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Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. . WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took classified documents related to his private business interests from the White House in 2021, according to materials the Justice Department apparently provided to the House Judiciary Committee. A grand jury indicted Trump in 2023 for improperly taking classified documents and obstructing a federal investigation. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. ICE agents have been deployed to airports across the U.S. amid the ongoing DHS shutdown Removed from bookmarks Republican Representative Lauren Boebert got into an online spat with a journalist over a recent video about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at U.S. airports. The Trump ...
Source: independent.co.uk
As New Mexico jury finds Meta platforms harm children, social media firms await more legal decisions
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it's not looking good for Meta. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the social media giant's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposed a $375 million penalty. While the fine is a tiny fraction of Meta's $201 billion revenue in 2025, the verdict illustrates a ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal OpenAI has shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) video-generation app Sora less than two years after its unveiling made headlines for creating realistic clips based on simple prompts. At the same time OpenAI will also wind down its $1bn content partnership with entertainment giant Disney , the BBC understands. OpenAI told the BBC on Wednesday ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
ServiceNow SecOps now natively includes Zenity security signals and controls, giving customers built-in protection and governance for AI agents the leading security and governance platform for AI agents, announced its partnership with ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention. As a Build Partner, Zenity will bring comprehensive agent security, posture management and vulnerability assessment into ...
Source: aithority.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
NASA will build a base on the moon instead of a space station orbiting it. The Lunar Gateway station was mostly built, so its components will be repurposed for the base on the moon. It leaves an uncertain future for NASA partners Japan, Canada and the European Space Agency that agreed to supply the station's components. NASA has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead build a $28.7 ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
From cryptocurrency-based online platforms to oil futures and the United States S&P 500 stock benchmark, traders have made bets worth hundreds of millions of dollars since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran with suspiciously well-timed trades that suggest knowledge of key White House decision-making. One of the most well-documented examples has been Polymarket, a platform that lets users anonymously bet on ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
If you're a chief data officer still scheduling your AI strategy for Q3, Gartner has news: Q3 isn't coming back. The research firm recently released its annual Data & Analytics predictions, and the message isn't subtle. The world of enterprise data is entering a phase where the pace of change has made conventional roadmaps look quaint, and the leaders who ignore that are about to learn an expensive lesson. ...
Source: cdotrends.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
A California court denied the state attorney general's appeal to halt the Riverside County Sheriff's election fraud investigation on Tuesday. In a statement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office said the appellate court denied their request "based solely on where we filed the case and is not a ruling on the underlying of the petition." "The facts have not changed. The Riverside County Sheriff continues to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Arm just confirmed the rumors: It's producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won't alienate the many chipmakers who license the company's designs. Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED's photographer first asked him to assume this position. The headlines came ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout The deal, Amazon's second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company's portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Russian air defenses downed 389 incoming Ukrainian drones, Russia's Defense Ministry said Wednesday, in what was the largest reported overnight attack on Russian regions and Crimea since Moscow's forces more than four years ago. The drones were stopped over 13 Russian regions as well as the , which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The attack underlined the growing capability of Ukraine's domestically ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
New Rule Blocks Approval of Foreign Routers Without Federal Clearance The U.S. Federal Communications Commission moved to significantly expand a supply-chain crackdown by effectively barring new foreign-made consumer routers from entering the U.S. market without federal approval. update to its Covered List prohibits the approval of new foreign-made consumer router models from entering the U.S. market following a ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
By March 23 (UPI) -- The Trump administration closed a deal with the French energy company TotalEnergies to pay it nearly $1 billion to end construction of wind farms off the shores of New York and North Carolina. TotalEnergies will be paid $928 million after it invests the same amount of money in oil, natural gas and liquefied natural gas production in the United States, the Department of the Interior announced on ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday that it has temporarily halted special airport services for members of Congress and their staff, including premium offerings such as terminal escorts that expedite security checks and its "red coat" customer service assistance. "Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared inclined to clear the way for the Trump administration to revive a policy that would allow agents at US borders to block migrants from entering the country to seek asylum. Such a ruling would leave intact a policy that began during the Obama administration on a small scale and expanded dramatically during President Trump's first term amid efforts to curb the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A noted professional cornhole player who is a quadruple amputee is behind bars after authorities said he shot and killed a front seat passenger Sunday night while he was driving in Maryland. Dayton Webber, 27, was behind the wheel when he opened fire on Bradrick Michael Wells during an argument as they were traveling in a car in the town of La Plata, the Charles County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. Webber, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
