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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 2nd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Washington — President Trump predicted in a prime-time address Wednesday that the U.S. will complete its military mission in Iran "very shortly," and said U.S. forces have achieved "overwhelming victories," but he did not offer a definitive timeline as questions swirl about when and how the war could wrap up. The president, in his roughly 19-minute address from the White House, said the U.S. will hit ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Why Artemis II Won't Land on the Moon NASA landed astronauts on the moon for the first time in 1969, and then five times more. So why is it that in 2026 NASA is talking about going back to the moon, but not landing on it? Landing people on the moon is difficult, and no one has done it since 1972. That's because after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon during Apollo 11, many Americans felt that the space race with ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
U.S. gasoline prices continue to inch higher, hitting $4.06 a gallon after crossing $4 on Tuesday, as the Iran war continues to drive up costs for American drivers. The average cost of a gallon of gas has jumped 36% since the war started, according to AAA . Gas climbed above $4 yesterday for the first time since August 2022. The war in Iran is disrupting the world's oil supply, pushing up prices at the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The Legislative blueprint calls on Congress to: preempt state AI laws; consider additional intellectual property protections while leaving the fair use question for the courts; encourage AI innovation; and channel oversight through existing regulators rather than creating new ones. On March 20, the White House published its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence ("Framework"), which aligns with the ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Imagine if a state passed a law banning doctors from telling their patients to smoke cigarettes to be healthier. Then consider if a doctor challenged that law as a violation of their free-speech right to tell patients that smoking is safe and heathy. This hypothetical doctor would argue that the healthiness of smoking is a matter of debate. After all, not long ago most doctors were smokers themselves , and tobacco ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
"In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and House will be following through on the President's directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process," House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., The two leaders were vague about the exact plan, but it appears ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
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 -
TEL AVIV — Far-right supporters of a controversial Israeli death penalty law were popping champagne corks as it cleared the Knesset on Monday night, but its passage has sparked a global chorus of condemnation from allies and international human rights groups. The new law effectively makes death by hanging the default punishment for murderers who kill "with the intent to deny the existence of the State of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
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 -
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 -
A supply chain compromise involving the widely used JavaScript package Axios is now being tied to a North Korea-linked threat actor, turning what already looked like a serious open-source incident into a much bigger security story. Google Threat Intelligence Group said the attack targeted the official Axios package on npm and attributed the activity to UNC1069, a financially motivated North Korea-nexus group that ...
Source: securityboulevard.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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Our community is sharply divided over the King's US visit. While some have called it an 'embarrassment' amid Donald Trump's attacks on the UK, others have urged diplomacy to 'calm the waters' Removed from bookmarks I ndependent readers have shared sharply divided views on whether the King should go ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule on March 30 that would make it easier for 401(k) plans to include cryptocurrency, private equity, and other alternative assets. The proposal, titled "Fiduciary Duties in Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives," follows an August 2025 executive order from President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to to alternative assets. The White House's Office of ...
Source: bradenton.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 -
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
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Luigi Mangione's federal and New York state trials over the killing of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson were pushed back Wednesday, with the first case set to start on Sept. 8. New York State Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro on Wednesday moved Mangione's murder trial to September from June 8. A few hours earlier, US District Judge Margaret Garnett had postponed jury selection in the federal ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The late Ted Bundy , one of the most famous and prolific serial killers in U.S. history, has claimed another victim. New DNA testing confirmed Bundy was responsible for the 1974 killing of a 17-year-old Utah girl who disappeared after leaving a party alone on Halloween night, the local sheriff's office said Wednesday. Laura Ann Aime was found dead on the side of a highway in American ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez, according to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control , as the U.S. seeks to rebuild ties with the Venezuelan government. The rollback comes just three months after U.S. forces seized Rodriguez' predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife in a daring special forces raid . Both were extradited to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 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? Far-right host Alex Jones urged conservatives to "cut bait on" President Donald Trump , saying he needs an intervention because "he's gone." In an "Alex ...
Source: huffpost.com
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
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday there won't be an investigation after two Apache helicopters were seen hovering outside the home of singer and rapper Kid Rock , and he announced that the pilots' suspension has been lifted. "Thank you @KidRock . @USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots," Hegseth wrote Tuesday on X from his personal ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
A group of three Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents is suing FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI, and the Justice Department following their firing over their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump 's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. "Defendants, the current Director of the FBI , Kashyap P. Patel, and Attorney General Pamela J. Bondi, have, since ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Core focus will be on beauty, personal care and home products after spinning off brands such as Hellmann's and Pot Noodle Unilever has agreed to combine its food business with US-based McCormick in a $44.8bn deal that will give the Marmite-to-Hellmann's mayonnaise owner majority control of a food empire. Under the agreement, McCormick will pay London-listed Unilever $15.7bn in cash and the equivalent of $29.1bn in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
You'll get messages sent to both your new and old addresses, but there are some limits. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gmail limits you to one change per year. If you've been using your old Gmail account that you created before you knew your username would matter, or with a name you want to forget, your day is here. Google has announced that you can finally change ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes A Starlink satellite suffered an unidentified anomaly, generating a small field of debris in low-Earth orbit. SpaceX lost contact with one of its Starlink satellites on Sunday due to an in-orbit malfunction, the company confirmed on X. Orbital tracking company LeoLabs later reported debris in the vicinity of the satellite after the event, suggesting that the Starlink satellite likely broke ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
AP Photo/Alex Brandon Karoline Leavitt from their image libraries after being made aware that the White House was unhappy. According to Oliver Darcy's Status newsletter , the photo – taken by AFP photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds and depicting Leavitt with her son next to a turkey at the White House on Thanksgiving – was removed after AFP was made aware that the White House was displeased with the ...
Source: mediaite.com