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Justice Department drops criminal probe of Fed chair Powell, likely clearing way for Warsh

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ERIC TUCKER
Apr 24, 2026 9:48 am - The Justice Department has ended its probe into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, clearing a major roadblock to the confirmation of his successor, Kevin Warsh.
In Baltic skies, NATO and Russian pilots size each other up warily but without a tilt into war

By JOHN LEICESTER
Apr 24, 2026 9:45 am - When NATO's call came, the French fighter pilots scrambled with practiced urgency, already suited up to shorten their response times.
Businesses dole out up to $4 million to cross Panama Canal during Strait of Hormuz chokehold

By ALMA SOLÍS and MEGAN JANETSKY
Apr 24, 2026 7:25 am - 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 seismic shift in global trade flows.
Trump dispatches Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for new talks with Iran's foreign minister

By MUNIR AHMED, JON GAMBRELL, and DAVID RISING
Apr 24, 2026 7:22 am - President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran's foreign minister, the White House said Friday, as officials in the South Asian nation pushed to revive ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran.
US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

By HALLIE GOLDEN, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Apr 24, 2026 7:16 am - A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.
Thinking of using a chatbot for medical advice? Read this first.

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Apr 23, 2026 8:59 pm - When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of just over 50% correct responses.
Senate passes budget plan for ICE and Border Patrol in bid to reopen Homeland Security Department

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Apr 23, 2026 7:20 pm - The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House.
Trump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks

By MATTHEW LEE and BASSEM MROUE
Apr 23, 2026 7:12 pm - President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks at the White House on Thursday.
‘Two ways of calculating’: Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices

By WILL WEISSERT
Apr 23, 2026 6:58 pm - President Donald Trump, who helped push the term “fake news” into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math.
What a 5,000-mile-long marine heat wave means for summer in the US

By Ben Noll
Apr 23, 2026 4:32 pm - A massive ocean hot spot is stretching across a 5,000-mile swath of the Pacific — from Micronesia to the coastal waters of California. Across this zone, waters are as much as 6 to 8 degrees above average.

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