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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 26th 2026
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Police in the United States have arrested a suspected gunman who stormed the lobby outside the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, attended by US President Donald Trump, at a hotel in Washington, DC. The firing prompted the evacuation of Trump, along with the members of his cabinet, from the media gala, being held at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening. The president later called the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
– Pakistan's top political and military leadership are scrambling to reignite talks between the United States and after President Donald Trump told his envoys not to travel to Islamabad for negotiations this weekend, two Pakistani officials said Sunday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. After mounting tensions torpedoed a second round of ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... They were meant to live their lives in the rainforests of Guyana and Peru, where the temperatures are warm and humid year-round and there is plenty of food and verdant foliage in which to hide. Instead, dozens of sloths died after being stored in a warehouse in the frenetic heart of Orlando's tourist district, within a few hundred feet of International Drive's ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty — underscoring a sharp divide with Pope Leo XIV and recent Catholic teaching. Hours after the Justice Department made its announcement, the pontiff condemned the death penalty as an attack on human dignity. In a prerecorded message shared ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch 1:57 PM PDT · April 25, 2026 Anthony Ha Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt. If it had become law, L.D. 307 would have imposed the country's first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027. The bill also called for the creation of a 13-person ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
One Chicago police officer was killed and a second was critically wounded when a prisoner who was receiving treatment opened fire inside Swedish Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood Saturday morning, authorities said. The suspect was later arrested following a nearby standoff. In a news conference, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said a 38-year-old officer and 10-year veteran of the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
April 25 (UPI) -- A man was charged Saturday for the murders of two missing University of South Florida doctoral students after the body of one of them was found. Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, has been charged with two counts of first-degree, premeditated murder with a weapon in the deaths of the two students: Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, both 27. The pair, both from Bangladesh, had been missing for a week. Abugharbieh ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
By Don't bet on Jerome Powell leaving the Federal Reserve anytime soon. That's the strong message from veteran Fed watchers in the aftermath of the Department of Justice dropping its criminal investigation into whether the Fed Chair lied to Congress last year over the $2.5 billion renovations at its D.C. headquarters. Powell and others called the unprecedented criminal probe of a sitting Fed Chair a "pretext" from ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Cora led Boston to a 10-17 record through the first 27 games of the season. After an underwhelming start to the 2026 season, the Red Sox are making a coaching change. Boston fired manager Alex Cora on Saturday evening, along with the vast majority of his coaching staff, according to a release from the Red Sox. Assistants Peter Faste, Ramon Vazquez, Kyle Hudson, Dillon Lawson, and Joe Cronin were also relieved of ...
Source: boston.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Palestinians in central Gaza and the occupied West Bank are voting in municipal elections, the first local vote held since the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Polling stations opened at 7am (04:00 GMT) on Saturday for 70,000 eligible voters in Gaza's Deir el-Balah area – the first electoral exercise in the besieged enclave in 20 years. The vote in a single city in Gaza is largely symbolic, with ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The United States has sanctioned a Chinese oil refinery for buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil. Ahead of potential new talks on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran, the US Treasury Department on Friday said that it was targeting Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery, China's second-largest "teapot" or independent refinery. Hengli is "one of Tehran's most valued customers" and has generated ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Two wildfires in southeastern Georgia continued to threaten homes and lives on Saturday as officials warned that strong winds could spread the flames. Brantley County Manager Joey Cason called it a "dynamic situation" in a video posted to social media and begged residents to "please evacuate" if ordered to do so. "This fire is going to move rapidly once these winds get here later today," ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
It has been six days since President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at facilitating regulatory review of psychedelics that have shown potential as psychotherapeutic catalysts. As promised then, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued "national priority vouchers" for two psychedelics: psilocybin as a treatment for depression and methylone (a.k.a. MDMC) as a treatment for post-traumatic ...
Source: reason.com