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• President Trump’s newly established White House Faith Office is organizing multiple Holy Week events including a presidential proclamation, special video message, and pre-Easter dinner.
• The celebration features Christian pastors, priests, religious leaders, and worship music from Liberty University at a White House staff Easter service.
• The administration is intentionally restoring religious observance to Easter, contrasting with the previous administration’s controversial decision to designate Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility last year.
• Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to defending religious liberty and protecting Christian expression in public spaces.

Active shooter reported on Florida State campus in Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University has released an alert warning of an active shooter on the school’s campus in Tallahassee. Officials say police are on scene or on the way. Students and faculty have been instructed to continue to seek shelter and await further instructions.

A recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate. That’s despite his continuing convalescence from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. The motorcade carrying Francis entered the Regina Caeli prison in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood just before 3 p.m. The Vatican said Francis would meet with 70 inmates. It’s a prison Francis has visited before to perform the annual Holy Thursday ritual of washing the feet of 12 people to re-enact Christ’s humble gesture of service when he washed the feet of his 12 apostles before his crucifixion.

A look at why an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico and what caused it

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power and more than 400,000 without water. It was the second massive outage to hit Puerto Rico since New Year’s Eve, when a blackout left 90% of clients without power. Crews on Thursday scrambled to restore power as a growing number of Puerto Ricans called on the governor to cancel the contracts of two companies that oversee the generation, transmission and distribution of power on the U.S. territory of 3.2 million residents. Authorities are still investigating the causes of the blackout.

Google’s digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly, joining its search engine in penalty box

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia comes on the heels of a separate decision in August that concluded Google’s namesake search engine has been illegally leveraging its dominance to stifle competition and innovation. The cases were three years apart by the U.S. Justice Department in an attempt to undercut the power that Google has amassed since its inception in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998.