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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 9th 2026
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump is expressing optimism for the two-week ceasefire deal that has been reached between the U.S. and Iran. However, on many aspects of the supposed deal — including management of the Strait of Hormuz — the president appears to still be at odds with Iran, despite implying the country's leaders are open to his ideas about the waterway. Trump announced the tentative ceasefire on Tuesday ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
AI firm Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, an initiative which uses AI to identify and remediate undiscovered cybersecurity vulnerabilities in critical software. Project Glasswing, named after the glasswing butterfly, is based on Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful, not publicly available, version of Anthropic's Large Language Model (LLM) . The company described the model as the "most capable yet for coding ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Jasveen Sangha allegedly ran an elaborate operation catering to high-end clients like the 54-year-old Friends star 3-MIN READ A US federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling actor Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023. "You're going to have to show some epic resilience," Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha, echoing ...
Source: scmp.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Ever wish you could read that long article or a PDF on your Kindle? Here's how you can do that in seconds. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Using your Kindle to read is much easier on the eyes than a standard phone or tablet, thanks to its e-ink display. Because of this reduced eye strain, you may have often found yourself reading a long article, study, or book on your tablet and ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Rex Heuermann had been charged with killing at least seven women on Long Island. He was arrested in 2023, more than a decade after the first bodies were found. Rex Heuermann, the man accused of murdering at least seven women on Long Island in what became known as the Gilgo Beach killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, bringing a sudden end to a case that took investigators more than a decade to solve. Mr. Heuermann, ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Meta debuted its first major AI model, Muse Spark, spearheaded by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who joined nine months ago and leads Meta Superintelligence Labs. The company is desperate to regain momentum in the fiercely competitive AI market following the disappointing debut of its previous flagship Llama 4 family of AI models. Meta said it is also experimenting with a new AI model revenue stream by eventually ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
By Bill Ackman 's Pershing Square on Tuesday offered to acquire Universal Music Group in a bid valuing the company at about $64 billion. The proposal would move the world's largest record label from Amsterdam to the New York Stock Exchange , betting that U.S. markets would assign a higher valuation to the company behind Taylor Swift , Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny. The offer comes as Universal's shares have ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most decorated living veteran, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with two counts of "war crime — murder" and three counts of abetting such crimes, according to documents presented in court on Wednesday. The charges relate to the killings of five unarmed civilians while he ...
Source: theweek.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Oil poised for biggest daily fall since pandemic as Iran says it will reopen strait of Hormuz under its management Oil prices plunged by almost 15% and global stock markets have rallied sharply after the US and Iran agreed a two-week conditional ceasefire . Investors hailed the news that Donald Trump had held off on his threat to bomb Iran into "the stone ages", with Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, saying ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Data tracking home purchase and refinance applications showed decreases in both indexes again this week in the wake of ongoing economic uncertainty and steadily rising mortgage rates. According to the latest Market Composite Index from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)—its measure of mortgage loan activity volume and includes purchases and refinances—decreased 0.8% on a seasonally adjusted ...
Source: rismedia.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
JetBlue and United Airlines have also recently announced increases to their baggage fees Flying is about to get more expensive for some travelers who check luggage, as two major U.S. carriers move to raise baggage fees amid rising costs across the airline industry. Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines are both increasing their checked bag fees by $10, pushing the cost to $45 for a first bag and $55 for a second. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Online scams are lucrative for criminals, and AI is making it easier to swindle US targets, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Report. Each year, the FBI publishes statistics from its Internet Crime Complaint Center , and this year's report broke the $20 billion barrier in losses, with more than 1 million complaints reported to the agency. In 2024, it recorded $16.6 billion in losses. ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — The mother of a freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq said Wednesday that she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades. Katib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia group, kidnapped 49-year-old Shelly Kittleson off a Baghdad street corner on March 31. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
NEW ORLEANS — The wife of a U.S. soldier was released Tuesday from a federal immigration detention facility where she had spent nearly a week after being taken into custody on a Louisiana military base. The detention of 22-year-old Annie Ramos, the Honduran born-wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant preparing to deploy, prompted public backlash from critics of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
Musk won't seek a "single dollar" in OpenAI suit after asking to pocket up to $134 billion. On Tuesday, Elon Musk amended his lawsuit that accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of abandoning its mission, clarifying that any ill-gotten gains recovered should be returned to the AI firm's charitable nonprofit arm, not to Musk. Musk "is not seeking a single dollar for himself," according to his lawyer, Marc Toberoff. ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
The Trump administration wants to significantly cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) stakeholder engagement program and eliminate almost 900 agency positions under its fiscal year (FY) budget 2027 request. According to the provided by CISA, the Trump administration would eliminate 120 of the stakeholder engagement program's ...
Source: meritalk.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Earthset and a solar eclipse: Nasa releases first images from Moon fly-by Nasa has released the first photographs taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their fly-by of the Moon. The first image, above, shows an 'Earthset' as the astronauts glimpsed our home planet peeking out beyond a cratered lunar landscape. The second photograph, below, shows the spectacular solar eclipse to which the astronauts were treated ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Government lawyers unlawfully declared a law intended to preserve official records generated by the president and his staff unconstitutional, a new lawsuit says. The Office of Legal Counsel's decision that the White House doesn't need to comply with the Presidential Records Act purports to undo an act of Congress, contravenes a decision of the US Supreme Court, and violates the separation of powers doctrine twice ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has been barred from entering the UK, where he was scheduled to perform at the Wireless Festival in July. It came after government officials condemned Ye's history of antisemitic remarks. The festival's organizers confirmed the ban and said the entire three-day festival was being canceled as a result. Ye's travel authorization had been ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's new leader said Tuesday that "nobody" other than President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week. "Nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general, and I'm the acting attorney general, except for President Trump," Todd Blanche told reporters when asked at an unrelated news conference if Bondi lost ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes An Indianapolis city councilor's home was shot at 13 times after midnight on Monday morning, in what appears to be a politically motivated attack over his support for a controversial data center project in his district. After the attack, the city councilor, Ron Gibson, claimed he found a note on his doorstep that said "NO DATA CENTERS." Gibson and his son were not physically harmed. Gibson ...
Source: gizmodo.com