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Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire after meeting in Washington to try to strike a peace deal. " with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. "These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their Countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 P.M. EST," the president wrote. Secretary of State Marco ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US federal jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated illegal monopoly A US federal jury Wednesday found Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster violated multiple federal antitrust laws, determining the companies held an illegal monopoly over the live entertainment industry and overcharged consumers $1.72 per ticket. The verdict, reached in United States v. Live ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Washington — The latest vote in the House to block President Trump from taking further military action against Iran narrowly failed Thursday as the war approaches its third month and the off-ramp remains uncertain. The war powers resolution , introduced by Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, failed in a 213 to 214 vote, with one voting present. One Republican voted with nearly all Democrats, just ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The reality check: Why in-house counsel are moving beyond basic AI tools Highlights In-house counsel save up to 240 hours annually using professional-grade AI tools. CoCounsel Legal integrates Westlaw content with AI for seamless research and drafting workflows. Enterprise-grade security ensures data privacy while providing transparent, citable AI recommendations. The legal industry's relationship with artificial ...
Source: legal.thomsonreuters.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
In November, Allbirds told shareholders it was on the brink of insolvency. Transforming the shoe company into an AI compute company is its last-ditch plan. Allbirds, which intends to change its name to NewBird AI, currently lacks the money, the physical assets, the expertise, and the relationships it will need to compete in an increasingly crowded space, AI industry insiders say. Allbirds last month said it had ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Maine could impose the nation's first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers in a sign of growing political opposition to tech giants' massive structures that have stoked fears about blackouts, rising electricity bills and voracious water needs. The legislation arose in a state that isn't necessarily a destination for the computer-stocked warehouses that power artificial intelligence , but a couple of ...
Source: wbur.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
At least two US-sanctioned, Iran-linked vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on Thursday, signalling a possible shift in transit routes even as the US naval blockade entered its third day. Shipowners and traders are closely tracking movements through the strategic waterway, with only a limited number of vessels attempting crossings amid heightened checks by both US and Iranian forces. ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The Trump administration has abruptly canceled a multimillion-dollar contract with a Catholic charity that houses and cares for migrant children amid the president's feud with Pope Leo XIV. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami has helped provide vital services to unaccompanied minors for more than 60 years, but could now shut down within a matter of months after the administration canceled an $11 million ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia launched its deadliest aerial assault so far this year on Ukraine , killing 16 people, including a 12-year-old child, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Thursday's overnight attack included nearly 700 drones and 19 ballistic missiles targeting cities across the country. Ukraine's capital bore some of the heaviest damage. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined again this week, easing borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers during what is typically the housing market's busiest time of the year. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate dropped to 6.3% from 6.37% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged 6.83%. The average rate is now at its lowest level since March 19, ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a rising star in the Democratic Party until sexual assault allegations ruined his political fortunes, killed his estranged wife and then himself weeks before a judge's deadline to move out of their family home, according to police and court records. Officers called to the home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Annandale early Thursday found the ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday faced federal lawmakers for the first time since September as he sought to defend a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodge arrows from angry Democrats along the way. In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, kicking off an expected sprint of seven budget hearings he'll attend across congressional committees and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. military carried out its third strike in days against suspected narco-terrorist targets in the Eastern Pacific, killing three men aboard an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in a lethal operation, according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The lethal kinetic strike targeted a vessel operated by what SOUTHCOM called Designated Terrorist Organizations, though it did ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Influential analysis has concluded that "breakthrough" Alzheimer's drugs are unlikely to benefit patients. Researchers said the impact was "well below" what was needed to make a difference to dementia patients' lives. However, their report has also provoked a vicious backlash from equally esteemed scientists who label it as fundamentally flawed. The drugs have been licensed around the world. But the NHS in the UK ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Days after Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos , OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model optimized for defensive cybersecurity usage. Unlike Anthropic, which chose to limit the Mythos model to a select few partners, OpenAI is scaling access to its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to thousands of verified, individual defenders as well as hundreds of groups protecting critical infrastructure. OpenAI states , ...
Source: securitymagazine.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
At the moment, the Supreme Court is preparing to decide the case of Louisiana v . Callais, a case about the legality of the creation of minority-majority voting districts. Not coincidentally, this case would allow Chief Justice John Roberts to complete his life's work of destroying the Voting Rights Act. Slate' s Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick shrewdly with some salty recent comments from the court's liberal ...
Source: esquire.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been sentenced to prison time for firing a rifle in the air at a party rally. Malema, the leader of the far-left opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), was handed a five-year sentence on Thursday by Magistrate Twanet Olivier. Malema, who is one of South Africa's most prominent politicians, was convicted last year of charges, including unlawful possession of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city's nonresident rich. Six months after Gov. Kathy Hochul scolded New Yorkers for telling her to tax the rich, she joined New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to do just that. The two officials instituted a "pied-à-terre tax" on second ...
