Reciting of Old Testament passage comes days after clash with pope and posting AI image of himself as Jesus

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Donald Trump read a Bible passage from the Old Testament during a Tuesday event billed as a celebration of the US’s founding, days after he clashed with Pope Leo XIV and upset some of his religious supporters by posting an AI-generated image appearing to depict himself as Jesus.

The event, titled America Reads the Bible, was imagined as a “sacred opportunity to call our nation back to its spiritual foundation”, according to its website.

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Demographic also overrepresented when police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says children’s commissioner

Black children across England and Wales are almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched by police than their white counterparts, a report has disclosed.

Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, said Black children are also overrepresented when officers use force and were more likely to have their “size, gender or build” cited as justification.

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Adaptation of Stephen Merchant’s 2019 film about WWE champ Saraya-Jade Bevis ‘will be an absolute blast’, says one of the film’s stars, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

Stephen Merchant’s wrestling film Fighting With My Family has inspired a stage musical. The new adaptation of the 2019 biopic about Saraya-Jade Bevis AKA Paige, who became a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champ, will feature a book and lyrics by Jon Brittain and music by Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler.

The film starred Florence Pugh as Bevis, who was born into a wrestling family in Norwich and became a WWE star in the US at 18 after a chaotic childhood. Written and directed by Merchant, it co-starred Dwayne Johnson in character as The Rock. Merchant said that when he was making the film he “always thought of it like a musical: a young woman from the ‘chorus line’ fighting to get her big break, surrounded by theatrical, larger-than-life characters and huge sweeping emotions”. Merchant said that he even approached each wrestling match in the film as if it was a new dance number, “building to a big show-stopping finale”. He added: “The team have captured the humour, grit and heart of the story in a way that feels both faithful to the film and completely fresh.”

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 22-04-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 9.1°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 6.5°C / Max 15.6°C | Kans op neerslag 9%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 6.5°C, Max 15.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1027.5 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 46°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 8.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 54°
• 03:00: 8.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 58°
• 04:00: 7.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 61°
• 05:00: 7.2°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 56°
• 06:00: 6.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 57°
• 07:00: 6.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.2 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 65°
• 08:00: 7.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ← 74°
• 09:00: 8.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ← 76°
• 10:00: 11.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• 11:00: 13.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1028.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 83°
• 12:00: 14.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1028.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ← 86°
• 13:00: 15.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 80°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 23 april: Min 6.5°C, Max 18.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1030.2 hPa ↗️ +2.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°
• vrijdag 24 april: Min 7.5°C, Max 17.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 19°
• zaterdag 25 april: Min 7.2°C, Max 14.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.1 hPa ↘️ -3.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.7 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 346°
• zondag 26 april: Min 6.0°C, Max 14.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.2 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.2 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↓ 338°
• maandag 27 april: Min 6.2°C, Max 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.4 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.5 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↓ 13°
• dinsdag 28 april: Min 4.6°C, Max 11.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 29°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 9.1°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 4.8°C (-4.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 55°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 30.6 km/h (8.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 68%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 21.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:32 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:49

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 40 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 9.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.1 μg/m³

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Firms like Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, and others are reporting strong profits while reducing head count and automating more work. "All of them credited A.I. to some degree ... in areas ranging from the so-called back office, where tens of thousands of employees fill out paperwork to comply with various laws and regulations, to the front office, where seven-figure salaried professionals put together complicated financial transactions for corporate clients," reports the New York Times. From the report: Less than four months ago, Bank of America's chief executive, Brian T. Moynihan, volunteered in a TV interview what he would say to his 210,000 employees about the chance of artificial intelligence replacing human work. "You don't have to worry," he said. "It's not a threat to their jobs." Last week, after Bank of America reported $8.6 billion in profit for the first quarter -- $1.6 billion more than the same period a year earlier -- Mr. Moynihan struck a different tone. The bank's bottom line, he said, was helped by shedding 1,000 jobs through attrition by "eliminating work and applying technology," which he repeatedly specified was artificial intelligence. He predicted more of that in the months and years to come. "A.I. gives us places to go we haven't gone," Mr. Moynihan said.

The veneer of Wall Street's longstanding assertion -- that A.I. will enhance human work, not replace it -- is rapidly peeling away, as evidenced by the current quarterly earnings season. JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo racked up $47 billion in collective profits, up 18 percent, while shedding 15,000 employees. All of them credited A.I. to some degree with helping cut jobs and automate work in areas ranging from the so-called back office, where tens of thousands of employees fill out paperwork to comply with various laws and regulations, to the front office, where seven-figure salaried professionals put together complicated financial transactions for corporate clients.

Unlike executives in Silicon Valley, few major financial figures are stating outright that A.I. is eliminating jobs. Citi, for example, has pledged to shrink its work force by 20,000 people through what one executive described to financial analysts last week as the company's "productivity and efficiency journey." The bank is paying for A.I. software from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, to automatically read legal documents, approve account openings, send invoices for trades and organize sensitive customer data, among other tasks, according to public statements by bank executives and two people familiar with Citi's systems. Among the recent job cuts at Citi were scores of employees who were part of the bank's "A.I. Champions and Accelerators" program, according to the two people, who were not permitted by the bank to speak publicly. The program involves Citi employees who perform their day jobs while also working to persuade their colleagues to adopt A.I. technologies.

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