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Trump calls on Republicans to pass spending bill

2026-04-22 17:57:53 UTC / Reuters

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April 22, 2026 5:57 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged fellow Republicans in Congress to band together and pass spending legislation as lawmakers prepared to move forward on funding aimed at ending a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

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SPLC faces blowback from ‘hate map’ targets after DOJ fraud indictment

April 22, 2026 1:31pm EDT / Fox News

Family Research Council, PragerU, Moms for Liberty and others say the charges confirm years of ideological targeting

By Charles Creitz Fox News

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The DOJ’s fraud indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center is prompting swift reaction from groups named on its “hate map,” many casting the charges as vindication after years of being labeled extremist.

After a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charging the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, attention turned to groups the allegedly hate-group-linked organization itself has labeled as hate groups.

One of the more prominent names on SPLC’s “hate map” is the Family Research Council, which was the target of a 2012 attack by an armed man who allegedly found the group’s information on the SPLC’s website.

FRC President Tony Perkins said at the time that Floyd Lee Corkins II of Fairfax County — since sentenced to 25 years in prison — was responsible for wounding his building manager but believes “he was given a license by a group such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, who… labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and we stand for traditional, orthodox Christianity.”

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People attend a rally against hate on the steps of Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Dec. 1, 2021, following a Proud Boys march through the town days earlier.(Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images | Southern Poverty Law Center)

Corkins’ signed statement of offense acknowledged he targeted FRC because of its views, including advocacy against gay marriage, and intended to kill “as many employees” as he could.

The SPLC denied the connection at the time and did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the blowback from groups featured on its hate map.

On Tuesday, Perkins called the indictment of the SPLC a “welcome development” that marks the beginning of a “long pattern of misrepresentation and harm.”

“For years, the SPLC has used its platform to label and target organizations with whom it disagrees, often blurring the line between legitimate concern and ideological attack,” he said, before noting Corkins’ attack.

“With over $750 million in their endowment which includes offshore accounts, the SPLC should be held responsible not only for what was done, but for the damage left behind,” Perkins said.

Shannon Adcock, leader of the Midwestern parental rights group Awake Illinois, responded to SPLC’s indictment by noting it had posted “incredibly inflammatory rhetoric against us as parents simply for standing up for our parental rights and for our liberty.”

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“Many of my friends across the country have been labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as well, while meanwhile there are legitimate terrorists that are running around this country and they are silent on those efforts while targeting law-abiding people such as Illinois and our friends Moms for Liberty, Parents of Indian Education, Courage is a Habit and many others,” Adcock said. “So we celebrate this news. This is a good move by the FBI.”

Adcock said she would purchase a bottle of Veuve Clicquot to celebrate.

Awake Illinois’ website used the indictment to solicit donations, suggesting new donors choose “Suck it, Southern Poverty Law Center, your hate can’t cancel us” as a reason on its dropdown menu.

PragerU, the education media nonprofit founded by conservative commentator Dennis Prager, was also featured on SPLC’s “hate map.”

Marissa Streit, the group’s CEO, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the DOJ’s indictment appears to confirm everything that people knew about the SPLC.

“The alleged shell game fraud reveals the Center as what it really is: a leftist political outfit and an actual hate group masquerading as one fighting for civil rights,” Streit said, as PragerU also highlighted its own recent video analysis of the SPLC: “The Anti-Hate Group That Is A Hate Group.”

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“Anyone paying any attention knows its ‘hate map’ is just a list of ideas the SPLC wants to destroy,” Streit added.

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ACT for America, a group focused on combating the spread of radical Islamic ideology and threats from radical Islam, also responded via its founder Brigitte Gabriel.

“The SPLC labeled me and my organization, ACT for America a hate group year ago,” Gabriel said in a statement.

Gabriel founded the group after coming to America following years of living under threat of terrorism during the Lebanese Civil War, including attacks from Muslim militants who destroyed her house.

“[SPLC] considered us America’s largest hate group. A title we were proud to hold. It’s a wonderful thing to see the SPLC finally being held accountable for their lies.”

