The Petersburg Post
Top News Stories for Saturday, April 11th 2026
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse are angry with Melania Trump. Several of his victims released a statement blasting the first lady after her remarks in the White House Thursday attempting to distance herself from Epstein and calling for survivors to publicly testify before Congress. "Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony," ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Labor Department releases closely watched March 2026 US CPI inflation report Inflation surged in March as consumer prices jumped amid the economic disruptions caused by the Iran war's impact on the energy market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday said that the consumer price index (CPI) – a broad measure of how much everyday goods like gasoline, groceries and rent cost – rose 0.9% from a ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Artificial intelligence is doing exactly what it promised. The technology is improving efficiency, sharpening forecasts, accelerating workflows and, in many cases, outperforming expectations across business functions. For corporate leaders who spent years waiting for the technology to mature, that moment has arrived. And yet, inside many large organizations, AI is going nowhere fast. Findings from the April edition ...
Source: pymnts.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Today is the final day of NASA's Artemis 2 mission , and it's going to be a nail-biter. The Orion spacecraft is currently picking up speed as it approaches Earth. At 9 a.m. ET, it was cruising along at 4,820 miles per hour (7,757 kilometers per hour) and was still about 73,400 miles (118,125 km) from home. Later today, Orion will slam into the atmosphere at a velocity 30 times faster than the ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
By Two of Antarctica's most iconic animals are officially considered Endangered. They join a lengthy list of over 48,600 plant and animal species on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, following irreversible population declines caused by changes in sea ice. This heartbreaking reclassification follows a painstaking assessment from the IUCN-the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Using satellite ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives one day after CoreWeave announced a $21 billion expansion of its Meta partnership, and adds Anthropic to a customer roster that now covers nine of the ten ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
After the New York Times succeeded last month in smacking down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's press restrictions as yet another violation of the First Amendment , the newspaper told a court that the government quickly issued a new policy rather than complying. Now the judge is lashing out at the "dangerous" game being played with a free press "in a time of war." The first lines of U.S. District Judge Paul ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
The world's largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious "civil war" for the last eight years, according to researchers. It is not clear exactly why the once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park are at loggerheads, but since 2018 the scientists have recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants. "These were chimps that would hold hands," lead ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
TAIPEI — As wars rage and American alliances look less certain, China's leader Xi Jinping is making a renewed case to Taiwan: Its future lies not with Washington, but with Beijing. Xi delivered that message implicitly in a rare meeting in Beijing on Friday with Cheng Li-wun, chair of the Nationalist Party, Taiwan's main opposition party. The meeting underscored how Xi is trying to shape Taiwan's politics by ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
An African AIDS charity co-founded by Britain's Prince Harry said on Friday it had launched legal proceedings against him for "reputational harm", after a bitter dispute about its management. Harry helped found the Sentebale charity in 2006 in honour of his late mother, Princess Diana. But he quit the institution last year amid a bitter governance dispute with its chairperson. "Sentebale has commenced legal ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the world's most fascinating discoveries delivered ...
Source: livescience.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Changes made this week to the rules controlling how the CDC's influential vaccine advisory panel operates could open the door for less qualified members and further undercut public confidence in vaccines, experts said. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rewrote the charter for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices weeks after a federal judge essentially disbanded the panel Kennedy had put in place ...
Source: healio.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' belief that they pay too much in taxes remains elevated for the fourth consecutive year, with 59% saying this. Most others, 37%, say their taxes are "about right," while 3% think they are too low. Americans' displeasure with their tax burden has held near 60% since 2023. This is higher than the roughly 50% average recorded in the early 2000s after the 2001 tax cuts went through, ...
Source: news.gallup.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
While monitoring the Federal Reserve and its interest rate policy is an integral part of the homebuying and refinancing process, it's not the only thing borrowers should consider. Mortgage interest rates , after all, are driven by a complex combination of factors , some of which can negate each other and others of which can cause rates to spike or decline. And one of the more significant ones was revealed on Friday ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
The CDC was expected last month to publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness, but the agency's acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, delayed its release due to concerns about the methodology. The study was scheduled to come out in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship scientific publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). But Andrew ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Washington — The Interior Department has submitted renderings of President Trump's proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, showing that the structure would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac River. The proposal calls for the arch to be roughly 250 feet tall, more than twice as high as the 99-foot tall Lincoln Memorial. It would be the tallest triumphal arch in the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
An incredible success story for CAR-T cell therapy. A 47-year-old woman in Germany had spent more than a decade battling three severe autoimmune diseases at once: autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). She had already gone through nine lines of treatment without lasting success and had reached the point of needing daily blood transfusions and ...
