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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 18th 2026
Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
Construction of a ballroom and presidential bunker at the White House will continue for now, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted an administrative stay of an order earlier this week that blocked most above-ground construction. The next hearing in the case is set for June 5, according to the court's briefing schedule, so construction will likely continue through at ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Catch up on select AI news and developments from the past week or so: ChatGPT 5.3 reduces outbound links as authority signals reshape AI search . ChatGPT 5.3 introduces a major shift in how AI search retrieves and cites information, combining broader query expansion with stricter source selection. The model now runs 10 or more fan-out searches per prompt, up from roughly 2 previously, yet cites fewer sources, with ...
Source: marketingprofs.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By TIA GOLDENBERG and HALLIE GOLDEN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Lyons' departure, calling him a great leader of ICE ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. President Trump on Thursday announced his third nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dr. Erica Schwartz, a well-qualified former public health official and board-certified physician in preventive medicine, who has publicly supported vaccination and followed evidence-based medicine. The uncontroversial ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow. At least 12 more legislatures are weighing bills to halt grid-killing AI development. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The AI infrastructure reckoning has until recently stayed local, its battles fought in the relatively puny arenas of town council and zoning commission meetings . But the pushback to ...
Source: motherjones.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership In short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva's Design Engine to generate fully editable, on-brand visuals from text descriptions. The announcement coincides with Canva AI 2.0, which the company calls its biggest product launch ever, introducing ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Days after the high cost of World Cup fees became a political football, officials in New Jersey on Friday revealed the final price fans will pay just to get to the stadium. Round-trip train tickets to MetLife Stadium — which will host eight games, including the July 19 final — will cost $150, an elevenfold increase over the typical $12.90 fare. A bus ride will set fans back $80. Those prices were ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been charged with two counts of assault. Minnesota state prosecutors accused the officer of pulling alongside a civilian vehicle on a Minneapolis-area highway and pointing his gun at the occupants during a road rage incident. Minnesota prosecutors have issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., marking the first criminal case against an ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Airlines are cutting routes this summer as they face rising jet fuel costs amid the Iran war . Air Canada, Delta, and other airlines said Friday that certain routes will be impacted. "The spike in oil prices is big news in general and the impact on jet fuel prices is pronounced," Stephen Rooney, lead economist at Tourism Economics, told CBS News. "Jet fuel is a huge cost for airlines, especially ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unauthorized release of his tax documents. Attorneys for President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service told a federal court Friday that they're in talks aimed at resolving a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records tied to the president, his adult sons and his company. In a joint filing , ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court handed a win Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana. The unanimous procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740 million to clean up damage to the state's coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits. Backed by the Trump ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Uber Eats has begun offering returns on retail items purchased on its app. Calling it a first for the on-demand delivery space, the company announced Friday (April 17) that customers can now send back eligible retail items bought over Uber Eats and receive a refund, without leaving home. "Returns are one of the biggest pain points in retail, and we're reimagining them the way only Uber can," Rohan Mathew, ...
Source: pymnts.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The number of immigrants who have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached an all-time high this fiscal year. Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. The most recent death was of 27-year-old Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
With a Federal Reserve meeting looming later in April and discussions there about the future of interest rate policy, borrowers looking to secure a below-average mortgage interest rate may be tempted to wait to see what happens before making a move. And if a rate cut was likely for that meeting, that would typically be the strategic position to take. But, right now, the chances of a Fed rate cut look ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available to federal agencies amid concerns the tool could increase cybersecurity risk. (TNS) — The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Vaccines and public health dominated a frequently contentious hearing with Robert F Kennedy Jr on Thursday before the US House ways and means committee. Kennedy, the health secretary and a longtime vaccine opponent, has overseen sweeping changes to routine vaccination recommendations and has promoted misinformation even amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades. "We stand at a generational turning point. Our ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- Republican members of the House of Representatives on Thursday questioned the patriotism of Democrats in the chamber while voting down a war powers resolution for the second time. Although the margin of defeat was smaller, the resolution failed 213 to 214 as debate over the six-week old U.S.-Israeli war in Iran got heated, MSNOW and The Hill reported. Democrats said they thought enough Republicans ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Police say couple were living together amid divorce and that teenage children called 911 from Annandale home Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax on Thursday before killing himself, police said. Kevin Davis, the chief of the Fairfax county police department in Virginia, said at a press conference ...
Source: theguardian.com