📌 States Sue Trump, Canadian Election, More

Twelve states sued President Donald Trump Wednesday, seeking to declare his import tariffs illegal.

“The president does not have the power to raise taxes on a whim, but that’s exactly what President Trump has been doing with these tariffs,” New York Attorney General Letitia James (pictured) said in a statement on the lawsuit. The suit was filed in the US Court of International Trade.

It argues that a president has no authority to arbitrarily impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the law that Trump has cited in executing his tariff policy.

“The Constitution assigns to Congress, not the President, the ‘Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,’” the suit says. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes commented, “President Trump’s insane tariff scheme is not only economically reckless — it is illegal.”

The suit comes more than a week after a group of five small businesses filed a similar lawsuit against Trump in the same court, challenging the legality of the new tariffs on the same grounds.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel in the court denied a motion by the plaintiffs in that case seeking a temporary restraining order that would suspend Trump’s new tariffs pending the outcome of the case.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, riding high in polls, looked for support on Wednesday in British Columbia.

Canada's most western province of B.C. has 43 electoral districts with contests tough to call. Carney's Liberals are leading in the most populous provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Carney’s campaign focuses on countering President Donald Trump.

Sanjay Jeram, senior lecturer in political science at Simon Fraser University, said British Columbians, like Canadians broadly, have focused on worries about Trump's tariffs and threats of annexation.

The Conservatives' tough-on-crime message appeals to some in B.C. Its leader, Pierre Poilievre, was in southern Ontario on Wednesday, where he thanked the Toronto Police Association for its endorsement and announced a plan to dismantle tent cities. The Conservatives dominate the Prairie provinces.

A rolling three-day Nanos poll released on Tuesday put the Liberals at 44.1% public support nationally, with the Conservatives at 38.5%. The left-leaning New Democrats trailed at 7.7%. The poll placed the Liberals and Conservatives even in B.C. support.

China is considering building a lunar nuclear power plant to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). The joint project with Russia was revealed in a presentation on Wednesday by Pei Zhaoyu, chief engineer of the Chang’e-8 mission. Scheduled for 2028, it is seen as a crucial step in China's ambitious space programme, which aims to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and establish a permanently staffed lunar base. Pei Zhaoyu's presentation also outlined alternative power sources. These include large-scale solar arrays deployed on the lunar surface, along with pipelines and cables to distribute heat and electricity across the base.

President Donald Trump has ordered sharper scrutiny of America’s colleges and the accreditors that oversee them.

Trump signed a series of executive actions as part of his escalating campaign to end what he calls " wokeness ” and diversity efforts in education. Trump targeted universities that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda.

One order called for harder enforcement of a federal law requiring colleges to disclose their financial ties with foreign sources, while another called for a shakeup of the accrediting bodies that decide whether colleges can accept federal financial aid awarded to students.

Trump ordered the Education Department to root out efforts to ensure equity in discipline in the nation’s K-12 schools. Previous guidance directed schools not to disproportionately punish underrepresented minorities. The administration says equity efforts amount to racial discrimination.

Another order aims at accrediting bodies that set standards colleges must meet to accept federal financial aid from students. Trump campaigned on a promise to overhaul the industry, saying it was “dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics.”

Another order creates a federal task force focused on giving America’s students training on artificial intelligence as early as kindergarten. It would work to develop new online learning resources.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to use artificial intelligence (AI) to write and regulate laws.

Ministers in the UAE approved the creation of the Office of Regulatory Intelligence, a cabinet body intended to oversee the use of AI in the creation of legislation and the reformation of current legislation.

Authorities will reportedly establish a database of federal and local laws, compiled alongside public sector data including court judgments and government services. Emirati Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum (pictured right) said the AI system would “regularly suggest updates to [UAE] legislation.”

AI is expected to speed up the Gulf state’s legislative process “by 70%” and anticipate necessary legal changes, potentially saving costs that the government pays to law firms to review legislation.

Critics say the inaccuracies of AI and the differences in which it may interpret laws pose a significant risk.

At least nine were killed and 63 wounded in a “massive” missile attack on Kyiv, reports Ukraine’s emergency service.

The attack is among the deadliest on the capital of the three-year war. Five districts across the capital suffered damage, including fires in garages and administrative buildings that have been extinguished. The state emergency service said the attack also damaged residential buildings.

“The search for people under the rubble is underway,” it said. Rescue teams were operating at 13 sites in the capital with climbing specialists and sniffer dogs, the emergency service said. “Mobile telephones are heard ringing beneath rubble. The search will continue until it becomes clear that they have got everyone.”

Kyiv was last hit by missiles in early April when at least three people were wounded. It has been the target of sporadic attacks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in Feb. 2022.

Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Russia was attacking Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities “with missiles and drones.” He said: “The attacks on civilians must stop.”

Three teen inventors look destined to improve rural healthcare with a portable fridge that runs on salt.

Dhruv Chaudhary, Mithran Ladhania, and Mridul Jain are all children of physicians or medical field workers in Indore in India. Their salt-cooled fridge requires no electricity or coolant fluids. It cools as salt dissolves in water. They were inspired by the challenges of refrigerating Covid vaccines in rural areas.

The Thermavault uses combinations of salts to keep the contents at temperatures just above freezing or below it. Some vaccines require regular kitchen fridge temps, while others, or transplant organs, need to be kept below freezing.

They discovered that barium hydroxide octahydrate and ammonium chloride were the best salts for their cooling needs after testing 20 salts. The Thermavault can keep vaccines cool for 10 to 12 hours, as tested by Dr. Pritesh Vyas at V One hospital in Indore.

The Thermavault won the 2025 Earth Prize, which included a $12,500 reward for further testing. The teens are assembling 200 more units for testing in 120 hospitals around Indore to gather data for a product launch.