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Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday renewed a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil at sea for about a month, even as lawmakers accused the government of going easy on Moscow as its war on Ukraine grinds on. The Treasury Department's waiver lets countries purchase Russian oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels as of Friday through May 16. It ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
ICE ), Todd Lyons, submitted his resignation from the agency this week. Lyons, who led the agency during the second Trump administration's mass immigration crackdowns, will remain in the role until May 31, 2026. Trump administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement to ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. President Trump on Thursday announced his third nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dr. Erica Schwartz, a well-qualified former public health official and board-certified physician in preventive medicine, who has publicly supported vaccination and followed evidence-based medicine. The uncontroversial ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been charged with two counts of assault. Minnesota state prosecutors accused the officer of pulling alongside a civilian vehicle on a Minneapolis-area highway and pointing his gun at the occupants during a road rage incident. Minnesota prosecutors have issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., marking the first criminal case against an ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unauthorized release of his tax documents. Attorneys for President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service told a federal court Friday that they're in talks aimed at resolving a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records tied to the president, his adult sons and his company. In a joint filing , ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
8-0 ruling gives companies new day in federal court after firms including Chevron ordered to pay millions for cleanup The supreme court handed a win on Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana . The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740m to clean up ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
A 27-year-old Cuban man died this week in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida — the second presumed suicide in the Sunshine State in less than a month. Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt was found in his cell "in what appeared to be a suicide attempt" on the early morning of April 12, ICE said in a press release on Thursday. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, according to the ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday faced federal lawmakers for the first time since September as he sought to defend a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodge arrows from angry Democrats along the way. In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, kicking off an expected sprint of seven budget hearings he'll attend across congressional committees and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- Republican members of the House of Representatives on Thursday questioned the patriotism of Democrats in the chamber while voting down a war powers resolution for the second time. Although the margin of defeat was smaller, the resolution failed 213 to 214 as debate over the six-week old U.S.-Israeli war in Iran got heated, MSNOW and The Hill reported. Democrats said they thought enough Republicans ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a rising star in the Democratic Party before his career was derailed by sexual assault allegations six years ago, killed his wife before killing himself, police said Thursday. Fairfax, 47, and his wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, 49, were found dead in their home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Annandale after their son called 911 shortly after ...
Source: bostonglobe.com