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Washington Post PoliticsApr 18, 2026
Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and ibogaine
The president is directing federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Drudge ReportApr 18, 2026
IRAN: STRAIT CLOSED!






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OPENS FIRE ON SHIPS
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China cautiously stakes out behind-the-scenes role to end Iran war (Washington Post Politics)

Drudge ReportApr 18, 2026
Growing movement warning it could turn on humanity...




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AI 'that could escape the lab' sparks fear...



BBC PoliticsApr 18, 2026
Senior official ousted over Mandelson security row to face MPs
Former Former Office chief Sir Olly Robbins is expected to be grilled by the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

BBC PoliticsApr 18, 2026
Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson mess
The decision to send Peter Mandelson to Washington has become a scandal that just won't go away for Labour.

Yahoo PoliticsApr 18, 2026
While Trump lashes out at Spain, progressive leaders rally in Barcelona to defend democracy


Drudge ReportApr 18, 2026
Is Congress having a reckoning over sexual misconduct -- or just a moment?




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New York Times PoliticsApr 18, 2026
Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much
Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.

Drudge ReportApr 18, 2026
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade Supreme Court...




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Inside the Supreme Court's Risky New Way of Doing Business (New York Times Politics)

Drudge ReportApr 18, 2026
IS PRESIDENT WEARING A HIDDEN LEG BRACE?



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In President's Orbit, Women Aren't Only Ones Concerned About Their Looks... (Drudge Report)

Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Trump says Iran has agreed to his demands. Iran says he's lying.


Washington Post PoliticsApr 17, 2026
House votes to briefly extend warrantless surveillance law amid GOP divisions
Trump officials say the program is vital to national security, but skeptics — including some Republicans — have stonewalled its reauthorization without changes to protect civil liberties.

BBC PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Key questions facing government over Mandelson vetting
It's emerged that Lord Mandelson did not pass inital security vetting checks ahead of taking up the role of ambassador to the United States.

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What is Developed Vetting security clearance at centre of Mandelson row? (BBC Politics)

Politics - U.S. HouseApr 17, 2026
House Votes to Extend Expiring FISA Surveillance Law for 10 Days
The Senate would need to also approve the stopgap measure that passed the House early Friday. Libertarian-leaning House Republicans had balked at a long-term extension.

BBC PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Why Starmer is under renewed pressure over Mandelson scandal
Political correspondent Harry Farley reports as new information emerges about the former US ambassador's appointment to the role.

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Starmer sacks top Foreign Office official after Mandelson vetting revelations (BBC Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
US and Cuban officials met recently in Havana amid new diplomatic push


Politics - U.S. HouseApr 17, 2026
With Vaccines Widely Popular, Kennedy Changes Tone, but Maybe Not His Plans
Several moves suggest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy could revive his campaign to question the safety and effectiveness of the shots after the midterm elections.

Drudge ReportApr 17, 2026
Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement...




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CBS SAILS INTO STRAIT...



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Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Is ‘Completely Open' (Foreign Policy)

Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Lula and Sánchez to 'work for peace' at gathering of progressive leaders in Barcelona


New York Times PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets
The contract for five planes doubles the Department of Homeland Security's fleet of jets to expel immigrants, and includes two Gulfstream planes, according to documents and interviews.

Politics - U.S. HouseApr 17, 2026
What Maine Voters Are Thinking About Ahead of 2026's Senate Election
Our readers in the state tell us about its high-stakes Senate race.

New York Times PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits
The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.

Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Georgia Democrats try to make their move in a jumbled, low-dollar primary for governor


Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit


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Trump's lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president's $10B lawsuit (Yahoo Politics)

New York Times PoliticsApr 17, 2026
White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive' Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise
Friday's meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic's powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security.

Washington Post PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks
President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they're in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

Drudge ReportApr 17, 2026
Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens...




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Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Trump expected to nominate ousted FEMA chief to lead agency again


Drudge ReportApr 17, 2026
Global leftist leaders gather in Spain to mobilize against right...




