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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 25th 2026
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
A truism of life — right up there with "don't read the comments" — is that what goes around comes around. Put another way, if you live by the sword, For more than a decade, these maxims didn't seem to apply to President Trump — a man who once that Barack Obama had not been born in America, that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating dogs and cats, just to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced a resolution on Friday that would ban senators from participating in amend the Senate rules to include a provision stating that members may not enter into "an agreement, contract, or transaction that provides for any purchase, sale, payment or delivery" dependent on the outcome of a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has dropped a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve after months of probing the independent central bank's $2.5 billion building renovations and failing to turn up evidence of a crime. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in D.C., said in a social media post Friday that she had closed the probe, though she added that it could resume later if the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a temporary ban on building large data centers that aimed to rein in rampant construction driven by the AI race. The buildout comes at a cost, as the power-hungry facilities strain local grids and drive up electricity bills. Data centers also typically have massive footprints, taking up land that could be used for housing, businesses, recreation or green space. Legislators in ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel's strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
By and Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records. As part of the Trump administration's aggressive mass deportation campaign, federal officials have ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese journalist who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague this week described hours of agony as they waited for help to arrive, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. Zeinab Faraj, a young freelance photographer and video journalist, frequently moved on assignment with Amal Khalil , a longtime correspondent in southern Lebanon with the Lebanese ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
In February, The New York Times reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had assigned rotating SWAT teams to guard his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, as she traveled around the country. The article portrayed that use of FBI resources as highly unusual and ethically questionable. "If you want to be a celebrity or a social media star, get your own security," a former FBI official told the ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The inspector general at the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is opening an investigation into whether the agency is complying with a law passed by Congress forcing the release of files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement by the DoJ's internal watchdog comes amid criticism from lawmakers over how the files were released, and millions of other files that have not been made public. The ...
Source: bbc.com