Moms for Liberty cofounder Tina Descovich said the organization’s affiliates make up more than half of the SPLC’s “hate map.”

“[That’s] simply because we’re empowering parents to get involved in their school board meetings and because we recognize the difference between boys and girls,” she told Fox News Digital.

“The SPLC’s hate map has been weaponized against us countless times, including by law enforcement where training manuals labeled us as an extremist group by citing the SPLC. We urge all who give to this dangerous organization to stop doing so immediately, and we call on all organizations who have used them in the past to condemn their actions.”

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Fox News Digital also reached out to the Center for Immigration Studies and its president, Mark Krikorian, for comment.

CIS pointed Fox News Digital to a column Krikorian wrote about being listed on the hate map in 2023, where he said the SPLC has been “lying low for some time, since the eruption of multiple humiliating scandals involving racism and sexual harassment that led to the firing of most of the group’s leadership, including founder Morris Dees.”

“The appearance of its annual ‘hate map’ was months late, raising suspicions that there were changes afoot. No such luck — the latest anathema was just pronounced. Google it yourself, if you want to see it,” he wrote.

“The Center for Immigration Studies is still there, of course; after operating for three decades, we graduated to ‘hate group’ status right after Trump’s election in 2016 — coincidentally.”

Fox News’ Kevin Ward, Alec Schemmel and David Spunt contributed to this report.

Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.

He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.

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Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.

Trump claims Iran ‘starving for cash,’ ‘collapsing financially’ after extending ceasefire

April 22, 2026 1:52pm EDT / Fox News

Trump claims Iran is losing $500M a day and its military is complaining about not getting paid amid the blockade of Hormuz

By Alex Nitzberg Fox News

President Donald Trump said Iran is “starving for cash” after extending the ceasefire deadline, arguing that the regime is losing hundreds of millions of dollar a day due to the U.S.-enforced blockade.

Trump claims that that the foreign nation is “collapsing financially.”

“Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!). They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to ‘save face.’ People approached me four days ago, saying, ‘Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.’ But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!” he declared in a Tuesday night Truth Social post.

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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to address the nation from the Cross Hall of the White House on April 1, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

“Iran is collapsing financially! They want the Strait of Hormuz opened immediately- Starving for cash! Losing 500 Million Dollars a day. Military and Police complaining that they are not getting paid. SOS!!!” the president claimed in another Tuesday night post.

Trump had indicated in a Tuesday afternoon Truth Social post that he would extend the ceasefire.

Motorists ride past the Imam Sadiq (AS) mosque with a giant Iranian flag installed on its front at the Palestine Square in Tehran on April 19, 2026.(ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

“Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,” Trump declared in the post.

“I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other,” he added.

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Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi had declared in a post on X that “Blockading Iranian ports is an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire. Striking a commercial vessel and taking its crew hostage is an even greater violation. Iran knows how to neutralize restrictions, how to defend its interests, and how to resist bullying.”

Iran reportedly fired upon three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Fannie, Freddie to accept ‘predictive’ credit scores, US officials say

2026-04-22 18:07:58 UTC / Reuters

By Pete Schroeder and Douglas Gillison

April 22, 2026 6:07 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – Housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now accepting additional credit scores ​that take into account rent and utility payments, a U.S. ‌government official overseeing the agencies announced on Wednesday.

The move is aimed at boosting access to affordable mortgages, a goal of President Donald Trump’s administration.

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Federal Housing ​Finance Agency Director William Pulte said the pair, which guarantee ​most U.S. mortgages, will now accept mortgages assessed using ⁠the VantageScore 4.0 model, which uses advanced data and analytics to ​generate scores. He said they are also working to implement a ​similar modified score system from FICO.

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Wednesday’s announcement is that Fannie and Freddie are now incorporating the scores into their guarantee process. FHFA approved those models in ​2022.

Similarly, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced his ​department would consider those scores for mortgages underwritten by the Federal Housing Administration.

The officials ‌said ⁠the expanded use of other credit score models should boost competition and potentially lower mortgage costs, allowing opportunities for potential homebuyers who otherwise would have struggled to gain an affordable mortgage.

“We are modernizing ​credit scoring with ​more predictive ⁠models, helping millions of Americans who responsibly pay rent qualify for mortgages. That’s fair, it’s commonsense, and ​it’s finally delivering the benefits of competition to homebuyers ​nationwide,” ⁠said Pulte in a statement.

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The Trump administration has increased focus on housing affordability in recent months, as part of an effort to address ⁠general concern ​with rising prices ahead of midterm ​elections in November where Trump’s Republican Party will defend slim majorities in both chambers ​of Congress.

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Dem Senate candidate calls to ‘shut the White House down,’ impeach 2 Supreme Court justices

April 22, 2026 1:17pm EDT / Fox News

The progressive candidate also called for impeaching Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

By Robert McGreevy, Fox News

Graham Platner, the frontrunner for the Maine Senate Democratic primary, said he would push to subpoena a wide swath of White House officials and to impeach Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito during a recent interview with NBC News.

“I want to shut the White House down,” he told NBC in an interview released Wednesday. “I want us to, for the next two years, be dragging every single person in the White House, every single person in all these agencies that have been conducting themselves in illegal and unconstitutional ways. They need to be dragged by subpoena in front of Senate committees over and over and over again.”

Among those he claimed were committing crimes or acting unconstitutionally were officials involved in deploying U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. cities and those involved in bombing campaigns in the Caribbean against alleged narcoterrorists, operations he referred to as “murder.”

He also said there is a “compelling case” to impeach both Thomas and Alito.

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“The relationship between Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow is not hard to see as clearly corrupt, and Justice Thomas doesn’t even recuse himself from cases that impact Crow’s businesses,” he said. “These are absolutely reasons for removal.”

Senatorial candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater in Ogunquit, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2025.(Sophie Park/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, the Supreme Court and the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, for comment.

In 2024, Justice Thomas amended his 2019 financial disclosure after a ProPublica report revealed that he had received gifts in the form of travel and lodging from GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow. The report revealed that Crow had paid for lodging and transit on his private plane for trips to Bali, Indonesia and Sonoma County, California.

Thomas claimed he originally omitted the meals and rides from reports because he believed they fell under the personal hospitality exemption. The exemption stems from Judicial Conference guidance which states that “personal hospitality” from a friend does not need to be reported if the friend did not have business before the court.

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“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years,” Thomas said in a statement at the time.

“As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them. Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” he wrote.

The report also revealed that Thomas sold a trio of Savannah, Georgia, homes to Crow for $133,000 in 2014. Thomas said he did not list the sales because, after spending over $50,000 on renovations to one of the homes, the sale amounted to a financial loss.

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Platner did not specify in the interview what he believed Alito should be impeached for.

In 2023, Alito defended himself from criticisms over a 2009 trip he took on a private jet paid for by billionaire Paul Singer. Alito did not disclose the trip or recuse himself from future business Singer had in front of the Supreme Court. Alito argued that the trip “would not cause a reasonable and unbiased person to doubt my ability to decide the matters in question impartially.”

Thomas is not the only Supreme Court Justice to amend his financial disclosures.

In 2021, Justice Sonia Sotomayor updated her 2016 disclosure to include six trips to public universities paid for by the schools that she’d previously omitted. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also updated a decade’s worth of disclosures during her nomination process. Omissions included her husband’s consulting income, her teacher’s salary and a gift she incurred from giving a speech.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke at the 60th commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 2023. The bombing in 1963 killed Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley.(Butch Dill – Pool/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital asked Platner’s campaign if he would support impeaching other justices, including Sotomayor and Jackson, but did not immediately receive a response.

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Platner also echoed an increasingly popular view on the left that the Democrats should support an expansion of the Supreme Court, telling NBC that he’s “definitely open to doing more, including to adding seats.”

While stating he supported the judicial impeachments, Platner added that the Democrats should not waste their time on impeaching President Donald Trump.

“If we don’t have the votes in the Senate to convict, I don’t think we should waste our time with it,” he told the outlet.