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Drudge ReportApr 17, 2026
Administration embraces quest to stamp out events of Jan. 6...




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Yahoo PoliticsApr 17, 2026
Trump to nominate Cameron Hamilton to run FEMA after he was ousted last year


NYT Homeland Press ReleasesApr 17, 2026
She Made Sure Her Baby Was Born an American. Then Federal Agents Separated Them.
Diana Acosta Verde, who came into the United States illegally when she was six months pregnant, had to leave her baby at a hospital while she returned to a detention center.

Washington Post PoliticsApr 16, 2026
Trump says Israeli, Lebanese leaders will speak amid push to extend ceasefire
The president did not specify which leaders. Meanwhile, Pakistani officials were working to extend the U.S.-Iran ceasefire and arrange new negotiations.

NYT Homeland Press ReleasesApr 16, 2026
Trump to Pick Ousted FEMA Head to Lead Agency Again
Cameron Hamilton is a former Navy SEAL who ran unsuccessfully for Congress.

Democracy NowApr 16, 2026
Hormuz Crisis "Only Going to Get More Horrific Before It Gets Any Better": Prof. Laleh Khalili
Amid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, we speak with Laleh Khalili, a professor of Gulf studies who researches the shipping and logistics industry and its impact on the global economy.
The U.S. implemented a naval blockade on Iran earlier this week, which Khalili says could lead to its military "firing on ships that it assumes are Iranian or carrying oil from Iran or other cargo to Iran." Iran, in response, could "interpret this as a belligerent action," ending the fragile ceasefire agreed to by both parties. "Iran is going to defend itself against this imperial imposition, and how it's going to do that remains to be seen."

Meanwhile, explains Khalili, shipping disruptions in the Gulf have affected the supply chains of key resources including oil, aluminum, helium and fertilizer. "Transportation costs are going to be higher, so food prices are going to be higher; people's MRIs are going to be scheduled out by six months … semiconductor manufacturing is going to be affected," Khalili says. "The crisis is only going to get more horrific before it gets any better. "


Democracy NowApr 14, 2026
Exclusive: Former American & Iranian Negotiators on Ceasefire Talks & How War Could End
After the first round of ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan collapsed over the weekend, we speak to two former nuclear negotiators about prospects for ending the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including what another nuclear deal might look like. Robert Malley, a U.S. negotiator for the 2015 nuclear deal (which President Trump withdrew from in his first term), says Trump's "mercurial" behavior makes it difficult to predict his objectives and the course of any future talks. "Iran was in full compliance with the JCPOA" and was blindsided by the U.S.'s decision to pull out of the deal, says Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who served as spokesperson for Iran's nuclear negotiation team from 2003 to 2005. Now its leaders "don't know whether the U.S. is really for diplomacy or not."

Foreign PolicyApr 09, 2026
The Iran Cease-Fire Has Only Divided the War
Instead of ending the fighting, the current deal has mostly managed to complicate it.

Politics - U.S. HouseApr 07, 2026
In Georgia's 14th District Special Runoff, Democrats Pulled Off Their Biggest Shift Yet
Shawn Harris lost by about 12 percentage points in the 14th Congressional District, but he shifted the district 25 points to the left.

The Daily BeastOct 16, 2024
Anderson Cooper Literally Calls Bulls*** on Surrogate's Trump Defense
CNNCNN anchor Anderson Cooper was flabbergasted Wednesday by a surrogate's defense of Donald Trump, calling his explanation for the former president's bombastic statements literal "bulls---."

On AC360, former California Lieutenant Gov. Abel Maldonado, a Republican, said that Trump's recent comments calling for the military to "handle" Democrats were simply his way of expressing his inner New Yorker. "He's a fighter," Maldonado added.

The conversation began when Cooper brought up Trump's former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, who, alongside other military leaders, have begun to warn of the dangers of re-electing the former president. Milley has called Trump a "fascist to his core."

Read more at The Daily Beast.


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