Source: prospect.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
There doesn't seem to be new safety or efficacy data, but Kennedy touts them anyway. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced meeting dates for advisors to discuss lifting restrictions on 12 unproven peptides that the agency deemed to pose significant safety risks in 2023. The meetings are scheduled for two days in July, with another in February 2027. The scheduled meetings do not appear to be ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a social media post, Trump described Schwartz as "incredibly talented" and said, "She is a STAR!" The Atlanta-based CDC, which is charged with protecting Americans from ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- The California Supreme Court has disbarred John Eastman , President Donald Trump 's former lawyer, over his involvement in the so-called fake electors scheme to overturn the 2020 election. The state's high court ruled Wednesday that Eastman, 65, is disbarred from practicing law in California and must pay a $5,000 sanction to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund, a discretionary fund ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
NIST is overhauling how it manages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and switching to a risk-based model that prioritizes "enrichment" of only the most critical security vulnerabilities. "This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025," the National Institute of Standards and Technology . "We don't expect this trend to let up anytime soon." A two-year ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Tax Day (April 15) has come and gone. If you completed and filed your 2025 US federal income tax return on time, congratulations. Now the only hard part is waiting to see when your tax refund will arrive . But what about procrastinators or people missing tax info who weren't able to finish by yesterday? Well, it depends. If you filed a free six-month extension , received an automatic two-month extension because ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
In a first for science, astronomers have observed the speed and power of matter that erupts from a black hole, shedding light on how this process shapes the structure of the universe. Hungry black holes are the hidden architects of the cosmos. Nothing can escape their depths, but as matter funnels into them, a small fraction of it can rebel at the brink of oblivion and form twin jets of terrifying power near the ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey. You'll never have to worry about the dozens of tabs open on your desktop again. In fact, you'll never even have to leave AI Mode , Google's chatbot-style search tool, at all. That's the idea behind Google Chrome 's latest update. Starting today in the US, if ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Google is making it easier to feed your photos into Nano Banana for more personal image generation. Google began rolling out "personal intelligence" in Gemini early this year , giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company's chatbot. Today, it's using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos . If you opt in, generated images will have access ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Visual communication platform provider Canva Pty Ltd. today unveiled Canva AI 2.0, an overhaul of its platform that offers a conversational, agentic system aimed at becoming the place where teams start and end their workday. The release, announced at the company's Canva Create event in Los Angeles, is being pitched as Canva's biggest shift since its 2013 launch, when it moved design from desktop ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
April 16 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Minnesota charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with two counts of second-degree assault Thursday for allegedly pointing his weapon at two people. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide arrest warrant has been issued for the agent, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. A news release from the county attorney's office said the incident took place Feb. 5 after ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
By The United States Government will begin accepting tariff refund applications by April 20, 2026. The U.S. Supreme Court declared Donald Trump's tariffs illegal in February , effectively negating price hikes on imported goods. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency announced that it will start processing the first phase of the refund program. President Donald Trump's use of the International Emergency ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the start of the war in Iran, a price increase even sharper than the spikes seen in gasoline and diesel. In response, airlines around the world are cutting routes , raising fares , adding fuel surcharges and boosting baggage fees . In Asia, some countries have been rationing fuel and restricting exports to cope with the profound shock to fuel supplies and to jet fuel in ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
PARIS (AP) — Europe has "maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left," the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations "soon" if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called "the largest energy crisis we have ...
Source: pennlive.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogue It was perhaps inevitable that a braggadocious Christian nationalist defense secretary elevated from his role as a weekend Fox News television host would pluck a fake Bible verse from a violent Hollywood blockbuster and present it at a Pentagon prayer session to rally the troops for the " holy war " in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project , according to two people familiar with the visit. Two prosecutors and an investigator from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office were turned away on Tuesday by a building contractor and referred to Fed ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
ANKARA — A 14-year-old student shot at least nine people dead including eight of his fellow pupils and wounded 13 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, officials said, in the country's second school shooting in two days. Eight students and one teacher died in the attack in the province of Kahramanmaras, Turkey's Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci told reporters, adding that six of the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
AI agents have gone from interesting experiment to production reality faster than most security teams can track. Microsoft recently reported that more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies now run active AI agents built with low-code and no-code tools. That number says a lot — but it doesn't say anything about how many of those companies have meaningful visibility into what those agents are actually doing once ...
Source: techspective.net
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
This Tax Day, more people might be celebrating their refunds than usual. The Internal Revenue Service is sending more money back: The average refund for the almost 100 million households who had already filed their returns as of April 3 was $3,462, more than 10 percent above last year's average of $3,116 for similarly early filers. The bigger refund checks reflect the major tax cut passed by Congress in July, which ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026 -
Australian actor Ruby Rose accused pop star Katy Perry of sexually assaulting her a decade and a half ago in Melbourne, and provincial police confirmed Wednesday they're investigating a "historical sexual assault." Asked about Rose's claims, Victoria police Sgt. Julie-Anne Newman told NBC News she was unable to discuss specifics about the matter because of "privacy protocol," but police confirmed a probe had been ...
Source: nbcnews.com