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Justice Department’s watchdog is reviewing compliance with the law mandating Epstein files release

By ERIC TUCKER
Apr 23, 2026 3:49 pm - The Justice Department's internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration for the past year.
The Iran war could drive up costs for petroleum-derived products like clothes and crayons

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Apr 23, 2026 12:28 pm - It might be hard to imagine the Iran war weighing on stuffed toys with names like Snuggle Glove, Bizzikins and Wobblies, but even plush playthings are not immune when oil shipments from the Middle East are constrained.
Nuclear energy is having a global revival 40 years after Chernobyl

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Apr 23, 2026 8:18 am - The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and other regions. But four decades after the accident, nuclear power is seeing a global revival.
Trump orders US military to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz

By JON GAMBRELL and JAMEY KEATEN
Apr 23, 2026 7:57 am - U.S. President Donald Trump in a morning social media post ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats choking the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and GENE JOHNSON
Apr 23, 2026 7:48 am - President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.
Trump eyes Iran deal with many of the trade-offs he blasted Obama for accepting

By Michael Birnbaum
Apr 22, 2026 8:17 pm - Billions in frozen assets may be handed back to Iran. Agreements to limit Tehran’s nuclear program may eventually expire. And some of the same hard-line leaders who crushed nationwide protests in January could end up better-resourced than they were before President Donald Trump unleashed crushing airstrikes more than seven weeks ago.
Justice Department reaches $1.25 million settlement with Trump 2016 campaign aide over Russia probe

By ERIC TUCKER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Apr 22, 2026 8:05 pm - The Justice Department has settled for $1.25 million a lawsuit from an aide to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign who was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation.
Top GOP doctors grill RFK Jr. on vaccines

By Lauren Weber and Rachel Roubein
Apr 22, 2026 4:27 pm - Two top GOP senators who are physicians quizzed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday about his controversial record on vaccines in their first public meeting in over seven months.
CDC won’t publish report showing COVID shots cut likelihood of hospital visits

By Lena H. Sun
Apr 22, 2026 4:03 pm - A report showing the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to three people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The report showed that the vaccine reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter.
Beneath Trump's ballroom legal case: A brief history of the White House bunker

By MIKE CATALINI
Apr 22, 2026 1:23 pm - President Donald Trump’s court fight over the $400 million White House East Wing ballroom casts some light on an underground bunker at the site. Secrecy surrounding White House security makes details hard to come by.

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