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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 1st 2026
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
In a landmark case that will impact future generations, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday over whether to allow President Trump to limit birthright citizenship for children born on American soil. Trump's January 2025 executive order, signed on his first day in office as part of his immigration crackdown, would bar automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran hit a tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait International Airport early Wednesday as Tehran remained unrelenting in its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors, while acknowledging for the first time that Washington had been in direct contact about a possible ceasefire. Israel sounded warnings of incoming fire from both Yemen and Iran, while launching its own attacks in ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
April 1 (UPI) -- The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning that using it to execute Palestinian residents of the illegally occupied West Bank would amount to a war crime. The appeal from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Tuesday comes amid mounting international opposition to Israel's newly passed bill to make ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Our community is sharply divided over the King's US visit. While some have called it an 'embarrassment' amid Donald Trump's attacks on the UK, others have urged diplomacy to 'calm the waters' Removed from bookmarks I ndependent readers have shared sharply divided views on whether the King should go ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON - National Public Radio Inc., Public Broadcasting Service, and others demonstrated that President Donald Trump's anti-media funding executive order is unlawful, a Washington, D.C., federal court said Tuesday. The executive order is unconstitutional because the president can't use governmental power to direct federal agencies to bar grants in "retaliation for saying things that he does not like," Judge ...
Source: bradenton.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 -
A committee led by the interior secretary known as the "God Squad" voted Tuesday to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a move expected to threaten Rice's whale and other species with extinction. Meeting for the first time in more than 30 years, the group nicknamed for its ability to decide the fate of species, approved the exemption on ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
A Russian oil tanker was set to deliver the first crude shipment to Cuba since January on Tuesday after Washington gave the crisis-hit island a reprieve from an effective fuel blockade. The Anatoly Kolodkin, a tanker under US sanctions, was on its way to the port of Matanzas, east of Havana, with 730,000 barrels of crude. US President Donald Trump's decision to let Russia deliver the oil avoids a confrontation with ...
Source: digitaljournal.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
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 -
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
Monday, Mar 30th, 2026 -
The shortage of TSA officers is still slowing security lines at major airports, where staffing shortages are more severe than the national average, but wait times seemed to be stabilizing Monday. TSA officers were calling out absent at elevated rates Sunday, even as there were signs that part of their back pay over the 45-day partial shutdown was beginning to reach their bank accounts. Although Congress has ...
Source: cbsnews.com