NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Giuliani resigns: President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, abruptly resigned from his law firm, which then promptly undercut his recent statements defending the president. Giuliani had taken a leave of absence last month from the New York firm, Greenberg Traurig, to represent Trump. But the firm, one of the nation’s largest, said in a statement on Thursday that he no longer worked there. Firm partners had chafed over Giuliani’s public comments about payments that another of Trump’s lawyers, Michael Cohen, made to secure the silence of a pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with Trump.
2 Nuclear waste dump: The House approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say the bill approved Thursday would help solve a nuclear-waste storage problem that has festered for more than three decades. More than 80,000 metric tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants sit idle in 121 communities across 39 states. The bill would direct the Energy Department to continue a licensing process for Yucca Mountain while moving forward with a separate plan for a temporary storage site in New Mexico or Texas. The House approved the bill, 340-72. It now goes to the Senate, where Nevada’s two senators have vowed to block it.
3 “Gun culture”: A proposal in New York’s legislature would outlaw all high school shooting sports programs in the state — including air rifle teams and archery clubs — on the premise that they feed into a gun and shooting culture that could lead to violence. The bill’s sponsor, Manhattan Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, says she introduced her bill after reports that the suspect in the Valentine’s Day shooting in Parkland, Fla., Nikolas Cruz, honed his gun skills through a program in the same school where he’s accused of killing 17 people. Nationally, there are an estimated 5,000 gun clubs at high schools and universities, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. “Schools should not be supporting the spread of gun culture in society,” Rosenthal says.
4 Trump’s ex-adviser: A nurse intends to plead not guilty in the death of President Trump’s former national security adviser’s father at a Philadelphia senior care facility, her lawyer says. Christann Shyvin Gainey, 30, was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering in H.R. McMaster Sr.’s death. McMaster, an 84-year-old retired U.S. Army officer, died April 13, about eight hours after falling and hitting his head at the retirement community.
5 Oldest woman dies: A funeral home says a 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was the oldest person in the U.S. has died at a nursing home in Huntingdon. The Robert D. Heath Funeral Home said that Delphine Gibson died Wednesday. Gibson attributed her long life to good food, her faith in God and her church.