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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 26th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. It may just be the strangest relationship in American politics. seem to get along surprisingly well, despite deep ideological differences between the two. Trump's called Mamdani a Communist. Mamdani's called Trump a fascist. So what explains their bromance? "We're both from the same city," Mamdani said in an interview with ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve , shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell . The committee vote will take place on April 29 , putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on track for full ...
Source: commondreams.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In just the few weeks since he's taken over the justice department's top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department's resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president's former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent. Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Thursday bemoaned to reporters the surge of interest in gambling and prediction markets in recent years, but he and his administration have been all in on the phenomenon, an NBC News review shows. "You know, the whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino. And you look at what's going on all over the world and Europe, and every place they're doing these betting things. I ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
After years of false starts, stalled hearings, a retired judge, a fired attorney general, and a president who last weekend told officials to stop "slow-walking" on cannabis, we finally have something to talk about. Effective April 22, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a final order moving FDA-approved marijuana products and state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Friday vetoed a hallmark bill that would have halted the construction of large data centers in the New England state for 18 months. The governor was debating whether to sign the bill, let the bill become law without her signature or veto the legislation after the state Legislature passed the law last Tuesday. The bill was the first data center moratorium in the nation to successfully make ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel's strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
By and Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records. As part of the Trump administration's aggressive mass deportation campaign, federal officials have ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department's compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files , stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration over the past year. The audit from the inspector general's office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted ...
Source: apnews.com