WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court today gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory under the landmark civil rights law — in a victory for Louisiana Republicans and President Donald Trump’s administration.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says an economic downturn sparked by weakness in credit would encompass more than just the private credit segment and be worse than many expect.
US aides are preparing for a prolonged blockade rather than a return to conflict.
King 'agrees with me' on Iran, says Trump
The President claims His Majesty supports the mission to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Donald Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended naval blockade of Iran. The US president suggested he would continue squeezing the Iranian economy and oil exports rather than resume bombing. Mr Trump believes a return to conflict, or a withdrawal from the region, would carry more risk than maintaining the naval blockade of the Islamic Republic’s ports, officials told the Wall Street Journal.
When Bernie Sanders moved last April to block a U.S. arms sale to Israel, only 14 Democratic senators joined the Vermont independent. What a difference a year makes: When Sanders objected to another Israeli arms sale this month, 39 other members of the Senate Democratic Caucus joined him — a sea change that has raised eyebrows from Washington to Jerusalem.
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Updated 1:32 PM PDT, April 28, 2026
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pressing for the dismissal of preservationists’ lawsuit over the planned $400 million White House ballroom after the shooting at Saturday’s media gala. But its latest court filing reads more like a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump than a document crafted by government lawyers.
It was not immediately clear how many raids occurred on Tuesday morning. The raids were not connected to immigration operations.
By Michael Kosnar and Rebecca Cohen
April 28, 2026, 5:31 AM PDT
Updated April 28, 2026, 10:11 AM PDT
Federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a series of raids connected to the investigation into alleged welfare fraud in Minnesota on Tuesday morning, federal authorities have said.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police in Greece on Tuesday arrested an 89-year-old man who allegedly opened fire with a shotgun in a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens, wounding at least four people.
The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. Essentially the question before the high court is whether that technique is ingenious, Orwellian, or both? And, ultimately, is it constitutional?
Iran's top diplomat blamed Washington Monday for the failure of Middle East peace talks during a visit to Russia, where President Vladimir Putin promised him Moscow's support in ending the war.
A perfect storm of plunging birth rates and rapidly aging populations will break over Latin America in coming decades. Is there a silver lining?
Retirees in Buenos Aires protest pension changes by the government of President Javier Milei in September.Catriel Gallucci Bordoni/NurPhoto via Getty Images
MONTEVIDEO—For more than 25 years, Jardín Sonrisitas (“Little Smiles Kindergarten”) taught kids their ABCs in Villa del Cerro, a working-class portside district in Uruguay’s capital. But in December, the beloved kindergarten closed: one of three local creches to shut in as many years.
The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs, 100 million years ago, may havebeen the octopus
New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet, rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles.
By SAMY MAGDY, JON GAMBRELLand ELENA BECATOROS Updated 2:28 PM PDT,
April 27, 2026
CAIRO (AP) — Iran offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country and ends the war in a proposal that would postpone discussions on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, two regional officials said Monday.
Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport with a record 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said.
A Sri Lanka Customs spokesman said the group, returning home after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had Kush -- a potent strain of cannabis -- hidden in their luggage.
THREATS Several things, from the players to the technology, set the exercise apart from previous experiments BY PATRICK TUCKER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR APRIL 23, 2026
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In a September exercise on a Florida airfield, members of the 10th Special Forces Group launched a drone assault that mirrored the “spiderweb” attack that Ukraine had recently staged against Russia. The defenders were counter-drone troops from across the U.S. military, trained for a week on tech that the Pentagon has spent billions to develop. U.S. counter-drone efforts haven’t been the same since.
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