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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 26th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the head of Pakistan's military in Islamabad early Saturday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says "no meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the U.S." U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to arrive in Islamabad later in the day. President Donald Trump told Reuters in a phone call Friday that Iran will be ...
Source: cnbc.com
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 -
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier was granted bond Friday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket, a federal magistrate said Friday. The magistrate in North Carolina who authorized Gannon Ken Van Dyke's release told him to report to a New York federal ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump's decision to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug is a boon for the industry: It gives dispensaries a big tax break, eases some barriers to researching cannabis and could even allow the export of marijuana to other countries. But that might only be Trump's first step. A new administrative hearing slated for the end of June could result in ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Amazon and Microsoft data centers to power AI are springing up in some of the most competitive congressional districts in Pennsylvania. Incumbent Republicans in those districts are at risk of being blamed amid a backlash over those AI data centers and over rising energy prices linked to their construction and operation. Republicans have a slim majority in the U.S. House going into the 2026 midterm election, which ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Federal health officials are taking steps that they say will help with "accelerating" therapeutic access to psychedelics for patients dealing with serious mental health conditions. , the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced a series of regulatory actions to support the development of psychedelics as approved medications. "Under President Trump's leadership, we are accelerating the research, ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
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 -
Languorous tree dwellers from Guyana and Peru died from 'cold stun' in warehouse with no power or running water Wildlife officials in Florida said in a newly released report that dozens of sloths taken from South American rainforests for display at a controversial new tourist attraction in Orlando died in the care of their new owners. An incident report from the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission ...
Source: theguardian.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