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Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Federal Reserve widely expected Wednesday to reduce its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 4.1%, economists and Wall Street investors will be looking for signals about next steps: How deeply might the Fed cut in the next few months? There are typically two different approaches the central bank takes to lowering borrowing costs: Either a measured pace that reflects a ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Tyler Robinson , who is accused of killing prominent conservative political activist Charlie Kirk , with aggravated murder on Tuesday and announced they would seek the death penalty. Kirk's assassination six days ago at an event at Utah Valley University sent shockwaves across the country and is the tearing through American politics. Utah County prosecutors charged Robinson through an information document rather ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
People across political spectrum, including prominent US conservatives, criticize attorney general's comments US attorney general Pam Bondi 's pledge that the Trump administration will "absolutely target" people who use "hate speech" in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has prompted criticism of the idea from across the political spectrum, including from prominent conservatives. Bondi ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Así es como China lidia con la guerra comercial de EE. UU. Los aranceles del presidente Trump provocaron un desplome de las exportaciones chinas a Estados Unidos, pero sus ventas a otras regiones están aumentando. La guerra comercial de este año entre China y Estados Unidos empezó con mucha fuerza, una escalada rápida y furiosa de aranceles hasta niveles astronómicos. En ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Trump's lawsuit comes less than a week after the New York Times said it had been threatened with legal action by the White House is bringing a $15bn defamation and libel lawsuit against the New York Times , which he has described as "one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
– The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war surpassed 65,000 on Wednesday, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, as Israeli troops and tanks pushed deeper into Gaza City and residents fled the devastated area. Israel's military said that air force and artillery units had struck the city over 150 times in the last few days, ahead of ground troops moving in. The strikes have toppled high-rise towers in ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The odds of a government shutdown are rising after Democratic leaders on Tuesday swiftly rejected a 91-page stopgap funding proposal unveiled by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and fellow House Republicans because it was put together with little Democratic input and doesn't extend generous health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Democrats voted more than a dozen times to extend federal funding with ...
Source: thehill.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The United Kingdom has rolled out the royal red carpet for United States President Donald Trump's second state visit to the country, with an extraordinary show of pomp and pageantry unfolding entirely behind closed doors, far from planned protests in London. King Charles III greeted Trump at Windsor Castle on Wednesday before trade talks the next day with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers, the British ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Agentic AI functions like an autonomous operator rather than a system that is why it is important to stress test it with AI-focused red team frameworks. As more enterprises deploy agentic AI applications, the potential attack surface increases in complexity and reach. As we wrote about this topic earlier , there are numerous ways to circumvent AI model guardrails, pollute an existing knowledge base that is used to ...
Source: csoonline.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump never seems to run out of sacred cows to gore. On Monday, his target was corporate transparency : "Subject to SEC Approval, Companies and Corporations should no longer be forced to 'Report' on a quarterly basis (Quarterly Reporting!), but rather to Report on a 'Six (6) Month Basis,'" the president posted on Truth Social . He added: "This will save money, and allow managers to focus on ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Jerry Greenfield says the company has been "silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power" despite a special deal meant to guarantee its independence. The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream has said he has a "broken heart" after quitting the company amid a row with its UK owner. Jerry Greenfield said he couldn't "in good conscience" continue in his role and claimed Unilever had "silenced" its ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
A tropical depression has formed in the open Atlantic Ocean, ending a three-week streak of no tropical activity in the basin. Tropical Depression Seven was located 1,185 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands, moving west at 13 mph as of early Wednesday morning. The depression had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was expected to become a tropical storm later Wednesday. According to the National Hurricane ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The latest J.D. Power study ranks the best airports in North America, showing how major renovations, new amenities and local flavor are reshaping the passenger experience. Transformative Travel: I look at how travel can change lives. More people are flying than ever before, and passengers are demanding more from their airport experience than ever. So what are the best airports in the U.S. and Canada right now? The ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
R elations between the U.S. and Colombia—longtime security allies—have frayed after President Donald Trump said the Latin American country has failed to crack down on cocaine production. Trump decertified Colombia as a partner in the war on drugs and listed the country as a rogue drug nation, joining the ranks of Afghanistan, Bolivia, Myanmar , and . The move, which comes amid a global cocaine boom and ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
In a shocking new report, a joint investigation by The Washington Post and KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), has found that every 1 in 6 parents are skipping or delaying routine childhood vaccines for their kids, one may think that the number is not so bad, is it? but health experts are warning that this growing trend over the years could set the precedent for serious public health consequences. Routine childhood ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that have reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows to get them out. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the preliminary probe is focused on 2021 Tesla Model Ys after receiving nine reports of electronic door handles not working possibly due to low ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The packages were injected with malicious code to harvest secrets, dump them to a public repository, and make private repositories public. More than 180 NPM packages were hit in a fresh supply chain attack that uses self-replicating malware to steal secrets, publish them on GitHub, and make private repositories public. As part of the attack, hackers compromised over 40 developer accounts and published more than 700 ...
