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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.
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.
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.
Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

By BILL BARROW, MATT BROWN and JEFF AMY
Apr 22, 2026 1:15 pm - U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.
Trump media company replaces CEO, ex-congressman Nunes after stock plunge that wiped out billions

By BERNARD CONDON
Apr 22, 2026 9:46 am - The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls

By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING
Apr 22, 2026 8:00 am - Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports.
Pritzker executive order bars state employees from using insider info in prediction markets

By Maggie Dougherty
Apr 21, 2026 8:00 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Tuesday barring state employees from using insider information to place bets on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Pentagon details record $1.5 trillion budget request

By Tara Copp and Noah Robertson
Apr 21, 2026 7:07 pm - The Pentagon unveiled Tuesday how it plans to spend $1.5 trillion requested in next year’s defense budget, even as some lawmakers cautioned the massive bill is unlikely to pass a sharply divided Congress.

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