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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 12th 2026
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
JD Vance leads American delegation while Iran's negotiators headed up by Iran's parliamentary speaker Peace talks between Iran and the US began in Islamabad this afternoon, with senior negotiators from both countries meeting face to face at the highest level for the first time since 1979, in the presence of mediators from Pakistan . Pakistani state TV said US and Iranian officials were "sitting directly at the same ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Apr 11th, 2026 -
mission around the moon in 12 stunning photos The moon mission might have come to an end after a 10-day voyage around the moon and back. But thankfully, the mission's crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen—as well as NASA's cameras on Earth and in space, captured their daring journey from start to finish. In fact, the mission was largely communicated to the world in photos, ...
Source: scientificamerican.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 -
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 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A man with a machete who attacked three people randomly at a major New York City subway station Saturday morning was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Officers responding to a 9:40 a.m. emergency call of an assault at the 42nd Street-Grand Central station encountered the man. He was behaving erratically, claiming he was "Lucifer," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at an ...
Source: pbs.org
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 -
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 -
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
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Inflation in the United States rose sharply in March, government data showed Wednesday, as higher energy prices due to the war in the Middle East hit Americans hard. The nationwide sticker shock put pressure on President Donald Trump, who has ordered peace talks with Iran and faces mid-term elections in November. The rate of inflation rose to 3.3 percent year-on-year in March, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
LONDON — A charity co-founded by Prince Harry in Africa to honor his late mother, Princess Diana, has sued him for defamation after he stepped down as a patron last year. Sentebale, which supports young people living with HIV in Botswana and Lesotho, filed suit last month in London's High Court, according to court records viewed Friday. Online filings show Harry and his friend, Mark Dyer, a former trustee at ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Officers responded to a North Beach residence at approximately 4:12 a.m. local time for a fire investigation, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department, Allison Maxie, said in a statement. No one was injured, and the fire was contained to an exterior gate, the spokesperson said. At around 5:07 a.m., officers responded to OpenAI's office, where they said an unknown man was threatening to burn down the ...
Source: insider.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 -
Google has expanded its encryption capabilities in Gmail to mobile devices, enabling enterprise customers to transmit encrypted emails directly within the app on both Android and iOS. The update removes a limitation that previously restricted native encrypted email use on mobile devices. The rollout allows eligible users to compose and read encrypted messages natively, without relying on external tools or separate ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Court of International Trade on Friday appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump 's use of a little-known emergency trade law to justify his sweeping, 10% global tariffs — teeing up a familiar, if technically new, legal fight focused on when and how a sitting president can act to unilaterally impose steep import fees on most U.S. trading partners. During nearly ...
Source: foxnews.com