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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 16th 2026
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
– Mediators moved closer Wednesday to extending the between the United States and Iran and restarting negotiations to salvage the fragile truce before it expires next week. A senior Iranian military official threatened to halt trade in the region if the U.S. does not lift its naval blockade. and renewed Iranian threats have imperiled the week-old agreement, but regional officials said they were making ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Tara Bowman lives on a farm in Woodstock, Virginia, a town of some 6,000 people nestled along the banks of the Shenandoah River's North Fork. But under a redistricting plan Virginia voters may enact next week, Bowman's community would be in the same congressional district as wealthy Washington suburbs such as Fairfax and McLean some 90 miles away. It's part of a sweeping Democratic effort to dilute Republican votes ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched a strike on another boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing four people in the fourth such attack announced in the past few days. The operation is the latest in a series of strikes on vessels that the Trump administration says were trafficking drugs in Latin American waters, a campaign that began more than seven months ago ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Happy Tax Day, if such a thing can exist. Today marks the last day that most Americans can file their taxes with Uncle Sam or else face financial consequences. For most people, tax filing is stressful and messy. And even though average refunds are expected to significantly jump thanks to the GOP's sprawling tax bill from last year, nearly 60 percent of Americans say taxes are still too high, according to a new ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A student opened fire randomly at two classrooms at a middle school in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 20 others, an official said, in the second such shooting in the country in two days. The student, who was also killed, arrived at the school, armed with guns believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer, Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, are missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea on the way to Malaysia , according to the United Nations' refugee and migration agencies. While details remained sketchy, Bangladesh Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Com. Sabbir Alam Suzan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that nine people, including three ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Defending critical software has long depended on the ability to find and fix vulnerabilities faster than attackers can exploit them. OpenAI is expanding a program designed to give professional defenders prioritized access to AI tools built for that purpose. The company is scaling ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Google to punish sites that trap people in with back button tricks Google says it is expanding its policies to crack down on websites which trap users with "back button hijacking". Back button hijacking is when a website interferes with a browser so the back button no longer takes users to the previous page, instead often keeping them on the site or presenting unsolicited ads. In a blog post the tech giant behind ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago. Trump commuted the prison sentences of several Proud Boys and ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Amazon.com Inc. has inked a $11.6 billion deal to acquire Globalstar Inc., a publicly traded operator of internet satellites. The companies announced the transaction today. It values Globalstar at $90 per share, a 23% premium to the satellite operator's last unaffected closing price. The acquisition is set to close in 2027 subject to regulatory approvals and the completion of certain upgrades to Globalstar's ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Don't confuse activity with progress. Running 15 AI pilots looks great on a slide, but if none of them change how the business actually works, it's just expensive theater. Every few years, CIOs face a version of the same board question: What are we doing about this new technology? Today, the answer is expected to be AI. The pressure is real. The competitive environment is real. The board's desire to see progress is ...
Source: cio.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of trying to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by throwing a Molotov cocktail at his San Francisco home was experiencing a mental health crisis and has been overcharged by prosecutors, his public defender said Tuesday. Daniel Moreno-Gama made his first court appearance on state charges Tuesday, wearing an orange jail uniform and with disheveled hair. The 20-year-old, ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Lonna Drewes alleges Democratic congressman drugged and raped her at hotel Another woman has accused Eric Swalwell of sexual assault, claiming the California Democrat drugged and raped her in 2018. At a press conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, the woman, Lonna Drewes, said she delayed coming forward sooner with her allegations that Swalwell drugged and raped her in a West Hollywood hotel room because of his ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Google introduces 'Skills' in Chrome, a new feature that allows users to bookmark and reuse AI prompts through Gemini for streamlined efficiency. Bookmarks, or favorites, are now part of every browser experience. In Chrome, Google is adapting AI in the same direction: Now, you can "bookmark" prompts with Google's new Skills feature for Chrome. When you want to write a prompt that you can save for the future, you ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will hang three flags on its flagpole at the monument Removed from bookmarks The flag — one of several Pride banners at the 7.7-acre (3.1-hectare) park — won't be removed, except for "maintenance or other practical purposes," the filing said. Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
at the White House has publicly touted the president's so-called "no tax on tips" policy before – causing some to question the encounter's authenticity and the company to confirm it was a stunt. and driving for the delivery platform because her husband's cancer treatments had made it difficult to make ends meet otherwise. That fact drew Simmons some skepticism after she delivered a McDonald's order to the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
NEW YORK — Matt Crocker quit as sporting director of the US Soccer Federation on Tuesday, just two months ahead of the World Cup, to take a new job in Saudi Arabia. The USSF said Crocker was leaving to pursue an unidentified international soccer opportunity, and a person familiar with the decision said he will work in Saudi Arabia. His hiring by Saudis was first reported by Fox. Crocker's departure was a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multistep infiltration challenge. Last week, Anthropic announced it was restricting the initial release of its Mythos Preview model to "a limited group of critical industry partners," giving them time to prepare for a model that it said is "strikingly capable at computer security tasks." Now, the UK government's (AISI) has published an initial evaluation of ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
April 14 (UPI) -- Los Angeles schools will not close for a strike after the district reached a deal with the third and final union Monday evening. Hours before the 2 a.m. PDT strike deadline, the district announced it had struck a deal with the Service Employees International Union Local 99, which represents 30,000 custodians, food workers, special education assistants and bus drivers. LAUSD announced on its ...
Source: upi.com