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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 18th 2026
Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn't finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose Lance Johnson voted for Donald Trump three times. Now he is feeling buyer's remorse. "I haven't been too happy with the third time around," said the 47-year-old contractor, sitting at a bar in Crescent Springs, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
President Trump's top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, Todd Lyons , said he would resign on Thursday as acting director, adding to the list of leadership shakeups at the Department of Homeland Security. His exit, which will be effective May 31, comes amid continued scrutiny of his agency's aggressive immigration tactics and a record-long funding lapse from Congress that resulted in a lack of pay for ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. President Trump on Thursday announced his third nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dr. Erica Schwartz, a well-qualified former public health official and board-certified physician in preventive medicine, who has publicly supported vaccination and followed evidence-based medicine. The uncontroversial ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been charged with two counts of assault. Minnesota state prosecutors accused the officer of pulling alongside a civilian vehicle on a Minneapolis-area highway and pointing his gun at the occupants during a road rage incident. Minnesota prosecutors have issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., marking the first criminal case against an ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 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? April 17 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The US Supreme Court sided with Chevron Corp. in a protracted fight over the proper venue for a lawsuit seeking to hold the oil and gas giant liable for the rapid erosion of Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The justices in an 8-0 decision on Friday ruled Chevron had plausibly alleged the conduct it's accused of related to oil refining activities carried out on behalf of the federal government during World War II, and ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The number of immigrants who have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached an all-time high this fiscal year. Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. The most recent death was of 27-year-old Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday his department now has 72,000 employees and is looking to hire 12,000 more to make up for cuts led by the Department of Government Efficiency. The department had 82,000 employees before the DOGE cuts reduced its ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- Republican members of the House of Representatives on Thursday questioned the patriotism of Democrats in the chamber while voting down a war powers resolution for the second time. Although the margin of defeat was smaller, the resolution failed 213 to 214 as debate over the six-week old U.S.-Israeli war in Iran got heated, MSNOW and The Hill reported. Democrats said they thought enough Republicans ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
ANNANDALE, Va. — Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, fatally shot his wife before he died by suicide in their home overnight, police said. Justin and Cerina Fairfax's teenage children were at the house at the time of the shootings, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis told reporters at a news conference Thursday morning. "Former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside ...
Source: nbcnews.com