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Top News Stories for Sunday, April 26th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
The White House has confirmed that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are planning to travel to Pakistan Saturday for a new round of talks with Iran. Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday arrived in Islamabad, where Pakistan hosted direct U.S.-Iran talks earlier this month. But his spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, denied that a direct meeting with the U.S. was ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve , shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell . The committee vote will take place on April 29 , putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on track for full ...
Source: commondreams.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 people, Amazon announced yet another reduction in force, Snap laid off around 15 percent of its staff, and Pinterest announced plans to do about the same thing. Microsoft recently announced its first-ever voluntary buyouts, targeting longtime ...
Source: nymag.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In just the few weeks since he's taken over the justice department's top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department's resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president's former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent. Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Soldier Charged After Using Classified Intel On Maduro Raid To Win $400,000 On Polymarket --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. A U.S. special forces soldier who participated in the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the operation to win more than $400,000 on the online betting platform Polymarket. The Justice ...
Source: forbes.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
After years of false starts, stalled hearings, a retired judge, a fired attorney general, and a president who last weekend told officials to stop "slow-walking" on cannabis, we finally have something to talk about. Effective April 22, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a final order moving FDA-approved marijuana products and state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! The former Androscoggin Mill in Jay, shown here April 2025, is the proposed site of a data center redevelopment project. The project would reuse the long-vacant industrial ...
Source: pressherald.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel's strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The story of the first round of the 2026 NFL draft surrounded a quarterback but it wasn't No 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza . As expected, the Las Vegas Raiders selected Mendoza with the first pick on Thursday after he led Indiana to the national title last season. But the shock of the night came when the Los Angeles Rams picked another quarterback, Alabama's Ty Simpson, at No 13. The Rams current starting ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
earlier this month to accelerate access to psychedelic medication for people with "serious mental illnesses", but experts say the order is more likely to make a difference symbolically than legally. "Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled to address the burden of suicide and serious mental illness rates in America," the order reads, noting that some people do not respond to available treatments. The ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday Washington had no objections to Iranian players participating in ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Justice Department is targeting at least 300 foreign-born Americans to possibly revoke their citizenship as part of the Trump administration's effort to ramp up denaturalization, according to a person familiar with the investigations. A Justice Department official told NBC News the number was in the hundreds. NBC News previously reported that the Trump administration was dramatically expanding an effort to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president's chief science ...
Source: securityweek.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4 , a much-awaited update to last year's V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm . The company says both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are mixture-of-experts models with context windows of 1 million tokens each — enough to allow large ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Dozens of sloths destined for a Florida "slotharium" died in a warehouse or while in transit to the Orlando attraction, state wildlife officials said. The 31 deaths occurred between December 2024 and February 2025, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a report from last year that was recently released. The majority of the sloths died in an unheated warehouse while awaiting transfer to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre warned on Thusday. "The [Firestarter] malware (…) is relevant for both Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices; however, CISA has only observed a successful implant of the malware in the wild on a Cisco Firepower device ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
A powerful tornado in Oklahoma on Thursday ripped roofs off buildings, destroyed homes, knocked down power poles and forced an Air Force base to close. The confirmed tornado moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people in Garfield County near the state's northern border, according to the National Weather Service. Videos posted online show a rapidly rotating column of air touching down, along with ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said he is taking accountability for actions that have created a distraction for New England without addressing specifics about photos published recently of him with longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. Vrabel spoke for just over seven minutes prior to the start of Thursday's NFL draft . He vowed to prioritize his family by beginning ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Intel Corp. crushed analysts' expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be finally starting to pay off. The chipmaker reported solid earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 29 cents per share, way ahead of Wall Street's target of a profit of just a penny a share. Revenue for ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Justice Department's internal watchdog is investigating compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that compelled the department to release records related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The preliminary objective of the probe is "to evaluate the DOJ's processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act," said Deputy ...
Source: nbcnews.com