2026.04.26

[lsanderson]

Two dead, including Fargo state representative, in small-engine plane crash near Crystal Airport
Plane remnants between trees
A small-engine plane crashed at Southbrook Park in Crystal, Minn., on Saturday, April 25, 2026.Feven Gerezgiher | MPR News
MPR News Staff
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/25/plane-with-2-people-onboard-crashes-near-crystal-airport

North Dakota state legislator and pilot killed in small plane crash in Minnesota
Liz Conmy’s death ‘is a profound loss’, Democratic party affiliate says following crash shortly after takeoff
Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/brooklyn-park-mn-plane-crash-crystal-airport

‘We went under the table screaming’: reactions from the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
Lawmakers and reporters in shock after Washington press event abruptly ends following gunshots
Cate Brown in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/white-house-correspondents-dinner-reactions

I’ve covered Trump for a decade. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, darkness came viscerally close
David Smith in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-covering-trump

King Charles’s security for US visit under review after Washington shooting
Buckingham Palace says talks taking place in light of gunman’s attempt to storm dinner attended by Trump
Robyn Vinter
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/26/king-charles-security-us-visit-reviewed-washington-shooting-trump

Pete Hegseth’s Iran war messaging echoes sermons from his extremist church
US defense secretary’s openly Christian nationalist church continues to have growing influence in the White House
Jason Wilson
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/pete-hegseth-iran-war-christian-extremism

Teen arrested in Louisiana shooting got ride from scene from grandmother
No indication grandmother knew what Markel Lee, 17, was suspected of doing, and she later identified him to police
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/teen-louisiana-mass-shooting-grandmother

Florida is latest US state to enter redistricting war ahead of 2026 election
Special session comes after Virginia voted to redraw maps and as Trump pressures Republicans to protect House majority
George Chidi
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/florida-special-session-redistricting

US is taking a ‘real risk’ with hasty shift in efforts to fight HIV, experts say
Experts fear losing ground to virus even as the end of the HIV epidemic is in sight, and say decline in infant testing is ‘particularly concerning’
Melody Schreiber
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/pepfar-hiv-aids-trump-administration

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs
Early birds were like ‘T rex reincarnated’, says scientist who believes avian skulls offer insight into dinosaurs’ behaviour
Nicola Davis Science Correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/scientists-believe-birds-skulls-hold-clues-to-inner-lives-of-long-extinct-dinosaurs

Adjoa Andoh on Shakespeare, Bridgerton and DEI: ‘I don’t have to be the only one in the room’
David Smith in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/apr/26/adjoa-andoh-shakespare-bridgerton-dei

From ‘caramelly’ lard to blue spoons: inside chef Rick Martínez’s vibrant kitchen on Mexico’s Pacific coast
The Salsa Daddy cookbook author shares his kitchen shortcuts and obsessions, and how to bring Mazatlán, Mexico into your own home
Danielle Renwick
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2026/apr/26/rick-martinez-mexican-kitchen-staples