Source: securityweek.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in London have arrested four adults accused of being responsible for the projection of photos and videos of President Donald Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle on Tuesday night. Uncorroborated video of the projection posted online shows it appeared to be a video detailing the connections and friends between Trump and Epstein involving videos and ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
P resident Donald Trump ordered a strike on a second Venezuelan vessel in international waters, alleging that it carried drugs, shortly after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the U.S. was trying to provoke a "major war." The strike, conducted on Monday morning, killed three people off the coast of Venezuela. Trump claimed that the vessel was transporting drugs headed for the U.S. The strike comes ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Access to childhood vaccines faces a "real risk" in the United States, Susan Monarez is expected to tell a Senate health committee on Wednesday. The testimony by Monarez, who was fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in August, comes just a day before the agency's influential vaccine panel plans to vote on whether to delay or ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Join Our Community. When you become a member, you're not just supporting journalism – you're shaping a future where truth matters. Join us today. Already contributed? NEW YORK — The New York judge overseeing the state case against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, threw out two terrorism charges on Tuesday in a significant win for the defense. ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump will extend federal law enforcement action to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, in a move that will include sending in National Guard troops and setting up a "Memphis State Task Force" to tackle crime, though police say overall criminal offences are at a 25-year low . Trump announced the move in an executive order on Monday to rid Memphis of what he called the "tremendous levels of violent ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Patel spoke testified before Senate Judiciary Committee for first time since his confirmation and faced aggressive questioning over Kirk investigation, Jeffrey Epstein files and mass firings FBI Director Kash Patel delivered defiant testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday as he has faced criticism from ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages and accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting commission of genocide A UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and accused senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting it. The United Nations independent international commission of inquiry (COI), which does not speak on behalf of the UN and has been ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
By During the course of an impressive career that spanned over six decades, Robert Redford, who just died at age 89, was known as one of the film industry's most charismatic and multitalented figures. Of course, Redford was the handsome leading man in classic '60s and '70s films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Sting and All the President's Men , but he proved that he was more than just an actor as he ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order once again delaying enforcement of a TikTok ban after announcing the U.S. had a "framework" for a deal to keep the app available in the U.S. The latest extension pushes back the deadline to enforce a law, which requires TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance to divest from the app or face a ban on U.S. networks and app stores, until Dec. ...
Source: thehill.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
A federal judge on Monday suggested the Trump administration is intentionally flouting legal obligations and sending immigrants to "face persecution, torture, or death" in their home countries. In a 16-page memorandum opinion and order , U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a Barack Obama appointee, took the federal government to task for its "illegal" deportation methods as of late — while at the same time ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
More AI slop may be headed to YouTube. The video-sharing platform is jumping on the AI bandwagon with a new batch of AI-powered tools for content creators. The company announced on Tuesday that users will now be able to use AI to more easily edit videos, generate short clips, and even protect their likeness from other AI tools. The updates come as YouTube and its parent company, Google, race to catch up with ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. President calls Fulton County district attorney a 'criminal' and slams 'weaponization' despite his own felony convictions and threats to prosecute opponents Georgia's highest court rejected an appeal from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willi s in her efforts to return to her sprawling election ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Talk to the palm! That's the idea behind a growing number of smart locks that can read your palm rather than your fingerprint, and budget smart home manufacturer Wyze has just announced its own take. Available starting today, the Wyze Palm Lock isn't the first smart lock capable of the palm-reading trick; recent locks from Eufy, TP-Link's Tapo brand, TCL, and Phillips can do the same thing. What sets ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
: Amazon Prime Day is October 7-8: Everything you need to know about October Prime Day Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days returns soon. Here's everything you need to know to shop like a pro. It's September, which means fall seasonal sales and early holiday savings are on the horizon. Labor Day is in the rearview, but plenty of the most significant sales of the year will be creeping up soon, and Amazon's October Prime Day ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to develop an automated age-prediction system that will determine whether ChatGPT users are over or under 18, automatically directing younger users to a restricted version of the AI chatbot. The company also confirmed that parental controls will launch by the end of September. In a ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee's decision comes amid rumors he would seek higher office for 2028 Tim Walz , the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee last year, announced on Tuesday that he is running for a third term as governor in 2026. The announcement comes after speculation that he could seek higher office in 2028 instead of a third term in the state. In a video posted ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writer Costco is recalling bottles of store brand Prosecco because they could shatter without warning. In a notice on the company's website Tuesday, Costco said the recall affects Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene purchased between April 25 and August 26. The affected bottles were sold in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Early adopters of AI tended to be men, with around 80% of weekly users having typically masculine first names in the months after ChatGPT was released, according to new data. Most people are using ChatGPT to ask questions and get advice, new data from its developer OpenAI has revealed. Although AI bots can do anything from coding to drafting emails or even helping users to imagine and play, around 49% of the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. A Los Angeles judge rejected a final legal bid by Erik and Lyle Menendez to overturn their murder convictions, ruling the brothers failed to present evidence strong enough to warrant a new trial. Superior Court Judge William Ryan denied their habeas corpus petition in a 17-page decision on Monday, finding ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
At Eradicate Hate summit, governor urges leaders to condemn all political violence, not just attacks on rivals Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro said on Tuesday that the arson attack on his home earlier this year had "left emotional scars" while calling for leaders to recognize that political violence is not a one-sided problem. Shapiro talked about the arson attack and political violence at this week's Eradicate ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Ukrainian children have been taken to over 200 different facilities across Russia, including locations where they have been subjected to forced "re-education" and military training in a clear violation of international law, according to new research. Eight different types of facilities, ranging from summer camps to religious sites to military academies stretching across the entire expanse of Russia, have been ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Most Americans would be healthier if the nation dropped daylight saving time, a major new study says. Switching to permanent standard time would prevent about 300,000 cases of stroke per year and result in 2.6 million fewer people with obesity, researchers estimate in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Permanent daylight saving time also would improve the nation's health, but only by about ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Sep 15th, 2025 -
SARASOTA, Fla. ( ) - Local law enforcement agencies say they are studying a controversial Sept. 10 court decision that ruled Floridians will soon be able to carry firearms openly throughout the state. The First District Court of Appeal handed down a decision Sept. 10 in the case of McDaniels v State of Florida, striking down Florida's long-standing prohibition on the open carrying of firearms, saying it violates ...
Source: mysuncoast.com