Communities across the Midwest are still cleaning up from tornadoes that hit earlier this week. Another threat could bring more violent storms on Friday to parts of the region. Meanwhile, historic flooding in Michigan triggered evacuations in some areas. Rob Marciano reports.
BUDAPEST, April 17 (Reuters) – Hungarian election winner Peter Magyar said on Friday he had reports that sensitive documents from the time of the outgoing administration were being destroyed and called on people to report any such acts. Magyar’s Tisza party – which won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election, ending right-wing Prime Minister Viktor …
BAY OF PIGS, Cuba, April 17 (Reuters) – Orestes Chamizo points at a scrubby patch of sand on Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, showing the spot where a brigade of U.S.-trained Cuban exiles landed on the island’s southern coast on April 17, 1961. “The mercenaries came in right there,” Chamizo says, recalling their dramatic defeat and his …
MEXICO CITY, April 17 (Reuters) – A masculinity summit featuring controversial speakers such as writer Jordan Peterson is set to go ahead on Friday in Mexico’s Jalisco state, among the most violent for women, despite outcry over alleged public funding for the for-profit event. A local committee approved 400,000 pesos (around $23,170) as a subsidy …
MADRID, April 17 (Reuters) – Spain’s far-right party Vox and the mainstream conservative opposition People’s Party have struck a preliminary deal to govern in coalition in Extremadura in the first of three regional deals being negotiated that could test the ability of the right-wing alliance to oust the ruling Socialists in the next general election. …
April 17 (Reuters) – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is slated to meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Friday, in a sign of a breakthrough in the artificial intelligence startup’s dispute with the Pentagon, Axios reported. The potential meeting comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration acknowledges the advanced capabilities of Anthropic’s new …
By Saad Sayeed and Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, April 17 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s air force escorted Iranian negotiators home from inconclusive peace talks with the U.S. last weekend, launching a major operation after the Iranians said Israel might seek to kill them, three sources told Reuters. Pakistan deployed some two dozen jets in the escort, as …
GENEVA, April 17 (Reuters) – An average of at least 47 women and girls were killed each day during the war in Gaza, according to figures published by U.N. Women on Friday, and the agency warned that deaths have continued six months into a fragile ceasefire. More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in …
By Deanna Neff HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 17, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For patients with severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has long been the go-to when other treatments haven’t helped. However, the fear of losing memories or experiencing confusion often leads patients to steer clear of ECT, which uses an electric current to induce seizure activity …
COLOMBO, April 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody and ministry secretary Udayanga Hemapala resigned on Friday following an outcry over coal imports for power generation. Jayakody stepped down to make way for investigations to be carried out into alleged imports of low-quality coal for Sri Lanka’s only coal-fired power plant, according to …