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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 15th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The stunning collapse of Rep. Eric Swalwell's California governor campaign has upended the wide-open contest where no Democratic candidate has emerged as a clear frontrunner and mail-in voting is scheduled to start in under a month. Democrats, who have run the state for years, are publicly agonizing over the possibility they may be shut out of the general election in November. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Machine learning is helping cyber teams process telemetry at scale to more quickly identify behavioral anomalies that might otherwise remain buried in the noise. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how security teams detect and hunt cyber threats by helping analyze vast volumes of security data, uncovering subtle signs of malicious activity, and identifying potential attacks faster than traditional tools ...
Source: csoonline.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
If a planned meeting between officials from Lebanon and Israel comes off on Tuesday in Washington, the direct talks will be the first between the two Middle East neighbors since 1983. In the decades since then, Israel has more typically dealt directly, in the form of military action, with the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist militia that feckless Lebanese governments have been unable or unwilling to disarm.
Source: washingtonpost.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 -
Carney's Liberals will now be able to pass legislation without the support of opposition parties – and govern until 2029 The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney , has secured a parliamentary majority for his Liberal government, CBC News reported. The victory will help him push through a legislative agenda he says is needed for an increasingly divided geopolitical world. Three special elections were held on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
– The U.S. military said it carried out Monday on a boat accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. that the Trump administration says are trafficking drugs in Latin American waters has persisted for more than seven months and continues even as the military has been preoccupied for more than six weeks with It was the second day in a row that U.S. Southern Command announced ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. Hungary's Viktor Orbán was one of President Trump's favorites. During his 16-year term in office, Orbán openly championed Mr. Trump's reelection and the two men got into frequent, detailed exchanges on In the run-up to Sunday's election, Vice President JD Vance flew to Budapest and called for people to But in the end, none of that mattered. , ending his ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! For anyone keeping tabs on Maine's housing market, March brought with it an acute sense of deja vu. Real estate agents last month sold the exact same number of houses for the ...
Source: pressherald.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
US government reverses course on removing LGBTQ+ Pride flag from New York monument after efforts from advocates The Trump administration agreed on Monday to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall national monument, reversing course after removing the banner in February. The government revealed the decision as it seeks to settle a lawsuit filed by LGBTQ+ and historic preservation groups who had sought to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
Roblox is rolling out separate age-based accounts for minors on the popular gaming platform, the company announced Monday. Starting in early June, the platform will put users ages 5 to 8 in Roblox Kids accounts, which disable all messaging by default and restrict users to games with a content maturity label of "minimal" or "mild." Those ages 9 to 15 will be put into Roblox Select accounts, which gradually introduce ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
More than 1,400 actors, directors and filmmakers - including scores of Hollywood stars - have signed an open letter opposing the proposed merger of film studios Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery. The letter, signed by Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller, Javier Bardem and Rose Byrne, argues that the deal would harm an already battered US entertainment industry. "This transaction would further consolidate an already ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
A French court has found cement group Lafarge guilty of financing "terrorism" through its Syrian subsidiary, fining the company and jailing its former CEO. The Paris court ruled on Monday that Lafarge had paid protection money directly to ISIL (ISIS) and other armed groups and breached European sanctions to operate in northern Syria during the country's civil war in 2013-2014. The case is just the latest of several ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Dominic Frimpong of Ghanaian Premier League club Berekum Chelsea was killed after the team's bus was attacked by a group of suspected armed robbers, the country's soccer association said Monday. The incident happened on Sunday as Berekum Chelsea was returning from its game against Samartex in Samreboi in southern Ghana, the club said in a statement. "Masked men welding guns and assault ...
Source: apnews.com