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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
