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Warsh says he got no pressure from Trump to cut rates even as president publicly pushes for them

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Apr 21, 2026 8:18 am - President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve said Tuesday that he never promised the White House that he would cut interest rates, even as the president renewed his calls for the central bank to do so.
Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation

By Warren P. Strobel and Ellen Nakashima
Apr 21, 2026 8:15 am - The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.
Trump says the US will extend its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request

By MUNIR AHMED, JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY
Apr 21, 2026 8:05 am - President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran — a day before it was to expire — as a new round of peace talks was on hold. The announcement appeared to ease fears that the fighting, which had shaken energy markets and the global economy, would promptly resume.
Oil prices rise and US stocks give back a bit of their record-breaking rally

By STAN CHOE
Apr 20, 2026 4:05 pm - Oil prices climbed Monday following the latest rise of tensions between the United States and Iran, but the moves were more modest than they were earlier in the war. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, gave back a bit of their record-breaking rally.
FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for article that alleged excessive drinking

By DAVID BAUDER
Apr 20, 2026 11:16 am - FBI Director Kash Patel hit The Atlantic magazine with a $250 million defamation lawsuit on Monday, claiming an article that talked about mismanagement at the agency and ...
With no end in sight to their deployment, National Guard troops roam Washington

By GARY FIELDS
Apr 20, 2026 8:19 am - Eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation's capital and called up the National Guard, more than 2,500 troops remain, in a deployment that has grown increasingly routine, with no clear end in sight.
EU hosts Gaza peace conference as it seeks greater sway in Middle East

By SAM McNEIL
Apr 20, 2026 8:15 am - More than 60 nations sent representatives to Brussels Monday for talks with Palestinian representatives on stability, security and long-term peace in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, as global attention largely remains focused in the Middle East on the ongoing crises in Iran and Lebanon.
Man kills 8 children and shoots his wife and another woman in Shreveport, Louisiana

By SOPHIE BATES, LEKAN OYEKANMI and GERALD HERBERT
Apr 20, 2026 8:10 am - A Louisiana man who fatally shot seven of his children and another child in an attack against his family was in the middle of separating from his wife, who also was shot and wounded, a relative said.
Doubts over talks between Iran and US after violence flares in Strait of Hormuz

By MUNIR AHMED, JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING
Apr 20, 2026 8:06 am - Pakistan moved ahead Monday with preparations for a new round of talks between the United States and Iran two days before a tenuous ceasefire is set to expire, even as renewed conflict around the Strait of Hormuz raised questions about whether the meeting would take place.
8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 are dead after a mass shooting in Louisiana, police say

By GERALD HERBERT and JOHN SEEWER
Apr 19, 2026 4:58 pm - SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children and shot two other people Sunday in an early morning attack of domestic violence carried out across two...

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