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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 26th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
– U.S. envoys are expected to travel to Pakistan on Saturday in a new bid to salvage ceasefire talks with Tehran, even as Iran ruled out direct negotiations with U.S. representatives as its top diplomat arrived in Islamabad. The latest effort to broker a deal comes as an indefinite ceasefire has paused most fighting, but the economic fallout is still mounting with global energy shipments disrupted by the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve , shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell . The committee vote will take place on April 29 , putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on track for full ...
Source: commondreams.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 people, Amazon announced yet another reduction in force, Snap laid off around 15 percent of its staff, and Pinterest announced plans to do about the same thing. Microsoft recently announced its first-ever voluntary buyouts, targeting longtime ...
Source: nymag.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In just the few weeks since he's taken over the justice department's top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department's resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president's former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent. Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
A U.S. Special Forces master sergeant involved in the military operation of former 's capture was arrested for allegedly using classified information to place bets on the online prediction market platform, Polymarket. According to the , Gannon Ken Van Dyke "was involved in the planning and execution of Operation Absolute Resolve," which apprehended Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in early Jan. 2026. The sergeant ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's historic move to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug was cheered by some advocates but for others, it fell far short for the thousands still incarcerated on federal cannabis-related convictions. The executive order, which acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed Thursday, does not address current penalties for possessing and selling marijuana or those ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Communities are sounding the alarm on an industry that stands to have a far greater impact beyond the walls of its warehouses. This story was originally published by the Virginia Mercury . Data centers — proposed beside town centers, on generational farmlands, in view of cemeteries and next to Civil War battlegrounds across Virginia — are testing local governments' ability to regulate industrial ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel's strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots enter Day 2 of the 2026 NFL Draft with a pair of picks and some areas of need worth addressing sooner rather than later. New England will make its first pick at the end of the second round (63rd), and the end of the third round as well (95th). "Obviously, we don't have an early Round 2 pick, so it's going to be a lot like [Thursday] where we're going to have to watch a lot of names ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
On Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is fast-tracking the review and approval process for three companies studying psilocybin, the active psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, and methylone, an MDMA-like molecule, as treatments for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specifically, the companies are investigating psilocybin as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington has no objections to Iranian players participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but he added the players will not be allowed to bring people with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with them. Since the United States-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28, Iran's participation in this summer's edition of FIFA's global showpiece has been in doubt ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
By and Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records. As part of the Trump administration's aggressive mass deportation campaign, federal officials have ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president's chief science ...
Source: securityweek.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4 , a much-awaited update to last year's V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm . The company says both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are mixture-of-experts models with context windows of 1 million tokens each — enough to allow large ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A planned International Drive attraction called Sloth World will not open following dozens of animal deaths, conservation groups said late Friday, as 13 remaining sloths were placed in the care of animal experts at Central Florida Zoo & Biological Gardens. The 13 sloths arrived Friday and are in quarantine at the Sanford zoo, said Richard E. Glover, CEO of the zoo ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre warned on Thusday. "The [Firestarter] malware (…) is relevant for both Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices; however, CISA has only observed a successful implant of the malware in the wild on a Cisco Firepower device ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
ENID, Okla. (AP) — A powerful tornado in Oklahoma on Thursday ripped roofs off buildings, knocked down power poles and sent emergency crews rushing into a rural community near Vance Air Force Base, officials said. The confirmed tornado moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people near the state's northern border, according to the National Weather Service. Video posted online show a rapidly ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said he is taking accountability for actions that have created a distraction for New England without addressing specifics about photos published recently of him with longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. Vrabel spoke for just over seven minutes prior to the start of Thursday's NFL draft . He vowed to prioritize his family by beginning ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (Reuters) - Intel (INTC.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, underscoring booming demand for the company's server processors used for artificial intelligence in data centers. Shares of Intel surged 19% in extended trading, adding $64 billion to its market value and extending its 81% rebound so far this year. Nasdaq futures rose 0.3%, showing traders ...
Source: reuters.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The inspector general at the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is opening an investigation into whether the agency is complying with a law passed by Congress forcing the release of files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement by the DoJ's internal watchdog comes amid criticism from lawmakers over how the files were released, and millions of other files that have not been made public. The ...
Source: bbc.com