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Top News Stories for Monday, April 27th 2026
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Democratic lawmakers have spent the past year blasting the Trump family's growing footprint in the cryptocurrency industry. Now, just months ahead of the midterm elections, they're digging in on a push to crack down on one of the first family's most lucrative businesses. Republicans may have limited time to use their control of government to deliver on a Trump campaign promise to pass a sweeping crypto bill that ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
CAIRO (AP) — Iran is offering to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program, two regional officials with knowledge of the proposal said Monday, as the country's foreign minister made a visit to Russia he said was an opportunity to consult with Moscow regarding the war against Israel and the United States. Iran also wants the U.S. to end its blockade of the ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Jury selection begins Monday in a $134 billion showdown between two of the world's most powerful tech titans — Elon Musk , the richest man on earth, and rival AI developer Sam Altman , CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. "Musk v Altman," to be tried before a federal jury in Oakland, California, culminates a decade of bitter clashes between the two former tech besties, both in lawsuits and public ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Car bomb kills Sadio Camara at home during coordinated assaults by rebel groups including West African al-Qaida affiliate Mali's defence minister was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said on Sunday, a high-profile fatality during coordinated assaults staged the previous day by insurgents including the West African affiliate of al-Qaida. A car laden with explosives driven by a suicide attacker ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid announce new party before Knesset vote expected later this year The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year after two of his most formidable political rivals combined forces in an attempt to oust him, inviting a third party leader to join them. In a move ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
The Chicago police officer fatally shot Saturday at a Lincoln Square hospital was identified as John Bartholomew, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Bartholomew, 38, was shot alongside another officer at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital by a robbery suspect who had been arrested earlier that morning, Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters Saturday. The second officer remains in critical ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of trying to storm the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner with guns and knives had written about targeting Trump administration officials, and his family raised concerns with law enforcement before the event, President Donald Trump said Sunday in an interview on Fox News Channel. The accused gunman's family had alerted police in Connecticut, Trump ...
Source: cleveland.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world. "It's always shocking when something like this happens. Happened to me, a ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack Released After Months in Detention Two days after their release, the mother and her five children were again detained during an ICE check-in. A judge halted their removal and returned the family home. An Egyptian family that was released from an immigration detention center in Texas last week was again taken into custody in Denver on Saturday morning — before being ...
Source: nytimes.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who rode a roster with Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Chris Sale to the most successful season in franchise history and then struggled to win with the discount lineups that replaced them, was fired on Saturday with Boston again mired in last place in the AL East. Cora, who was an infielder on the Red Sox 2007 World Series championship team and managed them to a ...
Source: wbur.org
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? LONDON (AP) — The fabled 2-hour barrier for a marathon has been broken, officially, in an once-inconceivable achievement in sports. Not by one ...
Source: huffpost.com