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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 25th 2026
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Back The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a fulfillment of Mr. Trump's executive order to resume capital punishment . Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is seeking death sentences against nine people after Mr. Trump rescinded a moratorium on federal ...
Source: washingtontimes.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier was granted bond Friday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket, a federal magistrate said Friday. The magistrate in North Carolina who authorized Gannon Ken Van Dyke's release told him to report to a New York federal ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. The Justice Department on Friday dropped a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, regarding a renovation project at the central bank's Washington headquarters. "This morning the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve has been asked to scrutinize the building costs overruns – ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Governor Janet Mills of Maine on Friday vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. The moratorium would have made Maine the first state in the nation to create such a hurdle for the booming artificial intelligence industry. Mills, a Democrat who is running for US Senate, said in a statement that while she believed a moratorium was appropriate, given the negative ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Layoffs in the tech industry are increasing as companies that are spending the most on AI infrastructure are simultaneously cutting thousands of jobs. Meta said on Thursday that it's cutting 10% of its workforce, just as Microsoft announced that it's offering employee buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history. "This represents a fundamental structural shift rather than a temporary market correction," said ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The 2026 NFL Draft continues Friday night with Rounds 2 and 3. You can watch on ABC, ESPN, and the NFL Network. The New England Patriots entered Night 2 with two selections: Nos. 63 and No. 95. They dealt No. 63 and Nos. 131 and 202 on Saturday for the 55th selection and selected Illinois linebacker Gabe Jacas . Follow along throughout Friday night with our live updates, and track picks as they happen here. Teams ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel's strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies that the Trump administration will be enhancing its engagement with the private sector to counter foreign-led distillation campaigns designed to undermine U.S. AI advances. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Thursday accused China and other foreign entities of engaging in "deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington has no objections to Iranian players participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but he added the players will not be allowed to bring people with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with them. Since the United States-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28, Iran's participation in this summer's edition of FIFA's global showpiece has been in doubt ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Justice Department is targeting at least 300 foreign-born Americans to possibly revoke their citizenship as part of the Trump administration's effort to ramp up denaturalization, according to a person familiar with the investigations. A Justice Department official told NBC News the number was in the hundreds. NBC News previously reported that the Trump administration was dramatically expanding an effort to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese journalist who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague this week described hours of agony as they waited for help to arrive, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. Zeinab Faraj, a young freelance photographer and video journalist, frequently moved on assignment with Amal Khalil , a longtime correspondent in southern Lebanon with the Lebanese ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The personal health data of over half a million UK Biobank volunteers has been put up for on e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces in China, following a data beach at the scientific research organization. In a statement made to the House of Commons, the Minister for Digital Government and Data, Ian Murry, confirmed the breach. "Biobank told us that three listings that appear to sell UK Biobank participant ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Dozens of sloths destined for a Florida "slotharium" died in a warehouse or while in transit to the Orlando attraction, state wildlife officials said. The 31 deaths occurred between December 2024 and February 2025, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a report from last year that was recently released. The majority of the sloths died in an unheated warehouse while awaiting transfer to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls "marginally short" of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, a gap DeepSeek says is "approximately 3 to 6 months." Both models are open-source. DeepSeek The company posted DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash on ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Today's mortgage rates are lower than they were just a few weeks ago — but still higher than many borrowers had hoped for heading into this spring homebuying season. After bottoming out at just under 6% in February following a late-2025 Federal Reserve rate cut, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed sharply through March and into early April, briefly approaching 6.5% as tariff-driven ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Homes were reduced to rubble as twister touched down for 30 minutes and carved out a trail of destruction At least 10 people were injured after a tornado hit northern Oklahoma , as a strong weather system produced a dozen reported twisters that tore destructively through parts of the central US overnight. At least 40 homes were damaged, and light damage was reported at a nearby air force base. Though injuries amid ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
'Firestarter' Backdoor Can Survive Reboots, Upgrades and Standard Fixes The U.S. cyber defense agency is ordering federal agencies to hunt for a previously unknown, persistent backdoor after spotting it on a Cisco security appliance meant to shield a federal civilian agency. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its British counterpart warned in a Thursday malware analysis report that the custom ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on the UK if it does not drop its digital services tax on American social media firms. The digital services tax, introduced in 2020, imposes a 2% levy on the revenues of several major US tech companies. Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Thursday, Mr ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
It took more than two years, but we can finally rest easy that it's not the contorted remains of an alien creature. Reading time 3 minutes A strange, mound-shaped object was found at the bottom of the ocean in 2023, and scientists had no idea what it was. After years of running tests and working with hundreds of samples, a team of researchers has finally solved the puzzle. And no, it's not weird alien stuff. ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
By A few weeks back, Page Six shared photos of New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and NFL reporter Dianna Russini holding hands and embracing at an Arizona resort. This scandal led to Russini resigning from her position as lead NFL writer for The Athletic, and prompted Vrabel to announce his decision to enter counseling as the Patriots participate in the 2026 NFL Draft. On Thursday, the New York Post ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Signal "very happy" Apple fixed bug storing private chats after app was deleted. Apple fixed a security bug that made it possible for cops to access content from deleted Signal messages. Vulnerable users hoping to evade law enforcement surveillance often use encrypted apps like Signal to communicate sensitive information. That's why users felt blindsided when 404 Media reported that Apple was unexpectedly storing ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com The FBI started investigating a journalist with The New York Times last month after she reported in January that FBI Director Kash Patel had assigned an around-the-clock SWAT team to protect and escort his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the Times said Wednesday , citing a person briefed on the matter. FBI agents ...
Source: theweek.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations Revenue rose more than 7%, a sign that the chipmaker is finally starting to see some growth. The stock has been a Wall Street darling of late, bolstered by a big investment last year by the Trump administration. In this article Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Washington — The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Thursday that it will audit the department's compliance with the law that required the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein , following months of bipartisan criticism over how the agency handled the disclosure. The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General said in a statement that it will "evaluate the DOJ's processes ...
Source: cbsnews.com