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Two GOP senators break ranks on final Senate budget vote
- No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) broke ranks Thursday morning and voted against a budget resolution that could set the stage for ending the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Murkowski, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, opposed the budget resolution ...

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Kennedy's new silence on vaccines is political — and it won't last
- 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 ...

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Senate Republicans again block Democrats' bid to limit war powers
- 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 ...

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3 congressional candidates fined and banned after getting caught betting on elections
- logo appears in this illustration taken April 22, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Kalshi, a so-called prediction market that allows betting on events, said it caught three candidates for federal office after they attempted to place trades on their own elections . In a press release on Wednesday, Kalshi's Bobby DeNault touted the enforcement actions as proof of a "commitment to policing all types of unfair or ...

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DOJ indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for secretly funding extremists
- The Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a well-known civil rights organization that purports to monitor right-wing hate groups, secretly funneled millions of dollars to white nationalists and extremists who worked for those same groups. The SPLC says the purpose of the payments was to compensate informants who were working to dismantle hate groups from the inside, but ...

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Houston changes ordinance limiting cooperation with ICE after pressure from governor
- agents was amended on Wednesday after Texas' governor threatened to take away millions of dollars in public safety grants. Houston, as well as Austin and Dallas — three of the state's biggest cities and Democratic strongholds — are being confronted by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott with threats of losing public safety dollars over policies that dictate how law enforcement interacts with federal immigration ...

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Investors question Warsh's future impact on markets
- 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 ...

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Judge dismisses FBI Director Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit against NBC pundit
- 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 ...

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Mexico's president weighs action after CIA agents killed in crash following drug lab raid
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she is considering possible sanctions against the government of Chihuahua — a state bordering Texas — for allowing CIA agents to participate in an operation to dismantle drug laboratories because any security collaboration with the U.S. should be approved by Mexico's federal government. Sheinbaum's comments come after days of contradictions of ...

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