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Top News Stories for Monday, April 27th 2026
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
An armed man exchanged gunfire with law enforcement after he rushed a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, authorities said, an event attended by President Donald Trump and high-ranking members of his administration. Trump and top members of his Cabinet and Congress were quickly evacuated from the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, where the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
– Pakistan's top political and military leadership are scrambling to reignite talks between the United States and after President Donald Trump told his envoys not to travel to Islamabad for negotiations this weekend, two Pakistani officials said Sunday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. After mounting tensions torpedoed a second round of ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Apr 26th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... They were meant to live their lives in the rainforests of Guyana and Peru, where the temperatures are warm and humid year-round and there is plenty of food and verdant foliage in which to hide. Instead, dozens of sloths died after being stored in a warehouse in the frenetic heart of Orlando's tourist district, within a few hundred feet of International Drive's ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty — underscoring a sharp divide with Pope Leo XIV and recent Catholic teaching. Hours after the Justice Department made its announcement, the pontiff condemned the death penalty as an attack on human dignity. In a prerecorded message shared ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Atlanta — It is a sunny afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia, but inside Carolyn Kayne's 3,000-square-foot home, it is cold. "I'm walking around in a ski suit trying to stay warm in the winter," Kayne told CBS News. It is just one of the ways Kayne has tried to beat her skyrocketing electric bills, which have almost doubled in two years. She has now turned off her heat and water, leaving much of her home hard ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
A Chicago police officer was killed and another was "fighting for his life" after being wounded in a shooting Saturday morning at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, the city's top cop said. Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters the officers had taken the suspected gunman, who had been arrested earlier on suspicion of robbery, to the hospital "for an observation" around 10:50 a.m. The officer who was killed was ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
April 25 (UPI) -- A man was charged Saturday for the murders of two missing University of South Florida doctoral students after the body of one of them was found. Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, has been charged with two counts of first-degree, premeditated murder with a weapon in the deaths of the two students: Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, both 27. The pair, both from Bangladesh, had been missing for a week. Abugharbieh ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
By Don't bet on Jerome Powell leaving the Federal Reserve anytime soon. That's the strong message from veteran Fed watchers in the aftermath of the Department of Justice dropping its criminal investigation into whether the Fed Chair lied to Congress last year over the $2.5 billion renovations at its D.C. headquarters. Powell and others called the unprecedented criminal probe of a sitting Fed Chair a "pretext" from ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who rode a roster with Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Chris Sale to the most successful season in franchise history and then struggled to win with the discount lineups that replaced them, was fired on Saturday with Boston again mired in last place in the AL East. Cora, who was an infielder on the Red Sox 2007 World Series championship team and managed them to a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The elections, the first of their kind since the October 7 massacre in 2023, will be held in the West Bank and the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah. for the local council of the opened up their polls on Saturday, with 1 million Palestinians expected to vote - including 70,000 from Gaza. The polls will close by 7 p.m., with the first results expected by late Saturday and early Sunday. The elections, the first of their ...
Source: jpost.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The United States has sanctioned a Chinese oil refinery for buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil. Ahead of potential new talks on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran, the US Treasury Department on Friday said that it was targeting Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery, China's second-largest "teapot" or independent refinery. Hengli is "one of Tehran's most valued customers" and has generated ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Two massive wildfires in south Georgia have scorched more than 40,000 acres and destroyed over 120 homes. Extreme drought has turned the region into a tinderbox and allowed flames to spread. Overnight, new fires sparked in rural south Georgia. High winds have made efforts to contain the fires difficult, officials said in a news conference Saturday afternoon. Brantley County Manager Joey Cason called the wildfires a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
It has been six days since President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at facilitating regulatory review of psychedelics that have shown potential as psychotherapeutic catalysts. As promised then, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued "national priority vouchers" for two psychedelics: psilocybin as a treatment for depression and methylone (a.k.a. MDMC) as a treatment for post-traumatic ...
Source: reason.com