Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
Air and Marine Operations (AMO) UAS is a critical element of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) mission to predict, detect, identify, classify, track, deter, and interdict border traffic that threatens the continuity of U.S. border security. This is an integral capability used to safeguard our homeland through the coordinated application of aviation and maritime law enforcement resources within the air, sea, and land environments. This includes detecting, deterring, and interdicting illicit border crossings; conducting investigative activities; collecting intelligence; and performing reconnaissance patrols.
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
“I want to recognize the millions of Americans living with autism and their families. President Trump has directed me to address and find out what is causing the autism epidemic and what we can do about it. HHS is going to do everything in its power to ease the difficulties that so many of these individuals and families face. We’re going to rise to meet the challenge.” – Secretary Kennedy
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Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
Behold: the mission patch for Artemis II!
The Artemis II mission will embark on its journey around the Moon early 2026 with four astronauts onboard. Now we’ve got the mission patch to mark the occasion.
To learn more about the Artemis II mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
A community meeting was held in Jefferson County, TN to introduce the various agencies working on the debris removal project for the Douglas Lake Reservoir. Local, State and Federal agency staff, including FEMA and the EPA talked with community members about the scope of the project and to answer any questions.
Source: United States of America – Department of State (video statements)
Secretary of State Marco A. Rubio meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels, Belgium, on April 3, 2025.
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Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) perform operations as part of previous iterations of Marine Rotational Force Darwin (MRF-D) in multiple locations throughout the Indo-Pacific region.
MRF-D is an upcoming annual six-month rotational deployment to enhance interoperability with the Australian Defense Force and provide a forward-postured crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific.
Source: World Trade Organization – WTO (video statements)
Antigua and Barbuda deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 3 April. Ambassador Colin Murdoch presented Antigua and Barbuda’s instrument of acceptance to Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.
Source: United States of America – Department of State (video statements)
Here’s the big takeaway – we’re headed to @NATO! — Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce
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Under the leadership of the President and Secretary of State, the U.S. Department of State leads America’s foreign policy through diplomacy, advocacy, and assistance by advancing the interests of the American people, their safety and economic prosperity. On behalf of the American people we promote and demonstrate democratic values and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world.
The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service and U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Source: United States of America – The White House (video statements)
“My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. April 2, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to Make America Wealthy Again.” –President Donald J. Trump
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
The Lord Speaker welcomed the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mr Theodoros Rousopoulos, in February to mark the signing of the Treaty of London 75 years ago, which established the Council of Europe.
The President gave a lecture entitled ‘The Council of Europe: 75 Years and Beyond’, and was joined in conversation by Lolrd Foulkes of Cumnock to discuss the past, present and future work of the Council and parliamentarians’ contribution in promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
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Europe has the largest single market in the world, 450 million customers strong. The EU will use this strength to its full advantage in negotiations and for helping its people. Europe has everything it needs to make it through this storm, and Europe stands together for business, for citizens and for all Europeans.
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Find out more and see who’s taking part https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/march/lords-debates-the-impact-of-the-governments-economic-and-planning-measures-on-farming-and-rural-communities/
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Briefing by Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
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Addressing the Security Council, Joyce Msuya, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator reported, “Humanitarian workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers. According to available data, 2024 was the worst year on record, with 377 aid workers killed across 20 countries. This was almost 100 more fatalities than in 2023, which already saw a 137 percent increase from 2022.”
She continued, “And just three days ago, on 30 March in Rafah, teams from OCHA and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society recovered from a mass grave the bodies of fifteen emergency and aid workers—from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Civil Defense, and the United Nations—killed several days earlier by Israeli forces while trying to save lives. Their clearly marked vehicles were found destroyed and crushed.”
She stressed, “These deaths bring the number of aid workers killed in the Strip since 7 October 2023 to more than 408. Gaza is the most dangerous place for humanitarians ever.”
She stated, “There is no shortage of robust international legal frameworks to protect humanitarian and UN workers. Human rights law and standards, Conventions relating to the UN’s activities and personnel, and international humanitarian law together provide clear obligations to safeguard humanitarian personnel, assets, and operations. What is lacking is the political will to comply.”
She also said, “Humanitarians also face the criminalization of their work. More and more are detained, interrogated, and accused of supporting terrorism simply for delivering aid to people in need.”
Jonathan Whittall (OCHA) briefs on the operation to recover the bodies of 15 colleagues killed in Gaza. It has been one month since the last aid supplies entered the Strip. The 25 bakeries supported by the WFP have shut down due to a lack of flour and cooking gas, raising renewed fears of famine.
Briefing by Mr. Jonathan Whittall, OCHA’s Head of Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on Gaza.
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“What is happening here defies decency, it defies humanity, it defies the law,” a UN humanitarian official said Wednesday, describing mounting horrors in Gaza as a “war without limits.”
