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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 18th 2026
Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
CAIRO (AP) — The dueling blockades in the Strait of Hormuz lurched into uncharted waters on Saturday as the United States pressed ahead with its campaign to choke off Iranian ports and Iran reversed an initial move to reopen the waterway. Confusion over the critical chokepoint threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy and push the two countries toward renewed conflict, even as ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The Shift Most Leaders Are Missing Marketing is not evolving. It is being rebuilt. For the past decade, marketing leaders optimized channels, improved conversion rates, and scaled campaigns through better tools. That playbook is over. AI is no longer assisting marketing. It is becoming the system that runs it. The difference is structural. AI-enabled marketing improves execution. AI-native marketing replaces the ...
Source: securityboulevard.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 -
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 -
Reading time 2 minutes Wall Street seems to think Anthropic's new AI design tool could be a serious threat to Figma and other software. On Friday, Anthropic announced Claude Design , a new tool that lets users create polished visuals like slide decks, app prototypes, and marketing one-pagers using simple text prompts. The tool is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is rolling out as a research preview to Claude Pro, ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
New Jersey Transit officials announced Friday in a press release that round-trip train tickets from Manhattan's Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will cost $150 per person for World Cup match days. It usually costs $12.90 to make the 9-mile trip from Manhattan's Penn Station to the stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The stadium, which will host eight matches, including the July 19 ...
Source: insider.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 -
Airlines are cutting routes this summer as they face rising jet fuel costs amid the Iran war . Air Canada, Delta, and other airlines said Friday that certain routes will be impacted. "The spike in oil prices is big news in general and the impact on jet fuel prices is pronounced," Stephen Rooney, lead economist at Tourism Economics, told CBS News. "Jet fuel is a huge cost for airlines, especially ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? April 17 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House rejected a resolution Thursday requiring President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes military action. It was the latest such vote that fell short of passage as Republicans largely continue to support Trump's operation. Democrats voiced concern that the United States is becoming further entrenched in another ...
Source: pbs.org
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