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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. Navy's blockade of Iranian vessels and ports will remain in place "as long as it takes" and indicated that the Trump administration is in no hurry to reach a peace deal with Iran. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Hegseth echoed Mr. Trump's recent comments that the U.S. is in control of the timeline for Operation Epic Fury, which has ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump's decision to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug is a boon for the industry: It gives dispensaries a big tax break, eases some barriers to researching cannabis and could even allow the export of marijuana to other countries. But that might only be Trump's first step. A new administrative hearing slated for the end of June could result in ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama. The suspect, who was arrested the same day , had written a manifesto warning of the existential threat of artificial intelligence. In his missive, he advocated for killing the CEOs of AI companies, and he referred to himself as "butlerian jihadist" on Instagram (a reference to a war against ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Soldier Charged After Using Classified Intel On Maduro Raid To Win $400,000 On Polymarket --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. A U.S. special forces soldier who participated in the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the operation to win more than $400,000 on the online betting platform Polymarket. The Justice ...
Source: forbes.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday Washington had no objections to Iranian players participating in ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The story of the first round of the 2026 NFL draft surrounded a quarterback but it wasn't No 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza . As expected, the Las Vegas Raiders selected Mendoza with the first pick on Thursday after he led Indiana to the national title last season. But the shock of the night came when the Los Angeles Rams picked another quarterback, Alabama's Ty Simpson, at No 13. The Rams current starting ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president's chief science ...
Source: securityweek.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 -
According to a new survey, most government leaders expect that AI will surpass the internet, PCs, and even smartphones in its impact on the workforce. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways In government, agentic AI is no longer in the experimental phase; it is a leadership mandate, according to IDC research focused on public-sector readiness for agentic AI. IDC ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving his job, the Pentagon abruptly announced Wednesday, the first head of a military service to depart during President Donald Trump's second term but just the latest top defense leader to step down or be ousted. No reason was given for the unexpected departure of the Navy's top civilian official, coming as the sea service has imposed a blockade of Iranian ports ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
China-linked threat actors have shifted from individually procured infrastructure to large-scale covert networks, botnets built from compromised routers and other edge devices, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns. To help organizations address this threat, the NCSC, together with the Cyber League and partner agencies, has issued an . The advisory includes guidance for organizations of all sizes, urging ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Three congressional candidates wagered on the outcome of their own elections on Kalshi, according to the prediction market, which said Wednesday that it fined and suspended the men from their platform for five years. It is the latest high-profile case of alleged insider trading on prediction markets including Kalshi and Polymarket, which have brought bipartisan scrutiny from Congress and calls for ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of crimes against humanity for killing journalist Amal Khalil and wounding her colleague Zeinab Faraj in an air strike in the village of al-Tayri in southern Lebanon. Khalil and Faraj were reporting on an earlier Israeli attack on a vehicle on Wednesday, when they were targeted while fleeing towards a building to take shelter. Paramedics rescued Faraj and ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Marimar Martínez, la mujer de Chicago a la que le disparó un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza en octubre, testificó el miércoles ante el Comité de Seguridad Nacional en Washington, D.C., advirtiendo a los legisladores federales que si no se responsabiliza a los agentes de inmigración, "más ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Global Israel Could Have What It Most Wants in Lebanon It just has to give up territorial ambitions and work with the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah. Fabio Bucciarelli / Middle East Images / AFP / Getty April 23, 2026, 1:56 PM ET Save Parallel to the shaky truce between the United States and Iran, a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah has temporarily stopped the fighting in Lebanon, but without ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The New England Patriots have given their backing to Mike Vrabel as new photos of their head coach and NFL reporter Dianna Russini emerged on Thursday. Russini resigned from her post at the Athletic last week after the New York Post published photos of her and Vrabel embracing and holding hands at an Arizona resort. The pair are married to different people and have said their relationship is platonic. On Wednesday, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in "American flag blue," covering up a decades-old granite surface that he said was "leaking like a sieve" and would take years to replace. The president announced the renovation at an Oval Office event Thursday, saying the coating had already begun. He was inspired to tackle the project after a friend visited from Germany and ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Inquiry began in March after report on security arrangements involving FBI director's girlfriend, NYT says The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter after the newspaper published a story raising concerns about the security arrangements surrounding the girlfriend of Kash Patel, the FBI director, the Times has reported. According to reporting from the Times on Wednesday, the inquiry into Elizabeth ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
