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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 16th 2026
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Eighteen months after the nation's largest Arab American community Donald Trump to a second term as president, the prayers have not stopped. In Dearborn, just outside of Detroit, families wait restlessly for word from relatives abroad, hoping they are safe, and mourning those already lost. What began as anguish over the war in Gaza has widened. In a city with a large Lebanese American ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Tara Bowman lives on a farm in Woodstock, Virginia, a town of some 6,000 people nestled along the banks of the Shenandoah River's North Fork. But under a redistricting plan Virginia voters may enact next week, Bowman's community would be in the same congressional district as wealthy Washington suburbs such as Fairfax and McLean some 90 miles away. It's part of a sweeping Democratic effort to dilute Republican votes ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. military killed four men on Tuesday in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Pacific, its fourth vessel attack in four days. Since Saturday, the United States has killed at least 11 people in strikes targeting alleged drug-trafficking boats under President Donald Trump 's anti-narcotics operation, which rights groups and legal experts have criticized as unlawful. With the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Happy Tax Day, if such a thing can exist. Today marks the last day that most Americans can file their taxes with Uncle Sam or else face financial consequences. For most people, tax filing is stressful and messy. And even though average refunds are expected to significantly jump thanks to the GOP's sprawling tax bill from last year, nearly 60 percent of Americans say taxes are still too high, according to a new ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A student opened fire randomly at two classrooms at a middle school in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 20 others, an official said, in the second such shooting in the country in two days. The student, who was also killed, arrived at the school, armed with guns believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer, Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, are missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea on the way to Malaysia , according to the United Nations' refugee and migration agencies. While details remained sketchy, Bangladesh Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Com. Sabbir Alam Suzan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that nine people, including three ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
OpenAI unveiled Tuesday its answer to artificial intelligence rival Anthropic's much-touted private release of a cybersecurity model by announcing the broader availability of GPT‑5.4‑Cyber. In a pointed announcement , OpenAI said its intent is to make tools that can identify vulnerabilities "as widely available as possible." Internal safeguards, know-your-customer verification and "trust signals" will ...
Source: databreachtoday.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Google to punish sites that trap people in with back button tricks Google says it is expanding its policies to crack down on websites which trap users with "back button hijacking". Back button hijacking is when a website interferes with a browser so the back button no longer takes users to the previous page, instead often keeping them on the site or presenting unsolicited ads. In a blog post the tech giant behind ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago. Trump commuted the prison sentences of several Proud Boys and ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Amazon.com Inc. has inked a $11.6 billion deal to acquire Globalstar Inc., a publicly traded operator of internet satellites. The companies announced the transaction today. It values Globalstar at $90 per share, a 23% premium to the satellite operator's last unaffected closing price. The acquisition is set to close in 2027 subject to regulatory approvals and the completion of certain upgrades to Globalstar's ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
It's not governance slowing down enterprise AI — it's the lack of it, says Qlik executive Enterprises are chasing AI models at a dizzying pace, yet the organizations pulling ahead are the ones that paused to build something less glamorous: a trusted, governed data foundation. Pressure is mounting across industries, as research from Qlik and Enterprise Technology Research shows that data quality, ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
April 14 (UPI) -- Federal authorities have charged the 20-year-old Texas man who police arrested after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The criminal complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California charges Daniel Moreno-Gama of Spring, Texas, with possession of an unregistered firearm and attempted damage to and destruction of ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
April 14 (UPI) -- A day after former Rep. Eric Swalwell , D-Calif., announced his resignation from Congress while facing sexual assault and misconduct allegations, a woman came forward Tuesday to accuse him of another sexual assault in 2018. Lonna Drewes, of Beverly Hills, Calif., said that Swalwell drugged, raped and choked her until she lost consciousness while they were in a California hotel room. "I thought I ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. Google Chrome just got another generative AI feature: Skills. Skills are repeatable AI prompts you can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut. Add it to the laundry list of AI tools Google has been injecting into all of its software. You can set up your own Skill using Gemini , ...
Source: wired.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will hang three flags on its flagpole at the monument Removed from bookmarks The flag — one of several Pride banners at the 7.7-acre (3.1-hectare) park — won't be removed, except for "maintenance or other practical purposes," the filing said. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
at the White House has publicly touted the president's so-called "no tax on tips" policy before – causing some to question the encounter's authenticity and the company to confirm it was a stunt. and driving for the delivery platform because her husband's cancer treatments had made it difficult to make ends meet otherwise. That fact drew Simmons some skepticism after she delivered a McDonald's order to the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Matt Crocker quit as sporting director of the U.S. Soccer Federation on Tuesday, just two months ahead of the World Cup, to take a new job in Saudi Arabia. The USSF said Crocker was leaving to pursue an unidentified international soccer opportunity, and a person familiar with the decision, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Crocker's new job was not announced, said he will work in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Could Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic's latest large language model, be leveraged for fully automated cyber attacks? The UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI) tested its capability to successfully engage in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and multi-step attack scenarios, ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
April 14 (UPI) -- Los Angeles schools will not close for a strike after the district reached a deal with the third and final union Monday evening. Hours before the 2 a.m. PDT strike deadline, the district announced it had struck a deal with the Service Employees International Union Local 99, which represents 30,000 custodians, food workers, special education assistants and bus drivers. LAUSD announced on its ...
Source: upi.com