Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, April 24, 2026

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

Peace talks at the White House, marijuana reclassification, two defections to Democrats, and number one pick missing. Plus, the Message of the Day, the Ten Commandments return to Texas schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But first, the president greeted leaders from Israel and Lebanon as they engaged in peace talks at the White House. It says connections to Iran, of course, because Hezbollah in Lebanon is backed by Iran. As the ceasefire in Iran is ongoing, the Israeli defense minister said they are waiting for the green light from the United States to resume attacks in Iran. The minister said the attack this time will be different and deadly and will add devastating blows in the most painful places, following the enormous blows that the Iranian terrorist regime has suffered so far, but blows that will shake and collapse its foundations. The president said Iran is having a very hard time figuring out who their leader. is. They just don't know. He also said, I've ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats, though they may be. Their naval ships are all 159 of them at the bottom

of the sea. That's putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, signed an order reclassifying state licensed medical marijuana. Blanche said that the move is based on delivering on President Trump's promise to expand medical options for Americans. He said this rescheduling action allows for research on the safety and efficacy of this substance, ultimately providing better care for patients and doctors with more reliable information. The DEA said our men and women in law enforcement remain committed to fighting drug cartels, the fentanyl epidemic, and protecting American lives. But potheads beware, this order said that any form of marijuana other than an FDA approved drug product

remains a Schedule 1 controlled substance. That's the most dangerous classification of drugs. And those who handle such materials remain subject to the law. All through Two nights ago, over a six-hour period, ending at 4 a.m. Eastern, Senate Republicans voted 50 to 48, Murkowski and Rand Paul defecting to the Democrats. But they voted to fund ICE and Border Patrol until the end of Trump's term. This is part of Senate Republicans' plan to approve $70 billion in funding without any help from Democrats. The House has to vote on it. And if the House makes any changes to it, then it's got to go back to the Senate for probably another six hours of voting. Day one of the NFL draft was last night. Number one pick, Mendoza was not. Not in Pittsburgh.

He was with his mom. He said he would have loved to been in Pittsburgh, but mom really wanted to do it at home. It's a lot easier for us, especially with the family situation. His mom, if you remember, has MS. And I encourage you to read the letter that mom wrote to her son after he won the Heisman trophy a couple months ago. Number one pick to the Raiders. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith.

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On this Friday, did you hear about the big ruling in Texas? So the federal court said that the state can command all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every single classroom. Now, the vote was close, but it was very surprising to me because we live. in a secular country now, not a religious country. But the reason the Ten Commandments won in Texas is this. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, all of our individual rights come from Judeo-Christian philosophy. The founding fathers admitted that. And when they wrote the Constitution, they included the Ten Commandments, not per se. You know that picture of Moses with the tablets?

But you had, love thy neighbor, don't commit crimes, obey the scriptures. You had all of that, okay, in different forms. The message was that although we are not a theocracy in America, we do believe that God has given us these rights. And now all the urchins in Texas will know it. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at bill o'Reilly.com.

Bill at bill o'Reilly. com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Robert Deering, Ringgold, Georgia. Why don't we sell Iran's oil to pay off the war effort?

Because we don't have Iran's oil. What do you want to do there? Send in American infantry to confiscate the oil? Is that what you want? And then we have a thousand

U.S. military dead or wounded? Not going to happen. Let's stay in the real world here. John. Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson are disgrace founders of fake news. Thank you, Bill, for your courage and efforts

to restore integrity to your profession. We'll be watching you on Monday. But Rather and Donaldson, both in their 90s, are not going to be at the dinner. But I do expect some disruption. which is why I'm going. I got to be on the scene. Steve, a dinner for the media that hates President Trump?

Why? That's an interesting question. So Trump didn't go the first five times. Why is he going now? I'll ask him when I talk to him, but he's kind of preoccupied, but I don't know. Seems like he's opening some doors here that I don't know. However, we're on it.

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of the most popular baby names in America. While some classics remain, others may surprise you. Here they are. For boys, the top 10 starts with William, thank you all very much, followed by Lucas, Elijah, Mateo, Henry, James, Theodore, Oliver, Noah, and number one in the USA. Liam, which is William in the Germanic language. For girls, it's Sophia, then Ava, Evelyn, Isabella, Emily, Mia, Charlotte, Amelia, Emma, and Olivia.

Lots of A's going on there. The data changes by region. In California, the most popular names are Sebastian and Luna. In New Mexico, Ezra and Anna. In North Dakota, they're naming the urchins Hudson and Eleanor. And some new monikers are on the rise. According to a study from the Huggies diaper company, the fastest growing handles, are Axel, Fergie, Zhang, Jaden, and Terrell. While first names change with the trends, one constant in American society is our last names. The list remains relatively unchanged for the last 40 years. Most popular surnames, Martinez, Davis, Rodriguez, Miller, Garcia, Jones, Brown, Williams, Johnson, and Smith.

And here's something else you might not know. Cross upon the massive changes in immigration. They've had a major effect on baby names. In the UK, the influx of Muslims have led to names like Mohammed, Mustafa, Ibrahim and Mamadou. Back after this. Local news is in decline across Canada, and this is bad news for all of us.

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