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Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
takes office as president Wednesday in what will mark the Latin American nation's most pronounced shift to the right since the return of democracy in 1990. won a landslide victory in December against government-backed communist candidate Jeannette Jara with the promise of fighting crime and curbing illegal immigration, a project that holds similarities to policies adopted by his U.S. counterpart. On the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
UK government considering support schemes for households and businesses hit by surge in energy prices; International Energy Agency on course for largest release of oil reserves in its history to bring down crude prices How Iran has used the strait of Hormuz to throttle oil and gas – a visual guide From US inflation stayed at an annual rate of 2.4% last month, as expected. The dollar held on to gains of 0.2% ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Kong will introduce a new architectural approach for connecting, governing, and scaling intelligence across APIs, AI models and agents , a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, has unveiled its AI Connectivity vision and roadmap, defining a new category for how enterprises connect, govern and scale intelligence across APIs, AI models and agent-based systems. During a live stream from the New ...
Source: aithority.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Seven women from the Iranian national soccer team remain in Australia , an Australian government official said Wednesday, as the rest of their team journeys back to a country at the center of a widening conflict in the Middle East . They had arrived to play in the Asian Women's Cup before the United States and Israel began striking Iran on Feb. 28, and were knocked out of the tournament over the weekend. Six of the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Strait of Hormuz is a waterway bordered in the north by Iran that carries about a fifth of the world's oil supply The U.S. has sunk 16 mine-laying ships near the Strait of Hormuz , the Pentagon said, after Donald Trump threatened Iran over reports of mines in the key shipping ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The acquisition includes Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, though financial terms were not disclosed. Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and will integrate the team into Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal, first reported by Axios and confirmed to TechCrunch, includes Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition adds an "always-on ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
FDA worked with GSK to update Wellcovorin labelling for safe, effective use in adult and paediatric CFD-FOLR1 patients. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its approval for the expanded use of GSK's Wellcovorin (leucovorin calcium) tablets to treat cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) in patients with a confirmed variant in the folate receptor one (FOLR1) gene. The approval marks the first authorised ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
GENEVA (AP) — Police are investigating whether a bus fire in a town west of the Swiss capital that killed at least six people was started deliberately. Police spokesperson Frédéric Papaux of Fribourg canton, or region, said an unspecified "voluntary act" could have caused the fire Tuesday evening in the town of Kerzers, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Bern. Five people were also injured ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
MIAMI — It's Wilt, then Bam. Bam Adebayo had a night for all time on Tuesday, with a point total second to only Wilt Chamberlain in the NBA record books. Adebayo scored 83 points, setting league marks for free throws made and attempted in a game for the Miami Heat in a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards. "An absolutely surreal night," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "Obviously, we've been blessed to have ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
MIAMI (AP) — FIFA said Tuesday night that it anticipates Iran's national team will be allowed to come to the United States, even with war going on between the countries, and compete in the World Cup that begins in about three months. Iran is scheduled to play in Inglewood, California, against New Zealand on June 15 and Belgium on June 21 before finishing group play against Egypt in Seattle on June 26. The ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
At the opening of the air war against Iran, the U.S. and Israel won a massively one-sided victory that left Iran's defenses in tatters and much of its leadership dead. "We achieved air superiority within two days, if that," says Mark Gunzinger, an analyst at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. But just because a war starts well doesn't mean it will end that way. "The enemy gets a vote," as former ...
Source: nymag.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI's ChatGPT Health and Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened its Health AI assistant to all US customers, removing the requirement to be a One Medical member or a Prime subscriber to access the product. Previously available only ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! With deepfakes becoming more common , YouTube has expanded access to its AI-driven likeness detection system to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates. The step an earlier rollout of the tool to creators in the company's Partner Program. AI video ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The company argues that the designation as a supply chain risk violates constitutional protections including free speech and due process. Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to prevent the Pentagon from adding the company to a national security blocklist. The lawsuit claims the designation is unlawful and violates free speech and due process rights. The legal action follows a Department of Defense ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! A tentative agreement in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, calls for a divestment from 13 ...
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Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth's radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday. The roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen Probe A, is projected to plunge through the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 p.m. EDT, based on predictions from the U.S. Space Force. Although it will be an uncontrolled re-entry — meaning NASA has no way to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Complex global events demand clear, independent reporting. We're working to explain the facts, challenge misinformation, and show how the news affects real lives. Help us continue our imperative work. Become a member today. Already a member? Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took up verbal arms against fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh over the Supreme Court's willingness to rule on emergency requests from President ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
March 10 (UPI) -- Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a man who has been on death row for more than 30 years. Charles "Sonny" Burton was convicted for participating in a robbery that resulted in the killing of 34-year-old Doug Battle in 1991. However, Burton was not the triggerman and Ivey said he had left the scene of the robbery before the killing occurred. Burton will serve a life ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
686,879 3,862 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + AI Summary U.S. existing-home sales rose slightly in February, increasing 1.7% from the previous month, though activity remained lower than a year earlier, according to new data released Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The organization reported sales reaching a seasonally adjusted ...
