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A senior Taiwanese official expressed concern that Trump might make concessions on the self-governed island in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, adding Taiwan was working hard to prevent such a scenario.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer was under investigation over claims she had an affair with a subordinate and allegedly misused travel funds, and that her aides allegedly steered grants to politically connected figures. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/lori-chavez-deremer-resign-trump-labor-secretary-staff
Two RAF Typhoons have been scrambled from a Romanian air base to engage Russian drones close to Nato airspace, although they did not open fire. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/25/raf-typhoons-scrambled-russia-drone-nato-romania-ukraine
The FBI director was arrested twice in his youth for alcohol-related incidents that he said were “not representative of my usual conduct.” https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/kash-patel-arrest-alcohol-drinking/
During the third week of April, 85 out of every 100,000 emergency room visits were for tick bites, according to the CDC’s tick bite data tracker. That’s the highest rate since 2017. https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2026/04/tick-bites-are-sending-more-people-to-the-er-than-they-have-in-nearly-10-years.html
A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday. https://apnews.com/article/solider-justice-department-polymarmet-74047663d9ae104127948896fdfb59d9
Feds charge soldier with using intel to win $400K bet on Maduro raid
A U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market. Federal officials unsealed the indictment Thursday. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the work to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s office in New York said. He has been charged with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.
This pattern—expecting Republicans to behave wildly and cheat to grab power while expecting Democrats to behave according to the rules of normal times—has been going on now for years, and it is a dynamic that reflects the political patterns of the years before the Civil War.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-22-2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-22-2026
In multiple instances, S&C, which employs more than 900 lawyers and has one of the top reputations for corporate work in the US, filed inaccurately summarised conclusions made in other cases using AI. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/22/ai-hallucinations-found-in-high-profile-wall-street-law-firm-filing
Jean-François Mezei