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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 21st 2026
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
The U.S. Navy's forcible seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship has thrown doubt on 's announcement that U.S. negotiators would travel to Pakistan on Monday for another round of talks with Iran. Trump's announcement Sunday had raised hopes of extending set to expire by Wednesday, but then U.S. Marines boarded the cargo ship that tried to circumvent a naval blockade near the . Iran's joint military command said ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family that stretched across two houses in a Shreveport, Louisiana, neighborhood left shaken by one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. The gunman's wife, who was the mother of their children, and another woman were also shot and critically wounded in the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Baby food manufacturer HiPP has issued a product recall in Austria after authorities reported the presence of rat poison in one of the company's jars. HiPP said on Sunday that it had pulled all baby food sold at stores operating under the SPAR umbrella in Austria, including outlets of EUROSPAR, INTERSPAR and Maximarkt. The Swiss company, which bills itself as the world's top organic baby food brand, said the recall ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
After a spate of arson attacks targeting Jewish sites in London, British authorities are investigating a shadowy online group with possible ties to Iran. The group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, or HAYI, has claimed responsibility for at least eight arson attacks on Jewish locations in London and several others across Europe in recent weeks. "As the conflict in the Middle East continues to evolve, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off northern Japan on Monday prompted a short-lived tsunami alert and the advisory of a higher risk of a possible mega-quake for coastal areas there. The Cabinet Office and the Japan Meteorological Agency said there was a 1% chance for a mega-quake, compared to a 0.1% chance during normal times, in the next week or so following the powerful ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
New Glenn 3 took off from the Blue Origin launch base in Florida's Cape Canaveral on Sunday morning, carrying a satellite by satellite company AST Space Mobile, which it aimed to deliver into low Earth orbit. , gave updates during the launch on X, saying that liftoff went smoothly and that the rocket's booster had returned to earth. "The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit," the company said. "We are ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
April 20 (UPI) -- Five people were wounded in a shooting near the campus of the University of Iowa over the weekend, according to authorities seeking to identify several persons of interest. The gunshots rang out early Sunday in downtown Iowa City. The Iowa City Police Department said officers heard the gunfire as they were responding at 1:46 a.m. CDT to a report of a large fight in the 100 block of East College ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday it test-launched ballistic missiles with cluster bomb warheads in the second such test this month, likely underscoring its push to expand its capabilities to penetrate U.S. and South Korean defenses. The report by the North's official Korean Central News Agency appeared to refer to the multiple ballistic missile launches South Korea, Japan and the U.S. detected ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
– An overturned ship found near the U.S. territory of Saipan after a typhoon hit is the vessel that went missing with six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard said it was still searching for the six. It said the overturned boat . Debris included a partially submerged life raft that was partly inflated. It was seen 95 nautical miles (175 kilometers) northeast of the vessel, the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business. "On April 21, President Trump is scheduled to read Scripture via video message from the Oval Office during the 6 p.m. EST hour," a press release from organizers reads. The event is called "America Reads The Bible." over the Iran ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luke Kennard scored a career playoff-high 27 points, LeBron James had 19 points and 13 assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers capitalized on Kevin Durant's injury absence for a 107-98 victory over the Houston Rockets in the opener of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night. Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 11 rebounds for the fourth-seeded Lakers , who pulled off an ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes. The robot, built by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., navigated the 21-kilometre course autonomously, without remote control, using multi-sensor fusion and real-time decision-making algorithms. A second Lightning unit, this one ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of New York City read to preschoolers and led a sing-along. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group's leader. It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are heading to the polls on Sunday for the eighth time in five years, hoping to finally elect a parliament able to resolve the longtime political impasse that has gripped this Balkan country . The snap vote follows the resignation of a conservative-led government amid nationwide protests last December that drew hundreds of thousands, mainly young people, to the streets. The ...
Source: apnews.com