Source: housingwire.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Founder Summit 2026 in Boston: Register Now. REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The new features let users do things like quickly generate fully formatted first drafts, slides, and sheets based on information ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The onetime interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., and "weaponization" czar, serving as U.S. pardon attorney in the Trump administration , has been accused of violating ethical rules by threatening unconstitutional punishment against an elite law school and trying to shut down a bar investigation. The eight-page filing from D.C. Bar disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox to the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Washington — Unscheduled absences among airport security officers have more than doubled during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown, with more than 300 employees leaving the agency since the start of the DHS shutdown, according to internal TSA statistics obtained exclusively by CBS News. TSA officer call-out rates have climbed into double-digit percentages at some airports, including ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Federal judge said prosecutors picked to replace Alina Habba repeated error of bypassing congressional approval Three prosecutors installed by Donald Trump's administration to lead the New Jersey attorney general's office after the president's former personal lawyer was disqualified from the role in December were also illegally appointed, a federal judge has ruled. Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, handpicked the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners. Buying a cheap laptop is easy. You just go to Best Buy or Newegg or Amazon or Walmart or somewhere, you pick the cheapest one (or the most expensive one that fits whatever your budget is), and you buy it. For as little as $200 or $300, you can bring home something new (as in, "new-in-box" not as in, "was released recently") that will power ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Prosecutor says Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, 3 kids were home when woman charged with attempted murder fired
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna , her partner A$AP Rocky , their three children and her mother were all at home when a woman now charged with attempted murder and many other felony counts is alleged to have fired at the property, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35, of Orlando, Florida, was charged with attempting to kill Rihanna, along with 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Tommy DeCarlo , a Boston fan who later became the band's lead singer, has died at the age of 60 because of cancer. "It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our Dad, Tommy DeCarlo, on Monday, March 9th, 2026," says a post on social media from DeCarlo's children. "After being diagnosed with brain cancer last September, he fought with incredible strength and courage right up until the very end. ... Rest ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar, 14, and Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, who performed in Washington over the summer, were placed in immigration detention last month Teenage mariachi musicians who once performed on Capitol Hill have been released from Immigration and ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Complex global events demand clear, independent reporting. We're working to explain the facts, challenge misinformation, and show how the news affects real lives. Help us continue our imperative work. Become a member today. Already a member? The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging that a former employee of President Donald Trump 's effectively defunct ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The FBI has obtained election audit records from Maricopa County, Arizona , following a grand jury subpoena, as part of its efforts to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential contest, despite multiple reviews of that race demonstrating that no widespread fraud occurred . In a rare but by no means impossible outcome, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party nominee for that year's election, defeated then-incumbent ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors have charged two men accused of throwing improvised explosive devices near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, alleging they were inspired by ISIS and wanted to carry out an attack bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint, filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, charges 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi with attempted provision of ...
Source: bnonews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Anthropic's Claude Code Review is a new tool, available as a research preview beta for Team and Enterprise plans, that sends a team of AI agents to examine every pull request. "We needed a reviewer we could trust on every PR. Code Review is the result: deep, multi-agent reviews that ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Israel is fighting a war in Iran over which it lacks fundamental control Israel today finds itself in an unusual strategic position: It's fighting a war that could last for weeks — or end almost instantly. And someone else will decide which way things go. Down one path lies a prolonged campaign against Iran, with the possibility of regime change. Israel's leaders openly hope that the campaign will enable the ...
Source: forward.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the United States to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced Monday. Organized by the Annals of Improbable Research, a digital magazine that highlights research that makes people laugh and then think, the 36th annual ceremony will be held in Zurich. It's usually held in the ...
Source: wbur.org
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Since the advent of AI roughly three years ago, Nvidia provide the computational horsepower that underpins the technology. However, it's Nvidia's software platforms that have proven to be its most durable competitive advantage, helping users get the most out of the processing capability of its chips. As the next phase of AI development unfolds, Nvidia is staying ahead of the curve and is about to go all-in on AI ...
Source: fool.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
NEW YORK ( WPIX ) — Restaurant and food retailers across the United States are being warned of a potential norovirus contamination in seafood that was harvested between Feb. 13 and March 3, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Sometimes referred to as the stomach flu or stomach bug, norovirus is a highly contagious virus that can cause vomiting and diarrhea. The recall includes Manila clams ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
Jurors in New York City have found the Alexander brothers guilty on all counts in their federal trial on sex trafficking charges . The verdict Monday capped four weeks of testimony from women who accused the three wealthy brothers — Tal, 39, and 38-year-old twins Oren and Alon — of sexually assaulting them. The brothers were accused of teaming up to drug and rape dozens of women ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
The NBA has stepped in to stop a controversial promotional night the Atlanta Hawks had planned to hold, celebrating the city's well-known strip club, Magic City, calling it off after the league said it "heard significant concerns." The Hawks were to hold "Magic City Night" on Monday, March 16, when the Orlando Magic are in Atlanta, to celebrate what the team had described as an "iconic cultural institution," a move ...
Source: nypost.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
March 9 (UPI) -- A daily multivitamin may slow biological aging -- the rate at which our bodies age on a cellular level -- significantly, especially for people biologically older than their actual age. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham found that daily cocoa extract and multivitamin slowed biological signals that are predictive of mortality, they write in a study published in the ...
Source: upi.com