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Iran seizes ships in Strait of Hormuz after US calls off renewed attacks

whtnone — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON/DUBAI/ISLAMABAD — Iran seized two ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, tightening its grip on the strategic waterway a day after President Donald Trump announced he was indefinitely calling off attacks, with no sign of peace talks restarting.

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Virginia judge blocks certification of redistricting referendum

whtnone — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — A Virginia judge sided Wednesday with Republicans challenging the commonwealth’s new redistricting process for the third time, a day after voters approved a new map that would favor Democrats.

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Kalshi fines and suspends 3 political candidates for betting on their races

New York Times — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Kalshi has levied sanctions against three political candidates for trying to make trades on their own races, a move that could signal increased scrutiny by the popular prediction market as the platform and similar companies face mounting pressure to self-police or risk greater regulation.

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FBI probes missing or dead scientists

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Amid growing national security concerns, the FBI said Tuesday it has launched a broad investigation in the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 scientists and staff connected to highly sensitive research.

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Senators urge US Postal Service not to implement Trump mail-in voting order

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

A group of 37 Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the U.S. Postal Service not to comply with a March 31 executive order issued by President Donald Trump tightening rules on mail-in voting. The senators, including Gary Peters, Alex Padilla, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Maria Cantwell, said in a letter first reported by Reuters the order illegally seeks to transform USPS “into an election administration agency with the power to determine who can vote by mail and to establish ballot specifications.”

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Trump extends ceasefire, even as peace talks are put on hold

New York Times — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was extending a ceasefire with Iran that had been about to expire, even as Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Pakistan for a second round of negotiations with Iran was put on hold after Tehran failed to respond to American positions.

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Tiny Pacific nations face tough choices on food, fuel posed by Iran war

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Far-flung Pacific nations are reeling from the impact of a global fuel crisis as authorities scramble to manage energy supplies while families must grapple with fuel curbs and higher costs for food and access to healthcare.

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Pentagon to stop requiring members of military to get flu vaccines

New York Times — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will no longer require troops to get annual flu vaccines, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, calling the policy an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.

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Japan opens door to global arms market with overhaul of defense export rules

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defense export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons.

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From Africa, Pope Leo warns humanity’s future is ‘tragically compromised’

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Pope Leo warned on Tuesday that humanity’s future is at risk of being “tragically compromised” because of ongoing wars and a breakdown of international law, in a forceful speech in Equatorial Guinea on his four-nation Africa tour.

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Many Americans question Trump’s temperament, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

President Donald Trump’s approval rating held at the lowest of his term in recent days as many Americans questioned his temperament amid the Iran war and a feud with Pope Leo, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

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Voting rights groups sue over demand for state voter rolls

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Voting rights activists accused the Trump administration in a lawsuit on Tuesday of laying the groundwork for voter purges that could illegally remove eligible voters ahead of tightly contested U.S. midterm elections in November. The lawsuit asks a Washington, D.C., federal judge to bar the Department of Justice from accessing or using states’ lists of registered voters and to delete data it had already obtained.

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US warns it will run out of money to pay airport security workers in coming weeks

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

U.S. airports could face a new wave of long security lines as early as May after the nation’s homeland security chief said on Tuesday that he will run out of money to pay for 50,000 workers due to a partial government shutdown.

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FDA calls on drug developers to publish missing data from thousands of trials

New York Times — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it had sent over 2,200 letters pressing drug manufacturers, medical device makers and researchers to publish clinical trial data that they have seemingly failed to report.

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Fed pick faces skepticism over claim of independence from Trump

New York Times — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, asserted repeatedly at a combative confirmation hearing Tuesday that he would not cut interest rates simply because Trump wanted him to, pledging to be “strictly independent” if confirmed for one of the world’s most powerful economic positions.

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Tucker Carlson says he is ‘tormented’ by his past support for Trump

New York Times — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Tucker Carlson, who was often at Donald Trump’s side during the 2024 presidential campaign, is now expressing remorse for that support, saying he will long be “tormented” by his role helping Trump return to the White House.

