Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1967, boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, citing his religious beliefs. His draft-evasion conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971.

Yesterday, we asked how well you know your mail carrier, and reader Dena sent in a gem. Eight years ago, she and her fiancé missed a Saturday delivery of their wedding rings. Their carrier, Anna, left her personal phone number on the slip and met them in a parking lot to hand them over. The couple celebrates their eight anniversary in June. Congratulations!

Life insurance isn’t one-size-fits-all, and picking the wrong policy can mean overpaying for coverage you don’t need or leaving your family short when it matters most. Who’s the most affordable? Who has the best customer service? Who’s the best if you want to skip the medical exam? On today’s episode of The Flyover Podcast, host Ayla Brown breaks down the top life insurance companies for seniors in 2026, shedding light on which one might be best for you. Tune in here!

Still figuring out what to get Mom? We did the hard part for you. Our 2026 Mother’s Day Gift Guide has picks she’ll actually use, love, and maybe even brag about.

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Dinner Attack Reignites Ballroom Push

Cole Allen, the 31-year-old suspected gunman in Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack, was charged Monday with attempted assassination of President Trump after running past a Secret Service magnetometer with a 12-gauge shotgun and handgun.

An investigation found that guests entered the Washington Hilton by flashing tickets without ID checks or scans, and Allen checked into his room the day before to bypass perimeter security entirely. See the investigation here.

The breach has renewed Trump’s push for a $400 million White House ballroom. The Justice Department asked the National Trust for Historic Preservation to drop its lawsuit blocking construction, but the Trust declined.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., broke with Democrats to back the ballroom, saying the Hilton “wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government.”

Musk vs. Altman: OpenAI Trial Begins

Jury selection began Monday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, kicking off a four-week trial that could reshape the AI industry and OpenAI’s planned IPO at a valuation near $1 trillion.

Musk co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015 and donated about $38 million between 2016 and 2020, leaving the board in 2018 after other leaders rejected his pitch to fold the startup into Tesla.

He’s now seeking $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, plus the firing of Altman, claiming the company betrayed its founding mission to benefit humanity. OpenAI counters that the suit is a stunt to slow its progress and benefit Musk’s rival firm xAI.

The two billionaires have feuded publicly for years, with Altman recently calling his chance to question Musk under oath “Christmas in April.” Witnesses include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

42 Lost New Testament Pages Recovered

University of Glasgow scholars have recovered 42 lost pages from Codex H, one of the most important early New Testament manuscripts.

The sixth-century copy of the Letters of St. Paul was taken apart at Greece’s Great Lavra Monastery in the 13th century, with its pages reused as binding material in other books.

Researchers used multispectral imaging to capture faint “ghost” text left as mirror impressions on facing pages, then confirmed the parchment’s age with radiocarbon dating.

The recovered pages include some of the earliest known chapter lists for Paul’s Letters. View the digital edition here.

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➤ Life insurance isn’t one-size-fits-all. Here’s the company that best fits your needs and budget. (Podcast Available)

➤ The Supreme Court may allow police to keep using smartphone data, with new limits under consideration. (Hear Episode)

➤ A 38-year-old woman died after falling 50 feet at Indianapolis International Airport. (Hear Details)

➤ President Trump discussed Iran’s proposal with his national security team Monday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the U.S. blockade with his national security team Monday, the White House confirmed. (See Details)

➤ Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in St. Petersburg on Monday, vowing Russia “will do everything” to serve Tehran’s interests as the war drags on. (See Meeting)

➤ King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived at Joint Base Andrews on Monday to begin a four-day state visit, with security tightened after Saturday’s Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. (See Arrival)

➤ The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on a Republican challenge to a voter-approved redistricting plan that could give Democrats up to four additional U.S. House seats. (See Case)

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Warren Buffett Retires. Sells Billions in Stock.

Buffett spent the last two years selling off BILLIONS in stock.

Then retired with a record $373 billion cash pile.

People thought he was crazy. The market was red hot.

Now it’s starting to make sense.

JP Morgan now puts the odds of a recession at 3x the historical average.

Layoffs are picking up again.

That’s why thousands of Americans are quietly moving part of their retirement savings into physical gold.

An asset that has held its value through every recession, crash, and crisis for thousands of years.

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Inside, find out how to buy gold with your retirement account, tax-deferred and penalty-free.

