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Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
Iranian military's command says the strait has 'reverted to its previous state'; Macron confirms death of French UN peacekeeper From We now have the full statement from Macron, who has blamed Hezbollah for the death of the French soldier. France's president said: He added: Emmanuel Macron has just announced that a French soldier, working as a UN peacekeeper, was killed in Lebanon this morning. We'll bring you more ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Catch up on select AI news and developments from the past week or so: ChatGPT 5.3 reduces outbound links as authority signals reshape AI search . ChatGPT 5.3 introduces a major shift in how AI search retrieves and cites information, combining broader query expansion with stricter source selection. The model now runs 10 or more fan-out searches per prompt, up from roughly 2 previously, yet cites fewer sources, with ...
Source: marketingprofs.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
ICE ), Todd Lyons, submitted his resignation from the agency this week. Lyons, who led the agency during the second Trump administration's mass immigration crackdowns, will remain in the role until May 31, 2026. Trump administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement to ...
Source: floridianpress.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 -
Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow. At least 12 more legislatures are weighing bills to halt grid-killing AI development. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The AI infrastructure reckoning has until recently stayed local, its battles fought in the relatively puny arenas of town council and zoning commission meetings . But the pushback to ...
Source: motherjones.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership In short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva's Design Engine to generate fully editable, on-brand visuals from text descriptions. The announcement coincides with Canva AI 2.0, which the company calls its biggest product launch ever, introducing ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
NEWARK, N.J. won't be the only thing emptying the wallets of soccer fans attending World Cup matches at some U.S. venues this spring. Fans trying to get to MetLife Stadium from New York City can expect to shell out $150 for a round-trip train fare for each match, transportation officials confirmed Friday. That's nearly 12 times the regular $12.90 fare for the roughly 15-minute, 9-mile (14-kilometer) ride from ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
The Supreme Court on Friday sided with oil giant Chevron, ruling that it can fight an environmental damage lawsuit in federal court—a decision that could affect the outcomes of nearly a dozen other lawsuits that make similar allegations about the oil and gas industry. The unanimous decision puts into question a $745 million state court judgment against Chevron to help restore coastal wetlands in Louisiana ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Uber Eats has begun offering returns on retail items purchased on its app. Calling it a first for the on-demand delivery space, the company announced Friday (April 17) that customers can now send back eligible retail items bought over Uber Eats and receive a refund, without leaving home. "Returns are one of the biggest pain points in retail, and we're reimagining them the way only Uber can," Rohan Mathew, ...
Source: pymnts.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The number of immigrants who have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached an all-time high this fiscal year. Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. The most recent death was of 27-year-old Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, ...
Source: npr.org
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 -
By Nancy Cook, Jake Bleiberg and Margi Murphy, Bloomberg News The White House said a meeting Friday with Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei was "productive and constructive" as the Trump administration seeks wider access to the company's powerful new Mythos artificial intelligence model. The White House said opportunities for collaboration and for addressing the challenges from artificial ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Lawmakers grilled Robert F Kennedy Jr's handling of the worst measles outbreak in decades, as the US health secretary tried to shift focus away from his vaccine stances during his first hearing before Congress in months. Democrats from the House Ways & Means Committee accused Kennedy of bungling the response to measles and undermining the safety of childhood immunisations. Kennedy did not discuss his vaccine ...
Source: bbc.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 -
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside their Annandale home before killing himself, according to police. Their 2 teenage children were inside the house when it happened. The shootings happened just after midnight on Thursday in the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive in Annandale, a suburb west of Washington, D.C. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Davis said Fairfax shot his ...
Source: bnonews.com