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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 16th 2026
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. military's maritime blockade of Iran has "completely halted" sea-based trade with the Middle Eastern country, U.S. Central Command said late Tuesday. President Donald Trump announced the blockade on Sunday after negotiations to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran collapsed. The blockade of 12 U.S. warships, more than 100 fighter and surveillance aircraft and more than 10,000 soldiers began ...
Source: upi.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 -
As Americans race to file their federal taxes before Wednesday's deadline, new analysis breaks down where the money goes Many US households spent hundreds more tax dollars on the military last year, according to new analysis, as Donald Trump 's plans to dramatically increase federal defense spending faces growing scrutiny. Millions of Americans will race to file their taxes on Wednesday, the final day for federal ...
Source: theguardian.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 isn't just buying Globalstar — it's inheriting Apple's satellite roadmap. The Seattle-based company's agreement to acquire the satellite operator behind Apple's iPhone Emergency SOS feature promises to give it a new constellation of operating satellites, a key slice of mobile spectrum, and Apple as a flagship partner. The cash-and-stock deal, announced Tuesday, will help the Amazon Leo satellite ...
Source: geekwire.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Why the success of your enterprise AI initiatives depends on data unification, governance, and operational alignment. As organizations accelerate their artificial intelligence initiatives, many are discovering a hard truth: success with AI is less about models and more about the data foundation behind them. For enterprises operating on Microsoft Azure, the real challenge is not access to tools, but whether their ...
Source: cio.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
April 14 (UPI) -- Federal authorities have charged the 20-year-old Texas man who police arrested after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The criminal complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California charges Daniel Moreno-Gama of Spring, Texas, with possession of an unregistered firearm and attempted damage to and destruction of ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Washington — Another woman came forward with allegations against former Rep. Eric Swalwell on Tuesday, claiming the California Democrat drugged and raped her after he offered to help her career in 2018. Swalwell announced Sunday that he would be ending his campaign for governor of California and said Monday he planned to resign from Congress. He officially resigned on Tuesday. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Google is launching the feature with a library of Skills for common tasks and everyday topics. Here's how it all works. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways As I use Google Gemini and other AIs, I often find myself writing the same prompts for different questions or requests. Sometimes, I remember writing an ideal prompt in the past but can't quite recall how I phrased it. If ...
Source: zdnet.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 -
US Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker is leaving his post with less than two months to go until the 2026 World Cup, US Soccer announced on Tuesday. The Guardian can also confirm Fox Sports' earlier reporting that Crocker is taking up a similar role with the Saudi Arabia football federation. US Soccer said Crocker's duties will be shared by chief operating officer Dan Helfrich, assistant sporting director Oguchi ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
The AI Security Institute (AISI) has urged organizations to double down on "cybersecurity basics" and consider harnessing AI to protect systems after testing Anthropic's latest model. Claude Mythos Preview garnered plenty of press attention last week when the model maker claimed it had been able to discover thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities dating back decades. Anthropic promptly announced the launch of Project ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
The Los Angeles Unified School District strike has been called off after LAUSD reached a tentative agreement early Tuesday morning with Local 99 of Service Employees International Union. Schools will be open as usual on Tuesday. The tentative agreement was the third and final milestone needed to avert a walkout and school shutdown in the nation's second-largest school district — and comes as a relief to ...
Source: latimes.com