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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 12th 2026
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. The United Kingdom on Saturday paused its transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after President Trump recently withdrew his cooperation for the 2024 agreement. The U.K. and the U.S. have shared a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos, since the 1970s. The agreement to transfer the islands to Mauritius, which would allow for continued use ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
The Artemis II astronauts concluded their record-breaking 10-day journey on Friday with a smooth splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, has been a feast for the eyes. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen concluded their 10-day mission Friday evening with a splash-down ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Saturday it is investigating an allegation of sexual assault against Rep. Eric Swalwell, a day after that a former staffer for the California Democrat accused him of having sex with her when she was unable to consent. "We urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our Special Victims Division ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? LONDON (AP) — Protests over the soaring cost of fuel spread disruption across Ireland on Saturday with many gas stations running dry as truck and ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
Three people wounded in attack at Grand Central subway station by man who stated he was 'Lucifer', police said Police in New York City shot and killed a man who stabbed three people on a subway platform in New York City 's Grand Central station, the city's police commissioner said. Jessica Tisch, who leads the New York police department, told reporters at a news conference at the station that officers, flagged down ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
were "almost poets", Nasa's administrator, Jared Isaacman, declared on Friday, referring to their They were, he said, "ambassadors for humanity" as they became the first humans to travel to the moon and return safely to Earth since 1972, on a mission that broke a Meanwhile, the mood at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday night was one of jubilation and celebration as the Orion capsule made a Nasa ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
Corruption scandals and a surging opposition have turned the vote into the biggest test yet for the long-serving populist leader The drone footage showed a sprawling residence in northern Hungary , complete with manicured gardens, a swimming pool and an underground garage. But it was what came next that captured much of the country's imagination: zebras darting across the countryside. The property caught on camera ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — That one-man show at the Masters gave way to a wide-open chase for the green jacket with a stunning turn of events that forced Rory McIlroy to remind himself where he was at the end of Saturday instead of where he started. The six-shot lead was gone in 11 holes. Instead of only two players within six shots of him, there were nine players within six shots of McIlroy and co-leader Cameron ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
At the federal level, Republican-written AI bills tend to be less concerned with policing how individuals use the technology than with regulating the development and deployment of the underlying technology—large language models (LLMs). Democrat-written bills tend to focus on individual malfeasance rather than the tech itself. Accordingly, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D–Minn.) was so outraged last year by a ...
Source: reason.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
Russian drone strikes killed at least two people in the Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight into Saturday, local authorities reported, ahead of a proposed ceasefire for Orthodox Easter. A further two people were wounded in the attack on the Black Sea port city, when drones hit a residential area, damaging apartment buildings, houses and a kindergarten. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia targeted Ukraine ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades caused a sharp spike in inflation in March, creating major challenges for ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
An African AIDS charity cofounded by the United Kingdom's Prince Harry in honour of his late mother Princess Diana has sued him for defamation after he stepped down as a patron last year, following a management dispute. "Sentebale has commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of England and Wales," the charity said in a statement on Friday. "The charity seeks the court's intervention, protection and restitution ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
China's President Xi Jinping met Taiwan's opposition party leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday, telling the visiting delegation he had "full confidence" that Taiwanese and Chinese people would be united. Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng is the party's first leader to visit China in a decade, but her trip has sparked debate in Taiwan with critics accusing her of being too pro-Beijing. China severed high-level ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
By Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times A 20-year-old man was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to police. A company spokesperson also confirmed the attack in a statement and said that someone "made threats at our San Francisco headquarters." "Thankfully, no one was hurt," according to the statement. "We deeply appreciate how quickly (the San Francisco ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Washington — The Interior Department has submitted renderings of President Trump's proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, showing that the structure would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac River. The proposal calls for the arch to be roughly 250 feet tall, more than twice as high as the 99-foot tall Lincoln Memorial. It would be the tallest triumphal arch in the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
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Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
April 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's tariffs are back in court Friday to decide on their legality. The U.S. Court of International Trade will consider the president's 10% global tariff that he created on Feb. 20 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his previous tariffs over his use of emergency powers. The new tariffs are based on Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. That law allows the president to ...
Source: upi.com