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Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
The US Navy's forcible seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ships threw doubt on an announcement from President Trump that US negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for another round of talks with Iran. Trump's announcement Sunday had raised hopes of extending a fragile cease-fire set to expire by Wednesday, but Iran has not confirmed it will attend. Follow along live. Captain Rahman Al-Jubouri helms the ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Japan issued an advisory Monday for an increased risk of a possible mega-quake in northern coastal areas, induced by a major earthquake earlier in the day. Magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast earlier on Monday Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to ...
Source: cbc.ca
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, April 20 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a test-launch of tactical ballistic missiles carrying cluster bomb and fragmentation mine warheads, state media reported Monday, marking Pyongyang's second such test this month. The North's Missile Administration conducted the launch Sunday using Hwasong-11 Ra short-range ballistic missiles, the official Korean Central News Agency said. Five missiles ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — 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 confirmed Monday. The Coast Guard said it was still searching for the six. It said the overturned boat was first spotted Saturday . An HC-130 Hercules airplane crew with the U.S. Air Force ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
— it's also alienating his allies abroad. Right-wing nationalists in Europe are becoming more and more wary of association with Trump and to protect their own political projects. The trend marks a blow to Trump's aspirations of creating that work in concert to quash the left. and called it "right and normal for [the pope] to call for peace and to condemn every form of war." Trump lashed ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luke Kennard scored a career playoff-high 27 points, LeBron James had 19 points and 13 assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers capitalized on Kevin Durant's injury absence for a 107-98 victory over the Houston Rockets in the opener of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night. Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 11 rebounds for the fourth-seeded Lakers , who pulled off an ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch 11:44 AM PDT · April 19, 2026 Anthony Ha The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo. Comparing human and robot running times may seem unfair; one social media user observed , "my car can outrun ...
Source: techcrunch.com
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
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are heading to the polls on Sunday for the eighth time in five years, hoping to finally elect a parliament able to resolve the longtime political impasse that has gripped this Balkan country . The snap vote follows the resignation of a conservative-led government amid nationwide protests last December that drew hundreds of thousands, mainly young people, to the streets. The ...
Source: apnews.com