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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 28th 2026
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
National Security The Correspondents' Dinner Was a Security Success* *But it's time to rethink security at an event that is clearly so vulnerable. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 9:05 H ere's what happened : On Saturday evening, a man carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and knives got close to the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where more than 2,000 guests, including the president of ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
CAIRO (AP) — Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the U.S. lifting its blockade on the country and an end to the war, while proposing that discussions on the larger question of its nuclear program would come in a later phase, two regional officials said Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump seems unlikely to accept the offer, which was passed to the Americans by Pakistan ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Jury selection begins Monday in a $134 billion showdown between two of the world's most powerful tech titans — Elon Musk , the richest man on earth, and rival AI developer Sam Altman , CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. "Musk v Altman," to be tried before a federal jury in Oakland, California, culminates a decade of bitter clashes between the two former tech besties, both in lawsuits and public ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Car bomb kills Sadio Camara at home during coordinated assaults by rebel groups including West African al-Qaida affiliate Mali's defence minister was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said on Sunday, a high-profile fatality during coordinated assaults staged the previous day by insurgents including the West African affiliate of al-Qaida. A car laden with explosives driven by a suicide attacker ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid announce new party before Knesset vote expected later this year The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year after two of his most formidable political rivals combined forces in an attempt to oust him, inviting a third party leader to join them. In a move ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago officer who was fatally shot by a man receiving treatment at a hospital while in police custody has been identified as 38-year-old John Bartholomew, authorities said. Bartholomew, a 10-year veteran of the force, was pronounced dead just before 1 p.m. Saturday after being shot at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. A second officer ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Accused gunman at correspondents' dinner was believed to be targeting top officials, Blanche says WASHINGTON (AP) — The accused gunman who tried to storm the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner with guns and knives traveled across the country before the event and is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday. ...
Source: cleveland.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world. "It's always shocking when something like this happens. Happened to me, a ...
Source: military.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
On Thursday evening, Hayam El Gamal and her five children were freed after 10 months at an ICE detention center in Texas. That morning, a Texas federal judge had ordered their release. He had also told the government not to deport them. ICE had been trying to expel them ever since El Gamal's husband, in a high profile case in June 2025, was charged with attempted murder for allegedly throwing molotov cocktails at ...
Source: npr.org
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who rode a roster with Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Chris Sale to the most successful season in franchise history and then struggled to win with the discount lineups that replaced them, was fired on Saturday with Boston again mired in last place in the AL East. Cora, who was an infielder on the Red Sox 2007 World Series championship team and managed them to a ...
Source: wbur.org
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon. In a huge moment in sports history, Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds, winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. The second-place finisher, Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, also dipped under 2 hours by crossing the line in 1:59:41 in his first-ever marathon, while ...
Source: nbcnews.com