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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 2nd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump was in attendance as the US Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of his bid to curb who is eligible for automatic citizenship when born in the US. It was the first time a sitting president has attended an argument in recorded Supreme Court history. The justices are questioning the Trump administration's assertion that the birthright citizenship provision in the Constitution was ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Four astronauts have begun a 10-day journey around the moon and back again, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972 The first crewed mission to the moon since the Apollo programme ended in 1972 is on its way. The Artemis II mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 1 April, and if all goes well, the four astronauts aboard will soon fly further than any humans have ever been from Earth. This marks ...
Source: newscientist.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The cost of gasoline hit an unwelcome benchmark in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday as the average price per gallon officially reached the $6 mark, according to the American Automobile Assn. National gas prices also hit an unpleasant peak Tuesday when they surpassed the $4 mark for the first time in nearly four years. Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent prices up in 2022, and this time the surge in cost is due to ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
In 2016, the future looked bright for tech companies outside of Silicon Valley. American investors were suddenly waking up to opportunities overseas, and allocating money accordingly. Venture firms that had once focused almost exclusively on Silicon Valley were now chasing deals in Beijing, Bengaluru, Jakarta, and São Paolo — kicking off a nearly decade-long golden age for global startups. That year, ...
Source: restofworld.org
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Imagine if a state passed a law banning doctors from telling their patients to smoke cigarettes to be healthier. Then consider if a doctor challenged that law as a violation of their free-speech right to tell patients that smoking is safe and heathy. This hypothetical doctor would argue that the healthiness of smoking is a matter of debate. After all, not long ago most doctors were smokers themselves , and tobacco ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Washington — Republican leaders in Congress and President Trump unveiled a plan Wednesday to end the partial government shutdown and fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, mirroring a framework that the Senate pursued last week before it was quickly batted down by House Republicans. House GOP leadership spent all day last Friday criticizing Senate legislation that split off immigration ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Law named for Trenton Stewart, St. Johns County teen killed by a drunk driver in May of 2023 A rollover crash in Jupiter Island late last week has golf legend Tiger Woods facing DUI charges -- again. The arrest report for Woods sheds light on the circumstances that led to his second DUI arrest, which is his fourth vehicle incident since 2009. He faced limited consequences for the previous DUI after pleading guilty ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
April 1 (UPI) -- The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning that using it to execute Palestinian residents of the illegally occupied West Bank would amount to a war crime. The appeal from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Tuesday comes amid mounting international opposition to Israel's newly passed bill to make ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding. A federal judge ruled that President Trump's executive order defunding NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and issued a permanent injunction stating that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. The Trump order's "instruction that all federal agencies stop funding NPR and PBS constitutes a penalty for engaging in speech ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
April 1 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico necessary for national security and received an exemption from endangered species protections -- which a a conservation group maintains violated U.S. law. The lawsuit, filed by the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to block the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! The software supply chain attack that resulted in the compromise of npm packages of Axios, an extremely popular HTTP client library, is believed to be the work of financially-motivated North Korean attackers. Links to UNC1069 On March 31, 2026 , unknown attackers managed to publish ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Eli Lilly's once-daily Foundayo is the second obesity pill to receive FDA approval. It will compete with Novo Nordisk's pill version of Wegovy. The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new obesity pill called Foundayo. Taken once daily, the pill is made by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, which also manufactures the popular weight-loss injection Zepbound. Foundayo is a type of medication known ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after 'human error', raising fresh security questions at the AI company Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI -powered coding assistant, Claude Code, due to "human error", the company said on Tuesday. An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
( NewsNation ) — An American journalist was kidnapped Tuesday in Iraq , according to the country's Ministry of the Interior. Shelly Kittleson, a contributor to Al-Monitor, was contacted by U.S. officials multiple times with warnings about threats against her, including as late as last night, a U.S. official told NewsNation. Al-Monitor is a Washington, D.C.-based media organization offering reporting and ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Our community is sharply divided over the King's US visit. While some have called it an 'embarrassment' amid Donald Trump's attacks on the UK, others have urged diplomacy to 'calm the waters' Removed from bookmarks I ndependent readers have shared sharply divided views on whether the King should go ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule on March 30 that would make it easier for 401(k) plans to include cryptocurrency, private equity, and other alternative assets. The proposal, titled "Fiduciary Duties in Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives," follows an August 2025 executive order from President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to to alternative assets. The White House's Office of ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Apple made an unusual decision on Wednesday and released a new version of iOS 18.7.7 in order to combat a new hacking toolkit called DarkSword . Now, more devices, like the iPhone 16e , can download the update to protect themselves from the toolkit without having to update to iOS 26 . To download the update, go to Settings > General > Software Update. If iOS 18.7.7 is available on your device, you should see a ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Key Takeaways: OpenAI finalized the largest funding round in Silicon Valley history, they secured $122 billion in commitments at a post valuation of $852 billion. The round was led by Amazon ($50 billion), NVIDIA ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion), with participation from Microsoft and VC firms. The capital will be used to expand AI infrastructure, develop custom chips with Broadcom, and build the generation ...