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Virginians vote on Democratic map targeting 4 Republican congressional seats

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Virginians began voting Tuesday on a new Democratic-drawn congressional map for November’s midterm elections that could flip four Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, after both parties spent tens of millions of dollars in a campaign over the referendum. Virginia is the latest battleground in an unprecedented national redistricting fight that began last summer, when U.S. President Donald Trump successfully urged Texas Republicans to install a new congressional map that took aim at five Democratic incumbents. Since then, states controlled by both parties have launched their own redistricting efforts, leading to a near-draw thus far. Even a few seats could prove decisive: Democrats need to flip only three Republican districts in the 435-seat U.S. House in November to capture a majority, which would allow the party to conduct investigations into Trump’s administration and block his legislative agenda.

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Democrat accused of stealing money from disaster funds resigns from House

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Democratic Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned on Tuesday, minutes before a congressional committee was set to hold a hearing on her punishment for ethics violations.

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Seized Iranian ship likely carrying equipment deemed dual-use by US, sources say

whtnone — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The Iranian-flagged container ship Touska, which was boarded and seized by U.S. forces on Sunday, is likely to have what Washington deems dual-use items that could be used by the military onboard, maritime security sources said on Monday.

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Labor Secretary steps down amid internal investigation

New York Times — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump’s embattled labor secretary, stepped down Monday as multiple scandals and investigations closed in on her.

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Trump Administration takes steps to refund $166 billion in tariffs

New York Times — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump unveiled his sprawling global tariffs last spring, he boasted that they would generate windfall profits and “make America wealthy again.”

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Alaska Air pulls forecast as Iran-linked fuel surge hits margins

whtnone — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Alaska Air Group withdrew its full-year profit forecast on Monday after a sharp rise in jet fuel costs tied to the Iran war pressured margins and darkened the outlook for the rest of the year.

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Domestic dispute likely cause of Louisiana shooting that left 8 children dead

whtnone — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana — Shreveport police said on Monday that they were working to determine why a man shot and killed seven of his children and an eighth child the day before, but said the eruption of violence appeared to be part of an ongoing domestic dispute.

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Gunman kills Canadian tourist and wounds others at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids

New York Times — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

MEXICO CITY — At least one Canadian tourist was shot dead and several other people were wounded, authorities said, when a man opened fire Monday at one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, the Teotihuacán pyramids just outside Mexico City.

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Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO, head of hardware engineering, John Ternus to take over

New York Times — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said Monday that he would step down after nearly 15 years running an operation that rode the wild popularity of the iPhone to become one of the most influential and valuable companies in the world.

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The long, slow race to save Timmy, Germany’s favorite whale

New York Times — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

POEL ISLAND, Germany — The whale’s tail waved Friday morning, before the big crowds arrived. It raked the water back and forth, then rose and slapped down with a splash. For the German faithful watching on livestream, it was a sign.

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Michigan refuses Trump administration demand for 2024 election ballots

whtnone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Michigan officials on Sunday pushed back on a U.S. Department of Justice demand for Detroit-area ballots and other materials related to the 2024 election, accusing the Trump administration of trying to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections.

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World weighs fate of Mideast ceasefire after US seizes Iranian cargo ship

whtnone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON/CAIRO — Concerns grew on Sunday that the ceasefire between the United States and Iran might not hold after the U.S. said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Iran vowed to retaliate.

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Blue Origin rocket reusable booster lands but satellite misses orbit

whtnone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The reusable booster of the New Glenn rocket launched from Florida on Sunday by Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin touched down successfully but the rocket failed to deploy the AST SpaceMobile communications satellite it was carrying into the correct orbit. The launch was the latest chapter in Blue Origin’s intensifying rivalry with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rocket lifted off at around 7:25 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, with the booster touchdown coming about 10 minutes later.

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Energy Secretary says gas prices may stay above $3 until 2027

New York Times — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said Sunday that gasoline prices in the United States had probably peaked but acknowledged that they could remain elevated for months, undermining President Donald Trump’s earlier claim that high fuel prices would be “short-term.”

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China deploys warship for combat drills in Western Pacific

whtnone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is pushing beyond a chain of archipelagos to hold rare military drills that could be seen as a challenge to U.S. dominance in the Western Pacific.

