April 28, 2026

A Democrat won a special election for a state house seat in New Hampshire on Tuesday, flipping a Republican district that Donald Trump carried and marking the latest in a string of 28 Democratic upsets that could usher in a blue wave in the midterms. Bobbi Boudman beat Republican Dale Fincher in New Hampshire’s Carroll county district 7. It was Boudman’s third try at the seat – she lost to incumbent representative Glenn Cordelli in the last two cycles by several points. Cordelli resigned from the seat after moving, leading to the special election on 10 March. Unofficial results show … Read more

April 27, 2026

‘Michael’ Smashes Box Office With $97M In US Debut, $217M Globally In Record-Breaking Opening – Arise News

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The Michael has delivered a blockbuster debut, raking in $97 million in the United States and Canada and $217.4 million globally, marking one of the most dominant opening weekends of the year. The film, distributed by Lionsgate and supported internationally by Universal Pictures, pulled in $120.4 million from 82 international markets, underscoring its global appeal and strong audience turnout. According to box office analytics firm EntTelligence, approximately 6.3 million people watched the film across North America alone, surpassing the 4.9 million admissions recorded by Project Hail Mary during its opening weekend. The film maintained strong momentum through the weekend. Saturday … Read more

April 27, 2026

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say | US immigration

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All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say. As detainees are frequently moved across state lines quickly, often to red states like Texas, pregnant people are facing challenges accessing reproductive health care in detention centers. Unaccompanied minors who lack immigration documentation are at high risk for trafficking and other forms of harm, so they fall under the care of the office of refugee resettlement (ORR), which previously had facilities across the country capable of … Read more

April 26, 2026

One of Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers jerseys just sold for record-breaking amount | Daily Hive

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Wayne Gretzky memorabilia has continued to be the holy grail of NHL collectibles, and a recent auction result has confirmed that. The NHL legend retired from hockey all the way back in 1999, but he is still finding a way to break records off the ice. Gretzky already holds the record for the most expensive hockey card sold, a rookie card that sold for $3.75 million back in 2021, and now he has broken that same record for a hockey jersey. The jersey in question was Gretzky’s last-ever for the Oilers, worn during Game 4 of the 1988 Stanley Cup … Read more

April 26, 2026

Congress restores funding to cultural institutions once on Trump’s chopping block | US Congress

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In a break with Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Congress approved a funding bill for multiple key government agencies and institutions in January. Some of those groups included the cultural institutions whose federal funds the president had sought to severely decrease or totally eliminate. Last year, Trump issued “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, an executive order that specifically cited the Smithsonian Institution as having “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology”. The executive order called for an overhaul of the museums and called out the American Women’s History Museum, which now exists only as an online exhibition, … Read more

April 26, 2026

White House says Trump will “unleash hell” if Iran doesn’t make deal

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President Trump voiced optimism on Tuesday that a peace deal will be reached with Iran, while insisting the war had already been won. “This war has been won,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office. “The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.” “We killed all their leadership,” he said when CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe asked which Iranians the U.S. was now negotiating with. “And then they met to choose new leaders and we killed all of them. And now we have a new group, and we can easily do that, but let’s see how … Read more