Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-19 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Venezuela’s main opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says she has “no regrets” about giving US President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal.
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[2026-04-19 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: YAOUNDÉ — Pope Leo XIV arrives on Saturday in Angola, the third leg of a landmark African tour marked by a war of words with US President Donald Trump over the Middle East conflict.
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[2026-04-19 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Amid ongoing hostilities with Iran, Democrats brushed off past calls from some figures in their party for US armed forces to “refuse illegal orders,” even as they broadly maintained that President Donald Trump’s use of the military is on shaky footing without lawmaker approval.
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[2026-04-19 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: I’M going to be brutally blunt about this: Donald Trump has to go. Whether it’s Americans finally waking up and starting to revolt or forcing Congress to impeach him, or whatever — he has to go.
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[2026-04-19 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday directed his administration to speed up reviews of certain psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine, which recently has been embraced by combat veterans and conservative lawmakers despite having serious safety risks.
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[2026-04-19 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has told Israel it was wrong. That was the message delivered Friday by US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack at the fifth Antalya Diplomacy Forum, a day after a 10-day Lebanon ceasefire took effect and hours after Barrack met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Syrian delegation’s Antalya residence.
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[2026-04-19 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel has threatened to sue The Atlantic for publishing a report claiming that he fears for his job due to his “excessive drinking” and “unexplained absences.”
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[2026-04-19 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Speaking from the Oval Office a few minutes ago, US President Donald Trump said there were "very good conversations going on" with Iran.
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[2026-04-19 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This would expedite review of drugs such as ibogaine, a drug that US military veteran groups have said can help treat PTSD
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[2026-04-19 00:41 UTC+10:00] [FDA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This would expedite review of drugs such as ibogaine, a drug that US military veteran groups have said can help treat PTSD
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[2026-04-19 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's top national security body said that the country was reviewing "new proposals" received from the US, as it warned that its negotiators would cut no compromises with Washington.
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[2026-04-19 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Cuba is a peaceful nation, but it will use all means to defend itself in case of US aggression, the Caribbean country’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has told RT.
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[2026-04-19 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Cuba is a peaceful nation, but it will use all means to defend itself in case of US aggression, the Caribbean country’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has told RT.
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[2026-04-19 00:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: POPE Leo XIV said Saturday he regretted remarks he made were interpreted as a response to criticism from President Donald Trump, insisting he had no interest in debating the US leader.
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[2026-04-19 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, April 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-04-19 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El papa León XIV llega en procesión para celebrar la misa en el aeropuerto de Yaoundé Ville, Camerún, el sábado 18 de abril de 2026, en el sexto día de su visita pastoral de 11 días a África. (Foto AP/Andrew Medichini)
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[2026-04-19 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump spoke to the media at the White House on Saturday about his plans for Iran, saying he would announce updates "by the end of the day."
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[2026-04-19 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tehran is looking for room to manoeuvre on bigger issues as a ceasefire deadline looms next week, observers say
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[2026-04-18 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Bankrupt Spirit Airlines appears to be flying on fumes, with a late Friday report indicating the budget carrier has become so desperate for cash that it has approached the Trump administration for an emergency bailout, even as creditors mull pulling the plug at any moment.
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[2026-04-18 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV arrives in procession to celebrate Mass at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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[2026-04-18 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump on Saturday signed an executive order to expedite research into the psychedelic ibogaine – a drug championed by podcaster Joe Rogan – so it can be used to treat PTSD in veterans and traumatic brain injuries.
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[2026-04-18 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Tensions between Washington and Tehran are rising sharply over access to key shipping routes in the Persian Gulf, as both sides harden their positions.
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[2026-04-18 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: It looks like the judicial lawfare against Team Trump is passing its peak, as feral federal jurists get slapped down and state justices learn they can’t break the law to serve the Resistance.
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[2026-04-18 23:37 UTC+10:00] [Washington DC] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Construction was stopped after suit challenged president’s authority to raze East Wing without congressional approval
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[2026-04-18 23:28 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: WASHINGTON — As European finance officials descended on the U.S. capital this week for the IMF-World Bank spring meetings, they sought to engage the Americans on the existential economic issues facing the continent: from the economic fallout from the Iran war to threats facing the global financial system to support for Ukraine.
