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Top News Stories for Friday, May 1st 2026
Thursday, Apr 30th, 2026 -
Republicans will control Washington for at least six more months, but they've already lost control of one-half of Congress. Marred by infighting in his razor-thin majority, Speaker Mike Johnson no longer has a functional majority in the House. GOP leaders are struggling to fulfill the chamber's most basic role on issues from government funding to authorizing critical spy powers that President Donald Trump himself ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 30th, 2026 -
News Photo: / Instagram Divided Supreme Court affirms Louisiana gerrymander ruling, raises bar for voting rights claims The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana's congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, while overhauling the legal framework courts have used for four decades to evaluate minority voting rights claims under the Voting Rights Act. The 6-3 decision, written by Justice ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Apr 30th, 2026 -
during President Donald Trump's appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, another would-be assassin stood on the sidewalk and The location, and the presence of a Republican president, is likely to be where the comparison ends. In 1981, gunman John Hinckley Jr. also shot White House press secretary James Brady, leaving him partially paralyzed. Brady would go on to become a leading gun control advocate ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Elon Musk took the stand for the second day Wednesday in the landmark trial that pits the world's richest person against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity's benefit. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won't find anywhere else. The trial centers on the 2015 ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that he plans to remain as a board governor after his term ends in May, announcing the move after the central bank again left its benchmark interest rate unchanged amid rising inflation due to the Iran war . Powell had previously said he would stay on as Fed chair until the Department of Justice ended an investigation into his oversight of renovations of the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — The White House posted a Tuesday picture of President Trump and King Charles III with the caption " two Kings " amid the monarch's visit to the U.S. Opponents of the president have used the phrase "No Kings" in protests against the Trump administration. On Sunday, Trump rejected the monarch title in a CBS News "60 Minutes" interview. "I'm not a King, if I was a King, I wouldn't be ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law. Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder for the FCC to take away a broadcast license, even when it's up for renewal. "Since the NAB [National Association of ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Bondi had originally been expected to testify this month, but the Justice Department had argued that she wasn't obligated to testify since she is no longer the attorney general. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will testify next month before the House Oversight Committee about her role in handling the release of the Epstein files, Republicans on the committee said Wednesday. "We have secured Bondi's appearance for ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026 -
Justices in unanimous decision revive federal suit brought by anti-abortion 'crisis pregnancy centers' in the state The US supreme court sided on Wednesday with the operator of Christian faith-based anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" in New Jersey that is trying to impede a state investigation into whether the facilities engage in deceptive practices. The justices, in a unanimous decision, revived a federal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Five years ago, supporters of President Donald Trump violently stormed the US Capitol after he fed them lies about the 2020 election. " and Trump had directed them to march to the Capitol. Upon returning to office, Trump pardoned virtually all of them, including Today, he argues it's Democrats who have the problem with political violence. outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night. But what do ...
Source: news.yahoo.com