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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 5th 2026
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
The search is on for one missing U.S. service member while another was rescued after two U.S. warplanes went down in separate incidents including the first shoot-down since the Iran war began nearly five weeks ago. The incidents occurred just two days after President Donald Trump said in a national address that the U.S. has "beaten and completely decimated Iran." One fighter jet was shot down in Iran, officials ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
PHOENIX (AP) — UConn's Geno Auriemma was not a happy man. With the officiating. With his team's performance. With South Carolina coach Dawn Staley. The Huskies coach ripped into the officiating during a live TV interview and then had a heated argument with Staley in the final seconds of their 62-48 loss to the Gamecocks . But a rough night for UConn stars Sarah Strong and Azzi Fudd was the main cause of the ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
Two British nationals and one UK-Pakistani national have been remanded in custody after they appeared in a court charged with arson in relation to four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in London that were torched. The March 23 attack in Golders Green, an area of North London with a large Jewish community, destroyed four ambulances belonging to the volunteer organisation Hatzola. Two of the suspects were ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
April 4 (UPI) -- NASA announced Saturday that the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission were closer to moon than to the Earth. NASA shared photos from the mission on X, declaring that the astronauts were officially "moonbound." "Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to their destination, and preparations for lunar flyby are underway," NASA said. "During the trip around the far side of the moon, they will ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Crews made progress Saturday battling a smoky wildfire in southern California that broke out a day earlier and prompted mandatory evacuations. Encompassing roughly 6.3 square miles (about 16 square kilometers) in Riverside County, about 64 miles (103 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, the Springs Fire was at least 45% percent contained on Saturday, a fire department ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
Donald Trump gestures during a visit to the Kennedy Center. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail ballots faced a fresh challenge on Friday, as a coalition of Democratic states filed a lawsuit seeking to block an order that experts say is an extraordinary attempt by the president to assert authority over elections . More than 20 states — led by California , ...
Source: rawstory.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
Donald Trump 's administration is moving forward with plans to reopen a functioning prison site on Alcatraz Island. On Friday, April 3, the White House released a proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year, which included asking Congress for $152 million to return the famed island, currently a popular San Francisco Bay tourist attraction, to an active, functioning federal prison, per Reuters and The New York Times . ...
Source: people.com
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026 -
Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa was placed in an induced coma to undergo emergency brain surgery to try and stop a haemorrhage. A 12-year-old has been arrested in connection with the death of a classmate who was hit in the head with a metal water bottle. Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa, also 12, was trying to protect her older sister from bullies at the time of the incident in Los Angeles. She was taken to a nearby ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
As US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Friday declared that "America's economic comeback is on full display" and the country's " workers are winning again" due to what the business press and top newspapers called a "strong" March jobs report, some economists stressed the importance of looking beyond the topline figure and one month of data. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that employers added ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Trump fires US Attorney General Pam Bondi US President Donald Trump has announced that he is removing Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post as head of the Justice Department. The president posted on Truth Social that Bondi would be "transitioning" to a new role in the private sector. It is less than a month since Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem . Here is what we know: What happened to Pam ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
Cuba begins prisoner release after mass pardon Cuban authorities began to free prisoners on Friday after announcing it would pardon 2,010 inmates, the second release in less than a month as it faces heightened US pressure. More than 20 inmates came out of La Lima penitentiary in east Havana, holding their release papers, crying and hugging relatives who had been waiting for them all morning, AFP journalists ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2026 -
OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent. OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon "side quests" and focus on its core business. The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a "low hundreds of millions of dollars" deal, according to a ...
Source: arstechnica.com