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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 11th 2026
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) committed on Friday to holding hearings with victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of his committee's , a day after first lady Melania Trump called on Congress to let them testify. "I've always planned on having hearings with the victims," Comer said during an appearance on ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Prices were up 3.3% over the year, adding to the unpredictability that first came with Trump tariffs US inflation soared in March amid the US-Israel war with Iran, with prices up 0.9% compared with last month and 3.3% over the year, according to new data released on Friday. The spike in the consumer price index (CPI), which measures the price of a basket of goods and services, is the largest in nearly two years and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
New platform is designed to help cloud providers, data center operators, system integrators, and enterprises deploy application-level AI services faster, reduce cost per query, and create recurring AI service revenue Blaize Holdings, Inc. ("Blaize"), a leader in programmable, energy-efficient AI computing, announced the planned launch of Blaize AI Services , a platform designed to help AI infrastructure providers ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 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? HOUSTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth's atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) violated a court order requiring it to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters after the agency's stringent restrictions on journalists. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman rebuked the department for attempting to circumvent his March 20, 2026, decision by establishing a new press policy. The Pentagon's new press policy expelled all journalists from ...
Source: floridianpress.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 -
Cheng Li-wun avoided any public criticism of China or its military drills as she advocated for a closer relationship with Beijing, a pivot that has made her a divisive figure in Taiwan. BEIJING - At an unusual meeting Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping talked with Taiwan's main opposition leader about shared culture and bloodlines, before declaring that unification of the island with the mainland is a "historical ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
A charity that Prince Harry co-founded in Africa to honor his late mother, Princess Diana, is suing him for defamation after he stepped down as a patron last year. Sentebale , which Harry co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006 and helps youths with HIV in southern Africa, filed suit last month in London's High Court, according to court records reviewed Friday. Online filings show Harry and his friend, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
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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 -
Borrowers hoping for a drop in inflation and a corresponding interest rate cut woke up to disappointing news Friday morning when the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a surge in the rate. Now at 3.3%, inflation is at its highest level in nearly two years and is close to a point and a half above the Federal Reserve's target 2% goal. That essentially delays the chances of a Fed rate cut for the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Jay Bhattacharya, who also leads the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is reportedly delaying the publication of new findings within the health agency showcasing the strong effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent emergency room visits and hospitalizations. According to a report from The Washington Post , which cites two scientists with ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — A 250-foot arch that President Donald Trump hopes to build near the Potomac River in the next few months would feature winged eagles, Lady Liberty and a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, according to new renderings obtained by NBC News. The renderings were filed by the Department of the Interior with the Commission of Fine Arts for official review next week, according to a spokesman for the ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
We all love encryption. If you use Gmail in an enterprise setting, especially if your work includes sensitive information, you probably love it even more. Certain Gmail app users on iOS and Android phones can now send and receive encrypted emails within the app itself -- no add-ons necessary. Previously, Gmail users could only send emails via end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on their desktops. Google's announcement ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
This week has proven pivotal for the prediction markets industry, with a series of legal and regulatory developments that could have far-reaching consequences for federally-regulated event contracts in the United States. Notably, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has taken an aggressive stance in asserting its exclusive jurisdiction, joining the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in blocking ...
Source: natlawreview.com
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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MAE ANDERSON and PAUL WISEMAN, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump's economic policy — sweeping taxes on global imports — is under legal assault again. The U.S. Court of International Trade , a specialized court in New York, heard oral arguments Friday in an attempt to overturn the temporary tariffs Trump ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Anthropic's latest AI technology, called Mythos, is so powerful at revealing software vulnerabilities that the company is afraid to release the model publicly lest it fall into the hands of bad actors. The company, the developer behind the Claude AI chatbot, said in a post on its website this week that the new tool has already uncovered thousands of weak points in "every major operating system and web ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
Amazon will continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a 2025 Letter to Shareholders posted Thursday (April 9). Jassy said that while investment spikes invite scrutiny, AI is a game-changer that will reinvent every customer experience. "I've followed the public debate on whether this technology is over-hyped, whether we're in 'a ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
John Healey said warships and military aircraft forced Russia to halt activity in UK waters near vital undersea cables and pipelines 3-MIN READ Britain said on Thursday it had tracked and deterred three Russian submarines on an alleged month-long "covert operation" in UK waters in the North Atlantic near vital undersea cables and pipelines. Disclosing details of the joint mission with Norway and other unspecified ...
Source: scmp.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 -
Your favorite mystery writer has been keeping her own secret for over a decade. Freida McFadden — the author who has written a number of thrillers, including "The Housemaid" — revealed in an interview with USA Today that she has been using a pseudonym and wearing a wig and glasses to keep her true identity under wraps when she's in public. "I'm at a point in my career when I'm tired of this being a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games simultaneously to multiple platforms — paid streaming platforms, paid cable networks, and others, sources told CBS News. A government official familiar with the matter said the probe is about affordability for consumers and creating an "even playing field for providers." ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy has been celebrating all week at Augusta National as the defending champion, and on Thursday he found something else to savor — a 5-under 67, his lowest start at the Masters in 15 years to share the lead with Sam Burns. McIlroy hit only five fairways but still managed to settle into his round when he blistered a 3-wood out of the first cut over the hill and onto the green at ...
Source: bostonglobe.com