Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
President Trump's comments to reporters on Tuesday that he expects the U.S. to end its war with Iran in two or three weeks is buoying investors by easing global oil prices and boosting stocks. Yet such optimism is certain to fade quickly unless Iran agrees to reopen the Strait of Hormuz soon, according to economists, who warn that crude prices could continue to soar even if the Trump ...
18 Related:
PRICES, U.S., OIL, JONES ACT, GAS, DIESEL
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
DevSecOps was fine for the cloud, but with AI agents now provisioning their own credentials, we need DevSecEng to keep these autonomous bots from going rogue. The first wave of security "left-shifting" was driven by containers and the cloud, requiring unprecedented CIO-CISO collaboration. But that's no longer enough. AI has introduced new attack surfaces that can be exploited at machine speed, with equally complex ...
17 Related:
CUSTOMER, CONTROL, CENTER, PLATFORM, CONTROL CENTER, COMPANY
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Imagine if a state passed a law banning doctors from telling their patients to smoke cigarettes to be healthier. Then consider if a doctor challenged that law as a violation of their free-speech right to tell patients that smoking is safe and heathy. This hypothetical doctor would argue that the healthiness of smoking is a matter of debate. After all, not long ago most doctors were smokers themselves , and tobacco ...
16 Related:
THERAPY, LAW, CONVERSION, CONVERSION THERAPY, SUPREME COURT, IDENTITY
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Congressional GOP leaders said Wednesday they will quickly move to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown after President Donald Trump set a hard deadline for Republicans to fund immigration enforcement. The statement from Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson comes after Trump set a June 1 deadline for Republicans to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the party-line budget ...
13 Related:
TRUMP, DHS, SENATE, WHITE HOUSE, BILL, RECONCILIATION
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Law named for Trenton Stewart, St. Johns County teen killed by a drunk driver in May of 2023 A rollover crash in Jupiter Island late last week has golf legend Tiger Woods facing DUI charges -- again. The arrest report for Woods sheds light on the circumstances that led to his second DUI arrest, which is his fourth vehicle incident since 2009. He faced limited consequences for the previous DUI after pleading guilty ...
12 Related:
WOODS, AFFIDAVIT, TIGER WOODS, DEPUTY, WOODS', TRUCK
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
When Israel passed a death penalty law that solely targets Palestinians, it was to be expected that the country's far right would celebrate . Even as much of the international community roundly condemns Israel for the law – with the United Nations human rights chief calling it a possible "war crime" – there has been little pushback inside Israel. According to Israeli rights groups and analysts, the ...
7 Related:
WEST BANK, PALESTINIANS, ISRAEL'S, LAW, RIGHTS, ISRAEL
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding. A federal judge ruled that President Trump's executive order defunding NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and issued a permanent injunction stating that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. The Trump order's "instruction that all federal agencies stop funding NPR and PBS constitutes a penalty for engaging in speech ...
7 Related:
MR. TRUMP, NPR, PBS, MR. TRUMP'S, FIRST AMENDMENT, FUNDING
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
April 1 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico necessary for national security and received an exemption from endangered species protections -- which a a conservation group maintains violated U.S. law. The lawsuit, filed by the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to block the ...
7 Related:
GULF, SPECIES, NATIONAL SECURITY, OIL, EXEMPTION, DRILLING
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! The software supply chain attack that resulted in the compromise of npm packages of Axios, an extremely popular HTTP client library, is believed to be the work of financially-motivated North Korean attackers. Links to UNC1069 On March 31, 2026 , unknown attackers managed to publish ...
6 Related:
AXIOS NPM, NPM, SUPPLY, CHAIN, AXIOS, CRYPTO
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
April 1 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Eli Lilly 's pill version of a GLP-1 medication for weight loss, making it the second company to offer a non-injectable version of the drug. The orforglipron medication, which will be sold under the brand name Foundayo, joins Novo Nordisk's Wegovy pill as the only two oral GLP-1 medications to have FDA approval . Eli Lilly also manufactures the ...
6 Related:
PILL, LILLY, DRUG, NOVO, ELI LILLY'S, ORFORGLIPRON
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant Claude Code due to "human error," the company said Tuesday. An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to developer platform GitHub. "Earlier today, a Claude Code release included some internal ...
6 Related:
CLAUDE CODE, CODE, SOURCE, FILE, SOURCE CODE, TIME
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
State department says it is working to ensure release of freelancer 'as soon as possible' after abduction in Baghdad An American journalist, Shelly Kittleson, has been kidnapped in Baghdad by a suspected Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, the US has said, as regional security deteriorates after the US-Israeli attack on Iran . Kittleson is a longtime freelancer in the region, reporting extensively from Syria, Iraq ...
6 Related:
JOURNALIST, U.S. EMBASSY, INTERIOR MINISTRY, ASSOCIATED PRESS, SECURITY, KIDNAPPING
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Our community is sharply divided over the King's US visit. While some have called it an 'embarrassment' amid Donald Trump's attacks on the UK, others have urged diplomacy to 'calm the waters' Removed from bookmarks I ndependent readers have shared sharply divided views on whether the King should go ...
5 Related:
VISIT, TRUMP, STATE, US, WAR, BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule on March 30 that would make it easier for 401(k) plans to include cryptocurrency, private equity, and other alternative assets. The proposal, titled "Fiduciary Duties in Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives," follows an August 2025 executive order from President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to to alternative assets. The White House's Office of ...
