April 17, 2026: Daily Feature Links

1. Democracy Now!:   Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Who Oversaw Mass Deportation Efforts, to Resign in May
2. Democracy Now!:   House Votes to Extend Deportation Protections for 330,000 Haitian Immigrants
3. Democracy Now!:   Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejía Wins Special Election for New Jersey House Seat
4. Democracy Now!:   As Iran Reopens Strait of Hormuz, Are U.S. & Iran Near Deal or Renewed Fighting?
5. Democracy Now!:   Report from Beirut: Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Met with "Cautious Optimism"
6. Democracy Now!:   Rami Khouri: U.S. & Israel Were "Forced into Two Ceasefires" as Regional Balance of Power Shifts
7. Democracy Now!:   Israelis in Tel Aviv Protest Settler Violence After High Court Lifts Wartime Ban on Gatherings
8. Democracy Now!:   House Votes 213-214 to Reject War Powers Resolution as Trump Claims Deal with Iran Is "Very Close"
9. Pete Hegseth using the word "Intelligence" is a historical farce the likes of which may never be matched.
10. FISA
11. Heather Delaney Reese:   Trump's midnight rage posting spree got ugly
12. CGTN:   Iran Talks: On the Brink | 03 Veteran US diplomat questions 'ceasefire'
13. ICC
14. ICJ
15. Dialogue Works:   Amb. Chas Freeman: Israel's Strategy Just COLLAPSED – Trump Steps In
16. George Galloway:   Secretly shredding the Magna Carta