Today on WML, Professor Allan Saxe joins the show to go everything from the issue of political correctness to the latest on the Muller Report. Ashanti Bryant of Amplify GR joined the show to tell us about World Book day and what Amplify GR is. Finally U.S. Representative Bill Huizenga joins the show to tell us about his event coming up at Marge's Donut Den.
BIG 3
1 A series of bombings at some of Sri Lanka's prominent churches and luxury hotels have left nearly 300 dead and more than 500 wounded. The country's health minister blames a local radical Islamic militant group for the Easter Sunday attacks, which come nearly a decade after the end of a brutal civil war.
2 2 people shot over the weekend in Grand Rapids. One man, in his 20’s, dead after being shot at a party Saturday night. And another man shot in front of a local homeless shelter yesterday evening. He’s in the hospital now. No word on who the police are looking for or the victim’s condition.
3 Summer like temperatures today. Sunny and 77 for the high.
Showers & storms late tonight. But overall, a mostly dry and mild week.
Notables
- Ukraine has followed a similar path by electing a comedian -- best known for a sitcom in which he plays a president -- as its president. Volodymyr Zelensky, star of the Ukrainian TV show "Servant of the People," cruised to victoryin the country's election, crushing incumbent President Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky is a political newcomer, and he's been a little light on the details on his policies. Ukrainian voters didn't care. They were tired of economic turmoil, militant rhetoric and escalating tensions with Russia, so they went for something different.
- You can’t make this up.. Mayor Pete has signed the “Sausage Order” kicking off Dyngus Day in South Bend.
- An armed militia group detained hundreds of people who crossed illegallyon the southern border with last week. Now the FBI has arrested one of the members.Larry Mitchell Hopkins was arrestedon charges of being in possession of firearms and ammunition as a felon. US Customs and Border Protection frowns upon private groups like militias "taking enforcement measures into their own hands," but the militia members say what they're doing down on the border is legal and is similar to a citizen's arrest. The ACLU called what they're doing kidnapping. Various private militia groups have patrolled the border for years.
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