Source: techiexpert.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The judges overseeing the federal and state trials of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, postponed the start of both cases Wednesday. Mangione's federal trial is now set to begin with jury selection on Oct. 5, followed by opening statements on Oct. 26 or Nov. 2, U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett ruled at a hearing in downtown Manhattan. (Jury selection was ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing on Halloween night and was found on the side of a highway bound and beaten a month later New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, the local sheriff's office said Wednesday. Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing on Halloween night 51 years ago after she left a party alone to go to a convenience store. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez , according to an Office of Foreign Assets Control entry on the Treasury Department website. The newly announced sanctions relief is the latest U.S. recognition of Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Alex Jones claimed that President Trump needs 'intervention' and that top administration officials are 'freaked out' Removed from bookmarks tore into his one-time political hero, President Trump, yesterday, claiming that the commander-in-chief was in "free fall." Jones told listeners that it was time to ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
A Russian military plane crash in annexed Crimea has killed six crew and 23 passengers, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry. The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
"Carry on, patriots" was the message from Pete Hegseth, who thanked Kid Rock – an ardent backer of Donald Trump – for his support of the military. The US army has lifted a suspension on two helicopter crews which hovered near Kid Rock's swimming pool while he clapped and saluted. The singer posted a video on X showing the aircraft flying next to his house in Nashville, Tennessee . Army ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Three former agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that they were wrongfully fired in retaliation for their work in the United States. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, marks the latest legal challenge against efforts under President Donald Trump to purge staff at the federal law enforcement agency. The three agents involved — Michelle Ball, Jamie Garman ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Unilever Plc agreed to combine its food business with spice maker McCormick & Co. in a $44.8 billion deal that will create a global seasonings, sauces and condiments company. Under the agreement, McCormick will pay the Anglo-Dutch company $15.7 billion and the equivalent of $29.1 billion McCormick shares for most of Unilever's food business. That will leave Unilever and its shareholders with 65% of the combined ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes For the first time since Gmail debuted more than two decades ago, all U.S. users can finally change their email addresses. For years, the only way to get rid of embarrassing old Gmail addresses that you probably came up with in the ignorance and recklessness of youth was to open a new email account from scratch. But opening a new account, especially now, means that you will have to go through ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
A Starlink satellite has apparently come apart in space, according to a social media post from SpaceX . The incident happened on Sunday, when satellite 34343 experienced what the company called "an anomaly on-orbit" about 560 kilometers above Earth. A representative for SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company said the breakup poses no danger to the International Space Station or ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
AP Photo/Alex Brandon Karoline Leavitt from their image libraries after being made aware that the White House was unhappy. According to Oliver Darcy's Status newsletter , the photo – taken by AFP photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds and depicting Leavitt with her son next to a turkey at the White House on Thanksgiving – was removed after AFP was made aware that the White House was displeased with the ...
Source: mediaite.com