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Strike damages Iran’s B1 bridge near Tehran, killing at least two

Trump says the U.S. and Israel have struck Iran’s largest bridge—and warns “more to follow” unless a settlement is reached—while multiple outlets report a separate, looming threat to target ...

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Hegseth fires US Army chief of staff in reported string of dismissals

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down, and the Pentagon confirmed George is retiring effective immediately, according to BBC and CBC. The mov...

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Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni tossed out but robust case remains

A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed most of Blake Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, narrowing a high-profile Hollywood dispute tied to their 2024 film It Ends With Us...

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‘Every night they are bombarding’: at border crossing, some Iranians are fleeing war and some are heading home

Trump’s prime-time messaging to Americans about the US–Israeli campaign against Iran blends claims of impending closure with warnings of severe retaliation, even as reporting suggests escalation r...

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Iran war: What is happening on day 35 of US-Israeli attacks?

A month-long Middle East war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran has killed thousands across multiple countries, as escalation continues into a second month, CBC News reported March 4 and...

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Myanmar’s coup leader elected president by pro-military parliament

Across Europe and Asia, political legitimacy is being tested through elections, courts, and institutional redesign—each sharpening questions about who really governs, and why people should believe t...

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Pakistan says a new round of peace talks with Afghanistan is underway in China

Pakistan and Afghanistan have confirmed they are holding preliminary talks in China’s northwestern city of Urumqi to try to secure a ceasefire and end months of cross-border fighting, Al Jazeera rep...

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'We fell off the face of the earth': Dad and daughter raced across world but had to keep it secret

“Race Across the World” returns Thursday 2 April for its sixth series, and the BBC and the Guardian both stress what’s new: a fresh cast, a familiar ordeal, and a rivalry with unusual emotional ...

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Hungary elections: what is at stake and who is likely to win?

Viktor Orbán, an icon for the global far right, could face defeat despite an electoral system weighted in his favour Hungarians go to the polls on 12 April in Europe’s most consequential election o...

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Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE is released after nearly three weeks of detention

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE is released after nearly three weeks of detention Tania Warner is fitted with ankle monitor and released along with seven-year-old daughter Ayla Luca after be...

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Artemis II blasts ever closer to the far side of the Moon

Artemis II has reached orbit after a historic launch, and the next day will test NASA’s spacecraft readiness as four astronauts—Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Han...

Pooh Shiesty, Eight Others Face Federal Charges — and the Possibility of Life in Prison — for Allegedly Robbing Label Execs Including Gucci Mane

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Live: NASA begins fueling rocket to launch astronauts on the first lunar trip in half a century

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Trump unveils 100 percent tariff on drugs to push for pharmaceutical deals

Trump’s latest tariff and Iran moves are reshaping markets and domestic politics at the same time, while allies try to keep commerce flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. On April 2, Reuters and th...

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Hull funeral director scandal sparks renewed calls for stronger regulation

Robert Bush, a funeral director behind Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, has pleaded guilty to multiple crimes after an investigation found widespread abuse of the dead and deception of gr...

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Trump fires Pam Bondi; DOJ reshuffle spotlights Epstein record controversy

Colorado’s appeals court ordered a resentencing for former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters on April 2, 2026, finding her prison term was “tainted” by errors in how the sentence was fashioned—whi...

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ICE and Border Patrol face mounting scrutiny as deportation and DOJ shakeups collide

Early April 2026 brought a convergence of scrutiny across immigration enforcement: tactical force on the street, warrant fights in court, and spyware procurement in the technology stack. WIRED report...

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Iran-war signals jolt stocks and oil, while jobless claims cool

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Pam Bondi's loyalty to Trump wasn't enough to keep her job. Here's why

President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, ending about a year at the helm of the U.S. Department of Justice and naming Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting ...

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Canada's Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II astronauts leave Earth's orbit and head for the moon

Artemis II is underway after NASA launched Orion aboard the 322-foot Space Launch System (SLS) from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, carrying Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, mission speci...