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Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Summer travel, when demand for flights surge, may be disrupted in Europe if airlines can't secure additional jet fuel imports. The International Energy Agency's chief told CNBC jet fuel demand in August is typically 40% above March demand. Analysts expect airlines to hedge against rising fuel costs and customers to travel closer to home. In this article Jet fuel shortages threaten to disrupt the upcoming summer ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
With U.S. President Donald Trump's unpopular war against Iran showing little sign of ending, his Republican backers on Capitol Hill are facing a fresh dilemma on what to do if he insists on flouting a 1973 law mandating that unauthorized military operations end if they have gone past 60 days. It's too early to tell what most Republican lawmakers will do if the clock runs out on May 1 and the war against Iran is ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Iran on Wednesday captured two foreign container ships seeking to exit the Strait of Hormuz and fired at a third one, marking the latest escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran in the narrow shipping passage, and coming amid a United States naval blockade of Iranian ports which commenced on April 13. On Monday this week, the US military fired on and then captured the Iranian-flagged container ship ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Apple has issued an emergency update to fix a Notification Services flaw that caused deleted alerts to remain stored on devices, potentially exposing sensitive message content. Tracked as CVE-2026-28950, the issue has been resolved in iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2, with patches also released for older supported versions of Apple operating systems. The company said the bug stemmed from a logging issue that ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
By Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano When Anthropic told the world this month that it had built an artificial intelligence model so powerful that it was too dangerous to release widely, the company named 11 organizations as partners to help mount a defense. All were from the United States. Within two weeks, the model, called Mythos, had set off a global scramble unlike anything yet seen in the AI era. Mythos, which ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Police chief says human remains had been in a wooded area for years and did not match local missing persons reports Memphis police have found the remains of three children in an area of woodland, saying they had probably been there "for several years". Police said the children are believed to have been between three and seven years old. "This is heartbreaking, is disturbing, and at this time, we have numerous ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department's compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files , stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration over the past year. The audit from the inspector general's office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The US Department of Justice has referred hundreds of citizens for denaturalization, beginning what some fear will be a massive effort to strip Americans of their citizenship. Months ago, it was reported that the Trump administration would seek to enlist the DOJ in its effort to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of people each month. On Thursday, The New York Times reported that the effort to carry out what DOJ ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
UK Biobank data from all 500,000 participants within the charity's health database was put up for sale on the Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba. Last week, data from 500,000 participants of UK Biobank's database were made available for sale online following a breach, the UK Government's technology minister has confirmed. In an oral statement delivered in the House of Commons today (23 April), UK technology ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NSCS) has fully backed passkeys, stating that it should be "should now be consumers' first choice of login". This follows a shift over the last 12 months which saw the agency work closely the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) alliance , observe positive progress across the passkey ecosystem and see success in the use of passkeys within the National Health Service (NHS). The NCSC ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern states and enforce federal civil rights protections for formerly enslaved Americans. On Tuesday, Justice Department officials announced what may be the first Klan-friendly prosecution in the department's history. The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, is ...
Source: newrepublic.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 -
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was weighing a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines with the intent of reselling the struggling budget carrier after oil prices drop. The president confirmed his continued interest in offering Spirit a financial lifeline after a lawyer told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court that the airline was in advanced talks with the U.S. government on a financing ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
California lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families and attorneys to find them. Two bills moving through the state Senate seek to prevent immigration enforcement officers from isolating patients from their loved ones and ...
Source: news.yahoo.com