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Top News Stories for Friday, April 10th 2026
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump reignited interest in the Jeffrey Epstein case Thursday by shockingly declaring she wasn't the dead sex trafficker's victim or accomplice — and then urging Congress to hold public hearings with victims to expose his associates. The first lady delivered her stunning remarks in the ornate foyer of the White House, stoking speculation that she was trying to get ...
Source: nypost.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Application security posture management company Apiiro Ltd. today announced the launch of a new command-line interface designed to bring application security directly into artificial intelligence-driven software development workflows as organizations grapple with the rapid rise of AI-generated code. Apiiro CLI is targeting the growing gap in modern software development, where traditional security tools ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry Amazon has told owners it will soon stop supporting older Kindle models - a move which has left some users outraged. In emails from the tech giant, affected users were thanked for being a "longtime Kindle customer" but told devices released during or before 2012 would no longer receive updates from 20 May. The move will mean owners of older Kindles, ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Muse Spark was competitive with models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in language, but lagged in coding Meta on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the AI race. US tech companies are under pressure to prove their huge AI outlays will pay off. The stakes are especially high for Meta after it hired Alex Wang, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Takeaways from the Gilgo Beach case as Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to 7 murders and admits to an 8th
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island man who carried out a series of murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings pleaded guilty to murder charges this week, bringing finality to the long-unsolved case more than 30 years after the first killing. Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life as a serial killer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Bluesky As the world watches to see whether the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran ever gets off the ground, President Donald Trump's genocidal threats against the Iranian people risk fading from our attention. But we cannot move on so quickly from the gravity of Trump's ...
Source: thenation.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
By Emperor penguins have been classified as endangered after satellite data revealed a rapid population decline driven by vanishing Antarctic sea ice, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced. The IUCN, which maintains the Red List — widely regarded as the most comprehensive global inventory of conservation status for animal, fungus and plant species — also classified Antarctic fur ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax refunds this season are up 24% compared with the four-year average of refunds before President Donald Trump took office, his administration said Thursday — a change credited to Republicans' tax legislation signed into law last year. As the tax season kicked off in January, the White House had boasted that average returns ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Ruling Keeps Claude Models Out of Defense Systems During Separate Legal Challenges A federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday refused to pause the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic, setting up a split legal landscape that leaves the artificial intelligence company locked out of Department of Defense work - even as parts of the policy face challenges elsewhere in other courthouses. The D.C. Circuit ...
Source: bankinfosecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Technology Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem What happens when AI can hack everything? Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic April 9, 2026, 1:22 PM ET Save For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees' wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Biden administration and many electric utilities were building a future dominated by renewable energy. They aimed to replace coal, slashing greenhouse gases and reducing air pollution that kills more than a thousand people annually. Dozens of coal plants — emitting as much planet-warming pollution as 27 million cars — were ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
John Healey said warships and military aircraft forced Russia to halt activity in UK waters near vital undersea cables and pipelines 3-MIN READ Britain said on Thursday it had tracked and deterred three Russian submarines on an alleged month-long "covert operation" in UK waters in the North Atlantic near vital undersea cables and pipelines. Disclosing details of the joint mission with Norway and other unspecified ...
Source: scmp.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes In recent years, CAR T-cell therapy has become a revolutionary, if risky, treatment for some late-stage cancers. Yet CAR T may also have another life as a near-miraculous intervention for certain immune-related diseases. It now appears to have treated not one, not two, but three separate autoimmune conditions in a 47-year-old woman. Doctors in Germany detailed the remarkable case in a report ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rose more than 5% today after Chief Executive Andy Jassy published his latest shareholder letter. The memo is the fifth that Jassy has penned since taking the top post in 2021. Amazon's first shareholder letter was written by founder Jeff Bezos in 1997, the year the company went public. One potential reason Wall Street responded positively to the letter is that it contains new data ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to make sure enterprises that embrace artificial intelligent agents and automation aren't getting lost in the curse of "agentic sprawl." The cloud computing giant is trying to prevent that from happening with the launch of AWS Agent Registry in preview today. It's a new capability that acts like a centralized discovery and governance hub for AI agents, designed to help companies ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.37%, Freddie Mac says Mortgage rates fell this week after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage declined to 6.37% from last week's ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled the Defense Department violated a court order requiring it to ease stringent restrictions imposed on reporters who cover the Pentagon and blocked a new press policy issued by the department last month. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman again sided with the New York Times and its reporter Julian Barnes, who filed a lawsuit last year that argued the new Pentagon policy violated the First ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
These solutions really do work. 14 min read Death. Taxes. Aging. These are three things that are totally unavoidable. And when it comes to skin aging in particular, it's no secret that exactly when and how it presents itself can vary greatly. One person might notice stubborn dark spots crop up on their face after years of unprotected sun exposure, for instance. On someone else, the passage of time could come in the ...
Source: womenshealthmag.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games simultaneously to multiple platforms — paid streaming platforms, paid cable networks, and others, sources told CBS News. A government official familiar with the matter said the probe is about affordability for consumers and creating an "even playing field for providers." ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Many people think cancer happens only because of genes or bad luck. In reality, life is more complex. Daily habits, along with social support, can slowly affect health over time. A new study shows that even something like being married or not may be connected to cancer risk. This may sound surprising, but it offers a new way to understand health. Researchers from the Sylvester Comprehensive ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
By Jim Whittaker, the towering mountaineer who became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest and went on to shape the nation's outdoor culture for decades, died Tuesday, April 7, at his home in Port Townsend, Washington. He was 97. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Dianne Roberts ; sons Bob , Joss and Leif Whittaker ; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. "Whether at home, in the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
By Meta is not waiting for its own data centers to catch up with its AI ambitions. It is renting the capacity it needs right now. CoreWeave and Meta announced an expanded agreement on April 9 in which Meta will pay approximately $21 billion for dedicated AI cloud capacity through December 2032, CoreWeave confirmed this in a press release . The new deal layers on top of a prior $14.2 billion arrangement between the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 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? HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii anesthesiologist who was accused of trying to murder his wife on a scenic cliffside hike with ocean views last year has ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 -
April 8 (UPI) -- Jasveen Sangha of Los Angeles, called the "Ketamine Queen"by prosecutors, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday in connection with the 2023 overdose death of actor Matthew Perry . Sangha pleaded guilty last year to federal charges related to the case, including several counts of distribution of ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. ...
Source: upi.com