Graham Platner points to a covered tattoo that was previously recognized as a Nazi symbol during an interview in Portland, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2025.(WGME via AP)

He also said that he does not want to see Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., repeat his term as the Democrats’ leader in the Senate. Schumer has publicly backed Maine Gov. Janet Mills, Platner’s primary opponent.

Platner floated four names to replace Schumer: Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

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Platner, a self-described progressive, is backed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. He’s a combat veteran who did three tours in Iraq as a Marine and a tour in Afghanistan with the Maine National Guard.

He’s currently leading in the polls against both his Democratic primary opponent Mills and the incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. But his campaign has not been entirely smooth sailing.

He’s had to confront numerous controversies in recent months, most notably perhaps the revelation that he once sported a large chest tattoo that resembled Nazi iconography.

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In October, Platner covered up a skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest that strongly resembled the Totenkopf symbol used by Hitler’s SS forces. Platner claimed he got the tattoo as a veteran while drunk in Croatia and didn’t know it was akin to the Nazi symbol until media reports in 2024. He says he plans to remove it.

Platner also fessed up to running an edgy Reddit account that reportedly disparaged Black people and police and praised a raid executed by Hamas terrorists.

Anthropic investigating possible breach of its Mythos AI model

April 22, 2026 12:05 PM EDT / CBS News

By Mary Cunningham

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. She previously worked at “60 Minutes,” CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.

Anthropic is investigating a possible breach of Mythos, a new model the artificial intelligence company rolled out to a small pool of companies earlier this month to help them detect software vulnerabilities.

The AI company behind the chatbot Claude is looking into a report of unauthorized access to Mythos from one of its third-party vendor environments, an Anthropic spokesperson told CBS News in an email.

Anthropic works with a small number of third-party vendors to develop its AI models. So far, the company has not detected any breaches outside of its vendor environment or any compromises to the Anthropic systems.

Anthropic confirmed its investigation into the possible Mythos breach on Wednesday, a day after Bloomberg reported that a small group of unauthorized users had gained access to the tool, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Anthropic released Mythos to a limited group in April as part of an effort called Project Glasswing, billing the new model as more effective than competing AI systems at detecting software vulnerabilities.

At the time, Anthropic only shared the tool with a small group of major companies, including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, JPMorgan Chase and Nvidia, amid concerns that the new model could be exploited by hackers. The goal was to help these companies harden their defenses before bad actors can gain access to Mythos or similar AI models.

Federal officials, security experts and leaders at global institutions like the International Monetary Fund have all raised concerns about what might happen if Mythos falls into the wrong hands. While Project Glasswing is intended to help companies insulate themselves from cybersecurity threats, some experts are concerned that Mythos could also be used to exploit IT infrastructure at banks, hospitals, government systems and other organizations.

“We need to prepare ourselves, because we couldn’t keep up with the bad guys when it was humans hacking into our networks,” Alissa Valentina Knight, CEO of cybersecurity AI company Assail, previously told CBS News.” We certainly can’t keep up now if they’re using AI because it’s so much devastatingly faster and more capable.

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Trump administration and Spirit Airlines in advanced discussions over bailout, sources say

April 22, 2026 / 12:51 PM EDT / CBS News

By Kris Van Cleave

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

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The Trump administration is in advanced discussions with budget carrier Spirit Airlines about a bailout, sources familiar with the negotiations told CBS News.

The financing package could include a loan of up to $500 million, in exchange for warrants that would allow the federal government to take a potentially substantial ownership stake in the beleaguered airline, the sources said.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is one of the chief proponents pushing the Trump administration to take an ownership stake in the carrier, multiple sources told CBS News.

The deal is not done and is subject to change, but could be finalized imminently, the sources said. The negotiations were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The talks come after Mr. Trump weighed in publicly Tuesday, suggesting that while he preferred another airline acquire Spirit, he wanted his administration to look at a rescue package.

A spokesperson for Spirit Airlines declined to comment, and said that the carrier was operating as normal.

The Department of Transportation also declined to comment. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Tuesday that, while no decision had been made, “the clock is ticking.”

