17 min ago - Updated on: April 23, 2026 / 8:08 PM EDT President Trump's renovation kick has now reached the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The president told reporters Thursday that his administration is planning to pour down a new surface onto the bottom of ... (CBS News)

41 min ago - 1h Florida bans lawmakers from intentionally creating congressional seats to give their party an advantage. But Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly has launched a three-tiered power play to evade the ban — and create more GOP-friendly seats — in Nov ... (msn/Axios)

1 hr ago - April 24, 2026, 1:05 AM PANAMA CITY -- Businesses have doled out up as much as $4 million to move boats through the Panama Canal with the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, according to the Panama Canal Authority, in a move that has created a seism ... (ABC News/AP)

1 hr ago - Nato says there is no provision for member states to be suspended or expelled from the military alliance after a report said the US could seek to suspend Spain over its Iran war stance. Reuters quoted a US official who said an internal Pentagon email ... (BBC)

1 hr ago - April 24, 2026, 4:50 AM EDT BRUSSELS — The European Union on Thursday approved a 90-billion-euro ($106-billion) loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years after oil began flowing through a key pipeline to Hun ... (NBC News/AP)

2 hrs ago - Apr 23rd, 2026, 9:02 pm The United States has used a staggering amount of its weapons cache in the war with Iran, spending millions and blowing through a large chunk of its stockpile in the two months since the conflict began. The ongoing conflict w ... (MEDIAite)

2 hrs ago - 12h The Justice Department's indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center may contain serious legal defects that could lead to a full or partial dismissal because it struggles to articulate the elements of the alleged crimes, former federal pr ... (msn/CBS News)

3 hrs ago - 04/23/2026 05:00 PM EDT Republicans’ push for a narrow party-line bill focused solely on immigration enforcement funding is running into opposition from anti-abortion activists and lawmakers who fear it will trigger the return of hundreds of mil ... (Politico)

3 hrs ago - 04/23/26 8:51 PM ET Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned on Thursday that investments in artificial intelligence could trigger a potential economic crash, drawing parallels to the 2008 financial crisis caused by a collapse in the housing bubble. & ... (The Hill)

4 hrs ago - April 23, 2026 4:18 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago April 23 (Reuters) - The White House is ​expected to extend the Jones Act waiver for ‌up to 90 days as early as Friday to help blunt fuel price pressures tied ​to the Iran conflict, acc ... (Reuters)

4 hrs ago - Updated April 23, 2026, 4:16 p.m. ET The American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, DC, chapter sued the National Park Service on April 23, alleging that the agency violated the First Amendment by threatening to revoke a protest permit over si ... (USA Today)

4 hrs ago - 04/23/2026 | updated 12 hours ago The Denver-based federal appeals court issued a mixed decision on Thursday, finding that a group of plaintiffs could not challenge certain aspects of Colorado’s “ghost gun” prohibition, could challenge ... (Colorado Politics)

4 hrs ago - April 23, 2026 at 12:19 PM EDT Updated on April 23, 2026 at 3:32 PM EDT Phillips 66 is shipping oil from Texas to an East Coast refiner, the first cargo of US crude on that route using a foreign vessel since President Donald Trump waived a 100-year-o ... (Bloomberg)

5 hrs ago - U.S. President Donald Trump said that Prince Harry "is not speaking for the U.K." after the British royal urged the United States to play a larger role in supporting Ukraine. Trump made the remarks during an event at the White House on April 23, wher ... (Kyiv Independent)

5 hrs ago - Posted 3:12 PM, Apr 23, 2026 U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that only one person has been approved under President Donald Trump’s “Gold Card” visa program, but hundreds of others are awaiting review for the pay-to ... (Scripps News)

10 hrs ago - Paramount Skydance CEO fetes administration as it weighs $110bn merger with CNN parent WarnerBros Discovery Dozens of protesters, including members of Congress, gathered along the National Mall on Thursday to protest an "intimate" dinner being held b ... (The Guardian (who else?))

11 hrs ago - Thursday 23 April 2026 12:14 EDT Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly instructed immigration enforcement officers to cut back on arrests inside courthouses and to no longer enter homes without a warrant, backing off two controversial pol ... (The Independent)

12 hrs ago - Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis. Erin Reed Apr 23, 2026 Texas Tech University Erin In The Morning is a reader-suppor ... (Erin in the Morning)

12 hrs ago - April 23, 2026 WASHINGTON (CN) — Democratic lawmakers from Virginia and Washington, D.C., are rolling their eyes at a Republican-led bill that would return some land east of the Potomac River to the nation’s capital, saying the measure woul ... (Courthouse News Service)

12 hrs ago - Meta and Microsoft are trimming their workforces by thousands as they make heavy investments in AI and executives claim that the technology is meeting their companies’ productivity needs. Meta told staff on Thursday that on 20 May it would cut s ... (The Guardian)