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Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
Iranian officials have pushed back against claims by US President Donald Trump on the state of negotiations, highlighting deep contradictions in messaging as tensions persist around the Strait of Hormuz. Despite this, Trump has said there are no "sticking points" left for a deal, while insisting the blockade will remain until any agreement is "100 percent complete". Meanwhile, Iran on Saturday closed the Strait of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Quantum computing keeps gaining momentum even though practically it's years away from wide commercialization, and World Quantum Day April 14 provided an excuse for a lot of announcements . Among them: Nvidia unveiled AI models for quantum error correction. Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin concluded at Hewlett Packard Enterprise's quantum day event on theCUBE that artificial intelligence, quantum and high-performance ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By TIA GOLDENBERG and HALLIE GOLDEN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Lyons' departure, calling him a great leader of ICE ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. President Trump on Thursday announced his third nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dr. Erica Schwartz, a well-qualified former public health official and board-certified physician in preventive medicine, who has publicly supported vaccination and followed evidence-based medicine. The uncontroversial ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows. Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive buildout faces significant construction and power challenges along with growing local resistance. Now satellite imagery is showing that ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The latest addition to Anthropic PBC's product portfolio is Claude Design, a tool that enables users to generate visual assets with prompts. The company launched the offering into public preview today. It's available to Claude users with Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriptions. The first component of the Claude Design interface is a "Let's prototype" sidebar. It contains a chat box that allows users to describe ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
New Jersey's transit agency has confirmed it will charge $150 for a return ticket to World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium this summer. The price for a round-trip ticket from New York's Penn Station to MetLife Stadium is typically $12.90. Reports this week of the elevenfold increase were met with outcry from fans and sparked a back-and-forth between New Jersey's governor, Mikie Sherrill, and world football's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been charged with two counts of assault. Minnesota state prosecutors accused the officer of pulling alongside a civilian vehicle on a Minneapolis-area highway and pointing his gun at the occupants during a road rage incident. Minnesota prosecutors have issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., marking the first criminal case against an ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York's JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. Canada's flag carrier said Friday that service from Toronto and Montreal to JFK will cease June 1 and resume Oct. 25. Service to the New York metropolitan area's two other airports — ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unauthorized release of his tax documents. Attorneys for President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service told a federal court Friday that they're in talks aimed at resolving a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records tied to the president, his adult sons and his company. In a joint filing , ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court handed a win Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana. The unanimous procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740 million to clean up damage to the state's coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits. Backed by the Trump ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with nine retail partners including Target, Best Buy, and Dick's Sporting Goods. A ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
A 27-year-old Cuban man died this week in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida — the second presumed suicide in the Sunshine State in less than a month. Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt was found in his cell "in what appeared to be a suicide attempt" on the early morning of April 12, ICE said in a press release on Thursday. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, according to the ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
With a Federal Reserve meeting looming later in April and discussions there about the future of interest rate policy, borrowers looking to secure a below-average mortgage interest rate may be tempted to wait to see what happens before making a move. And if a rate cut was likely for that meeting, that would typically be the strategic position to take. But, right now, the chances of a Fed rate cut look ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available to federal agencies amid concerns the tool could increase cybersecurity risk. (TNS) — The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over 'terrible decisions' on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programs Vaccines and public health dominated a frequently contentious hearing with Robert F Kennedy Jr on Thursday before the US House ways and means committee. Kennedy, the health secretary and a longtime vaccine opponent, has overseen sweeping changes to routine vaccination recommendations and has ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 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! U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, voted Thursday to block a resolution restricting President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran — making him the only Democrat to do so. If ...
Source: pressherald.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Police say couple were living together amid divorce and that teenage children called 911 from Annandale home Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax on Thursday before killing himself, police said. Kevin Davis, the chief of the Fairfax county police department in Virginia, said at a press conference ...
Source: theguardian.com