While the federal government has stepped in to help the airline industry broadly in the aftermath of 9/11 and during the COVID-19 pandemic, propping up a single carrier is an unusual move.

“A lot of people work for Spirit. We care about the people that work for Spirit in this industry,” Duffy told CBS News. “The question will be, can we do anything to save Spirit and make it viable, or would we be putting good money into a company that inevitably is gonna be liquidated? And that’s a decision that our teams look at and the president has to be briefed on and, and we’ll make a decision together.”

Spirit Airlines is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and employs about 15,000 people. About 6,000 of those employees are based in Florida.

Prices rise when budget airlines leave

Prices generally rise when an ultra low cost carrier exits the market. Spirit ended its last two routes at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport in December 2025. Both routes — St. Paul to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and St. Paul to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport — involved Delta hubs. Within days, Delta raised fares, in some cases by as much as 50%.

When fellow ultra low cost carrier Frontier Airlines departed a market, average fares on that route increased, according to data from aviation analytics company Cirium.

In 149 markets where Frontier stopped flying between 2023 and 2025, average fares increased 15.5%, or about $18, per ticket. Prices rose only about 2.5%, or about 93 cents, in markets where Frontier continued to fly. Nearly 79% of those 149 routes saw average fares increase the following year. In the 91 routes that Frontier exited between 2024 and 2025, 85% saw fares rise, by an average of $26 per ticket.

In some markets, the prices were more pronounced: Flights between Fort Meyers, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, jumped $127 in the year after Frontier left, while trips between Cincinnati and Philadelphia increased by $83.

“Budget airlines are like weights when it comes to airfares,” said Atmosphere Research Group airline analyst Henry Harteveldt. “They help keep fares down on the airlines that compete with them. When there are no budget airlines on a route, airfares take off faster than the planes themselves.”

Olivia Rinaldi contributed to this report.

Virginia vote hands Democrats redistricting edge, triggers GOP blame game ahead of House fight

2026-04-22T12:32:45-04:00 / Fox News

The referendum could give Democrats a 10-1 edge in Virginia’s congressional delegation ahead of the midterms

By Paul Steinhauser Fox News

Published April 22, 2026 12:32pm EDT

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Republicans are pointing fingers after their narrow loss in Virginia’s high-stakes congressional redistricting referendum, which could give Democrats a significant boost in the battle for the House of Representatives majority in this year’s midterm elections.

Even though they were outraised and outspent by Democrats by a nearly three-to-one margin, Republicans came close to sinking the ballot initiative, which gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state’s current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election.

Tuesday’s passage of the referendum could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge. The referendum, which follows President Donald Trump’s push for rare but not unheard-of mid-decade redistricting in Republican-led states over the past year, still faces a challenge in the state Supreme Court. But if it survives the legal hurdles, Democrats could gain four additional left-leaning U.S. House seats ahead of the midterms as they try to win back control of the chamber from the GOP, which currently holds a razor-thin majority.

Acknowledging the spending disparity, former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was one of the leaders of the GOP effort to sink the ballot initiative, told Fox News Digital at a rally on the eve of the vote that “they have outspent us three to one. They’ve raised over $70 million. And yet this is a close vote.”

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Former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks at the Virginians for Fair Maps rally in Bridgewater, Va., on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Virginia voters will decide if Virginia Congressional districts will be redrawn to counter the Texas redistricting.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Some Republicans are frustrated there wasn’t more help offered.

“We didn’t get the help we needed to sink the referendum,” a Virginia-based Republican strategist who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News Digital. “National Republicans could have and should have done more.”

Another Virginia-based Republican consultant, who was also granted anonymity, said, “It is bit shocking that there wasn’t a little bit more money spent earlier because once you peel back the top layer of the ballot language and stop Trump, the ‘yes’ campaign had nothing.”

“If we had a bit more money to educate, I think we could have won more of the persuasion bucket. And then, for sure, if we could have had a very well-funded ballot chase program to go turnout low proposition voters in southwest Virginia, a combination of aggressive field, text, and mail, we might have won.”

And Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore told reporters on Wednesday, “I think they should have put more in it. This would have, you know, for ten million or twenty million more dollars, we could have been in play.”

While Trump headlined a tele-rally on the eve of the referendum election, some fingers were also pointed towards the president and his political team.

“Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. So there’s going to be plenty of finger pointing and plenty of blame being assigned why this didn’t work out,” another GOP strategist who also asked for anonymity to speak candidly.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger speaks during a Virginians For Fair Elections canvassing event in Woodbridge, Va., on April 18, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The strategist emphasized that “ultimately, if you’re the White House, you started this redistricting fight last year and you better be sure that you’re giving all the people out there on your side the resources they need to finish the battle if this is going to be such a centerpiece of your historically narrow House majority.”

But a strategist with ties to the Republican team in Virginia that fought to sink the referendum disagreed, telling Fox News Digital “we got a lot of help from the Republican ecosystem… we received help from all corners.”

And the strategist shot down the idea that if Republicans had spent more money, it could have sunk the referendum. Referring to the team that pushed the referendum to victory, the strategist said “they’re just going to find more money. Democrats always do.”

And pointing to Trump, the strategist said “if the president had engaged right away, that would have made the entire debate about the president in a state that he lost in 2024….Our goal was to make this as much about Virginia as possible. Democrats tried to make it as much about the president as possible.”

Asked if the GOP did enough to help, National Republican Congressional Committee chair Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina told reporters on Wednesday, “Our team collectively made significant investments and we won half the vote.”

Hudson pointed to the margin, which was an overperformance compared to Trump’s nearly six-point defeat in Virginia in the 2024 presidential election.

The Republican National Committee(RNC) gave assistance to the Virginia GOP as well as to Republican groups fighting the referendum. And the RNC placed operatives in the field in Virginia.

RNC National Press Secretary Kiersten Pels told Fox News Digital that “this map is an unconstitutional partisan power grab designed to disenfranchise millions of voters and tilt the playing field.”

“The RNC will continue this fight in court to protect Virginia voters and ensure fair representation across the Commonwealth,” Pels added.

Virginia was the battlefield in the high-stakes fight between Trump and the GOP versus Democrats over congressional redistricting.

Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House, when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, Trump a year ago first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard-of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.

Texas and California were the first major showdowns over redistricting, with Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina, Indiana, and Utah also getting into the scrum.

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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has called a special session of the state legislature to start meeting on April 28, 2026, to handle congressional redistricting.(Rich Pope/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)

Now the spotlight turns to Florida.

Matt Gorman, a veteran Republican strategist based in Virginia, told Fox News Digital that pointing fingers is absolutely useless. “The fact of the matter is we have to fight the next battle, and that’s in Florida.”

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Two-term Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers in the GOP-dominated legislature are hoping to pick up an additional three to five right-leaning seats through a redistricting push during a special legislative session that kicks off next week.

And with the Democrats’ victory in Virginia, pressure is growing on DeSantis to deliver.

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.

Colorado prosecutor charges border officer with assault

2026-04-22 7:40 PM UTC / Reuters

By Jasper Ward

April 22, 2026 7:40 PM UTC Updated 14 mins ago

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A view shows a patch of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the uniform of an officer in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 10, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – A Colorado district attorney has announced charges against a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who allegedly assaulted a ​woman during a protest outside a federal immigration facility last year.

Videos ‌of the incident in southern Colorado were shared widely on social media. The woman told CBS News Colorado she was filming the officer before he “lifted me off ​the ground somehow, in a chokehold.”

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Sean P. Murray, the district attorney ​for Colorado’s Sixth Judicial District, identified the officer as Nicholas ⁠Rice, who was involved in immigration enforcement activity in the state last ​October.

“Officer Nicholas Rice has been charged by summons and complaint with assault ​in the third degree and criminal mischief,” Murray said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the charges were related to an October 28 incident at U.S. Immigration and ​Customs Enforcement’s facility in Durango, Colorado.

CBP did not immediately respond to ​a request for comment and it is unclear if Rice is still on duty.

