NYTIMES (David E. Sanger) - Trump’s Lesson From Risky Rescue: Threaten to Go Harder at Iran
In an expletive-laced social media post, the president said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he would bomb bridges and power plants.
WASHINGTONPOST (Todd Wallack) - More states adopt college entrance exam touted by conservatives despite concerns
Military academies and colleges in North Carolina and Indiana will soon accept the Classic Learning Test, embraced by the Trump administration and mainly featuring Western texts.
WASHINGTONPOST (Adam Taylor) - Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments
A dearth of information has been disclosed about the agreements, fueling speculation that the “America First” approach to foreign aid is exploitative.
REDSTATE (Bob Hoge) - Artemis II Releases Stunning Photos of Dark Side of Moon Never Seen Before by Human Eyes
NEWSNATIONNOW (Associated Press) - 3 killed as high winds topple a tree on an Easter egg hunt in Germany
Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany.
AMERICANGREATNESS (AG News Staff) - American Crime Blotter: 4/6/26
Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media? As humorist David Burge (Iowahawk) famously stated, “journalism […] Source
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Pope Leo delivers historic Easter message
Pope Leo XIV shared a message admonishing war and encouraging peace before a crowd of 50,000 at St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday.
AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Behind the Curtain: Sam's superintelligence New Deal
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He's publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he's racing to build and spread. Why it matters: Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract — on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression . The big picture: The threats of inaction or slow action are grave, Altman warns — widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control. The two most immediate threats, he said, are cyberattacks and biological…
NEWSNATIONNOW (Addy Bink) - Over 4M kids are registered for 'Trump Accounts': Can your child still get one?
If you haven't yet registered your eligible child for a Trump account, there's still time.
NEWSNATIONNOW (DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press) - Russian attack kills 3 in Odesa while Ukraine targets Russian oil infrastructure, officials say
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports. The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and a 2-year-old child, officials [...]