken calls on Russia to release two Americans imprisoned on charges of espionage; and in Texas, border patrol agents find dozens of migrants smuggled into the country by truck, as well as dozens more hiding in a cave
Evaluating the electability of the former president
A shooter killed six people at a private Christian school in Nashville yesterday, residents of Mississippi continue to sort through the rubble of a deadly tornado, Israel’s Prime Minister pauses judicial reform plan in response to nationwide protests, DeSantis expands school voucher programs while Trump holds a rally in Waco, and Elizabeth Warren confirms that she will not challenge President Biden in the 2024 election.
Russia is stationing nuclear weapons near Ukraine in Belarus; American lawmakers raise concerns about a Russia-China alliance and the implications for Taiwan, recovery efforts begin following a deadly tornado in Mississippi, an explosion at the R.M. Palmer chocolate factory in Pennsylvania, two migrants found dead in a train car in Texas, and two boats of migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia in the Mediterranean.
Xi meets Putin in Moscow, Japan’s Prime Minister meets Zelensky in Ukraine, US speeding up delivery of tanks to Ukraine, ongoing protests in France over Macron’s retirement age change, and residents of East Palestine are experiencing health problems following February’s toxic chemical train derailment.
Trump anticipates arrest today while police prepare for protests ahead of a possible grand jury indictment in Manhattan, Putin welcomes Xi to Moscow, an American missionary kidnapped by ISIS six years ago is freed in the African nation of Niger, 43,000 died in Somalia due to drought according to the United Nations, protests in France continue after pension vote while Macron government survives no confidence votes, Amazon is cutting 9,000 more jobs, US regulators are trying to salvage an auction of Silicon Valley Bank by breaking it up for sale.
The UN says Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine, a Russian jet dumped fuel on the US surveillance drone that crashed in the Black Sea, Poland is the first Western nation sending fighter jets to Ukraine, unenriched uranium disappears in Libya, the French Prime Minister passes pension reform without vote from Parliament, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reports to the Senate Finance Committee, and Florida lawmakers introduce a heartbeat bill.
