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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 2nd 2026
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
In his first formal address to the nation since launching a war on Iran more than a month ago, President Trump on Wednesday night repeated a familiar list of claimed successes — and brushed aside setbacks — while providing little clarity on a clear path to ending the conflict. "We are going to finish the job, and we're going to finish it very fast. We are getting very close," the president said from the ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday, humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the thrilling leadoff in NASA's push toward a landing in two years. Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA's Kennedy Space Center where tens of thousands gathered to witness the dawn of this new era. Crowds also ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
– The Senate is expected to try quickly passing a measure Thursday that would fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, though it's unclear how soon the House will follow to largely end the longest partial government shutdown in history. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a plan Wednesday to fully fund the as part of a two-step process. The agreement puts the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to an Office of Foreign Assets Control entry on the Treasury Department website. The newly announced sanctions relief is the latest U.S. recognition of Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in Venezuela ever since the U.S. military captured her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, and his ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Ted Bundy's rampage of violence spanned at least four years and left dozens of victims behind, including at least 30 women and girls who were killed — and several others who escaped or survived despite serious injuries. Though the serial killer has been dead for nearly 40 years, the tally of his confirmed victims continues to grow as DNA testing has advanced. A Utah sheriff confirmed Wednesday that Bundy was ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Understanding the Ethical Impacts of AI Systems Additional resources AI Impact Assessment Tool | Digital | English This AI Impact Assessment Tool is designed to help enterprises consider the possible ethical consequences associated with their AI projects. Avoiding AI Pitfalls in 2026: Lessons Learned from Top 2025 Incidents Explore the patterns that emerged in major AI incidents from 2025 and what needs to change ...
Source: isaca.org
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Law named for Trenton Stewart, St. Johns County teen killed by a drunk driver in May of 2023 A rollover crash in Jupiter Island late last week has golf legend Tiger Woods facing DUI charges -- again. The arrest report for Woods sheds light on the circumstances that led to his second DUI arrest, which is his fourth vehicle incident since 2009. He faced limited consequences for the previous DUI after pleading guilty ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America's war alongside Israel against Iran. While Trump's talk of a possible NATO pullout dates back years, the comments to Britain's Telegraph newspaper, published Wednesday, were ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding. A federal judge ruled that President Trump's executive order defunding NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and issued a permanent injunction stating that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. The Trump order's "instruction that all federal agencies stop funding NPR and PBS constitutes a penalty for engaging in speech ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Eli Lilly's obesity pill was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, setting it up for fierce competition against Novo Nordisk's new Wegovy pill as more people seek alternatives to GLP-1 injections. Lilly's drug, which is called orforglipron and will be marketed as Foundayo, was approved under the FDA's new commissioner's voucher program , which grants speedy reviews to drugs that are aligned ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
PCWorld reports that Anthropic accidentally leaked over 500,000 lines of source code for its AI coding tool Claude Code due to a misconfigured .map file in its npm package. Anthropic has confirmed that it accidentally leaked the source code for its popular AI-powered coding tool Claude Code. The entire source code for Claude Code was accidentally exposed via a misconfigude .map file in its npm package. Over 500,000 ...
Source: pcworld.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
BAGHDAD (AP) — An American journalist who was kidnapped in Baghdad had tried to cross from Syria into Iraq three weeks earlier and was initially turned back, an Iraqi official said Wednesday. U.S. and Iraqi officials said Shelly Renee Kittleson had also been warned of threats against her in the days before her abduction. A freelance journalist who has worked for years in Iraq and Syria, Kittleson was ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
There is a light at the end of the tunnel for those who thought it would be hilarious, in the mid-2000s, to make a profanity, a body part or a song lyric part of their Gmail addresses. Google announced Wednesday that people who set up usernames in their less-mature days that they have lived to regret now have the option to change them without losing access to their inboxes. Or, as Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, said ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Reading time 1 minute Until Wednesday, iPhone users who had intentionally avoided updating to iOS 26 in spite of their hardware being compatible with the latest software fell into a worrisome security donut hole. Now Apple has started plugging the hole, according to Wired —no update to the dreaded Liquid Glass aesthetic needed. This all concerns DarkSword, a deeply scary exploit that sounds like it can really ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The judges overseeing the federal and state trials of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, postponed the start of both cases Wednesday. Mangione's federal trial is now set to begin with jury selection on Oct. 5, followed by opening statements on Oct. 26 or Nov. 2, U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett ruled at a hearing in downtown Manhattan. (Jury selection was ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
April 1 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico necessary for national security and received an exemption from endangered species protections -- which a a conservation group maintains violated U.S. law. The lawsuit, filed by the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to block the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Alex Jones claimed that President Trump needs 'intervention' and that top administration officials are 'freaked out' Removed from bookmarks tore into his one-time political hero, President Trump, yesterday, claiming that the commander-in-chief was in "free fall." Jones told listeners that it was time to ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
A Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed into a cliff in Crimea , killing 29 people on board, due to a possible technical malfunction, Russia's defense ministry said early on Wednesday, according to news agencies. TASS news agency, quoting the ministry, said communication with the aircraft was lost at about 6 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Tuesday on a planned flight over Crimea. The peninsula, covered in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Key Takeaways: OpenAI finalized the largest funding round in Silicon Valley history, they secured $122 billion in commitments at a post valuation of $852 billion. The round was led by Amazon ($50 billion), NVIDIA ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion), with participation from Microsoft and VC firms. The capital will be used to expand AI infrastructure, develop custom chips with Broadcom, and build the generation ...
Source: techiexpert.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
"Carry on, patriots" was the message from Pete Hegseth, who thanked Kid Rock – an ardent backer of Donald Trump – for his support of the military. The US army has lifted a suspension on two helicopter crews which hovered near Kid Rock's swimming pool while he clapped and saluted. The singer posted a video on X showing the aircraft flying next to his house in Nashville, Tennessee . Army ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three fired FBI agents sued on Tuesday to try to get their jobs back, saying in a class action lawsuit that they were illegally punished for their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The federal lawsuit adds to the mounting list of court challenges to a personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel that over the last year ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning "conversion therapy" for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower ...
Source: apnews.com