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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 7th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Threat comes after US president said he would bomb power plants and bridges if Iran did not reopen strait of Hormuz Israel has warned Iranians their lives will be at risk if they use the country's railways on Tuesday before the end of a negotiations deadline imposed by Donald Trump with a threat to destroy Iran's bridges and power plants. Israel's military, writing in Farsi, said in a social media post that "from ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Four NASA astronauts have now travelled further from Earth than any humans before them, as they flew around the moon during the Artemis II mission on 6 April For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, humans have visited the moon. On 6 April, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission flew around the far side of the moon, taking them the furthest humans have ever travelled from Earth. As they surpassed the ...
Source: newscientist.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Former Australian special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan. The 47-year-old was charged with five counts of war crimes in connection with the murder of five people in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Tuesday. The maximum penalty for each charge is life imprisonment. AFP ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Sustainability teams are spread thin. Everything from reporting and compliance to developing responsible sourcing strategies and chasing data from hundreds, if not thousands, of sources crosses their desks. Even at multi-million-dollar brands, these teams are often just a handful of people, forced to spend more time with their heads buried in spreadsheets than pushing the kind of agenda-setting sustainability ...
Source: vogue.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square claims world's biggest music company has suffered due to delay of US listing Billionaire Bill Ackman's hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world's biggest music company at around €55bn (£48bn). Pershing Square, the New-York based hedge fund, has offered to buy the business, which is home to artists including Taylor Swift and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
Campaign Against Antisemitism calls on rapper to cancel gigs, while rapper offers to meet Jewish representatives Kanye West will face mass protests if his three-night residency at London's Wireless festival goes ahead, according to Jewish groups who say that if the rapper is truly sorry for his antisemitic remarks he should cancel this summer's gigs. In a statement on Tuesday, West, who is legally known as Ye, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 -
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP) — The rapper Offset was shot Monday and is stable, according to a spokesperson for the Migos rapper, but his exact condition is unknown. He is being treated at a hospital and being closely monitored, the spokesperson said in a statement. Offset was formerly married to Cardi B, with whom he has three children. The Seminole Police Department said a person sustained injuries that were not ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
Ruling, vacating lower court's temporary block, applies to classrooms and libraries up to sixth grade Iowa can enforce a law that restricts teachers from talking about LGBTQ+ topics with students in kindergarten through the sixth grade and bans some books in libraries and classrooms, an appellate court said on Monday. The decision for now vacates a lower court judge's temporary blocks on the law. The measure was ...
Source: theguardian.com
Steve Bannon wins Supreme Court order likely to lead to dismissal of contempt of Congress conviction
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress. Prodded by the Trump administration, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon's conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by The move frees a trial judge to act on ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said that BNY will be the designated financial agent for Trump accounts. BNY will manage the initial accounts and has partnered with Robinhood to develop the new Trump accounts app, according to an announcement Monday on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." As of March 31, taxpayers had signed up for more than 4 million children for Trump accounts, and more than 1 ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
An unusually warm winter has caused bee activity to rise in Arizona. Last week, five people were stung - with one taken to hospital - after a swarm disrupted a women's lacrosse game. A hiker is fighting for his life after being stung more than 100 times by bees on a mountain in Arizona. He rang emergency services in Phoenix because his injuries meant he couldn't continue his descent from Lookout Mountain. Rescue ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
April 6 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Steve Hilton for California governor early Monday morning on Truth Social. "I have known and respected Steve Hilton, who is running for Governor of California, for many years," Trump said on Truth Social . "He is a truly fine man, one who has watched as this once great State has gone to Hell. Gavin Newscum and the Democrats have done an absolutely ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over sports event contracts, a 'big win' for Kalshi A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based third US circuit court of appeals ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
) - AAA is confirming what most Suncoast motorists already know -- Florida gas prices are averaging above $4 per gallon for the first time in four years. The state average surged 28 cents last week, reaching a high of $4.23 per gallon, before declining 3 cents through the weekend. "The average Florida driver now pays about $20 more to fill up than a month ago," said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA The Auto Club ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Monday, Apr 6th, 2026 -
The president claims the reporter must give up their source on "national security" grounds Corbin Bolies 3 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to prosecute a journalist who reported how U.S. forces rescued an airman downed by Iran last week and were searching for a second one, claiming the reporter must give up their anonymous source ...
Source: yahoo.com