News for April 15, 2026

The Justice Department met with anti-abortion advocate John Mize and Americans United for Life after firing staff over claims they worked too closely with abortion-rights groups.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s conservative majority for using emergency orders to help the Trump administration move ahead with disputed policies.

A New York jury found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster held a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, which could lead to major penalties.

Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic plan to stop President Donald Trump from taking more military action in Iran.

Trump is threatening to fire Jerome Powell if Powell stays on the Federal Reserve board after his term as chair ends, as a Justice Department probe into Fed renovation costs adds pressure.

The article says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s planned nonprofit sale is part of a wider trend in which legacy newspapers, including The Salt Lake Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, have turned to nonprofit ownership to survive.

The United Kingdom is sending Ukraine its biggest-ever drone package as part of wider support for the war effort.

Mediators are trying to extend the US-Iran ceasefire as President Donald Trump’s administration pressures Tehran with sanctions and a naval blockade while talks continue.

Jeanine Pirro’s office sent prosecutors to the Federal Reserve’s headquarters to inspect renovation work, but they were turned away and the move added to a tense criminal probe involving Chair Jerome Powell.

The Trump administration moved to erase the remaining Jan. 6 convictions tied to Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members, extending its effort to clear people convicted after the Capitol attack.