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Chicago Sun-Times: City Hall thrown under the bus: Report rips 'do nothing' effort to save Greyhound terminal by David Struett
Greyhound could be evicted from its longtime Near West Side bus terminal in a few months, and City Hall is fumbling its effort to save it, according to a new report.
The city of Chicago has adopted a “do nothing approach” and offered no substantial plan to either purchase the station or propose an alternate site before Greyhound’s lease ends in October, according to the report by DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development.
The report builds on the Institute’s brief from last year, when it established the need to save the station that serves a half-million riders yearly, many of whom are low-income or disabled. The terminal at 630 W. Harrison St. was put up for sale last year by a company that wants to sell it to a residential high-rise developer.
“The clock is ticking in this outcome,” said Joe Schwieterman, professor at DePaul and one of the report’s authors. “There could be a real mess for our city if no action is taken. The station is just too big and important to have an improvised solution, such as pushing departures to a curb without waiting areas.”
The New York Times: Judge Postpones Start of Trump Documents Trial Without New Date by Alan Feuer
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case formally scrapped her own May 20 start date for the trial on Tuesday but declined to set a new one, saying there was much more work to be done before a jury could hear the charges.
The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon to delay the start of the trial was more or less a foregone conclusion given the number of legal issues that remain unresolved less than two weeks from the date she had originally set.
In a brief order, Judge Cannon wrote that picking a new date at this point would be “imprudent and inconsistent with the court’s duty to fully and fairly consider” what she described as “the myriad and interconnected” pretrial issues that she had not yet gotten to.
Those included several of Mr. Trump’s pending motions to dismiss the case and a host of thorny questions surrounding how to decide what sorts of sensitive information can be revealed at the trial under a law known as the Classified Information Procedures Act.
The Washington Post: Last body found after Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse, officials say by Martin Weil
Salvage crews have located the remains of the sixth and apparently final construction worker killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was struck by a ship and collapsed.
The body was that of José Mynor López, 37, of Baltimore, officials supervising activity at the collapse site said in a statement Tuesday.
The fifth body to be discovered was found May 1 and identified as that of Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Glen Burnie, Md.
Officials have said they thought six construction workers had been repairing potholes on the bridge in March when it was struck by the huge container ship the Dali.
Finding the sixth body “marks a significant milestone in our recovery efforts and providing closure to the loved ones of the six workers who lost their lives in this tragic event,” said Col. Roland L. Butler Jr., superintendent of the Maryland Department of State Police.
CNN: Several twisters hit Michigan, where a rare tornado emergency was declared for one city by Mary Gilbert and Steve Almasy
Several tornadoes hit Michigan on Tuesday evening, with one city in the southern part of the state under a rare tornado emergency as strong storms pushed through.
The emergency for Union City went into effect just after 6 p.m. ET, when “a large and destructive tornado” was over the city, about 10 miles northwest of Coldwater and moving northeast at 45 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
Emergency responders’ radios crackled with reports of possible destruction as the intense storms pushed through. Photos on social media have shown some damage to buildings.
In Branch County, about 60 miles south of Kalamazoo, at least seven homes were destroyed, according to Emergency Management Director Tim Miner, who added he was unable to get out and assess damage to other parts of the county.
BBC News: Russian plot to kill Zelensky foiled, Kyiv says by James Waterhouse and Laura Gozzi
The Ukrainian security service (SBU) says it has foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials.
Two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels have been arrested.
The SBU said they were part of a network of agents belonging to the Russian state security service (FSB).
They had reportedly been searching for willing "executors" among Mr Zelensky's bodyguards to kidnap and kill him.
Ever since Russian paratroopers attempted to land in Kyiv and assassinate President Zelensky in the early hours and days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, plots to assassinate him have been commonplace.
The Ukrainian leader said at the start of the invasion he was Russia's "number one target".
But this alleged plot stands out from the rest. It involves serving colonels, whose job it was to keep officials and institutions safe, allegedly hired as moles.
Guardian: Brazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced by Tom Phillips
The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city.
Photographs of the Porto Alegre airport, one of Brazil’s busiest, showed its main terminal had been completely inundated and a cargo plane parked in an expanse of water next to a pair of semi-submerged boarding stairs.
At least 361 people have been injured and 131 are missing as a result of what state governor Eduaro Leite called his state’s “biggest ever climate catastrophe”. More than 48,000 people are living in dozens of shelters.
“The state is facing a war-like situation,” Leite told reporters on Sunday as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flew to the region to oversee rescue efforts.
“This is one of those events that will go down in history,” added Leite, who has declared a state of emergency in 397 of his state’s 497 towns and cities.
AlJazeera: Modi votes in home state as mammoth India election hits half-way mark
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among millions of voters across 93 constituencies that went to polls in the third phase of India’s mammoth general election.
The world’s most populous nation began voting on April 19 in a seven-phase election in which nearly one billion people are eligible to vote, with ballots set to be counted on June 4.
Tuesday’s polling covered 93 seats in 11 states and union territories, with Gujarat and Maharashtra in the west and Karnataka in the south accounting for 50 seats. That completed voting for 283 of 543 seats for the Lok Sabha, as the lower house of Indian parliament is called.
Modi, 73, is seeking a rare, third straight term in a vote which pits his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against an alliance of more than two dozen opposition parties, led by the Indian National Congress.
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