➤ Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is taking a leave of absence to enter treatment for a gambling addiction. He’s also being investigated by the NCAA for placing thousands of online bets, some on his prior team at Indiana. (More)

➤ Carson Hocevar won his first career NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega this weekend, navigating a 26-car wreck that wiped out half the field midway through the race. (More)

➤ NBA superstar Victor Wembanyama called the handling of his concussion protocol “very disappointing,” but declined to speak further on the situation until after the playoffs. He’ll play in Game 5 tonight as the Spurs try to close out the Blazers. (More)

➤ Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson took an at-bat for the Savannah Bananas at Yankee Stadium this weekend in front of 40,000 fans. (See Highlight)

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Daily Market Report 04/27/2026

▲	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	24,887.10	0.20%
▲	SPX S&P 500	7,173.91	0.12%
▼	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	49,167.79	-0.13%
▼	BTC Bitcoin	$76,915.73	-2.21%
▼	GOLD Per Ounce	$4,696.90	-0.54%
▼	SILVER Per Ounce	$75.46	-1.21%
▲	OIL West Texas Intermediate Crude	$96.66	2.39%
▲	MANE Veradermics Inc	$100.10	+47.55%

Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil are traded 24 hours a day.

➤ Big Stock Move: Veradermics shares soared nearly 48% on Monday after the company announced successful trial results for an oral hair loss pill that could become the first new FDA-approved oral treatment for male pattern baldness in nearly 30 years. (More)

➤ Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu had an AI clone deliver his first-quarter earnings remarks on Friday, then revealed a multiyear OpenAI deal to embed engineers and automate lending. (See Deal)

➤ Tabloid news site TMZ launched a Washington bureau dubbed TMZ DC, deploying staff to confront lawmakers paparazzi-style and crowdsource candid images of politicians, with War Secretary Pete Hegseth welcoming them at Friday’s Pentagon briefing. (See Story)

➤ Stanford senior Theo Baker’s forthcoming book How to Rule the World exposes the school’s startup-obsessed culture, where venture capitalists wine and dine 18-year-olds with hundreds of thousands in “pre-idea funding.” (See Details)

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Famed Economist Predicts $10,000 Gold in 3 Years

Ed Yardeni isn’t a gold bug. He’s one of the most respected economists on Wall Street.

And he’s forecasting gold at $10,000 per ounce by 2029.

The numbers back it up. In 2025, gold hit 52 new all-time highs, delivering investors a 64% gain, beating the Nasdaq by 3x and the S&P 500 by 4x.

With geopolitical tensions rising, the dollar under pressure, and national debt mounting, industry experts agree. As FXEmpire stated: “The next phase of gold’s supercycle is about to begin.”

To learn how to get ahead of the coming boom, claim your FREE Retirement-to-Gold Guide today.

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➤ Archaeologists at Pompeii used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a victim of the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius: a man found near the city walls clutching a terracotta mortar to shield himself from falling debris. (See Face)

➤ A Brazilian researcher says using early orbital data from asteroids could reveal hidden shortcuts to Mars, potentially shaving hundreds of days off a round-trip mission and bringing total travel time as low as 153 days. (See Study)

➤ Skywatchers, mark your calendars: May’s Flower Moon peaks Friday at 1:23 p.m. ET, followed by a rare blue moon micromoon on May 31, giving the month two full moons. (See Dates)

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➤ A passenger gave birth on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Portland last Friday, with a doctor and two nurses among travelers stepping in to help the crew about 30 minutes before landing. (See Baby)

➤ The world’s only Ikea hotel sits in Älmhult, Sweden, where the company was founded, and every room comes outfitted entirely in Ikea furnishings plus free admission to the adjacent Ikea Museum. (See Hotel)

➤ Singapore’s Changi Airport just won the Skytrax World’s Best Airport award for the second year in a row, thanks to passport-free biometric immigration, a butterfly garden, and the world’s tallest indoor waterfall. (See Airport)

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➤ Sri Lankan authorities arrested 22 Buddhist monks at Colombo’s main airport on Sunday after finding 240 pounds of cannabis hidden in luggage with false walls, the largest cannabis seizure in the airport’s history. (See Bust)

➤ Linda Jarrett, a 69-year-old California grandma known as Unicycle Granny, set the Guinness World Record for the oldest woman to ride a unicycle, breaking her own record from 2023 during a December performance of The Nutcracker. (See Granny)

➤ A Vermont ewe named Teemu surprised her owners at Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill earlier this month by giving birth to a rare set of sextuplets, with all six lambs and the mother doing well. (See Lambs)

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