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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 12th 2026
Sunday, Apr 12th, 2026 -
The latest developments in the Middle East war: – Key Saudi pipeline back – Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said that its key east-west oil pipeline and other facilities had been restored following attacks by Iran on infrastructure across the Gulf. Citing an energy ministry statement, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that the attacks had led to a "loss of approximately 700,000 barrels per ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Sunday, Apr 12th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — Police broke up a blockade in the center of Dublin by fuel protesters who have brought much of Ireland to a standstill during the past week as the government prepared on Sunday to approve cost-cutting measures they hope will end the six days of disruption over soaring costs at the pump. As tractors and trucks that had blocked O'Connell Street were rolling out of the capital, protests continued ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Rep. Eric Swalwell of California faced accusations of sexual misconduct Friday, as several staff members quit his campaign for governor and key supporters abandoned him. The San Francisco Chronicle published an account Friday from a woman who was not named but gave detailed descriptions of several sexual encounters she said she had with Swalwell, including two instances in which she said he ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
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 -
AUGUSTA, Ga. — 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 Young ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
Even as a triumphant moon flyby primes agency for a 2028 landing, Trump's proposed budget cuts cast pall on US space program The astronauts on board Artemis II were "almost poets", Nasa's administrator, Jared Isaacman, declared on Friday, referring to their inspiring words as they swung above the lunar surface. They were, he said, "ambassadors for humanity" as they became the first humans to travel to the moon and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York has launched an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., NBC News confirmed Saturday. Multiple women in the last two days have come forward alleging that Swalwell sexually assaulted or harassed them while serving in Congress, including one who alleged he assaulted her in New York. Swalwell has denied the allegations. A ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
PARIS — A 9-year-old boy was rescued this week after living locked in his father's utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father detained. Police were alerted by a neighbor to "sounds of a child'' coming from a van on Monday in the village of Hagenbach near the borders of Switzerland and Germany, according to a statement from ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
Kyiv says it will reciprocate the Kremlin-ordered truce from Saturday afternoon until the end of Sunday 2-MIN READ A temporary truce between Russia and Ukraine entered into force on Saturday, with Kyiv warning it would respond "immediately" if Russia violated it. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the ceasefire on Thursday to coincide with Orthodox Easter, more than a week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...
Source: scmp.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
World United Kingdom 3 min read The UK has been forced to pause its plan to hand over the Chagos Islands , on which the US air base in Diego Garcia resides, after US President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the deal. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his government are not completely scrapping the plan to hand the islands to Mauritius. A spokesperson told CNN that "we continue to believe the agreement is ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
An African AIDS charity co-founded by Britain's Prince Harry said on Friday it had launched legal proceedings against him for "reputational harm", after a bitter dispute about its management. Harry helped found the Sentebale charity in 2006 in honour of his late mother, Princess Diana. But he quit the institution last year amid a bitter governance dispute with its chairperson. "Sentebale has commenced legal ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
The Trump administration submitted official architectural renderings for the planned 250-foot "triumphal arch" near Arlington National Cemetery. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is due to review the proposed project, which has been touted by President Donald Trump as honoring the U.S.'s 250th anniversary, at its meeting on April 16. On Feb. 2, Trump posted on social media an image showing India Gate, with the ...
Source: cnbc.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