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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 18th 2026
Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump declared Friday that Iran has agreed to virtually all of his demands to end its nuclear program forever and said that talks to finalize the deal, "probably" held this weekend, "should go very quickly." In a flurry of social media posts and media interviews, Trump said the United States "will work with Iran" at what he called "a leisurely pace" - with no need for American ground troops - to ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By TIA GOLDENBERG and HALLIE GOLDEN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Lyons' departure, calling him a great leader of ICE ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
Court filings have indicated that lawyers for President Donald Trump are seeking a resolution with the Department of Justice over a $10bn lawsuit he filed against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). But the trouble, critics say, is that such a settlement would leave Trump essentially negotiating with an executive branch under his control. Friday's court filing, however, emphasises the efficiency of seeking a ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with nine retail partners including Target, Best Buy, and Dick's Sporting Goods. A ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
A 27-year-old Cuban national died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Miami after what officials described as an apparent suicide attempt, the federal law enforcement agency said Thursday. Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Detention Center in Miami around 6:30 a.m. on April 12, ICE said in a press release . A detention officer called a medical ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
With a Federal Reserve meeting looming later in April and discussions there about the future of interest rate policy, borrowers looking to secure a below-average mortgage interest rate may be tempted to wait to see what happens before making a move. And if a rate cut was likely for that meeting, that would typically be the strategic position to take. But, right now, the chances of a Fed rate cut look ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Health secretary and chef Robert Irvine claim Americans could eat healthier and more cheaply if they shopped better The first episode of the new Secretary Kennedy Podcast, produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), opens with this quote from guest Robert Irvine, who creates meal plans for the US military: "We talk about food being expensive. If you're buying expensive food, it's expensive. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House rejected a resolution Thursday requiring President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes military action. It was the latest such vote that fell short of passage as Republicans largely continue to support Trump's operation. Democrats voiced concern that the United States is becoming further entrenched in another ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Police say couple were living together amid divorce and that teenage children called 911 from Annandale home Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax on Thursday before killing himself, police said. Kevin Davis, the chief of the Fairfax county police department in Virginia, said at a press conference ...
Source: theguardian.com