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Ukraine Strikes Deep Inside Russia Amid Talks Of Temporary Cease-Fire

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Aviation, Drones, Featured, Headlines, International, Oil, Gas, Energy, Russia, SCW Russia Report, Ukraine

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Iran’s Conservative Camp Split Over U.S. Talks To End War

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines, International, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Persian Gulf

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VIDEO: Powell era ends, Iran war costs $25B – Reuters World News – Thursday 4.30.26

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Economy, Business, Elections, Featured, Federal Reserve, Government, Politics, Headlines, International, Iran, U.S. Supreme Court, UK

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds rates steady, pledges to remain involved as a fed governor; Pentagon claims $25[…]

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California gas prices hit $6 per gallon as fuel costs jump nearly 30 cents in a week across the U.S.

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines

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JD Vance says feds investigating whether Walz, Minnesota officials turned ‘blind eye’ to massive ‘fraud scheme’

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Trump drops Casey Means, picks Nicole Saphier as surgeon general

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Funding bill to end Homeland Security shutdown signed into law

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Trump pulls nomination of unlicensed Casey Means for surgeon general

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Congress clears short-term FISA extension

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines

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Ban on kids’ companion chatbots advanced by Senate committee

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Senate bans prediction market trading by members, staff; ‘Let’s clean up Congress,’ says Sen. Bernie Moreno of rule change

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Oil Holds Weekly Gain as Trump Says Iran Blockade Is Working

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NSA Testing Anthropic’s Mythos to Find Flaws in Microsoft Tech

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Longest Partial Shutdown in U.S. History Ends After Trump Signs DHS Funding Bill

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Congress extends controversial FISA spy law 45 days after Senate rejects House bill; House cleared Senate-passed 45-day extension after upper chamber rejected Speaker Johnson’s 3-year extension proposal

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Trump DOJ report lays bare Biden administration’s alleged anti-Christian bias

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Trump ends DHS’ months-long nightmare that left immigration enforcement without funding; ICE and Customs and Border Protection remain unfunded as Republicans plan a separate party-line package

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Iran War’s Economic Impact is Everywhere—Except the Job Market

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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S&P 500, Nasdaq Hit New Highs as Stocks Wrap Up Big Month of Gains

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines

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Pope Leo XIV’s May prayer intention: ‘That everyone might have food’

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Agriculture, Catholic Faith, Faith & Values, Featured, Headlines

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Catholic Mass Readings: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter 4.30.26

04.30.2026 SCW SteveWire Catholic Mass Readings, Faith & Values, Featured, Headlines

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Gas Prices Jump to $4.23, Highest Since 2022—See Prices in Your State

04.29.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines

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Stocks Closed Little Changed Ahead of Tech Earnings Barrage

04.29.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines

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Fed holds rates steady amid sharp divide over policy easing bias; In its most divided decision since 1992

04.29.2026 SCW SteveWire Featured, Headlines

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NASA fires up powerful lithium-fed thruster for trips to Mars

04.28.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Justice Department indicts James Comey over seashell photo; Filing calls Instagram post ‘a serious expression of an intent to do harm to President Trump’

04.28.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Sinking AI stocks and rising oil prices weigh on Wall Street, helped pull Wall Street off its record heights; S&P 500 fell 0.5% Tuesday from its latest all-time high

04.28.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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U.S. will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America’s 250th birthday

04.28.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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Nasdaq, S&P 500 end lower on renewed so-called ‘AI’ growth worries ahead of big tech earnings

04.28.2026 SCW SteveWire Economy, Business, Featured, Headlines, Investment, Stocks, Bonds, Metals

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S&P 500, Nasdaq Retreat from Record Highs; Oil Prices Rise

04.28.2026 SCW SteveWire Headlines

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