26 min ago - Wed, April 22, 2026 at 9:37 AM EDT House Minority Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that Democrats will “make sure” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Kash Patel are next to depart the Trump administration. During an interv ... (Yahoo! News/The Hill)

45 min ago - Kalshi suspends, fines 3 congressional candidates in 'insider trading' enforcement actions Published Wed, Apr 22 2026 4:34 PM EDT Updated An Hour Ago Dan Mangan @_DanMangan @in/danmangancnbc/ KEY POINTS * Prediction market platform Kalshi said it sus ... (CNBC)

1 hr ago - Published on April 22, 2026 07:27AM EDT One of the world's leading condom brands is increasing its product prices considerably after having supply disruptions amid the Iran war. Malaysian condom brand Karex plans to raise its prices by up to 30%, and ... (People)

1 hr ago - Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration "effective immediately," a spokesman for the Department of Defense said. Hung Cao, the Under Secretary of the Navy, will lead the military branch in an acting capacity, the spokesm ... (CNBC via MSN)

1 hr ago - Updated 5:53 PM EDT, April 22, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the Navy’s top civilian official, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, is leaving his job. In a statement posted to social media, Pentagon spokesman ... (AP)

1 hr ago - Judge tosses Laura Loomer's lawsuit, says Bill Maher joke wasn't defamation By Andrew Kirell 55 min ago PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2026, 5:00 PM ET Laura Loomer, a MAGA activist with a direct line to the president, sued HBO and Bill Maher over a joke about he ... (CNN)

1 hr ago - April 22, 2026 6:03 AM EDT Updated 10 hours ago NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has introduced Ukrainian counter-drone technology in recent weeks at a key U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia, according to five people with ​knowledge ... (Reuters)

2 hrs ago - ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — A Virginia judge blocked the state from certifying the results of Tuesday's congressional map referendum, deeming the referendum and the bill that triggered it as unconstitutional, according to a judge's order issued Wed ... (ABC7)

2 hrs ago - 04/22/26 6:00 AM ET Senate Republicans who are scrambling to end the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fear that Democrats will trigger an even bigger government shutdown in October and are working out strategies to aver ... (The Hill)

2 hrs ago - It could take six months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military, and any such operation is unlikely to be carried out until the U.S. war with Iran ends, the Pentagon has informed Congress — an assessment th ... (WaPo)

2 hrs ago - The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person brie ... (NYT)

2 hrs ago - Updated April 22, 2026, 4:14 p.m. ET At least two people died and nearly two dozen people went to the hospital after a chemical leak at a West Virginia plant on April 22. The leak was reported just after 9:30 a.m. ET at Catalyst Refiners Inc., a fac ... (USA Today)

3 hrs ago - Wednesday 22 April 2026 13:20 EDT Robert F Kennedy Jr has dismissed any suggestion that his vaccine skepticism has contributed to measles outbreaks across the U.S., instead placing the blame on immigrants. “It has nothing to do with me,” t ... (The Independent)

3 hrs ago - Spirit Airlines is close to getting a $500 million bailout from the federal government, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The deal is expected to include the federal government taking a stake in the troubled airline, which had str ... (CNN)

3 hrs ago - Wed, April 22, 2026 at 8:32 AM EDT BAGHDAD/DUBAI April 21 (Reuters) - The United States has halted a shipment of about $500 million in cash bound for Iraq and suspended parts of its security cooperation with Baghdad, in ‌a move aimed at pressuri ... (Yahoo! News/Reuters)

4 hrs ago - 04/22/26 8:00 AM ET A major leak at the Supreme Court is shedding new light on its secretive practices — and shredding trust. Internal memos between the justices in 2016 published by The New York Times have created a firestorm around an instit ... (The Hill)

4 hrs ago - Wildfires burning across the Florida-Georgia border have destroyed dozens of homes, local officials said Wednesday. Brantley County, Ga., an 18,000-resident area approximately 70 miles north of Jacksonville, Fla., is the hub of a blaze called the Hi ... (WSJ)

4 hrs ago - 2h The Trump administration is expected to move to reclassify marijuana as soon as Wednesday, per an administration official familiar with the matter. Why it matters: The move would make it easier to study medicinal applications of marijuana and coul ... (msn/Axios)

5 hrs ago - Updated 2:42 PM EDT, April 22, 2026 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification. The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in Nove ... (AP)

5 hrs ago - April 22, 2026, 1:07 PM EDT / Updated April 22, 2026, 1:23 PM EDT Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., has died at the age of 80, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday. “Congressman Scott’s passing is deeply sad,” Jeffries told re ... (NBC News)