Bitcoin ETFs Rebound With $69 Million Inflow as Ether Ends Losing Streak

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Why Did the U.S. Allow a Russian Oil Tanker Through Its Cuba Blockade?

The ship’s arrival would bring Cuba some badly needed fuel. It also marks a shift from U.S. efforts to block oil shipments and pressure the Cuban government.

Phil Mickelson cites family health matter in pulling out of the Masters

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Trump Urges America to Boycott Springsteen’s ‘Overpriced Concerts, Which Suck’ After Artist’s Speech at Minneapolis Show

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Polymarket Brings TradFi Markets to Prediction Trading With Pyth Integration

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Trump warns more strikes in weeks as coalition pushes Hormuz reopening

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CFTC sues 3 states over prediction market regulatory authority

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Uganda sued over first US-to-Uganda deportation as DOJ leadership shifts

Legal groups in Uganda are challenging the first confirmed transfer of U.S. deportees to the country under President Donald Trump’s “third-country” removals. On Thursday, the Uganda Law Society ...

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OpenAI buys TBPN as “trust” failures—from KYC leaks to DMCA overreach—mount

OpenAI says it has acquired TBPN (Technology Business Programming Network), a longtime Silicon Valley weekday live tech talk show, positioning the deal as narrative “infrastructure” rather than me...

Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Charged With Attempted Murder of Bandmate’s Father

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Judge Orders Construction Stopped on Trump’s White House Ballroom

The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) approved President Donald Trump’s “East Wing Modernization Project,” clearing another step for a planned White House ballroom on the East Wing sit...

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Tech accountability accelerates as energy crisis recovery remains uncertain

Donald Trump used a prime-time address on April 1–2 to tell Americans the US-Israeli campaign against Iran is “nearing completion,” arguing that the “hard part” is over and that core objecti...

Google Vids adds Veo 3.1 + prompt-directed avatars for faster content workflows

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Circle targets wrapped Bitcoin market with new cirBTC product

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World Cup shock hits Italy’s leadership, Euro 2032 risk, and ticket chaos

Barcelona’s Women’s Champions League campaign took another emphatic step on Thursday, as they thrashed Real Madrid 6-0 at a sold-out Camp Nou to complete a 12-2 aggregate rout and book a semi-fina...

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Progesterone guides octopus mating; LIGO finds stellar “mass gap”

A shared scientific theme is emerging across scales: biology and astrophysics are both turning on thresholds, chemical signals, and stress conditions. On April 2, a *Science* study reported by *The G...

Trump’s ‘Stone Age’ Rhetoric Triggers $440M Crypto Wipeout as Bitcoin Slips Below $66,000

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RAYE apologises to fans who bought her new album on vinyl as it’s not the final mix

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X to roll out auto-lock feature for first-time crypto mentions

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Quebec flags fake maple syrup and a “milk class-action” phishing scam

Quebec regulators and consumer-safety experts are warning about two very different threats hitting Canadians this week: alleged maple-syrup falsification in grocery stores and a phishing scam imperson...

AI data-centers outpace clean grids: Google’s Texas gas deal cited

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UK-led coalition seeks Hormuz reopening as attacks and prices surge

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is convening a coalition of roughly 40 countries after the Strait of Hormuz was effectively “choked off” by disruption attributed to Iran, a situation The Guardi...

A new weight-loss pill is here. Here's how Foundayo compares to Wegovy, Zepbound, and other GLP-1 rivals.

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Trump vows “Stone Ages” strikes on Iran as UK convenes Hormuz talks

US President Donald Trump used a televised address on Wednesday evening to urge Americans that the war with Iran is nearing completion—saying the “core strategic objectives” of the US-Israeli op...

Instagram sets out its stall as a ‘music superfandom’ platform

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EV demand, robotaxis, and recalls collide as Tesla inventories and Baidu stalls

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Harm’s Way’s Bo Lueders Dead At 39

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Cursor 3 unifies coding agents—plus Clojure’s REPL edge and HN archive analytics

Cursor is rolling out Cursor 3 with an “agent-first” workspace that consolidates how developers launch, monitor, and hand off AI coding work. As described by Cursor’s April 2 update, the new uni...

