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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 18th 2026
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's army of lawyers may be the largest of any Oval Office occupant in history. Aside from the attorneys who work for the office of the president, he has retained a over the years to represent him in court. That kind of legal firepower doesn't come cheap. But according to recent Federal Election Commission filings, the funding stream Trump has been using to is running very, very low on cash. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
With the decisive support of one Democrat—Rep. Jared Golden of Maine—the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a war powers resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump's illegal assault on Iran, over six weeks after it began. The final vote was 213-214 , with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) joining nearly every House Democrat in supporting the resolution , which would ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Health secretary and chef Robert Irvine claim Americans could eat healthier and more cheaply if they shopped better The first episode of the new Secretary Kennedy Podcast, produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), opens with this quote from guest Robert Irvine, who creates meal plans for the US military: "We talk about food being expensive. If you're buying expensive food, it's expensive. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 10,000 American troops are helping enforce the blockade on Iranian ports, and while no ships have yet been boarded, the U.S. military said Thursday that it is warning Iran-linked ships that it could fire warning shots or escalate to other force if they try to outrun the Navy. In the first three days of the military action, 14 ships have turned around rather than confront the naval ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside their Annandale home before killing himself, according to police. Their 2 teenage children were inside the house when it happened. The shootings happened just after midnight on Thursday in the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive in Annandale, a suburb west of Washington, D.C. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Davis said Fairfax shot his ...
Source: bnonews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a plan this week for a pied-à-terre tax in NYC, which would tax property owners who primarily live outside the city but have a local home worth over $5 million. Often, these individuals don't pay city or state taxes because their official address isn't in NYC. The proposal, which is backed by , could mark his first step toward taxing the city's financial elite in conjunction with ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
California supreme court upholds lower court decision as Eastman says he will appeal to US supreme court John Eastman, a lawyer who played a key role in Donald Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election, officially lost his law license in California on Wednesday. The California supreme court upheld a 2024 ruling from a state judge, who recommended Eastman be disbarred. Eastman "exhibited gross negligence by ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
At the moment, the Supreme Court is preparing to decide the case of Louisiana v . Callais, a case about the legality of the creation of minority-majority voting districts. Not coincidentally, this case would allow Chief Justice John Roberts to complete his life's work of destroying the Voting Rights Act. Slate' s Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick shrewdly with some salty recent comments from the court's liberal ...
Source: esquire.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has been going through turmoil and several leadership shakeups under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Minnesota charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with two counts of second-degree assault Thursday for allegedly pointing his weapon at two people. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide arrest warrant has been issued for the agent, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. A news release from the county attorney's office said the incident took place Feb. 5 after ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission of a downed pilot in Iran this month, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness , a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he claims was delivered at the beginning of the ...
Source: mediaite.com