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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 21st 2026
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Donald Trump announced on Sunday that a second round of US-Iran talks is to be held in Pakistan on Monday – but Tehran has not confirmed participation, two days before a ceasefire deal expires. The capture by US Marines of an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday has further clouded the Islamabad talks, as Tehran has pledged to retaliate. The attack came hours after President ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family that stretched across two houses in a Shreveport, Louisiana, neighborhood left shaken by one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. The gunman's wife, who was the mother of their children, and another woman were also shot and critically wounded in the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Baby food manufacturer HiPP has issued a product recall in Austria after authorities reported the presence of rat poison in one of the company's jars. HiPP said on Sunday that it had pulled all baby food sold at stores operating under the SPAR umbrella in Austria, including outlets of EUROSPAR, INTERSPAR and Maximarkt. The Swiss company, which bills itself as the world's top organic baby food brand, said the recall ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
After a spate of arson attacks targeting Jewish sites in London, British authorities are investigating a shadowy online group with possible ties to Iran. The group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, or HAYI, has claimed responsibility for at least eight arson attacks on Jewish locations in London and several others across Europe in recent weeks. "As the conflict in the Middle East continues to evolve, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
A strong magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck off northern Japan, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning for waves of up to 3 metres (10 feet). The quake hit on Monday at 4:53pm local time (07:53 GMT) in waters off Iwate prefecture on Japan's Pacific coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). It was felt across a wide area, shaking buildings in Tokyo, hundreds of kilometres (miles) to the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
New Glenn 3 took off from the Blue Origin launch base in Florida's Cape Canaveral on Sunday morning, carrying a satellite by satellite company AST Space Mobile, which it aimed to deliver into low Earth orbit. , gave updates during the launch on X, saying that liftoff went smoothly and that the rocket's booster had returned to earth. "The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit," the company said. "We are ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
April 20 (UPI) -- Five people were wounded in a shooting near the campus of the University of Iowa over the weekend, according to authorities seeking to identify several persons of interest. The gunshots rang out early Sunday in downtown Iowa City. The Iowa City Police Department said officers heard the gunfire as they were responding at 1:46 a.m. CDT to a report of a large fight in the 100 block of East College ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday it test-launched ballistic missiles with cluster bomb warheads in the second such test this month, likely underscoring its push to expand its capabilities to penetrate U.S. and South Korean defenses. The report by the North's official Korean Central News Agency appeared to refer to the multiple ballistic missile launches South Korea, Japan and the U.S. detected ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
– An overturned ship found near the U.S. territory of Saipan after a typhoon hit is the vessel that went missing with six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard said it was still searching for the six. It said the overturned boat . Debris included a partially submerged life raft that was partly inflated. It was seen 95 nautical miles (175 kilometers) northeast of the vessel, the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
Donald Trump's depiction of himself as Jesus Christ and recent spat with Pope Leo XIV could come back to bite him and the Republican party in the midterm elections, according to experts, with some newly aggrieved Christian groups set to play an outsized role in key races across the US. The president's Trump-as-the-Messiah Truth Social post sparked immediate criticism among some Christians, including some on the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luke Kennard scored a career playoff-high 27 points, LeBron James had 19 points and 13 assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers capitalized on Kevin Durant's injury absence for a 107-98 victory over the Houston Rockets in the opener of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night. Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 11 rebounds for the fourth-seeded Lakers , who pulled off an ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch 11:44 AM PDT · April 19, 2026 Anthony Ha The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo. Comparing human and robot running times may seem unfair; one social media user observed , "my car can outrun ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of New York City read to preschoolers and led a sing-along. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Around 25 protesters were arrested as around 1,000 animal welfare activists tried to gain entry to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin and were met by officers firing pepper spray and rubber bullets , authorities said Sunday. Saturday's protest was the second attempt in as many months by demonstrators to take beagles from Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, about 25 miles ...
Source: apnews.com
The center-left coalition of former President Radev will win Bulgaria's election, exit poll suggests
Sunday, Apr 19th, 2026 -
– A center-left coalition led by 's former President will win the parliamentary election, an exit poll suggested hours after polls closed on Sunday. The list is unlikely to garner enough votes to rule alone, which could prolong a yearslong political The election on Sunday was the country's eighth in five years, illustrating a crippling political . Preliminary results are expected on Monday. The poll conducted ...
Source: news4jax.com