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Top News Stories for Friday, April 3rd 2026
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Before picking Todd Blanche to help lead and now run the Justice Department , President Donald Trump was his client. Blanche, whom Trump elevated Thursday from deputy attorney general to acting U.S. attorney general, rose to prominence representing the president in criminal cases that consumed the four years between his first and second terms. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and law firm partner, led Trump's ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted the Army's top uniformed officer and two other generals, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departures while the United States is waging a war against Iran . Gen. Randy George "will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately," said Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's top ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in one of the most high-profile cases of the term, , a challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship. The executive order, issued Jan. 20, 2025, provides that only those born to citizens or green card holders are United States citizens. As the solicitor general says in the petitoners' brief: "In short, the order does ...
Source: abajournal.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's executive order placing restrictions on mail-in voting in the US is now facing a sweeping lawsuit from the Democratic Party . In a complaint filed Wednesday with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the Democrats argued that Trump "has tried again and again to rewrite election rules for his own perceived partisan advantage," this time going after mail voting, which he has ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Republican leaders unveiled a plan to end the government shutdown on Wednesday Removed from bookmarks The US Senate is poised to swiftly approve a measure on Thursday aimed at funding the majority of the Department of Homeland Security , though the timeline for the House to follow suit and largely end ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
April 2 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, in the latest sign of warming relations between Washington and Caracas after the U.S. military ousted Venezuela's former authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro . The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced in a post on its website Wednesday that Rodriguez, 56, had been removed from its ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
The Colorado Court of Appeals has thrown out election denier Tina Peters' nine-year prison sentence , finding that the lower court violated her First Amendment right to free speech related to her allegations of election fraud. "The trial court's comments about Peters's belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing," a three-judge panel wrote in a 77-page ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
A planning commission has approved President Donald Trump's proposal to build an enormous ballroom at the White House, an effort to put his personal touch on a national landmark that has stoked backlash and legal challenges. The National Capital Planning Commission, tasked with overseeing proposed construction on federal sites in the Washington, DC area, voted in favour of the project on Thursday. "I believe that, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Luigi Mangione's federal and New York state trials over the killing of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson were pushed back Wednesday, with the first case set to start on Sept. 8. New York State Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro on Wednesday moved Mangione's murder trial to September from June 8. A few hours earlier, US District Judge Margaret Garnett had postponed jury selection in the federal ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com