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C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses

The CDC is temporarily pausing more than two dozen diagnostic tests that state and local public health labs rely on, according to reporting from The New York Times and The Guardian on early April. The...

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ECB trial expands substitutes and clarifies England pathway as counties begin

Good Friday’s elite fixture list across cricket and rugby is acting as a stress test for modern sport’s calendar—less nostalgia, more control over risk, load and selection. In English cricket, t...

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Storm Erminio’s dust and flooding hit Greece—UK braces for Storm Dave

Storm Erminio is disrupting travel and threatening public safety across Greece as Easter approaches, with gale-force winds, intense rainfall and flooding amplified by Saharan dust, The Guardian and BB...

Tiger Woods DUI case: bodycam shows arrest observations and Norco pills

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DHS shutdown endures: unpaid TSA staff, Trump pay order, House delays

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De Zerbi apologises to Spurs fans over past Greenwood comments

Tottenham’s new head coach Roberto De Zerbi has apologised to fans over comments he made about Mason Greenwood, following fan backlash against his appointment. De Zerbi, who previously signed and ma...

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Macron warns allies: stop the mixed Iran messages and personal jabs

Emmanuel Macron urged European and allied leaders on 2 April 2026 to treat the escalating war around Iran “seriously” and to “quieten down” public debate, arguing that inconsistent messaging u...

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Renewables surge vs Iran shock: energy politics, bills, and market swings

Renewables kept sprinting through 2025, reaching a milestone that’s starting to reshape electricity planning everywhere. IRENA’s 2026 Renewable Capacity Statistics (reported Apr 2, 2026) show rene...

Helmet of Coțofenești recovered after explosive museum raid

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England set for 6-day resident doctors strike after training-post offer pulled

England is bracing for a potentially record-length resident doctors’ strike after last-ditch talks failed to narrow the gap between the UK government and the British Medical Association (BMA). The s...

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Samsung’s Frame Pro cuts plus OLED deal lows: art TVs and gaming displays

Samsung’s “art TV” push is gaining momentum as early April 2026 deals and small hardware tweaks make the gallery-style setup more accessible. The Verge and Wired report Samsung cut prices on its...

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World Cup 2026 spills into Italy’s crisis, FIFA tax/tickets, and racism probes

World Cup 2026 preparations are tightening worldwide—on the pitch, in governance, in stadium planning, and even in tax filings. Italy’s leadership crisis intensified on April 2 as FIGC president G...

Google releases open-source Gemma 4 for offline multimodal local AI

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Iran detainees allege medical neglect after arrests of Sotoudeh & Mohammadi

Iran’s pressure on high-profile human rights defenders has intensified, with families and advocates telling major outlets that detainees are being denied timely medical care and kept in communicatio...

Of Montreal Announces “aethermead” (June 5) and June 19 Tour Start

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Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

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McConnell and Tillis reject Trump’s NATO exit talk as Europe plans contingencies

President Trump is again signaling that the United States may reconsider its NATO membership, intensifying uncertainty among allies and triggering domestic and European pushback, according to reportin...

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U.S.-Israeli war may accelerate Iran’s bomb push, experts warn

U.S. and Israeli rhetoric about “ending” Iran’s nuclear threat is colliding with expert warnings that the nuclear-risk picture has worsened as the war intensified, moving concerns beyond a simpl...

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Man in Custody After 7-Month-Old Girl Is Fatally Shot in Brooklyn

Brooklyn investigators are hunting multiple suspects after a shooting in Williamsburg killed a seven-month-old girl, an attack that police and media reports say unfolded in broad daylight outside a sp...

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Kampala nursery stabbing leaves four toddlers dead; suspect questioned

Uganda police say a nursery-school stabbing in Kampala killed four toddlers, intensifying fears about learner safety in early childhood settings. BBC reported the attack was carried out before 11:00 l...

Oil shock fears from Iran war risk keep crypto investors cautious

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Drift Protocol SOL Exploit Sees Over $200M Drained: Biggest DeFi Hack of 2026?

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