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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 25th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The White House has confirmed that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are planning to travel to Pakistan Saturday for a new round of talks with Iran. Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday arrived in Islamabad, where Pakistan hosted direct U.S.-Iran talks earlier this month. But his spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, denied that a direct meeting with the U.S. was ...
Source: npr.org
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 -
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 people, Amazon announced yet another reduction in force, Snap laid off around 15 percent of its staff, and Pinterest announced plans to do about the same thing. Microsoft recently announced its first-ever voluntary buyouts, targeting longtime ...
Source: nymag.com
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 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced a resolution on Friday that would ban senators from participating in amend the Senate rules to include a provision stating that members may not enter into "an agreement, contract, or transaction that provides for any purchase, sale, payment or delivery" dependent on the outcome of a ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Governor Janet Mills of Maine on Friday vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. The moratorium would have made Maine the first state in the nation to create such a hurdle for the booming artificial intelligence industry. Mills, a Democrat who is running for US Senate, said in a statement that while she believed a moratorium was appropriate, given the negative ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
It has been six days since President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at facilitating regulatory review of psychedelics that have shown potential as psychotherapeutic catalysts. As promised then, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued "national priority vouchers" for two psychedelics: psilocybin as a treatment for depression and methylone (a.k.a. MDMC) as a treatment for post-traumatic ...
Source: reason.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
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said Thursday that he was appalled by a report about the death of 31 sloths that died under the care of Sloth World, a tourist attraction in Orlando, Fla., that wasn't yet opened to the public. The sloths were from South American rainforests and perished in storage warehouses between December ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
A powerful tornado in Oklahoma on Thursday ripped roofs off buildings, destroyed homes, knocked down power poles and forced an Air Force base to close. The confirmed tornado moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people in Garfield County near the state's northern border, according to the National Weather Service. Videos posted online show a rapidly rotating column of air touching down, along with ...
Source: cbsnews.com