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[2026-04-18 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – United States President Donald Trump’s announcements about securing major concessions from Tehran have riled supporters of the Iranian establishment, prompting rejections and clarifications from the authorities.
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[2026-04-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Eric Swalwell is not the only member of Congress drawing attention for his activities off the House floor — with sources telling The Post that Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a married member of Swalwell’s “Cool Kids Clique,” was spotted surreptitiously kissing a much younger congressional aide in the summer of 2023.
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[2026-04-18 22:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Federal investigators digging into the disappearances and deaths of 11 scientists and researchers are likely to find “crazy stuff” about their respective cases — but not a connection between them, a former top US nuclear official told The Post.
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[2026-04-18 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump made seven claims in one hour after Tehran announced the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and all of them are untrue, Iranian parliamentary speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said.
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[2026-04-18 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A Mexican mayor earlier this month urged her constituents to get their relatives in Texas to vote for House Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido because he would “take care” of their city if elected to Congress.
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[2026-04-18 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A Mexican mayor earlier this month urged her constituents to get their relatives in Texas to vote for House Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido because he would “take care” of their city if elected to Congress.
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[2026-04-18 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AS the 2026 global oil crisis pushes up the cost of fuel, electricity, food and other essentials, Senator Loren Legarda has filed Senate Bill 2020 or the Bayanihan 3: Power to the People Act, a comprehensive emergency bill that pairs immediate relief for ordinary Filipinos with a temporary, crisis-specific revenue package.
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[2026-04-18 22:00 UTC+10:00] [USAID] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administration
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[2026-04-18 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: According to President Trump, China’s leader Xi Jinping is so happy that the US is keeping the oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz that he expects to receive “a big, fat hug” from Xi when he visits Beijing next month.
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[2026-04-18 21:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lauryn Muller sits at her home Monday, April 13, 2026, in Coral Springs, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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[2026-04-18 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump’s influence on the Republican Party faces a test in Indiana’s primary on May 5. After state senators opposed redistricting, Trump endorsed seven primary challengers. (AP video: Obed Lamy)
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[2026-04-18 21:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente del gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez (centro), posa para una foto con el presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, y su esposa, Rosangela Lula da Silva, en la reunión en Defensa de la Democracia, en Barcelona, España, el 18 de abril de 2026. (AP Foto/Joan Monfort)
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[2026-04-18 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has denied US claims that it agreed to transfer its enriched uranium abroad and threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz again if Washington’s naval blockade is not lifted, as a handful of vessels began transiting the strategic waterway on Saturday.
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[2026-04-18 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Pope Leo XIV] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president’s grudge match with the pope underlines how religion really functions in American politics
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[2026-04-18 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The US-Israeli attacks are a ‘massive learning opportunity’, a Middle East analyst tells a seminar held in Shenzhen
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[2026-04-18 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: A new POLITICO poll finds half of Americans — including one quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters — said his mass deportations campaign is too aggressive.
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[2026-04-18 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Trump administration on Friday renewed a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil at sea for about a month, even as lawmakers accused the government of going easy on Moscow as its war on Ukraine grinds on.
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[2026-04-18 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV polarizing the diverse community as faith and politics come to a head
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[2026-04-18 19:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, center, poses for a photo next to Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and his wife wife Rosangela Lula da Silva, at the Meeting in Defence of Democracy summit, in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
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[2026-04-18 19:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump sounded optimistic late Friday about the progress of peace talks with Iran and said negotiations are continuing as a fragile ceasefire held, but Iranian media said the key Strait of Hormuz was closed to shipping traffic again after the U.S. failed to meet its obligations.
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[2026-04-18 19:02 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: How JD Vance Is Being Tested as Trump’s Chief Defender2:04
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[2026-04-18 18:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's central military command announced on Saturday it would resume "strict management" of the Strait of Hormuz, reversing a decision to unblock the strategic channel as part of negotiations with Washington.
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[2026-04-18 18:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Five empty Iranian tankers were sighted in Iranian ports loading millions of barrels of oil amid the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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[2026-04-18 18:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV is set to arrive in Angola on the third leg of a landmark African tour that has unfolded alongside an escalating war of words with United States President Donald Trump over the Middle East conflict.
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[2026-04-18 18:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: San Francisco Giants (8-12, fourth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals (9-11, third in the NL East)
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