DoD announces 'interim' policy for journalists decried by newspaper as 'end-run around the court's ruling' The New York Times on Tuesday accused the Pentagon of disobeying a judge's ruling that undid much of the restrictive agreement journalists were forced to sign or lose access to the building. The judge, Paul Friedman, granted an injunction on Friday that overturned much of the language in the "media in-brief" ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators are working to determine what caused a deadly collision between a jet and a fire truck on the runway at New York City's LaGuardia Airport. Here's what to know about the crash and the investigation: What happened on the runway? An Air Canada regional flight arrived from Montreal around 11:37 p.m. Sunday and struck an airport fire truck, which was crossing the runway to check on an ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Beirut, Lebanon – The accusation from Lebanon's prime minister that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is in charge of Hezbollah's operations against Israel comes as relations between the Shia group and the Lebanese government are at their lowest in years. But, according to analysts, that animosity does not mean that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam was incorrect in his analysis of the situation. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah will leave the club at the end of the season, the Premier League side said in a statement on Tuesday. "Salah expressed his wish to make this announcement to the supporters at the earliest possible opportunity to provide transparency about his future due to his respect and gratitude for them," the club statement said. The 33-year-old Egypt international confirmed the news via a video ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Park police chief says officer was 'ambushed' by two gunmen who fired as officer drove in unmarked vehicle A US park police officer was seriously wounded on Monday evening in a shooting in Washington DC in what the park police chief called an ambush. The park police chief, Scott Brecht, said in a press briefing that the unidentified officer was "ambushed" by two gunmen who fired at the officer as he drove by in an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Marco Rubio welcomes release of Dennis Coyle, who was detained in January last year for violating unspecified laws Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have released the American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. A statement from the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
, the company revealed today that ads are coming to Apple Maps this summer in the U.S. and Canada. Still, while this "feature" hasn't even been officially out yet, Apple Maps users have taken to social media to show their discontent regarding it. "Apple putting ads in Maps makes me laugh. Search for 'coffee' and the top result is whoever paid the most to be there," wrote a : "Imagine you are driving using Apple ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A judge sharply questioned a lawyer for the federal government on Tuesday over the Pentagon's efforts to cut Anthropic out of its classified systems — the latest development in a dispute between the company and the Trump administration over AI guardrails. The back-and-forth revolves around Anthropic's push to bar the military from using its AI model Claude to surveil Americans or power fully autonomous ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast on Monday shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place, officials said. No one was injured in the explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Houston, Mayor Charlotte M. Moses said. She urged residents in parts of the west side of the city to stay put, saying firefighters had ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, anti-abortion rights advocates have continuously pursued laws and court cases to make access to abortion more difficult. A report published Tuesday finds those efforts haven't worked in one basic way: The number of abortions in the country hasn't budged. "There were an estimated 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in the U.S. in 2025 — that's pretty much ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The world's great fish migrations are collapsing – that's a problem for millions of people Hidden beneath the surface of the world's rivers, some of Earth's great animal movements unfold – migrations that rival , in sheer biomass, the famous mass movements of zebra and wildebeest across the Serengeti. For centuries, fish migrations were as predictable as the seasons. Salmon, sturgeon, giant catfish ...
Source: theconversation.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
JD Vance being touted as preferred mediator as Tehran turns on Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Iran has refused to negotiate with Donald Trump's top envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, accusing them of "backstabbing". Gulf sources told The Telegraph that the Iranians would not sit down with Mr Witkoff, the administration's Middle East envoy, and Mr Kushner, Mr Trump's adviser and son-in-law, because of the ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Lawsuit alleges federal officials refused to give Minnesota investigators basic information, including the names of federal agents involved in the shootings Removed from bookmarks Minnesota officials are asking a federal judge to force the Trump administration to share evidence it collected after the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted a former waitress in 1972 after escorting her to one of his shows, a civil jury in California concluded Monday, awarding the woman $19.25 million in damages. The verdict was the latest turn in a series of legal battles the disgraced entertainer, now 88, has faced since allegations that he repeatedly drugged and raped women exploded publicly about a decade ago. He served ...
Source: latimes.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Senate confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to lead the Department of Homeland Security amid a growing crisis within the agency over ...
Source: huffpost.com