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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 8th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pushed back a deadline for Iran to cut a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz from Monday to Tuesday, the latest of several deadline delays, and threatened that without a deal "Hell will reign down on them." Trump's previous deadline was for March 23, but that shifted several times over the ensuing weeks as the Republican president oscillated between heated threats, ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
The four-astronaut crew of NASA's Artemis II mission is now on its way back to Earth after a record-breaking trip around the moon, traveling farther than any other humans have before. As the Orion capsule whipped around the back side of the moon Monday, Earth was out of sight — and the crew was unable to communicate to Mission Control for about 40 minutes due to the moon blocking a connection to the Deep ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Roberts-Smith previously failed in his attempt to sue three newspapers which published allegations he murdered unarmed civilians and bullied comrades Australia's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith , has been arrested at Sydney airport and charged with war crimes. The Australian federal police and the Office of the Special Investigator announced details of the investigation in Sydney on Tuesday after ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Sustainability teams are spread thin. Everything from reporting and compliance to developing responsible sourcing strategies and chasing data from hundreds, if not thousands, of sources crosses their desks. Even at multi-million-dollar brands, these teams are often just a handful of people, forced to spend more time with their heads buried in spreadsheets than pushing the kind of agenda-setting sustainability ...
Source: vogue.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square claims world's biggest music company has suffered due to delay of US listing Billionaire Bill Ackman's hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world's biggest music company at around €55bn (£48bn). Pershing Square, the New-York based hedge fund, has offered to buy the business, which is home to artists including Taylor Swift and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Campaign Against Antisemitism calls on rapper to cancel gigs, while rapper offers to meet Jewish representatives Kanye West will face mass protests if his three-night residency at London's Wireless festival goes ahead, according to Jewish groups who say that if the rapper is truly sorry for his antisemitic remarks he should cancel this summer's gigs. In a statement on Tuesday, West, who is legally known as Ye, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
The former member of Migos is in a stable condition after being shot on Monday, with police detaining two people The rapper Offset is in a stable condition in hospital after he was shot outside a Florida casino on Monday. The former member of the Atlanta hip-hop trio Migos, whose real name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, was shot in a valet area outside the Seminole Hard Rock hotel and casino, Offset's spokesperson ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
Ruling, vacating lower court's temporary block, applies to classrooms and libraries up to sixth grade Iowa can enforce a law that restricts teachers from talking about LGBTQ+ topics with students in kindergarten through the sixth grade and bans some books in libraries and classrooms, an appellate court said on Monday. The decision for now vacates a lower court judge's temporary blocks on the law. The measure was ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a lower court decision that upheld the conviction of Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Trump, on two counts of contempt of Congress, paving the way for the case to be dismissed. In addition to wiping away the ruling that left Bannon's conviction in place, the Supreme Court sent his case back to the federal appeals court in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said that BNY will be the designated financial agent for Trump accounts. BNY will manage the initial accounts and has partnered with Robinhood to develop the new Trump accounts app, according to an announcement Monday on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." As of March 31, taxpayers had signed up for more than 4 million children for Trump accounts, and more than 1 ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
Man had to be airlifted out of mountain in north Phoenix by rescue teams and was transported to hospital A hiker was taken to a hospital in critical condition after bees stung him more than 100 times on an Arizona mountain trail over the Easter weekend – an emergency which required the help of a helicopter crew. The man reported "over 100 stings" had left him "unable to continue his descent" from the summit ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
US President Donald Trump has endorsed a former top adviser to ex-British PM David Cameron for governor of California, shaking up an unusually unpredictable race in the heavily Democratic state. In a Truth Social post, Trump declared Republican candidate Steve Hilton would "be a great governor". The president argued that "Democrats have done an absolutely horrendous job" in California and that "people are fleeing" ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
A federal appeals court has ruled for the first time that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has exclusive jurisdiction over sports-related event contracts, Reuters reported Monday (April 6). This decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit came in a case in which prediction market Kalshi sued New Jersey after the state sent the company a cease and desist letter saying that ...
Source: pymnts.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Florida gas prices are the highest they've been in four years with state averages peaking at $4.23 per gallon. Prices surged $0.28 last week before declining $0.03 through the weekend, according to AAA – The Auto Club Group. Sunday's state average of $4.21 per gallon is $0.25 more than a week ago, $0.97 more than last month and $1.01 per gallon more than this time ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump wants to know who leaked details about the missing U.S. airman who was rescued from the mountains of Iran in a high-stakes mission on Sunday. The U.S. carried out a daring operation to extract two airmen who ejected from the F-15E fighter jet that was shot down by Iranian forces on Friday. The military plucked the pilot out of Iranian territory on Friday, and later pulled out the second ...
Source: nj.com