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Former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes out as Trump Media CEO

04/21/2026 10:00 PM EDT Former Rep. Devin Nunes is out as CEO of President Donald Trump’s social media company, in a major shake-up. Trump Media & Technology Group, the Truth Social parent company whose largest shareholder is Trump, said in a statement Tuesday that Nunes would be succeeded by Kevin McGurn, an adviser to the company, who will take over as interim CEO effective immediately. It did not offer a reason for Nunes’ unexpected departure. “I want to thank Devin Nunes for his dedicate ...

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Trump's short-lived challenger Ron DeSantis is 'begging' him for a job in administration, report says

Tuesday 21 April 2026 16:45 EDT Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who once unsuccessfully ran against President Donald Trump, is reportedly “begging” the president for a top role in the administration as he seeks a new job ahead of his term ending this year. While dining with the president at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, the outgoing Florida governor allegedly asked the president to become the next attorney general, Trump told a confidant, according to Axios. However, an unnamed sou ...

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Proposed Social Security Bill Would Change Medicare Coverage: What to Know

Published Apr 21, 2026 at 06:31 PM EDT updated Apr 21, 2026 at 06:32 PM EDT A newly introduced House bill would expand what Medicare covers by adding certain food and nutrition services to the program, marking a potential shift in how health care for older Americans and people with disabilities is defined under federal law. The proposal, H.R. 8391 was introduced on Monday by Representative Raul Ruiz, a Democrat from California. The law would amend the Social Security Act, which governs Medica ...

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Contract reveals fundraising deal for financing Trump's East Wing overhaul

April 21, 2026 / 6:24 PM EDT Washington — A newly revealed agreement between the White House, the National Park Service and the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall shows the inner workings of how President Trump and his allies are financing a $400 million overhaul of the White House East Wing. The 14-page document, which was obtained by the left-leaning advocacy group Public Citizen and shared with CBS News, empowers the Trust to "accept donations in an amount sufficient to cover al ...

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Former Capitol police officer sues Blaze Media over pipe bomb allegation

04/21/2026 04:16 PM EDT A former Capitol Police officer who helped fend off the Jan. 6, 2021 attack is suing a right-wing media outlet for accusing her of planting pipe bombs that became a key inflection point in that day’s chaos. Shauni Kerkhoff, 31, accused Blaze Media and two of its former reporters of relying on a faulty “gait analysis” of surveillance footage to wrongly suggest she was the person who planted pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC the night before the Jan. 6 riot. The false a ...

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Virginia voters narrowly pass redistricting referendum

(Richmond Times Dispatch) Virginia Democrats made a national statement on Tuesday with a narrow victory in a voter referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow the Democratic-controlled General Assembly to redraw congressional maps before midterm elections in November.

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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo, an aid worker briefed on the plan said Tuesday. The group includes interpreters for the U.S. military, former members of the Afghan Special Operations forces and family members of American service members. More than 400 children are among them. The Afghans have been living in limbo in Qatar for over a year a ...

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FBI chief Patel says 2020 election fraud arrests 'coming soon'

April 20, 2026 Updated April 21, 2026, 11:20 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – Embattled FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau has gathered "information" supporting President Donald Trump’s longstanding and debunked claim that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him – and that arrests are coming soon. “I would say stay tuned this week. You might see a thing or two,” Patel said April 19 on "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo" on Fox News. Trump for years has repeated his ...

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Mullin: No more money to pay DHS employees as of May

04/21/2026 11:19 AM EDT Updated: 04/21/2026 01:12 PM EDT Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday his department will run out of money to pay employees’ salaries the first week of May, as lawmakers race to end a two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Appearing on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning, the secretary outlined that money to pay salaries came from the funds Congress allocated to DHS last year via President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. Bu ...

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Trump extends ceasefire in Iran, citing 'seriously fractured' Iranian government

Published Tue, Apr 21 2026 4:13 PM EDT Updated 14 Min Ago President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the two-week U.S. ceasefire with Iran, saying the extension was warranted due to Tehran's government being "seriously fractured." Trump said the ceasefire, which he earlier had said would end on Wednesday, would continue "until such time as" Iran's leaders and representatives submit a "unified proposal" to end the war with the U.S. and Israel. Trump's announcemen ...

