Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve , shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell . The committee vote will take place on April 29 , putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on track for full ...
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Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 people, Amazon announced yet another reduction in force, Snap laid off around 15 percent of its staff, and Pinterest announced plans to do about the same thing. Microsoft recently announced its first-ever voluntary buyouts, targeting longtime ...
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Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In just the few weeks since he's taken over the justice department's top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department's resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president's former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent. Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this ...
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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 ...
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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a temporary ban on building large data centers that aimed to rein in rampant construction driven by the AI race. The buildout comes at a cost, as the power-hungry facilities strain local grids and drive up electricity bills. Data centers also typically have massive footprints, taking up land that could be used for housing, businesses, recreation or green space. Legislators in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
earlier this month to accelerate access to psychedelic medication for people with "serious mental illnesses", but experts say the order is more likely to make a difference symbolically than legally. "Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled to address the burden of suicide and serious mental illness rates in America," the order reads, noting that some people do not respond to available treatments. The ...
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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Iran's soccer team would be allowed to enter the United States to play in the World Cup this summer, but the Trump administration would deny entry to Iranians with ties to the country's military, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday. The United States is co-hosting the 48-team World Cup this year with Canada and Mexico, starting June 11. The Iranian team qualified for the tournament last year but its ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
DeepSeek-V4 "features an ultra-long context of one million words", the company said in a statement on social media platform WeChat. Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new artificial intelligence model Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US rivals. DeepSeek-V4 "features an ultra-long context of one million words," the company said in a ...
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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said Thursday that he was appalled by a report about the death of 31 sloths that died under the care of Sloth World, a tourist attraction in Orlando, Fla., that wasn't yet opened to the public. The sloths were from South American rainforests and perished in storage warehouses between December ...
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Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The malware provides remote access and control of infected devices and maintains post-patching persistence. At least one US federal agency was infected with a backdoor as part of a widespread China-linked espionage campaign targeting Cisco firewalls. In May 2024, Cisco patched two vulnerabilities in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewall platform that had been exploited as zero-days in a state-sponsored ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel will miss a portion of the NFL Draft and undergo counseling in the wake of photos emerging of himself and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini together, the team said Thursday. Vrabel will not be with the Patriots on Saturday during the third day of the NFL Draft, which begins on Thursday night. "As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization and this team that ...
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Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Intel Corp. crushed analysts' expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be finally starting to pay off. The chipmaker reported solid earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 29 cents per share, way ahead of Wall Street's target of a profit of just a penny a share. Revenue for ...
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Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The inspector general at the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is opening an investigation into whether the agency is complying with a law passed by Congress forcing the release of files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement by the DoJ's internal watchdog comes amid criticism from lawmakers over how the files were released, and millions of other files that have not been made public. The ...
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