1 hr ago - By MARK THIESSEN Updated 7:02 PM CDT, April 5, 2026 Leer en español A juvenile gray whale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river was found dead, and an official with a marine mammal research group suspe ... (AP)

2 hrs ago - Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program, its government said Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the U.S. The deportees will start a ... (The Independent)

4 hrs ago - Apr 5th, 2026, 2:33 pm NBC News’s Kristen Welker pressed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on which party is to blame for the partial government shutdown that’s left some government workers without paychecks for more than 40 days. Despite the Senat ... (MEDIAite)

4 hrs ago - President Donald Trump said Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, "we're blowing up the entire country." The president made the threat Sunday to ABC News' senior political correspondent Rachel Scott in response to a ... (ABC News)

5 hrs ago - Posted: Apr 5, 2026 / 05:01 AM CDT Updated: Apr 5, 2026 / 08:09 AM CDT The Democrats’ push to prohibit facemasks for federal immigration officers is a new fight with very old roots.While Democrats have demanded the ban only in the wake of a pai ... (WIAT-TV Birmingham, AL/The Hill)

5 hrs ago - STATIONS OF TRUMP Rather than attend Easter services, the president spent the day roaming D.C. and visiting his golf course. Laura Esposito Updated Apr. 5 2026 1:31PM EDT Donald Trump, a Christian, opted to skip Easter service and instead went on a ... (daily beast)

5 hrs ago - April 5, 2026, 11:02 AM House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday called the rescue of a U.S. airman in Iran "heroic," but continued to criticize what he called a "war of choice" with Iran, now in its sixth week. "I'm thankful that a second U.S ... (ABC News)

5 hrs ago - Sunday 05 April 2026 13:06 EDT U.S. forces sought to arm Iranian protesters earlier this year after the country was rocked by demonstrations over dire economic conditions but saw those arms largely fall into the hands of Iran’s Kurds, President ... (The Independent)

6 hrs ago - 04/05/2026 11:50 AM EDT In the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington quietly removed from its website educational resources about American racism and canceled a workshop about the "fragil ... (Politico)

6 hrs ago - OFF THE GRID The wildly unpopular Trump adviser has seemingly gone into hiding. Laura Esposito Apr. 5 2026 5:03PM EDT Stephen Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s most severe immigration policies, has seemingly been hiding from the Ameri ... (daily beast)

6 hrs ago - Story by The Kenya Times • 38m • Russia’s main Black Sea oil port of Novorossiysk was on fire again after a second Ukrainian drone strike in just a few days, in a fresh blow to Moscow’s vital energy exports and war finances. N ... (msn.com)

7 hrs ago - By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 3:56 PM CDT, April 5, 2026 FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A tanker truck in Texas hauling gasoline erupted into a fiery blaze Sunday after colliding with another vehicle and knocking over power lines, leaving the truck driv ... (AP)

10 hrs ago - President Donald Trump's social media post on Easter morning has prompted fresh calls to invoke the 25th Amendment, which only the president's Cabinet can do. -snip- (background) Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, urged the Cabinet to cons ... (Newsweek)

11 hrs ago - Sun 5 Apr 2026 13.01 EDT Last modified on Sun 5 Apr 2026 13.02 EDT Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president’s mental state after Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden threat to Iran in which he called ... (The Guardian)

11 hrs ago - Sun 5 Apr 2026 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 5 Apr 2026 07.01 EDT A man employed by the US defense contractor V2X has been killed in a drone attack on Erbil airbase, amid concerns from colleagues that they are being placed in harm’s way and pre ... (The Guardian)

11 hrs ago - By COLLEEN BARRY and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Updated 10:02 AM CDT, April 5, 2026 Leer en español VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts ... (AP)

12 hrs ago - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has convened an emergency meeting of the National Defence Council after explosives were found near a pipeline that transports Russian gas to Hungary. The discovery in a border area of neighbouring Serbia comes as ... (BBC)

12 hrs ago - April 5, 2026, 10:12 AM EDT Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., on Sunday expressed skepticism about the Trump administration's 2027 budget plan, which includes a request of $1.5 trillion from Congress to fund the Defense Department, a 44% increase from the amoun ... (NBC News)

13 hrs ago - For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her mother, hoping through delays for their safe reunion. Only when he turned to the courts as a la ... (ABC News)

14 hrs ago - Updated 9:05 AM EDT, April 5, 2026 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program, its government said Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive m ... (AP)