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10:19 PM on Wednesday, April 1

President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the war against Iran, delivered Wednesday, April 1, 2026, as transcribed by The Associated Press

8:46 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Ted Bundy's violent spree spanned at least four years, leaving dozens of victims, including at least 30 women and girls killed

7:51 PM on Wednesday, April 1

A man charged in the 2024 shooting death of a New York City police officer has been acquitted of murder but convicted of aggravated manslaughter and other crimes

7:08 PM on Wednesday, April 1

A legal battle over a small advertisement a lawyer paid for at an upstate New York airport has been resolved, and the same ad now takes up two walls at the facility

7:07 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to some of the “Texas Killing Fields” deaths of dozens of women found near Houston beginning in the 1970s

6:58 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office

6:31 PM on Wednesday, April 1

A 7-month-old baby in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet when a man on a moped shot at a group of people on a Brooklyn sidewalk

6:23 PM on Wednesday, April 1

The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases

5:45 PM on Wednesday, April 1

A state investigation has found that the deaths of three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a grenade explosion at the parking lot of a training facility last year involved “willful” and serious safety violations in the department, including failing to provide effective training and leaving explosives unattended

5:06 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Tiger Woods has formally turned down the Ryder Cup captaincy as he steps away from golf activities

4:59 PM on Wednesday, April 1

The criminal trial of a former congressman is offering a glimpse into the prehistory of the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

4:34 PM on Wednesday, April 1

The U.S. has lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez

3:25 PM on Wednesday, April 1

A Utah sheriff's office says DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy

3:10 PM on Wednesday, April 1

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have announced a plan to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and try to end a record partial government shutdown

3:06 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Medical examiners have ruled that the death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, five days after Border Patrol left him at a Buffalo, New York, doughnut shop, was a homicide

1:07 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Luigi Mangione’s state and federal trials in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have both been postponed, with the state case delayed until September and the federal case pushed back to October

9:55 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon

9:18 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO, yet he failed to mention the alliance in his speech to the American public about the Iran war

12:13 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record

Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump’s prime-time address at 9 p.m. EDT offers an update on the progress made toward achieving his goals in the war with Iran, which are to destroy the country’s missile production and Navy, ensure its proxies can no longer destabilize the region and guarantee Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon