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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 21st 2026
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Virginia Democrats hope the new congressional map they're asking voters to approve Tuesday will flip four Republican House districts, delivering 10 of 11 seats in a state former Vice President Kamala Harris won with just The plan dramatically reworks entire sections of the state, slicing up deep blue districts in the Washington, DC, suburbs and around Richmond, and creates a new district running along the Blue ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A man killed eight children, including seven of his own, and shot two women in an attack in a Shreveport, Louisiana, neighborhood that was the nation's deadliest shooting in more than two years, authorities said. At a news conference outside the residence where one of the shootings occurred early Sunday, officials appeared stunned, requesting patience and prayers from the community. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Baby food manufacturer HiPP has issued a product recall in Austria after authorities reported the presence of rat poison in one of the company's jars. HiPP said on Sunday that it had pulled all baby food sold at stores operating under the SPAR umbrella in Austria, including outlets of EUROSPAR, INTERSPAR and Maximarkt. The Swiss company, which bills itself as the world's top organic baby food brand, said the recall ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — British police said Monday they arrested two teenagers in connection with an arson attack on a synagogue in northwest London over the weekend, as Jewish leaders express concern about a wave of incidents targeting their community. Deputy Commissioner Matt Jukes of London's Metropolitan Police Service said officers arrested two young men, aged 19 and 17, overnight in relation to the attack on the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off northern Japan on Monday prompted a short-lived tsunami alert and the advisory of a higher risk of a possible mega-quake for coastal areas there. The Cabinet Office and the Japan Meteorological Agency said there was a 1% chance for a mega-quake, compared to a 0.1% chance during normal times, in the next week or so following the powerful ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
New Glenn 3 took off from the Blue Origin launch base in Florida's Cape Canaveral on Sunday morning, carrying a satellite by satellite company AST Space Mobile, which it aimed to deliver into low Earth orbit. , gave updates during the launch on X, saying that liftoff went smoothly and that the rocket's booster had returned to earth. "The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit," the company said. "We are ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
April 20 (UPI) -- Five people were wounded in a shooting near the campus of the University of Iowa over the weekend, according to authorities seeking to identify several persons of interest. The gunshots rang out early Sunday in downtown Iowa City. The Iowa City Police Department said officers heard the gunfire as they were responding at 1:46 a.m. CDT to a report of a large fight in the 100 block of East College ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday it test-launched ballistic missiles with cluster bomb warheads in the second such test this month, likely underscoring its push to expand its capabilities to penetrate U.S. and South Korean defenses. The report by the North's official Korean Central News Agency appeared to refer to the multiple ballistic missile launches South Korea, Japan and the U.S. detected ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
An overturned ship found near the U.S. territory of Saipan after a typhoon hit is the vessel that went missing with six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard said it was still searching for the six. It said the overturned boat was first spotted Saturday. Debris included a partially submerged life raft that was partly inflated. It was seen 95 nautical miles northeast of the vessel, the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business. "On April 21, President Trump is scheduled to read Scripture via video message from the Oval Office during the 6 p.m. EST hour," a press release from organizers reads. The event is called "America Reads The Bible." over the Iran ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
Jalen Brunson scored 28 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 of his 25 in the second half and the Knicks beat the Atlanta Hawks 113-102 on Saturday night in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference playoff series in New York. OG Anunoby added 19 points and Josh Hart had 10 points and 14 rebounds for the Knicks in their first postseason game under Mike Brown after making four trips in five years under Tom Thibodeau, capped ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
BEIJING (AP) — A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, ...
Source: pbs.org
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of New York City read to preschoolers and led a sing-along. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group's leader. It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) ...
Source: cbsnews.com
The center-left coalition of former President Radev will win Bulgaria's election, exit poll suggests
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
– A center-left coalition led by 's former President will win the parliamentary election, an exit poll suggested hours after polls closed on Sunday. The list is unlikely to garner enough votes to rule alone, which could prolong a yearslong political The election on Sunday was the country's eighth in five years, illustrating a crippling political . Preliminary results are expected on Monday. The poll conducted ...
Source: news4jax.com