Briefing reporters in New York via video call, Jonathan Whittall, Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, recounted a recent mission to Rafah, where he and colleagues uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of medics. “These were medical workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Civil Defense, still in their uniforms, still wearing gloves, they were killed while trying to save lives,” he said. “The ambulances were hit one by one as they advanced, as they acted into Rafah.”
Whittall said the site was marked by crushed emergency vehicles, including a fire truck and a UN car. The incident, he said, was only one in a “parade” of horrors. In the past two weeks alone “UN premises have been shelled with tank fire, killing one of our colleagues and seriously injuring others. We’ve had international aid compounds and hospitals that have been hit,” he said. “People have been bombed at food distribution points where aid workers have also been killed.”
Since the collapse of a ceasefire two weeks ago, forced displacement has surged, Whittall said, with about 100,000 people fleeing Rafah in the past 48 hours alone – many under fire. “I saw some of them in the same mission that I described at the beginning… running towards us and being shot in their backs,” he said.
According to OCHA, 64 percent of Gaza is now under forced evacuation. “Nowhere and no one is safe in Gaza,” Whittall said. “My colleagues tell me that they just want to die with their families. Their worst fear is to survive alone.”
Whittall also spoke about a total aid blockade. “Today, unfortunately, marks one month without any supplies entering into Gaza,” he said. “That’s one month of no food, no fuel, no aid, nothing has entered. So, 2.5 million people are trapped, bombed, starved.”
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
Your Thursday #wintersportsclinic Downhill Daily includes a quick look at Veterans participating in fly fishing. Ron Haskell, comms guy, prompts Veterans with some fun questions about their military experience. Finally, get to know Army Veteran Wendy Clouser and her service dog Lilah.
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Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
Briefings Today and Tomorrow
Secretary-General/Gaza
Deputy Secretary-General
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Myanmar
Security Council
Central African Republic
Sudan
South Sudan
South Sudan/Humanitarian
Somalia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Haiti
Missing Persons
World Autism Day
Screening
BRIEFINGS TODAY AND TOMORROW
Tomorrow, at 12:45 p.m., the Secretary-General of the United Nations will do a stakeout on the situation in Myanmar. There will be no noon briefing, but there will be a briefing from the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), ahead of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, which is on Friday, April 4th. Richard Boulter, UNMAS’ Chief of Design, Operational Support and Oversight will be here to brief. He will be joined virtually by Edwin Faigmane, Chief of the Mine Action Programme in Nigeria, and Fatma Zourrig, Chief of the Mine Action Programme in Libya. That will be around 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.
SECRETARY-GENERAL/GAZA
The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the human toll of the intensified hostilities taking place in Gaza. He condemns the reported killing of over a thousand people, including women and children, since the collapse of the ceasefire.
Large-scale Israeli bombardments and ground operations have resulted in the widespread destruction and the displacement of over 100,000 Palestinians from Rafah in the last two days alone, most of them having already been displaced multiple times and having been displaced with very few belongings.
The Secretary-General is shocked by the attacks by the Israeli army on a medical and emergency convoy on 23 March resulting in the killing of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian workers in Gaza. Medical personnel and humanitarian and emergency workers must be protected by all parties to the conflict at all times, as required by international humanitarian law. Since October 2023, at least 408 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, and at least 280 of them have been United Nations humanitarian workers.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=02%20April%202025
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is set to lift off on his first mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, April 8. Launch is scheduled for 1:47 a.m. EDT (0547 UTC) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Kim was selected to become a NASA astronaut in 2017; before joining NASA’s astronaut corps, Kim completed more than 100 combat operations as a Navy SEAL. A dual-designated naval aviator and flight surgeon, Kim received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical School.
Kim will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, where they will spend approximately eight months on the International Space Station before returning to Earth in December. Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 72/73 crew, supporting scientific research to help us learn how to live in space while making life better back on Earth.
After liftoff, MS-27 is scheduled to dock with the station at 5:03 a.m. EST (0903 UTC), with hatch opening at approximately 7:20 a.m. EST (1120 UTC). Watch live rendezvous coverage on NASA: https://plus.nasa.gov
Get the latest mission updates: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
Vietnam era Army Veteran Robert Daehler actively skied until the age of 85. After facing an injury that left him paralyzed, Daehler dedicated years to regain his mobility and with the help from VA Palo Alto Occupational Therapists, is now walking. Now, at 88, he has returned to the Winter Sports Clinic for a second year, rekindling his beloved passion alongside fellow Veterans and family members.
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Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
We proudly welcome Dr. Marty Makary as FDA Commissioner and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as NIH Director. Their impeccable credentials and dedication to gold-standard science make them uniquely qualified to lead these agencies and ensure its priorities are aligned with this administration’s goal to Make America Healthy Again. We look forward to restoring trust, transparency, and excellence in public health.
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Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO), U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted alien expulsion flights from Conroe, Texas to San Diego.
From San Diego, these illegal aliens will be deported back to their home country.
Source: United States of America – The White House (video statements)
Senior White House Officials Taylor Budowich, Stephen Miller, and Karoline Leavitt have a discussion on Tariffs with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer