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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 11th 2026
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham was skeptical Thursday about President Trump's statement he was unaware of what first lady Melania Trump was going to say at her White House press event, in which she denied any relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "And I'm going to say I called BS on our president saying he knew nothing about it ...
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 -
Every day, Jade, 30, logs into her insurance tech job in Raleigh, North Carolina, to optimize systems with AI. She does her work diligently. But she can't stop the feeling she's building processes that will one day edge her out of a job. "Half the time it feels like the whole job is just AIs talking to each other, with barely a human involved," she says. "It doesn't feel good to build a flow with my labor that ...
Source: newrepublic.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 -
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 -
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 -
The crew landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego shortly after 8 p.m. ET, following a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. NASA aims to land astronauts on the lunar surface in 2028, setting the stage to build a base there and establish a long-term presence on the moon. agency investigation later found that part of the heat shield's material had cracked during atmospheric re-entry, ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 -
The Trump administration submitted official architectural renderings for the planned 250-foot "triumphal arch" near Arlington National Cemetery. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is due to review the proposed project, which has been touted by President Donald Trump as honoring the U.S.'s 250th anniversary, at its meeting on April 16. On Feb. 2, Trump posted on social media an image showing India Gate, with the ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
April 10 (UPI) -- Protests against high gas prices brought parts of Dublin, Ireland, to a standstill, causing the number of service stations without any fuel to rise to 100 on Friday, local officials said. Demonstrators in vehicles -- including tractors -- took part in slow-moving convoys and blocked roads throughout the capital city to protest the high fuel prices caused by the United States and Israel's war on ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters. San Francisco police arrested an individual early on Friday morning for allegedly attacking the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and making threats outside of the company's headquarters, a spokesperson confirmed to WIRED. OpenAI's corporate security team sent a note to employees ...
Source: wired.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
A former aide to Rep. Eric Swalwell, a top Democratic candidate for governor of California, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she had sexual encounters with him when he was her boss and alleged that he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent. The woman worked for Swalwell from 2019 until 2021, NBC News confirmed. The woman's lawyer declined to comment and NBC News has not verified ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
The centrepiece of United States President Donald Trump's economic policy — sweeping taxes on global imports — is under legal assault again. A three-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade, a specialised court in New York, is hearing oral arguments on Friday in an attempt to overturn the temporary tariffs Trump turned to after the Supreme Court in February struck down his preferred choice ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
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 -
Britain said it detected and tracked a Russian attack submarine and other Russian undersea vessels near critical infrastructure in the High North, saying the operation failed after British and allied forces made clear the vessels had been spotted. The operation began several weeks ago, when British aircraft and warships detected an Akula-class submarine in international waters north of the UK, according to the UK ...
Source: bnonews.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JESSICA HILL LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. That means the utility could miss Nevada's clean energy targets requiring 50% renewable power by 2030. "I can't remember a time in the ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
It was no secret that Boston's mystery/thriller author Frieda McFadden — author of the buzzy "The Housemaid" among dozens of other New York Times bestsellers — used a pen name. It was often speculated online that she wore a wig, along with her glasses, in her author photo. This week, she revealed to USA Today her identity, and admitted that yes, she's wearing a wig — but really does need glasses ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
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 early lead with Sam Burns. McIlroy settled in after a slow start. He blistered a 3-wood out of the first cut over the hill and onto the green at the par-5 eighth to set up an easy birdie, a swing that ...
Source: nbcnews.com