5 Related:
PLAN, INVESTMENT, PROPOSAL, FIDUCIARIES, RETIREMENT, DOL
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Reading time 1 minute Until Wednesday, iPhone users who had intentionally avoided updating to iOS 26 in spite of their hardware being compatible with the latest software fell into a worrisome security donut hole. Now Apple has started plugging the hole, according to Wired —no update to the dreaded Liquid Glass aesthetic needed. This all concerns DarkSword, a deeply scary exploit that sounds like it can really ...
5 Related:
IOS, USERS, APPLE, VERSION, DARKSWORD, HACKING
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Key Takeaways: OpenAI finalized the largest funding round in Silicon Valley history, they secured $122 billion in commitments at a post valuation of $852 billion. The round was led by Amazon ($50 billion), NVIDIA ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion), with participation from Microsoft and VC firms. The capital will be used to expand AI infrastructure, develop custom chips with Broadcom, and build the generation ...
4 Related:
OPENAI, ROUND, INVESTORS, FUNDING, CAPITAL, TIME
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
The judges overseeing the federal and state trials of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, postponed the start of both cases Wednesday. Mangione's federal trial is now set to begin with jury selection on Oct. 5, followed by opening statements on Oct. 26 or Nov. 2, U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett ruled at a hearing in downtown Manhattan. (Jury selection was ...
4 Related:
TRIAL, STATE, CASE, NEW YORK, STATE TRIAL, GARNETT
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing 51 years ago after she left a party alone. A month later, her body was found by hikers on the side of a highway. New DNA testing has "definitively" linked serial killer Ted Bundy to the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974, the Utah sheriff's office said. Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing 51 years ago after she left a party alone. A month later, her body was found by hikers on ...
4 Related:
UTAH COUNTY, OFFICE, LAURA ANN AIME, UTAH COUNTY SHERIFF'S, TED BUNDY, FAMILY
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to an Office of Foreign Assets Control entry on the Treasury Department website. The newly announced sanctions relief represents a strong signal that the U.S. recognizes Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in Venezuela ever since the U.S. military captured Rodríguez's ...
4 Related:
VENEZUELA'S, U.S., RODRÍGUEZ, SANCTIONS, NICOLÁS MADURO, TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
Controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones painted a bleak picture during his Tuesday show when it comes to Donald Trump and his health. Jones made the claims on his Infowars show while encouraging Republicans to move on from the president. "When your ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure," Jones said. "And he does look sick. He does babble and sound like the brain's not ...
4 Related:
TRUMP, JONES, ALEX JONES, PRESIDENT, DEMOCRATS, TIME
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 -
A Russian military plane crash in annexed Crimea has killed six crew and 23 passengers, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry. The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop ...
4 Related:
DEFENCE MINISTRY, AIRCRAFT, PEOPLE, FLIGHT, BOARD, UKRAINE'S SOUTH
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
"Carry on, patriots" was the message from Pete Hegseth, who thanked Kid Rock – an ardent backer of Donald Trump – for his support of the military. The US army has lifted a suspension on two helicopter crews which hovered near Kid Rock's swimming pool while he clapped and saluted. The singer posted a video on X showing the aircraft flying next to his house in Nashville, Tennessee . Army ...
8 Related:
KID ROCK, HELICOPTERS, ARMY, FORT CAMPBELL, PILOTS, INVESTIGATION
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Three former FBI special agents who worked criminal cases against President Donald Trump and were then ousted by the administration have filed a lawsuit over their "illegal" firings, citing as evidence comments that the No. 2 official at the Justice Department made at a conservative conference last week. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who formerly served as Trump's personal attorney, said last week at the ...
7 Related:
FBI, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AGENTS, LAWSUIT, KASH PATEL, FORMER AGENTS
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Spice giant McCormick is buying Unilever's food business, including Hellmann's mayo. McCormick will pay a combination of cash and equity to expand further into condiments and spreads. Unilever plans to focus on its personal-care business, which is growing faster. In this article McCormick will buy Unilever's food business for a combination of cash and equity, in a deal that values the Unilever unit at nearly $45 ...
7 Related:
MCCORMICK, UNILEVER, FOOD, BUSINESS, DEAL, HELLMANN'S MAYO
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
All your data remains intact, and you can go back to your original address at any time. Someone is celebrating a birthday tomorrow—it's Gmail. The iconic email service debuted 22 years ago on April 1, forever altering what people expected from free email. But 22 years is a long time, and the username you chose when you finally got your hands on an invite in 2004 may not have stood the test of time. Starting ...
6 Related:
GMAIL USERNAME, EMAIL, GOOGLE, ACCOUNT, GMAIL, GOOGLE ACCOUNT
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes A Starlink satellite suffered an unidentified anomaly, generating a small field of debris in low-Earth orbit. SpaceX lost contact with one of its Starlink satellites on Sunday due to an in-orbit malfunction, the company confirmed on X. Orbital tracking company LeoLabs later reported debris in the vicinity of the satellite after the event, suggesting that the Starlink satellite likely broke ...
4 Related:
ORBIT, EARTH, SATELLITES, SPACEX STARLINK SATELLITE, EVENT, RISK
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2026 -
An unflattering photo of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been removed from circulation after press agencies were "made aware" that the White House disapproved. The photo was taken by AFP photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds during a Thanksgiving-themed press briefing in November, where Leavitt was joined by "Waddle" the turkey and her young son. In it, Leavitt can be seen holding her son in her arms as they ...
4 Related:
WHITE HOUSE, PHOTO, PRESS, KAROLINE LEAVITT, IMAGE, BRIEFING