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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 25th 2026
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the head of Pakistan's military in Islamabad early Saturday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says "no meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the U.S." U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to arrive in Islamabad later in the day. President Donald Trump told Reuters in a phone call Friday that Iran will be ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve , shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell . The committee vote will take place on April 29 , putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on track for full ...
Source: commondreams.org
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 people, Amazon announced yet another reduction in force, Snap laid off around 15 percent of its staff, and Pinterest announced plans to do about the same thing. Microsoft recently announced its first-ever voluntary buyouts, targeting longtime ...
Source: nymag.com
Saturday, Apr 25th, 2026 -
In just the few weeks since he's taken over the justice department's top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department's resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president's former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent. Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced a resolution on Friday that would ban senators from participating in amend the Senate rules to include a provision stating that members may not enter into "an agreement, contract, or transaction that provides for any purchase, sale, payment or delivery" dependent on the outcome of a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
After years of false starts, stalled hearings, a retired judge, a fired attorney general, and a president who last weekend told officials to stop "slow-walking" on cannabis, we finally have something to talk about. Effective April 22, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a final order moving FDA-approved marijuana products and state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) vetoed a bill that would've imposed a short-term moratorium on data centers, stopping the state from becoming the first in the US to enact a broad ban on the fast-growing sector. The bill would've prohibited state and local agencies from accepting applications allowing the operation or construction of new data centers with loads of at minimum 20 megawatts until Nov. 1, 2027. Mills said ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel's strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving in their wake mounds of rubble and shattered glass, pulverized concrete and twisted metal – and hundreds of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The 2026 NFL Draft continues Friday night with Rounds 2 and 3. You can watch on ABC, ESPN, and the NFL Network. The New England Patriots entered Night 2 with two selections: Nos. 63 and No. 95. They dealt No. 63 and Nos. 131 and 202 on Saturday for the 55th selection and selected Illinois linebacker Gabe Jacas . Follow along throughout Friday night with our live updates, and track picks as they happen here. Teams ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
April 24 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration announced regulatory actions Friday to support development of serotonin-2A agonists and related products, including psychedelic drugs. On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up research on psychedelic drugs for mental health disorders. "Today's order will ensure that people suffering from debilitating symptoms might finally have a ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Iran's soccer team would be allowed to enter the United States to play in the World Cup this summer, but the Trump administration would deny entry to Iranians with ties to the country's military, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday. The United States is co-hosting the 48-team World Cup this year with Canada and Mexico, starting June 11. The Iranian team qualified for the tournament last year but its ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
By and Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records. As part of the Trump administration's aggressive mass deportation campaign, federal officials have ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president's chief science ...
Source: securityweek.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4 , a much-awaited update to last year's V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm . The company says both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are mixture-of-experts models with context windows of 1 million tokens each — enough to allow large ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Languorous tree dwellers from Guyana and Peru died from 'cold stun' in warehouse with no power or running water Wildlife officials in Florida said in a newly released report that dozens of sloths taken from South American rainforests for display at a controversial new tourist attraction in Orlando died in the care of their new owners. An incident report from the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
'Firestarter' Backdoor Can Survive Reboots, Upgrades and Standard Fixes The U.S. cyber defense agency is ordering federal agencies to hunt for a previously unknown, persistent backdoor after spotting it on a Cisco security appliance meant to shield a federal civilian agency. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its British counterpart warned in a Thursday malware analysis report that the custom ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
ENID, Okla. (AP) — A powerful tornado in Oklahoma on Thursday ripped roofs off buildings, knocked down power poles and sent emergency crews rushing into a rural community near Vance Air Force Base, officials said. The confirmed tornado moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people near the state's northern border, according to the National Weather Service. Video posted online show a rapidly ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said he is taking accountability for actions that have created a distraction for New England without addressing specifics about photos published recently of him with longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. Vrabel spoke for just over seven minutes prior to the start of Thursday's NFL draft . He vowed to prioritize his family by beginning ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations Revenue rose more than 7%, a sign that the chipmaker is finally starting to see some growth. The stock has been a Wall Street darling of late, bolstered by a big investment last year by the Trump administration. In this article Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Justice Department's internal watchdog is investigating compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that compelled the department to release records related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The preliminary objective of the probe is "to evaluate the DOJ's processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act," said Deputy ...
Source: nbcnews.com