Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 04/25/2019, including: Democratic Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren wants to cancel 640-billion dollars in student debt… just another step toward her ultimate goal of free college tuition at public universities. Under Warren’s plan, each person’s student debt would get a relief of $50,000 if household income is up to $100,000. Higher incomes would also be entitled to massive debt reductions, while only those households with earnings of over $250,000 would get no student debt reduction. Harris: I’ll ‘Take Executive Action’ if Congress Doesn’t Pass Gun Legislation in First 100 Days. Harris said, “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws, and if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.” Harris isn’t alone – all the 2020 Democratic candidates say they’ll come after your guns if elected. More than six hours of mediation talks have failed to break the impasse between the City of Houston and the Firefighters' Union over implementation of Prop-B, the pay parity measure voters approved in November. Mayor Sylvester Turner insists a five-year phase-in period is needed to avoid mass layoffs and to help the city balance the budget. The union is calling for a three-and-a-half year phase in. City Council was scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether to move forward with hundreds of firefighter layoffs. Around half of Americans favor religion playing a greater role in US society, while 18 percent oppose that idea, according to a Pew Research Center study. France, Sweden and the Netherlands, meanwhile, posted almost opposite results: 47 percent, 51 percent and 45 percent respectively were opposed to religion playing a key role in society. Among the 27 countries surveyed in 2018, France (20 percent) and Japan (15 percent) were the countries with the lowest proportion of citizens favoring strengthening religion's role in society. Indonesia (85 percent), Kenya (74 percent) and Tunisia (69 percent) came out as the countries most in favor of a bigger place for religion. The study did not make a distinction between different religions.