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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 4th 2026
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
, one of his motivations reportedly related to her While the new acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, he had "never" heard the president say "that anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files", it's clear the issue has dogged Bondi throughout her tumultuous tenure. Indeed, Trump had repeatedly vowed his administration would release all Epstein documents – a promise that served as ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Washington — Officials from 23 Democratic states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block President Trump's latest executive order that aims to restrict mail voting, arguing the directive unconstitutionally attempts to interfere with states' administration of elections. The lawsuit, led by California, was filed with the U.S. district court in Massachusetts. It asserts that neither ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Trump threatens to destroy Iranian infrastructure, saying its government 'knows what has to be done'
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Donald Trump threatened Iranian bridges and power plants as rhetoric escalated. His words come as a recently constructed bridge near Tehran was destroyed in an airstrike. China, Russia and France vetoed a resolution calling for military action against the country. Significant sections of the B1 Bridge are seen destroyed after an airstrike attributed to the United States and Israel targeted the site near Tehran, in ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted the Army's top uniformed officer and two other generals, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departures while the United States is waging a war against Iran . Gen. Randy George "will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately," said Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's top ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Havana makes a Holy Week 'humanitarian' gesture as Russian tanker is allowed to reach oil-starved island Cuban authorities have begun to free prisoners after announcing they would pardon 2,010 inmates, the second release in less than a month as the country faces heightened US pressure. More than 20 inmates emerged from La Lima penitentiary in east Havana on Friday, holding their release papers, crying and hugging ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on US military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44 percent, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the the US-led war against Iran. The ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure. Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI race against China. Perhaps most likely to frustrate the president, his aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports are reportedly ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
The Justice Department has concluded that a federal law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional, which could effectively permit White House lawyers to try to set their own voluntary presidential recordkeeping policy and, potentially, upend decades-old legal precedent established in response to Richard M. Nixon's effort to keep control of records upon his resignation from the Oval ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
More than 100 United States-based international law experts have signed an open letter condemning US and Israeli military strikes on Iran as a violation of the United Nations Charter and potentially amounting to "war crimes". The letter, published on Thursday, also said the conduct of US forces and statements by senior US officials "raise serious concerns about violations of international human rights law and ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
An appeals court in the state of Colorado has ordered the resentencing of Tina Peters, a former county clerk convicted of involvement in an election meddling scheme in the United States. The court overturned Peters's nine-year prison sentence on Thursday, but not her conviction for helping to tamper with voting machines after the 2020 presidential race . Her case has become a cause celebre for President Donald ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
A planning commission has approved President Donald Trump's proposal to build an enormous ballroom at the White House, an effort to put his personal touch on a national landmark that has stoked backlash and legal challenges. The National Capital Planning Commission, tasked with overseeing proposed construction on federal sites in the Washington, DC area, voted in favour of the project on Thursday. "I believe that, ...
Source: aljazeera.com