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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 14th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump refused to apologize to Pope Leo XIV on Monday after criticizing the pontiff for his opposition to the war in Iran — and he sought to explain away a now-deleted social media post depicting himself as Jesus by saying he had thought the image was of him as a doctor. Trump was asked about his comments toward the US-born head of the Catholic Church, as well as the post ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
Machine learning is helping cyber teams process telemetry at scale to more quickly identify behavioral anomalies that might otherwise remain buried in the noise. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how security teams detect and hunt cyber threats by helping analyze vast volumes of security data, uncovering subtle signs of malicious activity, and identifying potential attacks faster than traditional tools ...
Source: csoonline.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
– Lebanon and Israel are set to hold the first direct diplomatic talks in decades on Tuesday in Washington following more than a month of war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group that has rocked the tiny Mediterranean country. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take part in the talks in Washington with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
Carney's Liberals will now be able to pass legislation without the support of opposition parties – and govern until 2029 The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney , has secured a parliamentary majority for his Liberal government, CBC News reported. The victory will help him push through a legislative agenda he says is needed for an increasingly divided geopolitical world. Three special elections were held on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
Two people were killed in the latest U.S. military strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific said to be involved in drug smuggling, U.S. Southern Command said Monday. The strike, directed by Marine Gen. Francis Donovan, took out a vessel that Southern Command said was operated by a U.S.-designated terrorist group involved in bringing illicit drugs to the U.S. A more precise location for the strike was not provided. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the has significant reverberations in the United States. That's because President Donald Trump and many U.S. conservatives have , who has become an icon among the global right for his anti-immigrant stance. The American president's agenda has with the way the Hungarian leader used ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
Sales of existing single-family homes that closed in March fell seasonally adjusted by 3.5% from February, to an annual rate of 3.63 million sales, the lowest since June 2025, and before then since September 2024, according to data by the National Association of Realtors today. It was four years ago, in March 2022 as mortgage rates began rising from suppressed levels, that home sales began to plunge and a few ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will resume flying a rainbow Pride flag on a federal flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, reversing course two months after removing the banner from the first national monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history. The government revealed the decision in court papers as it agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by advocacy and historic ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
Evolving global regulations aimed at limiting child access to harmful content, as well as incidents and lawsuits related to youth safety online , have prompted Roblox to revise how it handles accounts for minors and verifies users' ages. Starting in early June, the popular online game platform plans to group its younger users into two new account types: "Roblox Kids" for those ages 5 to 8, and "Roblox ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
Hollywood A-listers are pushing back against Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery , with nearly 1,000 writers, actors and directors signing a letter condemning the blockbuster merger that would reshape the industry. Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston , and Joaquin Phoenix are just some of the Hollywood elite that signed an open letter arguing the deal would "consolidate an already concentrated media ...
Source: nypost.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
A French court on Monday fined the cement group Lafarge over $1.3 million and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to the Islamic State group and other jihadists to maintain its business in war-torn Syria. The ruling follows a 2022 case in the United States in which the French firm pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to US-designated "terrorist" ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Dominic Frimpong of Ghanaian Premier League club Berekum Chelsea was killed after the team's bus was attacked by a group of suspected armed robbers, the country's soccer association said Monday. The incident happened on Sunday as Berekum Chelsea was returning from its game against Samartex in Samreboi in southern Ghana, the club said in a statement. "Masked men welding guns and assault ...
Source: apnews.com