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Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel at the Justice Department on April 21, 2026 in Washington, DC.Mandel Ngan | AFP | getty imagesThe Justice Department announced an 11-count indictment Tuesday accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of secretly funding the right-wing extremist groups it claimed to fight.Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanch said at a press conference, “The SPLC was not dismantling groups.” “Instead it was creating the very extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to promote racial hatred.”The indictment was returned Tuesday by a grand jury in…

Bill Gates speaks during the Gates Foundation’s first global Goalkeepers event in the Nordics, being held in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 22, 2026. TT News Agency Stefan Gerevang | via reutersGates Foundation has launched an external review of the charity’s past relationship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, wall street journal Information was given on Tuesday.To cut costs, the Gates Foundation will eliminate 500 jobs, or about 20% of its staff, by 2030, the Journal reported, citing an email to employees as the newspaper announced both the job cuts and the review of Epstein ties.”This is a challenging time for…

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USA TODAY NETWORK/ReutersIf you’re flying to Hawaii, the world’s most remote archipelago, why limit your trip to just one island? Enter: island hopping. Of the eight main Hawaiian islands – out of a total of 137 – people are allowed to visit six of them: unless you are on a cruise visiting the Hawaiian Islands, the main mode of transportation between the islands is commercial airplanes. (There is a boat in the middle…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, U.S., on Thursday, April 16, 2026. Graeme Sloane Bloomberg | getty imagesPresident Donald Trump extended the US ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday, saying the extension was necessary because Tehran’s government was “severely fractured”.Trump said the ceasefire would last “until” Iran’s leaders and representatives present a “unified resolution” to end the war with the US and Israel.Trump had earlier said that the ceasefire would end on Wednesday.Earlier Tuesday, Trump said during an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk…

Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warne about disclosing his financial assets and his independence from President Trump during a tense questioning over his confirmation…

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Vice President JD Vance’s expected visit to Pakistan for a second attempt at peace talks with Iran has been put on hold, according to the New York Times. informed TuesdayThe delay came after Tehran failed to respond to the latest US negotiating positions, the Times reported, citing a US official with direct knowledge of the situation.Stocks fell and oil prices rose following the development, raising fears that a diplomatic end to the US-Israeli war over Iran may be out of reach.The Times report comes as a fragile two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran signed on the evening of April 7 was…

USA TODAY NETWORK/ReutersAccording to the agency’s website, many Social Security Administration offices are experiencing disruption and closures, significantly impacting in-person services. A handful of locations on the agency’s Office Closings and Emergencies webpage are either completely closed to the public or are serving by appointment only due to construction, unable to allow people to wait outside…

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to members of the media as the Trump Cabinet briefs members of Congress on Iran at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. Anna Moneymaker getty imagesSenate Republicans on Tuesday released the text of a budget proposal to fully fund the two controversial immigration enforcement agencies at the center of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown by the end of President Donald Trump’s term.The resolution seeks to fund two DHS divisions – Immigration and Customs Enforcementand Customs and Border Protection – without relying on the votes of Democratic senators to do…