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Appeals court says Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal
- WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court on Friday blocked President Trump's executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the Republican president's plan to crack down on migration at the southern border of the US. A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws give people the right to apply for asylum at the border, and ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
US   POLITICS  
Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges
- It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier. A US Army soldier was arrested for insider trading after being accused of making prediction-market wagers on the timing of the military's capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke made a profit of nearly $410,000 by making bets on Polymarket, and he was indicted on charges of unlawful use of ...

Source: arstechnica.com
US   POLITICS  
Justice Dept ends criminal probe into US Fed chair Powell
- Trump has upended Washington norms by routinely criticizing the Fed for not following his calls to cut interest rates more rapidly. The US Justice Department dropped a criminal probe against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday, clearing the way for his replacement's Senate confirmation, amid concerns over President Donald Trump's attacks on the independent central bank. "I have directed my office to close ...

Source: digitaljournal.com
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Maine Governor vetoes bill that would have paused new data centers
- Governor Janet Mills of Maine on Friday vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. The moratorium would have made Maine the first state in the nation to create such a hurdle for the booming artificial intelligence industry. Mills, a Democrat who is running for US Senate, said in a statement that while she believed a moratorium was appropriate, given the negative ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
US   BUSINESS  
20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here
- Layoffs in the tech industry are increasing as companies that are spending the most on AI infrastructure are simultaneously cutting thousands of jobs. Meta said on Thursday that it's cutting 10% of its workforce, just as Microsoft announced that it's offering employee buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history. "This represents a fundamental structural shift rather than a temporary market correction," said ...

Source: cnbc.com
NFL Draft 2026: 12 targets for Patriots on Day 2
- FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots enter Day 2 of the 2026 NFL Draft with a pair of picks and some areas of need worth addressing sooner rather than later. New England will make its first pick at the end of the second round (63rd), and the end of the third round as well (95th). "Obviously, we don't have an early Round 2 pick, so it's going to be a lot like [Thursday] where we're going to have to watch a lot of names ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Is this what war looks like now?
- 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
Trump Administration Vows Crackdown on Chinese Companies 'Exploiting' AI Models Made in US
- The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president's chief science ...

Source: securityweek.com
US says Iran can play at 2026 World Cup but bars those with 'IRGC ties'
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington has no objections to Iranian players participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but he added the players will not be allowed to bring people with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with them. Since the United States-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28, Iran's participation in this summer's edition of FIFA's global showpiece has been in doubt ...

Source: aljazeera.com
US   POLITICS  
DOJ aims to strip citizenship from hundreds of foreign-born Americans, sources say
- 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 ...

Source: nbcnews.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Wounded Lebanese journalist recounts hours of agony when Israeli strike killed colleague
- BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese journalist who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague this week described hours of agony as they waited for help to arrive, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. Zeinab Faraj, a young freelance photographer and video journalist, frequently moved on assignment with Amal Khalil , a longtime correspondent in southern Lebanon with the Lebanese ...

Source: apnews.com
UK Biobank Breach: Health Data of 500,000 Listed for Sale in China
- The personal health data of over half a million UK Biobank volunteers has been put up for on e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces in China, following a data beach at the scientific research organization. In a statement made to the House of Commons, the Minister for Digital Government and Data, Ian Murry, confirmed the breach. "Biobank told us that three listings that appear to sell UK Biobank participant ...

Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
US  
Florida officials investigate planned 'Sloth World' attraction after 31 sloths die in warehouse
- Languorous tree dwellers from Guyana and Peru died from 'cold stun' in warehouse with no power or running water Wildlife officials in Florida said in a newly released report that dozens of sloths taken from South American rainforests for display at a controversial new tourist attraction in Orlando died in the care of their new owners. An incident report from the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission ...

Source: theguardian.com
China's DeepSeek says releases long-awaited new AI model
- 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 ...

Source: digitaljournal.com
US   MARKETS  
What are today's mortgage interest rates: April 24, 2026?
- The mortgage rate dips that may have seemed like brief but temporary reprieves just a few weeks ago are starting to look more like a trend. The 30-year mortgage rate , for example, has officially dropped below 6.20%, a level that felt out of reach during the volatile stretch that kicked off this month, when tariff-driven market chaos was pushing borrowing costs higher by the day. The shift reflects a broader ...

Source: cbsnews.com
US  
Tornado barrels through Oklahoma, damaging 40 homes and shutting down roads
- – A powerful in Oklahoma damaged about 40 homes in one county, ripping roofs off of some and reducing others to rubble in a rural community as emergency crews went door-to-door and rescued some trapped residents, authorities said. The confirmed tornado Thursday moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people near the state's northern border in Garfield County, according to the National Weather ...

Source: news4jax.com
US Federal Agency's Cisco Firewall Infected With 'Firestarter' Backdoor
- 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 ...

Source: securityweek.com
BUSINESS  
Donald Trump threatens 'big tariff' on UK over digital tax on US tech firms
- No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on the UK if it does not drop its digital services tax on American social media firms. The digital services tax, introduced in 2020, imposes a 2% levy on the revenues of several major US tech companies. Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Thursday, Mr ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
SCIENCE  
Scientists Finally Solve Mystery of 'Golden Orb' Found on Alaskan Seafloor
- It took more than two years, but we can finally rest easy that it's not the contorted remains of an alien creature. Reading time 3 minutes A strange, mound-shaped object was found at the bottom of the ocean in 2023, and scientists had no idea what it was. After years of running tests and working with hundreds of samples, a team of researchers has finally solved the puzzle. And no, it's not weird alien stuff. ...

Source: gizmodo.com
Patriots coach Mike Vrabel is seeking counseling and will miss Day 3 of the NFL draft, report says
- New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel is seeking counseling and will not be with the team for Day 3 of the NFL Draft on Saturday, following the publication of photos of the coach and longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. "As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization and this team that I was going to give them the best version of me that I can possibly give them. In order to ...

Source: wbur.org
DIGITAL   BUSINESS   TECHNOLOGY  
Apple just fixed an iOS flaw exploited by the FBI - here's what happened
- The latest iOS 26.4.2 update resolves a vulnerability that allowed the FBI to retrieve deleted text messages from a user's Signal app. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Many people use the popular Signal app to send and receive encrypted text messages. As an added bonus, you can set all texts to automatically disappear after a certain amount of time. But those protections ...

Source: zdnet.com
US   POLITICS  
NYT alleges FBI investigated reporter over story on Kash Patel's girlfriend
- Inquiry began in March after report on security arrangements involving FBI director's girlfriend, NYT says The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter after the newspaper published a story raising concerns about the security arrangements surrounding the girlfriend of Kash Patel, the FBI director, the Times has reported. According to reporting from the Times on Wednesday, the inquiry into Elizabeth ...

Source: theguardian.com
Intel crushes Wall Street's expectations and its stock surges 20% as revival gains pace
- 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 ...

Source: siliconangle.com
POLITICS  
US government watchdog to investigate Epstein files release
- 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 ...

Source: bbc.com