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Scoop: Trump set to reclassify marijuana soon

7 min ago - 2h The Trump administration is expected to move to reclassify marijuana as soon as Wednesday, per an administration official familiar with the matter. Why it matters: The move would make it easier to study medicinal applications of marijuana and coul ... (msn/Axios)

Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear identification

36 min ago - Updated 2:42 PM EDT, April 22, 2026 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification. The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in Nove ... (AP)

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat, dies at 80

1 hr ago - April 22, 2026, 1:07 PM EDT / Updated April 22, 2026, 1:23 PM EDT Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., has died at the age of 80, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday. “Congressman Scott’s passing is deeply sad,” Jeffries told re ... (NBC News)

Medigap premiums leap, and consumers have few alternatives

2 hrs ago - April 22, 2026 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News After decades of selling insurance, Illinois-based broker John Jaggi had never seen anything like it. More than 80 of his customers who were enrolled in the same Medicare supplemental plan from the insu ... (CBS News)

CDC won't publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits

3 hrs ago - CDC won't publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency's scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won't be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post. ... (Washington Post)

Democrats Ask Kash Patel To Take Alcohol Disorder Test

3 hrs ago - Apr 22, 2026, 04:45 AM EDT WASHINGTON — Democrats want FBI Director Kash Patel to prove he hasn’t got a drinking problem. In a letter to Patel on Tuesday, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said h ... (Huff Post)

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

3 hrs ago - New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natu ... (Wired)

Jeffries Targets Florida GOP in Redistricting Warning After Virginia Win

4 hrs ago - Published Apr 21, 2026 at 11:53 PM EDT Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries congratulated Virginia on a new referendum that passed on Tuesday night, allotting Democrats the opportunity for more House seats, while also issuing a direct thr ... (Newsweek)

Partners line up for arms deals as Japan opens defense industry door

4 hrs ago - Announced the same day, the policy shift by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government allows exports of lethal weaponry and finished systems to the 17 countries that currently have defense equipment and technology transfer agreements with Japan ... (Japan Times)

Tables turn as Republicans face gas-price attacks they once used on Democrats

5 hrs ago - April 22, 2026 6:05 AM EDT Updated 1 hour ago BRIGHTON, Michigan, April 22 (Reuters) - Tom Barrett tapped into voter frustration over high gas prices as part of his successful 2024 run for Congress in Michigan. Now the Republican is on the defensive ... (Reuters)

Lufthansa cuts 20,000 summer flights as fuel prices surge

5 hrs ago - German airline Lufthansa will cut 20,000 short-haul flights over the summer, saying soaring fuel prices have made many journeys "unprofitable" for the firm. Jet fuel has doubled in price since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict ... (BBC)

With acting AG at his side, FBI Director Patel publicly addresses allegations about his conduct

5 hrs ago - Updated Apr 21, 2026, 9:03 PM ET PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2026, 7:36 PM ET FBI Director Kash Patel, standing at a lectern beside his boss Tuesday, publicly addressed recent allegations that he has drank to excess, interfering with his duties. “I’ ... (CNN Politics)

Rep. Cory Mills says he won't resign from Congress amid ethics probe into misconduct allegations

6 hrs ago - Melanie Zanona Tue, April 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM CDT WASHINGTON — Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., struck a defiant tone Tuesday in saying he has no plans to resign over a House Ethics Committee investigation and bipartisan pressure for him to leave Con ... (yahoo.com)

Transportation Secretary Duffy on concerns of AI replacing air traffic controllers: "That's not gonna happen"

6 hrs ago - Updated on: April 21, 2026 / 8:20 PM EDT As the Department of Transportation begins the process of overhauling the country's air traffic control system — a $12 billion undertaking — there are already plans to integrate artificial intelligen ... (CBS News)

Billionaire Investor Sues Trump Crypto Venture for Fraud, Says It's on 'Verge of Collapse'

6 hrs ago - Apr 21st, 2026, 8:20 pm Billionaire Justin Sun, who invested in a crypto project backed by President Donald Trump and his family, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a California federal court, alleging that his multi-million dollar investment was procured t ... (MEDIAite)

Iran says it seized 2 ships in Strait of Hormuz, hours after Trump's ceasefire extension

7 hrs ago - Updated April 22, 2026 at 7:27 a.m. EDT ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Iranian forces seized two container ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to Iranian state media, just hours after President Donald Trump initially calmed fears of renewe ... (Washington Post)

Former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes out as Trump Media CEO

7 hrs ago - 04/21/2026 10:00 PM EDT Former Rep. Devin Nunes is out as CEO of President Donald Trump’s social media company, in a major shake-up. Trump Media & Technology Group, the Truth Social parent company whose largest shareholder is Trump, said in ... (Politico)

Appeals court keeps 'Alligator Alcatraz' open, rejecting need for federal environmental review

8 hrs ago - Updated 6:34 PM EDT, April 21, 2026 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open, an appeals court decided Tuesday, upholding its earlier decision to bloc ... (ABC News/AP)

Contract reveals fundraising deal for financing Trump's East Wing overhaul

8 hrs ago - April 21, 2026 / 6:24 PM EDT Washington — A newly revealed agreement between the White House, the National Park Service and the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall shows the inner workings of how President Trump and his allies are financing a ... (CBS News)

New Orleans nurses announce five-day strike against LCMC's bad faith bargaining

8 hrs ago - National Nurses Organizing Committee April 21, 2026 Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO) in Louisiana today gave notice to their employer, LCMC Health, that they will hold an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike for five days startin ... (NNU)

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