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A standoff at the strait: Iran takes back control

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

JERUSALEM — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz was closed until the United States ended its own naval blockade, just a day after both countries announced that the vital waterway had reopened.

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Gunman kills at least 6 in Kyiv, taking hostages in grocery

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian police shot dead a gunman who killed six people and wounded several more in Kyiv on Saturday.

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Pope to keep preaching peace but ‘not in my interest’ to debate Trump

whtnone — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

LUANDA, Angola — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday sought to ease tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump, saying some comments he recently made had been prepared weeks ago and it is not in his interest to debate Trump.

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Trump proposal ties federal aid to student earnings outcomes

whtnone — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has proposed regulations mandating colleges and universities be accountable for how much their graduates earn after leaving their programs, cutting off the institutions from accessing federal student loans if they leave them worse off financially.

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Trump will participate in a marathon Bible reading

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

President Donald Trump has a complicated relationship with the Bible. He has often called it his favorite book, has posed with it for photographers outside a church and has sold his own edition for $60. But he has also struggled to name a favorite passage or even pick a favorite Testament between the two.

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Trump loosens restrictions on psychedelic drugs

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order seeking to hasten research into the therapeutic benefits of LSD, Ecstasy, psilocybin and other mind-altering drugs by ordering federal agencies to ease restrictions that have long limited the ability of scientists to study them.

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Man charged in Lego theft scheme of replacing pieces with pasta, police say

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

A California man cooked up a scheme that called for buying thousands of dollars worth of Lego kits, replacing Lego pieces and minifigures with bags of uncooked pasta, and returning the sets to stores for refunds, police said Thursday.

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Emperor penguins are now endangered, a new assessment finds

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Emperor penguins, the world’s largest and perhaps most recognizable penguin species, have joined the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced Thursday.

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Why Iran’s ‘mosquito fleet’ remains a potent threat in the Strait of Hormuz

New York Times — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Iranian warships sunk by U.S. and Israeli attacks litter naval harbors along the Persian Gulf coast, but what is sometimes called a “mosquito fleet” lurks in the shadows.

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Hundreds of fake pro-Trump avatars emerge on social media

New York Times — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

In one TikTok video, a blonde films herself with a group of women at a racetrack. “If you support Trump, you just made a friend,” she says.

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Trump, IRS in talks to settle US president’s $10 billion lawsuit

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the tax collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020.

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Iran says Strait of Hormuz open as Trump sees deal ‘soon’ to end war

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

DUBAI/WASHINGTON — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday the Strait of Hormuz was open following a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, while U.S. President Donald Trump said talks could take place this weekend and he believed a deal to end the Iran war would come “soon”. Araqchi said in a post on X the strait was open for all commercial vessels for the remainder of the U.S.-brokered 10-day truce that was agreed on Thursday between Israel and Lebanon to halt fighting between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah.

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How 50 days of the Iran war led to the loss of $50 billion worth of oil

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

LONDON — The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran war began nearly 50 days ago and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come, according to analysts and Reuters calculations.

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Mississippi liquor stores run dry amid state distribution delays

New York Times — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

If you live in Mississippi and want a bottle of your favorite whiskey, vodka or wine, it could be hard to find.

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One week later, Artemis II astronauts grapple with weight of what they witnessed

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Days after their capsule splashed down in the Pacific, the four astronauts of Artemis II have had time to contemplate the gravity of their historic mission around the moon — but they still haven’t fully weighed what it all means.

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Trump, IRS in talks to settle President’s $10 billion lawsuit

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

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Trump says UFO review uncovered ‘interesting’ documents

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

President Donald Trump said on Friday that his administration’s review of UFO-related material uncovered a number of “interesting” documents, adding that an initial tranche of records is expected to be released soon.

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91ֱ��land Security expands deportation fleet with high-end jets

New York Times — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — The Department of 91ֱ��land Security recently doubled its fleet of jets to carry out deportations under the Trump administration, shelling out $304 million for five planes, including two high-end Gulfstreams, according to government documents and interviews.

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Judge weighs Tyler Robinson request to ban TV from courtroom

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

A Utah judge on Friday weighed a request from Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to ban live broadcasts and cameras from the courtroom on grounds they violated his right to a fair trial.

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