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Top News Stories for Friday, April 3rd 2026
'Must Answer for Her Mishandling': Top Oversight Dem Demands Pam Bondi Still Testify Before Congress
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has called on the freshly ousted former attorney general Pam Bondi to testify before Congress, declaring she "must answer for her mishandling" of the Epstein files. On Thursday, President Donald Trump confirmed via Truth Social that Bondi would be leaving the attorney general's office for a private sector job, calling her a "loyal friend" who ...
Source: mediaite.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
And we have liftoff! The Artemis II rocket has roared into space, carrying NASA's first crewed mission to the Moon in over half a century. The four-person crew – commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – lifted off at 6:35pm local time (11:35pm in the UK) from Kennedy Space Center in Cape ...
Source: sciencefocus.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Washington — The Senate early Thursday took the first step toward funding the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security after House GOP leaders reversed course and agreed on a plan to reopen most of the department while pursuing additional funding at a later date. Senate Majority Leader John Thune took to the Senate floor Thursday morning to move to send the House a measure that Senate Democrats and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
One doctor breaks down what makes Foundayo so noteworthy. If it seems like new medications for weight loss are coming out at a rapid rate, it's because they are. For a long time, the only options came in injectable form until recently, when the first oral GLP-1 pill became available earlier this year. Now, an even newer oral GLP-1 from drug company Eli Lilly—called Foundayo (orforglipron)— , and it's ...
Source: womenshealthmag.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Mortgage rates have increased for five consecutive weeks, sidelining potential buyers in the middle of the spring homebuying season. Processing Content The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hit 6.46% this week, an eight-basis-point jump from last week's 6.38% and the highest mark since early September, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The 30-year rate is up 46 basis points month over month, ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Tiny fragments of plastic have been found in nearly every organ in the body, including the brain and lungs. For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency is adding these microplastics to a list of drinking water contaminants the agency is considering for future regulation. "For too long, Americans have been ignored as they sound the alarm about plastics in their drinking water. That ends today," EPA ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Woods pleaded not guilty to charges related to Friday's crash, in which his Land Rover clipped a trailer while a truck was turning into a driveway in Jupiter Island. After Tiger Woods' rollover crash in Florida last week, the golfer told a deputy that he had just gotten off the phone with "the president," according to police body camera video released Thursday. In body camera video released by the Martin County ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Apple has extended security updates to a wider range of devices still running iOS 18, aiming to protect users from the DarkSword exploit kit. This is not the first time Apple has backported fixes for older devices based on vulnerability severity. Allowing iOS 18 users to receive ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — 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 Venezuela ever since the U.S. military captured her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, and his ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York tossed out actor Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims Thursday against actor Justin Baldoni over their roles in the movie "It Ends With Us," but he left intact two retaliation claims. The written ruling by Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan came after Lively sued Baldoni last December, alleging sexual harassment among over a dozen claims. Baldoni and production ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
The Colorado Court of Appeals has thrown out election denier Tina Peters' nine-year prison sentence , finding that the lower court violated her First Amendment right to free speech related to her allegations of election fraud. "The trial court's comments about Peters's belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing," a three-judge panel wrote in a 77-page ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Ted Bundy's rampage of violence spanned at least four years and left dozens of victims behind, including at least 30 women and girls who were killed — and several others who escaped or survived despite serious injuries. Though the serial killer has been dead for nearly 40 years, the tally of his confirmed victims continues to grow as DNA testing has advanced. A Utah sheriff confirmed Wednesday that Bundy was ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
By If your heart sank when you scrolled past news that Jonathan the Tortoise had died, here's the update you need: the beloved 194-year-old is perfectly fine, napping under a tree and living his best life on a remote island in the South Atlantic. What started as some of the saddest news imaginable in the animal kingdom turned out to be nothing more than a scam — and the people who know and love Jonathan most ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Sensory organ in male cephalopod able to detect female hormone progesterone, even if male cannot see partner Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm's length. Male octopuses use a specialised arm called the hectocotylus to place a package of sperm inside the female's reproductive system. But how this arm detects a mate, or delivers the sperm to the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Google LLC is upping the stakes for open-weights artificial intelligence models with the release of Gemma 4, its most advanced "open" model family so far. Built on the same architectural foundation as Gemini 3, the models are designed to handle complex reasoning tasks and support autonomous AI agents running locally on low-power devices such as workstations and smartphones. With Gemma 4, Google DeepMind researchers ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
However, the return of human beings to deep space is not just about powerful rockets and advanced navigation systems. Rather, it is also about managing the most basic human needs in an environment where nothing behaves as it does on Earth. NASA has recently launched the Artemis II mission, which is the first human mission to orbit the Moon in more than five decades. This mission is considered to be an important ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
Ocasio-Cortez says Israel can fund its own defense and she will oppose any new US aid amid human rights concerns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems. In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding "Iron Dome and other defensive systems", and that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
One of the worst Western US snow droughts of the century—exacerbated by a historically warm winter and a record-shattering March heatwave—has experts increasingly worried about wildfire and water supply risks heading into the spring and summer months. On Wednesday, the California Department of Water Resources reported "no measurable snow" recorded at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada range. Because ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it's "not possible" for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care costs, arguing that it should be up to the states to "take care" of those programs while the federal government focuses on military spending. The president's remarks were delivered to attendees at a private Easter luncheon at the White House, where Trump also accused Democratic-led ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 -
The National Capital Planning Commission has given the green light to the US president's plan to build a 90,000sq ft ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing. Donald Trump's plan to build a ballroom at the White House has been given final approval by a key commission - just days after a judge ordered construction to stop. The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), the agency responsible ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Luigi Mangione's federal and New York state trials over the killing of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson were pushed back Wednesday, with the first case set to start on Sept. 8. New York State Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro on Wednesday moved Mangione's murder trial to September from June 8. A few hours earlier, US District Judge Margaret Garnett had postponed jury selection in the federal ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com