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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 25th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the head of Pakistan's military in Islamabad early Saturday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says "no meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the U.S." U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to arrive in Islamabad later in the day. President Donald Trump told Reuters in a phone call Friday that Iran will be ...
Source: cnbc.com
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 ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 ...
Source: nymag.com
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 ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was released on bond after appearing in court on charges related to alleged bets on Polymarket. Prosecutors say Van Dyke made nearly $410,000 on wagers that paid off due to the U.S. raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Kalshi said it previously blocked Van Dyke from creating an account on that prediction market. The Polymarket ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
Amazon and Microsoft data centers to power AI are springing up in some of the most competitive congressional districts in Pennsylvania. Incumbent Republicans in those districts are at risk of being blamed amid a backlash over those AI data centers and over rising energy prices linked to their construction and operation. Republicans have a slim majority in the U.S. House going into the 2026 midterm election, which ...
Source: cnbc.com
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 ...
Source: theguardian.com
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 ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Federal health officials are taking steps that they say will help with "accelerating" therapeutic access to psychedelics for patients dealing with serious mental health conditions. , the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced a series of regulatory actions to support the development of psychedelics as approved medications. "Under President Trump's leadership, we are accelerating the research, ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
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 ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
By and Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records. As part of the Trump administration's aggressive mass deportation campaign, federal officials have ...
Source: miamiherald.com
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 ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls "marginally short" of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, a gap DeepSeek says is "approximately 3 to 6 months." Both models are open-source. DeepSeek The company posted DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash on ...
Source: thenextweb.com
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 ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre warned on Thusday. "The [Firestarter] malware (…) is relevant for both Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices; however, CISA has only observed a successful implant of the malware in the wild on a Cisco Firepower device ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
ENID, Okla. (AP) — A powerful tornado in Oklahoma on Thursday ripped roofs off buildings, knocked down power poles and sent emergency crews rushing into a rural community near Vance Air Force Base, officials said. The confirmed tornado moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people near the state's northern border, according to the National Weather Service. Video posted online show a rapidly ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said he is taking accountability for actions that have created a distraction for New England without addressing specifics about photos published recently of him with longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. Vrabel spoke for just over seven minutes prior to the start of Thursday's NFL draft . He vowed to prioritize his family by beginning ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (Reuters) - Intel (INTC.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, underscoring booming demand for the company's server processors used for artificial intelligence in data centers. Shares of Intel surged 19% in extended trading, adding $64 billion to its market value and extending its 81% rebound so far this year. Nasdaq futures rose 0.3%, showing traders ...
Source: reuters.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Washington — The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Thursday that it will audit the department's compliance with the law that required the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein , following months of bipartisan criticism over how the agency handled the disclosure. The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General said in a statement that it will "evaluate the DOJ's processes ...
Source: cbsnews.com