Source: zmescience.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Google has expanded its encryption capabilities in Gmail to mobile devices, enabling enterprise customers to transmit encrypted emails directly within the app on both Android and iOS. The update removes a limitation that previously restricted native encrypted email use on mobile devices. The rollout allows eligible users to compose and read encrypted messages natively, without relying on external tools or separate ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
NEW YORK — Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred. On Wednesday, The Associated Press reported that at least 50 brand new accounts on Polymarket placed substantial bets on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire in the ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Irish government finalising fuel package deal The Irish Government has confirmed that a fuel support package is being finalised after a day of what they described as "constructive engagement" with representatives of the haulage and farming sectors. It comes as travel across parts of the Republic of Ireland were affected for the fourth day in a row as slow-moving convoys made up of vehicles, including tractors, have ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
San Francisco police early Friday arrested a person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman's home and made threats outside the AI giant's San Francisco headquarters, the company said in a statement. "Thankfully, no one was hurt," OpenAI said. "We deeply appreciate how quickly SFPD responded and the support from the city in helping keep our employees safe. The individual is in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democratic front-runner in the hotly contested California governor's race, was accused of sexual assault by a former staff member and other women, according to reports published Friday. The woman who worked for the Northern California congressman said she had a consensual relationship at times, but that he sexually assaulted her twice when she was too inebriated to consent, according to a ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
April 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's tariffs are back in court Friday to decide on their legality. The U.S. Court of International Trade will consider the president's 10% global tariff that he created on Feb. 20 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his previous tariffs over his use of emergency powers. The new tariffs are based on Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. That law allows the president to ...
Source: upi.com
White House warns staff against insider trading on prediction markets after suspicious Iran war bets
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
The White House warned staffers not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets as critics grow suspicious of lucrative trading activity around the Iran war. A White House official confirmed to The Post that the warning was sent to all staffers in an email from the White House Management Office on March 24. A day earlier, anonymous accounts made a blitz of trades just 15 minutes before President ...
Source: nypost.com
Vance, Bessent questioned tech giants on AI security before Anthropic's Mythos release, CNBC reports
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
April 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent questioned leading tech CEOs about AI model security and how to respond to cyber attacks a week before Anthropic released its new Mythos model, CNBC reported on Friday. Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, 's Satya Nadella and the heads of Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike were on the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Erik Duran in 2023 threw cooler at fleeing suspect Eric Duprey, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died A former New York police department sergeant has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for tossing a picnic cooler full of ice and drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died. Erik Duran, 38, was convicted of manslaughter in the 2023 death of 30-year-old Eric ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Intel® Xeon® processors to continue powering Google Cloud infrastructure across AI, inference and general-purpose workloads Expanded co-development of custom ASIC-based infrastructure processing units (IPUs) to improve efficiency, utilization and performance at scale Collaboration reinforces the central role of CPUs and IPUs in modern, heterogeneous AI systems and Google announced a multiyear collaboration ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
By As the 2026 hurricane season approaches, forecasters are predicting a quieter Atlantic with fewer storms. This week, hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University predicted 13 named storms, with six strengthening to hurricanes and two reaching major hurricane strength with sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or greater. Last year, the forecast predicted 17 named storms. "The team predicts that 2026 ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips to satellite internet and 20-minute delivery. In the process, the Amazon CEO discloses that AI revenue for AWS has hit a $15 billion annual run rate, that Amazon's internal chips business is generating over $20 billion a year, and that two large customers asked to buy all of ...
Source: geekwire.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
John Healey says warship and aircraft forced Russia to abandon activity in North Sea in month-long operation A British warship and aircraft tracked and monitored Russian submarines trying to survey vital undersea infrastructure in the North Atlantic, ensuring they fled the area, the defence secretary, John Healey , has said. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Healey said the UK operation lasted more ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Biden administration and many electric utilities were building a future dominated by renewable energy. They aimed to replace coal, slashing greenhouse gases and reducing air pollution that kills more than a thousand people annually. Dozens of coal plants — emitting as much planet-warming pollution as 27 million cars — were ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Best-selling The Housemaid author Freida McFadden reveals true identity One of the biggest mysteries in publishing has been solved, after the best-selling US author known to millions of readers as Freida McFadden revealed her true identity. McFadden has been one of the world's most popular authors of recent years, thanks to thrillers like The Housemaid. The author has never made a secret of the fact Freida McFadden ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The Justice Department is investigating the NFL for potential anticompetitive practices, according to a government official. The official, who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday, said the investigation is "about affordability for consumers and creating an even playing field for providers." The investigation was first reported by The ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
So this is what Rory McIlroy's new normal looks like. The defending champion is footloose and fancy-free at Augusta National. He is plainly no longer of a mind to revel in the events of the 2025 Masters. McIlroy returned to Augusta, for so long a place that exacted psychological torture on him, to deliver an emphatic statement. The floodgates are wobbling. Parallels between McIlroy on day one at this major and his ...
Source: theguardian.com