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Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 - President Donald Trump has claimed that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, contradicting the assertion of Pakistan, which mediated the truce. After Israel launched a massive assault on Lebanon on Wednesday, killing and injuring more than 1,400 people in densely populated areas, Trump said the Israeli war on Hezbollah is a "separate skirmish". "Because of Hezbollah, they ...

Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 - MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — The mother of a freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq said Wednesday that she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades. Katib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia group, kidnapped 49-year-old Shelly Kittleson off a Baghdad street corner on March 31. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday ...

Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 - NEW ORLEANS — The wife of a U.S. soldier was released Tuesday from a federal immigration detention facility where she had spent nearly a week after being taken into custody on a Louisiana military base. The detention of 22-year-old Annie Ramos, the Honduran born-wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant preparing to deploy, prompted public backlash from critics of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign ...

Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 - The Trump administration wants to significantly cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) stakeholder engagement program and eliminate almost 900 agency positions under its fiscal year (FY) budget 2027 request. According to the   provided by CISA, the Trump administration would eliminate 120 of the stakeholder engagement program's ...

Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 - U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders and pardons for January 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. Nick Hilden April 07, 2026 | 12:35PM ET Trump In early April, lawyers from the Justice Department declared that laws preventing the president from keeping official documents were "unconstitutional." But ...

Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 - WASHINGTON -- When Pam Bondi was fired as attorney general last week, people familiar with the decision described how President Donald Trump was dissatisfied with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and her failure to bring more criminal cases against his political enemies. But on Tuesday, the man named to temporarily succeed her as the nation's top law enforcement official said only the president knew his ...

Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 - Reading time 3 minutes An Indianapolis city councilor's home was shot at 13 times after midnight on Monday morning, in what appears to be a politically motivated attack over his support for a controversial data center project in his district. After the attack, the city councilor, Ron Gibson, claimed he found a note on his doorstep that said "NO DATA CENTERS." Gibson and his son were not physically harmed. Gibson ...