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Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 - President Donald Trump's yearlong effort to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms has not gone as planned. But Republicans have one last mid-decade redistricting battleground on the table: Florida. At the urging of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida state lawmakers will gather in Tallahassee next week for a special legislative session to consider redrawing the state's 28 congressional districts — ...

Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 - – Pakistan's top political and military leadership are scrambling to reignite talks between the United States and after President Donald Trump told his envoys not to travel to Islamabad for negotiations this weekend, two Pakistani officials said Sunday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. After mounting tensions torpedoed a second round of ...

Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 - The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty — underscoring a sharp divide with Pope Leo XIV and recent Catholic teaching. Hours after the Justice Department made its announcement, the pontiff condemned the death penalty as an attack on human dignity. In a prerecorded message shared ...

Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 - Why Maine's Governor Just Killed a Pioneering Data Center Moratorium Janet Mills vetoed a statewide construction pause, citing the potential of 100 permanent jobs. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Until yesterday, it looked like Maine would enshrine the country's first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium into law. But late on Friday, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills ...

Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 - By Don't bet on Jerome Powell leaving the Federal Reserve anytime soon. That's the strong message from veteran Fed watchers in the aftermath of the Department of Justice dropping its criminal investigation into whether the Fed Chair lied to Congress last year over the $2.5 billion renovations at its D.C. headquarters. Powell and others called the unprecedented criminal probe of a sitting Fed Chair a "pretext" from ...

Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The vote in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah was a largely symbolic "pilot" election, officials said, part of the Palestinian Authority's effort to politically link Gaza and the ...