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Israeli strike kills Lebanese security forces as Israel and Hezbollah trade fire ahead of talks 04/10/2026 05:59pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Attacks intensified Friday between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah ahead of direct talks between the Lebanese government and Israel set to begin next week. The talks are set to begin Tuesday in Washington and will be mediated by U.S. diplomats, Lebanese President Jo WATCH: Artemis II nears return to Earth with Pacific splashdown 04/10/2026 05:44pm • Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser unveils her last budget, proposing to cut spending 04/10/2026 05:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday unveiled her last budget before she steps down later this year, a $21.2 billion gross operating spending plan that is sure to spark battles on the District Council and Capitol Hill, where Republican lawmakers have shown a growing willingne An Iowa woman pleads not guilty in the 2011 killing of real estate agent 04/10/2026 05:37pm • ADEL, Iowa (AP) — A woman charged in the killing of a young real estate agent in Iowa pleaded not guilty Friday, almost 15 years to the day that the death rattled the industry and led to heightened safety practices for agents nationwide. Iowa Realty agent Ashley Okland, 27, was found dead at a mod Greenwood turns provider as Marseille halt shaky run to beat bottom club Metz 04/10/2026 05:34pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Mason Greenwood provided two assists as Marseille bounced back from consecutive Ligue 1 defeats to overcome bottom side Metz 3-1 on Friday. Habib Beye’s men came into the game having lost to Monaco and Lille by the same 2-1 scoreline and they were determined not to lose Melania Trump denied ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The question remains: Why now? 04/10/2026 05:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump’s seemingly out-of-the-blue statement Thursday denying affiliation with disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein left people still wondering Friday what prompted the public declaration at a time when the case had receded from the spotlight. Reading prep Family sues US over 8-year-old's death in custody after crossing the border 04/10/2026 05:31pm • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Honduran family of an 8-year-old girl with a heart condition who died in U.S. custody after crossing the border in 2023 sued the federal government on Friday. Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who had chronic heart problems and sickle cell anemia, got sick with flu-like sympto Free parking on Sundays may be ending in Alexandria 04/10/2026 05:26pm • Not much in life is free, but at least you can count on free parking around the D.C. area on Sundays. Now, even that could be changing, at least in Alexandria, Virginia. As first reported by Alexandria Now, the new budget being proposed by the Alexandria City manager would begin activating pa De Zerbi wants Tottenham to 'play with courage' for Premier League survival 04/10/2026 05:26pm • LONDON (AP) — Roberto De Zerbi wants Tottenham to keep it simple. The new Spurs manager knows there's little time for anything else in a relegation battle. “I don’t want to put confusion inside of the players. They have to be with a clear plan of the game and not too much instruction, not too Stocks drift lower and oil prices ease ahead of planned US-Iran talks 04/10/2026 05:22pm • Stocks drifted mostly lower on Wall Street and oil prices slipped Friday ahead of planned U.S.-Iran talks following a shaky ceasefire agreement. The S&P 500 inched 0.1% lower after a day of choppy trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.4%. The major US and Iran prepare for high-level talks as Israel and Hezbollah trade more fire 04/10/2026 05:18pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. Vice President JD Vance headed Friday to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah militants traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Many issues could derail the tr DC leads the nation in first-year business failures 04/10/2026 05:13pm • Washington, D.C. is the toughest place in the country to launch a new business right now. One in three businesses will fail in the first year, according to a new survey from Lending Tree. “Starting a new business is tough anywhere, but in D.C. right now, it's as tough as it is anywhere i Scottie Scheffler has 2 shots in the water and his first round over par in the Masters in 3 years 04/10/2026 05:13pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler battled back from two bogeys and was even par for the second round, still very much in the mix Friday at the Masters and still with a pair of par 5s to play. The world's No. 1 player was not expecting two shots into the water. Scheffler hit 3-iron into a tribu Tens of thousands rally at megaconcert to vote out Hungary's Orbán 04/10/2026 05:12pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Two days before Hungary's closely-watched elections, over 100,000 people filled a sprawling square and adjacent avenues in the capital for a concert featuring dozens of the country's most popular performers — a call to action for citizens to cast their ballots on Sunday Mexican judge rules in favor of plaintiffs in 2018 Cuba plane crash that killed 112 04/10/2026 05:11pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge ruled that the plane involved in a 2018 crash in Cuba that killed 112 people suffered from severe maintenance failures and should never have flown, and ordered the owner to pay millions in damages to the families of the victims who sued. According to court docume