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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 -
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's Democratic governor on Friday vetoed what would have been the country's first state moratorium on the construction of data centers. The bill passed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature would have instituted a moratorium for more than a year on data centers above a certain size and created a special council to help towns vet potential projects. But Gov. Janet Mills said ...
Source: apnews.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 -
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
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
earlier this month to accelerate access to psychedelic medication for people with "serious mental illnesses", but experts say the order is more likely to make a difference symbolically than legally. "Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled to address the burden of suicide and serious mental illness rates in America," the order reads, noting that some people do not respond to available treatments. The ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
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 -
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
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
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
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4 , a much-awaited update to last year's V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm . The company says both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are mixture-of-experts models with context windows of 1 million tokens each — enough to allow large ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Dozens of sloths destined for a Florida "slotharium" died in a warehouse or while in transit to the Orlando attraction, state wildlife officials said. The 31 deaths occurred between December 2024 and February 2025, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a report from last year that was recently released. The majority of the sloths died in an unheated warehouse while awaiting transfer to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
'Firestarter' Backdoor Can Survive Reboots, Upgrades and Standard Fixes The U.S. cyber defense agency is ordering federal agencies to hunt for a previously unknown, persistent backdoor after spotting it on a Cisco security appliance meant to shield a federal civilian agency. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its British counterpart warned in a Thursday malware analysis report that the custom ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
– 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
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel will miss a portion of the NFL Draft and undergo counseling in the wake of photos emerging of himself and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini together, the team said Thursday. Vrabel will not be with the Patriots on Saturday during the third day of the NFL Draft, which begins on Thursday night. "As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization and this team that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
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
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Justice Department's internal watchdog is investigating compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that compelled the department to release records related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The preliminary objective of the probe is "to evaluate the DOJ's processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act," said Deputy ...
Source: nbcnews.com