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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 14th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The stunning collapse of Rep. Eric Swalwell's California governor campaign has upended the wide-open contest where no Democratic candidate has emerged as a clear frontrunner and mail-in voting is scheduled to start in under a month. Democrats, who have run the state for years, are publicly agonizing over the possibility they may be shut out of the general election in November. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026 -
The 2026 AI Index from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI documents a deepening disconnect between expert optimism and public anxiety. Gen Z anger about AI is rising fast. Employment in AI-exposed fields among younger workers is already declining. And the US has the lowest trust in its government to regulate AI of any country surveyed. Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial ...
Source: thenextweb.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 -
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 -
April 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. military on Monday conducted another strike of an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people, U.S. Southern Command said. The boat was the 50th that the Trump administration said it has attacked with use of the U.S. military to combat drug crimes since operations began in early September, according to a Pentagon posture statement from mid-March and ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar said on Monday that if Russian President Vladimir Putin were to initiate a call with him, he would speak with him and tell him to end the war in Ukraine. "If Vladimir Putin calls, I'll pick up the phone," he said at his first news conference after his landslide win against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a Putin-ally. "If we did talk, ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Apr 13th, 2026 -
The Trump administration agreed in a court settlement on Monday to keep the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument. from the monument in New York City in February due to a government directive that determined what kinds of flags can be flown at national park sites. The move drew intense backlash from the LGBTQ community and local officials in New York who viewed it as an attack on LGBTQ history. The ...
Source: news.yahoo.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