AP Headline News Apr 08 2019 19:00 (EDT)

AP Radio News. I'm Jackie Quinn.

 

A big shakeup in the Trump administration's Homeland Security Department. Today the ouster of Secrect Service director Randolph Alles. Sources tell the Associated Press yesterday's ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and some other staffers in the department is a part of White House push for a harder line on immigration.

 

On Capitol Hill today, the revolving door of agency leadership was criticized by Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer.

"President Trump's policies, if he as them, switch from day to day. He's erratic. He seems to get emotional. He pushes out whatever is on his mind."

 

Meanwhile a federal judge in San Francisco has just blocked a key Trump immigration policy that keeps asylum seekers inside Mexico while they wait for their cases to be heard in the U.S. Our Mike Gracio Reports.

"Judge Richard Seeborg granted the request by civil liberty groups to halt the unprecedented policy while lawsuits filed by the groups move forward. The Trump administration says the policy was a response to a crisis at the southern border that is seen immigration officials overwhelmed by influx of migrants.

 

Federal prosecutors say that they stopped a terrorist attack being planned at National Harbour by a man named Rondell Henry. He allegedly stole a U-haul truck with plans to attack pedestrians similar to what's happened in France. The allegation was made in a court filing on Monday.

 

Federal prosecutors say that actress Felicity Huffman and a dozen other prominent parents have pleaded guilty in that sweeping college admission cheating scandal. It ensnared wealthy families and athletic coaches at some of the nation's most prestegious universities.

 

March Madness ends tonight with championship games between the University of Virginia and Texas Tech. Game starts just after 9 P.M. Eastern. This is AP Radio News.

 

A big study finds that the earth glaciers are melting faster than what scientists thought. A study in the journal Nature finds the world has lost more than 10 trillion tons of ice and snow since 1961. Lead author Michael Zemp says that's eqivalent to "an ice cube of the size of the United States of America" and 4 feet thick. Study contributor Ben Marzeion says glaciers do retreat naturally but over the last 100 years, human factors have accelerated the process.

"Ask people start to admit more and more ?????????? and that meant that the glaciers kept melting."

18% faster than scientists calculated just 6 years ago. Ben Thomas, Washington.

 

Authorities in South Africa say that a poacher out for rhinoceros in a wild life preserve was trampled to death by an elephant. The authorities say that the huner's corpse was then consumed by lions of the Kruger National Park.

I'm Jackie Quinn. AP Radio News.

 

 

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