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Swiss National Bank faces pressure to divest from Palantir Technologies (PLTR) in view of the company's contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Pete Hegseth 'butted heads' with fired Navy secretary John Phelan over shipbuilding and push to ignore judge's orders in favour of Senator Mark Kelly: reports — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Long working hours, job insecurity, and workplace bullying and harassment killing 840,000 people a year, ILO report finds: report "introduces an innovative approach structured around three interrelated levels to better understand the factors that shape the psychosocial working environment" — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
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.
Breaking news
Iran: US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to depart for Pakistan today, but Tehran has denied there are plans for direct negotiations with the US — 25 April 2026 (LINK)
US freezes $344 million in cryptocurrency said to be linked to Iran — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
— On Thursday, Tether, a digital currency company that facilitates crypto transactions around the world, announced it had "supported the US government in freezing" $344 million in cryptocurrency across two addresses, after information was shared "by several U.S. authorities about activity tied to unlawful conduct."
Trump set to attend memecoin conference on Saturday after 96 percent wipeout: Mar-a-Lago conference for top investors in Donald Trump’s $TRUMP crypto token featuring the president himself is drawing much less trading than a similar event last year. — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
— The memecoin is currently down more than 95 percent from its January 2025 high.
Russian oil to Slovakia resumes flowing through pipeline that crosses Ukraine: expected to unblock a large financial assistance package for Ukraine — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
Karoline Leavitt say she's 'not part of Trump's political team anymore' — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
Major news
Swiss National Bank faces pressure to divest from Palantir Technologies (PLTR) in view of the company's contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Pete Hegseth 'butted heads' with fired Navy secretary John Phelan over shipbuilding and push to ignore judge's orders in favour of Senator Mark Kelly: reports — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Long working hours, job insecurity, and workplace bullying and harassment killing 840,000 people a year, ILO report finds: report "introduces an innovative approach structured around three interrelated levels to better understand the factors that shape the psychosocial working environment" — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
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.
Miscellaneous
Petroloegas: Scientists discover that airborne microplastics come much more from land than from the ocean (more than 20x) and reveal a massive error in previous models — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Natural molecule could provide Ozempic, Wegovy alternative — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
UCSF: How to starve cancer: cut off the nutrients that help tumors grow — 2026 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science on April 16 — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Millionaire big game hunter/conservationist trampled to death by elephants — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Geneva civil servants march against planned budget cuts — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
US Appeals court overturns $8.2 million award to conservative former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore over Democratic PAC’s ad citing allegations that Moore solicited teen girls for sex: Moore did not prove libel or invasion of privacy — 24 April 2026 (LINK)
Warner Bros Discovery shareholders approve sale to Paramount Skydance but cast an advisory vote against executive compensation plans tied to the deal. — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
— Al Jazeera: HBO Max, valuable titles like Harry Potter and even CNN could soon find themselves under the same roof with CBS, Top Gun and the Paramount+ streaming service. Attention now turns to regulatory authorities, with both Washington and London expected to examine the merger's impact on competition. Paramount triumphed over Netflix in a months-long bidding war. The merger has faced considerable opposition from actors, filmmakers and theatre groups that have raised concerns about the loss of a major studio and its impact on the creative community, theatre owners and moviegoers.
US soldier arrested over Polymarket wagers tied to Maduro's capture: bets totaled $33,034 and, ultimately, paid out more than $400,000 — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
International Finance Bank confirms XRP as a payment rail within ILP stream protocol — 22 April 2026 (LINK)
XRP payments instantly cut 80 percent SWIFT delay losses — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
The Swiss government has approved a tightening of the screws for systemically important banks. They will have to cover all holdings in foreign subsidiaries. Swiss government wants UBS to increase its capital by $20 billion. Parliament will debate this law from the summer session onwards — 22 April 2026 (LINK)
Catchup: Crypto investor Justin Sun sues Trump's World Liberty Financial over 'misconduct': has invested tens of millions of dollars in President Donald Trump's family's various crypto ventures — 21 April 2026 (LINK)
Swiss parliamentary committee supports the lifting of a ban on the construction of new power plants — 21 April 2026 (LINK)
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