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The October ‌protest ⁠outside the facility was held after a Durango man and his two children were arrested by immigration agents while on the way to school. An ICE official later said the man was wrongly identified by agents.

Rice’s ​charges came less than ​a week ⁠after prosecutors in Minnesota charged an ICE agent with assault for allegedly pointing his gun at two people in a ​car along a highway in Minneapolis in February.

ICE and ​CBP are ⁠part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has been on the front line of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The crackdown has resulted in protests ⁠in ​targeted cities that expanded nationwide following the fatal ​shootings by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis in January of two U.S. citizens – Alex Pretti and ​Renee Good.

Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; editing by Donna Bryson, Rod Nickel

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Mexico’s president weighs action after CIA agents killed in crash following drug lab raid

April 22, 2026 / 2:58 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she is considering possible sanctions against the government of Chihuahua — a state bordering Texas — for allowing CIA agents to participate in an operation to dismantle drug laboratories because any security collaboration with the U.S. should be approved by Mexico’s federal government.

Sheinbaum’s comments come after days of contradictions of several authorities following the death of two U.S. officials in a vehicle crash over the weekend as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico.

The two Americans killed in the crash were employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, multiple people familiar with the matter told CBS News. The CIA declined to comment.

“There cannot be agents from any U.S. government institution operating in the Mexican field,” the president stated during her morning news briefing. She noted that such activities are not part of the current security protocols or the formal understanding between the two nations.

Sheinbaum said the federal government is still investigating a potential violation of national security laws in the still-murky incident.

Two Mexican investigators also were killed in the crash, which Mexican authorities said occurred while the convoy was returning from an operation to destroy drug labs of criminal groups.

Methamphetamine labs were found in the mountains between Morelos and Guachochi, Mexican officials said. Chihuahua State Investigation Agency

In a news release, the state attorney general’s office identified the two Mexican casualties as first commander of the state investigation agency Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes and officer Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes.

There have been discrepancies in the public accounts of what happened from U.S. and Mexican officials, which experts say underscores heightened U.S. involvement in security operations in Mexico and across the region.

The U.S. agents killed were “instructor officers” who “were carrying out training tasks” as part of binational anti-drug cooperation, state prosecutor Cesar Jauregui told reporters. Jauregui called the targeted labs “one of the largest sites found in the country where chemical drugs were produced.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged Wednesday that the Mexican army participated in the operation – as its mandate includes supporting individual states. However, she emphasized that the federal government was unaware of the U.S. agents’ presence.

Sheinbaum ruled out the possibility that the incident constitutes a new strategy by the Trump administration – which has demanded greater action from Mexico in the fight against cartels.

However, she said she sent a letter to the U.S. ambassador to Mexico requesting that he provide all available information regarding the incident. She also said she plans to speak with the Gov. of Chihuahua, Maru Campos. “It is very important that something like this not be allowed to go unaddressed,” she said.

U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson expressed his condolences on social media but he and other officials provided few details of the incident.

“We honor their dedication and tireless efforts to confront one of the greatest challenges of our time,” Johnson said. “This tragedy is a solemn reminder of the risks faced by those Mexican and U.S. officials who are dedicated to protecting our communities.”

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed to take action on Mexican cartels – an intervention that Sheinbaum has said is “unnecessary.”

Sheinbaum has resisted the Trump administration’s threats to use airstrikes or ground troops to fight Mexican cartels, instead promoting intelligence sharing with the U.S. while local security forces attack crime groups.

Elite Mexican troops operating with U.S. intelligence killed drug kingpin Nemesio”El Mencho”Oseguera in February, unleashing a wave of violence that left over 70 dead.

Mexico has announced the dismantling of numerous drug labs in recent months after Mr. Trump threatened possible military action to curb drug trafficking.

In February, Mexican naval personnel discovered a hidden drug laboratory in the country’s Durango region and “neutralized” over 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine. In January, authorities announced more than 1,500 pounds of meth were seized from clandestine laboratories in the states of Durango, Sinaloa and Michoacán.

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