April 2026 News

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Earlier today, Buckingham Palace said the UK and US would be having conversations about security planning for King Charles’ planned state visit to the US this week, while President Donald Trump just recently acknowledged that the visit is still going ahead. 

United States President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned visit to Pakistan by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who had been expected to explore indirect talks, which remain deadlocked over issues that include the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. 

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant. "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!" In the middle of the night, a noise from the darkness in the abandoned, irradiated landscape of Chernobyl. Pablo Burraco, a scientist, stepped quietly between the trees, not far from the ruins of the power plant at the centre of the world's worst nuclear disaster. In the aftermath of the catastrophic reactor explosion in 1986, the surrounding area was evacuated for many miles, so few people trod where Burraco now did.

Mali’s Defence Minister, General Sadio Camara. has been killed during coordinated attacks on military sites nationwide, sources told Al Jazeera.

The news on Sunday came the day after his residence in the garrison town of Kati came under attack during simultaneous attacks by an al-Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels. 

Zamil Limon was last seen on the morning of April 16 at his home about three blocks from the University of South Florida campus in Tampa. Nahida Bristy was last seen later that same morning at the Natural and Environmental Sciences building on campus. They were both 27 and promising Bangladeshi doctoral students who started out as friends and over time developed feelings for each other — to the point they had thought about marriage, according to Limon’s brother, Zubaer Ahmed. Limon and Bristy were reported missing by a family friend on April 17, and as days went by, their friends in Florida and relatives abroad became increasingly desperate for answers.

Police have not yet taken suspects into custody following a shooting on Kirkwood Avenue early Sunday morning that wounded at least nine people. One victim suffered a bullet wound and injuries from bullet fragments, four other victims were injured from bullet fragments and the rest sustained injuries like cuts and scrapes as they attempted to run from the area, according to a City of Bloomington Instagram post. The statement said investigators reviewed cell phone and video footage and saw that multiple individuals drew handguns, and two separate people fired their weapons after a fight believed to have broken out between two women near Five Guys.  

U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said the gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner appears to have targeted President Donald Trump and officials in his administration. The man taken into custody in connection with the shooting has not been identified officially by authorities, but a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told USA TODAY on April 26 that he is Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation being conducted by the FBI, Secret Service and other agencies. 

Washoe County health officials report the first mpox cases (2) in over three years late last week. These are the first cases reported in the county since October 2022.  Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH) states the overall risk to the general public remains low; however, they urge residents at higher risk to be aware of symptoms and take preventive steps. 

SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. recently recognized 49 students who received the Norman P. Conney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, including the State University of New York at Fredonia’s Moraya Sorimar Bautista. 

Diego Pavia turned into a Heisman Trophy finalist in his final season at Vanderbilt in 2025. The SEC Offensive Player of the Year had 3,539 passing yards and 29 touchdowns as he helped put the Commodores back on the map. Vanderbilt was 10-3 last season and nearly made the College Football Playoff.

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon. In a huge moment in sports history, Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.

The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty — underscoring a sharp divide with Pope Leo XIV and recent Catholic teaching. Hours after the Justice Department made its announcement, the pontiff condemned the death penalty as an attack on human dignity. 

The Trump administration is making it easier to deport immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. A new precedent decision published Friday by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) says being a DACA recipient is not enough reason to provide relief from deportation.

On a bright, dry Friday morning in Panola County in the Mississippi Delta, Sledge Taylor did the same thing he's done every morning for the last 53 years — the same thing his father did every morning, and his father before him. He walked his fields. 

Zoila Guerra Sandoval, 48, remembers making "frijoles blancos," white beans, the day before the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore in 2024.  She had just spoken with José Mynor López about the usual things — like when their daughter should be picked up from school. Mynor López, her co-parent and friend, joked that she should bring him some of the beans; she told him to swing by her house. But he had to go work his overnight road maintenance shift. 

Former Idaho Gov. and U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has died at age 74, his family said in a written statement Saturday. Kempthorne died Friday evening in Boise, the statement said. No cause was given. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer last year.

Cambodia’s prime minister said on Thursday he has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, lauding his “extraordinary statesmanship” in halting a border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. 

A Chinese married couple convicted of trying to steal cutting-edge research from an Ohio children's hospital to share with China will have their U.S. citizenship revoked, the Justice Department (DOJ) said Tuesday. U.S. Judge James E. Simmons Jr., ordered that Li Chen and Yu Zhou be stripped of their naturalized U.S. citizenship, citing their convictions for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets, which involved "moral turpitude" that prevented them from having the good moral character necessary to naturalize, federal prosecutors said.