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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 30th 2026
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
to continue, sources familiar with the talks said, and his team has begun laying the groundwork for such an extension, including a longer-term closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The president, for now, is digging into a strategy designed to inflict as much economic pain on Iran as possible in the hopes of forcing Tehran back to the negotiating table without having to resume military strikes, the sources said. But the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a landmark that struck down a Louisiana voting map. The ruling weakens the impact of a pivotal Voting Rights Act provision, while possibly giving Republicans a leg up in the 2026 Midterm elections. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices found that Louisiana's newly redrawn congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The map, which created a second majority-Black ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Kevin Warsh is one step closer to top job at the Fed after Trump's pick approved by Senate committee
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Banking Committee voted on party lines Wednesday to approve Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve to replace Jerome Powell, a longtime target of President Donald Trump's insults for not cutting borrowing costs as far as the president wanted. The vote was 13-11, with all Republican senators voting in favor and Democrats opposed. Warsh is a former top Fed official but ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
These are hard times for multinationalism. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies in tatters, the World Trade Organization is on life support, the World Health Organization is losing its wealthiest member, and I bet you didn't even know there was an International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. But just to show that every cloud has its silver lining, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) does not seem fond of the State Department's plan to include President Trump's likeness in to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bacon said during an appearance on "CNN News Central" on Wednesday morning that he found the idea "a little silly," alluding to widespread imagery ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law. Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder for the FCC to take away a broadcast license, even when it's up for renewal. "Since the NAB [National Association of ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Members fuel our mission to deliver the unvarnished truth about the powerful, the popular and the personal. Become a member today and help support the journalism we everyone deserves. Already a member? Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night called out President Donald Trump for making just one day after he called for Kimmel to be fired for making a similar joke. During his remarks welcoming and Queen Camilla to the White ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Case looks at whether Trump administration has authority to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of TPS The supreme court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday over whether the Trump administration can strip the temporary protected status (TPS) of hundreds of thousands of Syrians and Haitians, under a program that has protected them from deportation due to safety concerns in their home countries. People with ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
No government official should be able to harass his ideological opponents without accountability. With its decision in First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Davenport , the US Supreme Court has affirmed that when an organization—whatever its mission or ideology—faces a predatory subpoena, the federal courthouse doors will remain open. In November 2023, then-New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Attorney General Pam Bondi reacts while U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 15, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Erns Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have filed contempt charges against former Attorney General Pam Bondi after she failed to comply with a subpoena to give a deposition on the Trump administration's handling of ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – It's not every day — or even every decade — that voters are presented a decision like this: Should the state's individual income tax be eliminated? When that question appears on a Missouri ballot later this year, it will mark the first time since the modern income tax began over a century ago that a U.S. state legislature has asked voters whether to eliminate the tax. If they ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Ukraine has asked Israel to seize a vessel carrying grain it says was stolen from areas occupied by Russia, its top prosecutor said, amid a diplomatic tussle between the two countries over the shipment. Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said on Telegram on Wednesday that the vessel, Panormitis, was headed to the Israeli port of Haifa with grain "some of which was shipped" from Russian-occupied regions ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Misinformation spreads fast. Fact-based reporting is how we fight back. Your membership funds the reporters holding power accountable every single day. Join HuffPost and be part of our mission. Already a member? As word spread on social media Saturday night about a third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, the reaction felt oddly jaded. Some people shrugged it off — "we've seen this movie before" ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
a lawsuit from the Justice Department seeking information on Arizona voters, another defeat in the Trump administration's nationwide push for voter data. U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich sided with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, finding that Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 doesn't grant the Justice Department the power to demand that Arizona produce its statewide voter registration list. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com