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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 1st 2026
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three fired FBI agents sued on Tuesday to try to get their jobs back, saying in a class action lawsuit that they were illegally punished for their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump's that over the last year has resulted in the ousters of dozens of agents, either because of their involvement in investigations related to Trump or because they were perceived as ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
A decade ago, I wrote a cover story for Reason magazine titled "Trump vs. the Constitution." It explained how then-candidate Donald Trump's call to abolish the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship for millions of U.S.-born children ran afoul of the text, history, and original meaning of the 14th Amendment. It also noted the dismaying fact that so many Republicans appeared ready to support Trump's ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
The Israeli parliament's approval of a legislation that seeks the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks has stoked fears among the Palestinians and drawn condemnation from the international community, dismayed at the further entrenching of what rights groups have long described as Israel's "system of apartheid". The law, which does not apply to Jewish citizens of Israel, was met with jubilation ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
LONDON — King Charles III will undertake a state visit to the United States in late April to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence and to mark the close ties that exist between the two nations, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. The visit follows President Donald Trump's state visit to the U.K. in September. That event was a glittering occasion featuring dazzling tiaras, brass bands and a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Washington — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that parts of President Trump's executive order stripping National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service of federal funding violated the First Amendment by seeking to punish the two news outlets for speech he dislikes. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing two provisions of an executive order ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
A U.S. government panel was due to convene Tuesday for the first time since 1992 to consider exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act due to unspecified national security concerns, a move critics say could doom a rare whale species and harm other marine life. Nicknamed the "God Squad" by groups who say it can decide a species' fate, the Endangered ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
March 31 (UPI) -- Three former FBI agents filed a lawsuit against FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi and their departments Tuesday for firing them, claiming it was for political retribution. The suit includes a proposed class-action of all FBI employees already fired or potentially fired in the future for political reasons . It was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. Former FBI ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is asking the FBI not to release files related to his past association with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative named Christine Fang, known as "Fang Fang." In a cease and desist letter sent by Swalwell's lawyers to FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday, Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate in California's governor's race, asked that Patel and the FBI agree in writing by ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed State Rep. Meg Weinberger's bill into law to rename Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald J. Trump . "America's greatest President deserves an airport that bears his name," stated Rep. Weinberger. "It's an honor to recognize President Trump 's lasting impact on our nation by renaming Palm Beach International Airport in his name Donald J. Trump International ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
The unprecedented Medicaid cuts that US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans approved last summer are putting hundreds of hospitals across the country at high risk of cutting services or permanently shutting their doors, a potentially devastating outcome for millions of poor Americans that was repeatedly predicted ahead of time. The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Monday identifying ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Mar 30th, 2026 -
Frustrating security lines dwindled at U.S. airports on Monday, removing some of the worst bottlenecks as Transportation Safety Administration officers began receiving backpay for working during the government shutdown. What was a four-hour checkpoint line at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport turned into a wait of 10 minutes or less on Monday. Wait times pushed beyond two hours at New York's LaGuardia ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Mar 30th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? A federal judge questioned the Pentagon's new press restrictions during a hearing on Monday. Earlier this month, Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District ...
Source: huffpost.com