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Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
— Most US states now allow medical or recreational consumption of marijuana, though it remains illegal at the federal level.
US Senate Republicans clear go-it-alone path for ICE funding — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
US Senate Republicans approve budget measure, teeing up bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
US: Virginia judge blocks redistricting referendum result that boosted Democrats' election hopes — 22 April 2026 (LINK)
Pete Hegseth fires U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan — 22 April 2026 (LINK)
Intercept: Pentagon erases wounded U.S. troops from Iran war casualty list: "definition of a cover-up" — 22 April 2026 (LINK)
— On the day the ceasefire between the Trump administration and Iran took effect, the tally of U.S. dead and wounded was 385. Despite a pause in hostilities, the number had slowly risen to 428 on Monday, according to Pentagon statistics. Yet on Tuesday, the number of wounded-in-action troops declined by 15 troops without public comment from the War Department, dropping the total to 413. The count held steady on Wednesday, except for one public War Department tally that put the "grand total" of wounded and dead at 411. Two Pentagon spokespersons said they were unable to field questions on the 15 casualties disappeared by the War Department on Tuesday.
Judge tosses Kash Patel's defamation suit against former MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi — 22 April 2026 (LINK)
— "Yeah, well, reportedly, he's been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building," Figliuzzi said on "Morning Joe" show last year. Figliuzzi's lawyers argued that "this comment was a sarcastic, hyperbolic remark that receives protection from defamation liability." "A person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally," the judge said.
