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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Senate Republicans green-lit their party-line plan early Thursday morning to send tens of billions of dollars to immigration enforcement agencies in the coming years. Senators voted 50-48 to adopt a budget blueprint for legislation that could fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and other agencies for the remainder of President Donald Trump's term. The vote was almost entirely on party lines, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
After the midterms, expect RFK Jr. to do even more damage to vaccination policy For the moment, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems quieter and more positive on vaccines than many, us included, ever expected he could be. Public messaging has shifted — at least superficially — toward nutrition, chronic disease, and the Make America Healthy Again agenda. Kennedy even ...
Source: statnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans have again blocked the Democrats from curbing President Donald Trump 's ability to wage war with Iran, as negotiators try to find a diplomatic end to the conflict during the fragile cease-fire. The Senate voted 51-46 on Wednesday afternoon against Sen. Tammy Baldwin 's War Powers Resolution, the fifth time since March 4 that the Senate has voted against directing the removal of ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Prediction market Kalshi said Wednesday that it had fined and suspended three political candidates for trading on their own races during primary campaigns. "Just like in traditional financial markets, bad actors will try to cheat," Kalshi said in a statement . "These three cases are an example of how developing proactive engineering solutions can help identify illicit trading activity." Kalshi described the actions ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
April 22 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors Tuesday evening announced an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing the non-profit of defrauding donors by using their money to pay informants within hate groups they were monitoring. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the indictment from a Montgomery, Ala., grand jury during a press conference , alleging that between 2014 and 2023, ...
Source: upi.com
Assault charge for immigration officer in Colorado could test immunity provisions for federal agents
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
after a protester was grabbed by the neck and pulled across a street could test the boundaries of immunity provisions for federal agents as states scrutinize the use of force under the Trump administration's A Colorado prosecutor said Wednesday that the officer has been charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief following an investigation into the treatment of a protester in October. Multiple videos ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Federal Reserve chair, but only not anytime soon, unless unprecedented political and legal entanglements affecting the central bank are permanently resolved. , Warsh is likely wondering the same about his future. and other reforms. Warsh told the senators he would work for a " inflation and the sometimes nasty (I'm looking at you, Elizabeth Warren Retiring North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis declined to question ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
April 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Houston has dismissed a case brought by FBI Director Kash Patel accusing pundit Frank Figliuzzi of defamation. U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr. of the Southern District of Texas said in an order released Tuesday that comments Figliuzzi made on MSNBC's Morning Joe on May 2 were "rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation." Figliuzzi is a former assistant ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over the weekend were working for the CIA, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the matter. Two Mexican investigators also were killed in the crash, which Mexican authorities said occurred while the convoy was returning from an operation to ...
Source: military.com