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Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
takes office as president Wednesday in what will mark the Latin American nation's most pronounced shift to the right since the return of democracy in 1990. won a landslide victory in December against government-backed communist candidate Jeannette Jara with the promise of fighting crime and curbing illegal immigration, a project that holds similarities to policies adopted by his U.S. counterpart. On the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
UK government considering support schemes for households and businesses hit by surge in energy prices; International Energy Agency on course for largest release of oil reserves in its history to bring down crude prices How Iran has used the strait of Hormuz to throttle oil and gas – a visual guide From US inflation stayed at an annual rate of 2.4% last month, as expected. The dollar held on to gains of 0.2% ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Kong will introduce a new architectural approach for connecting, governing, and scaling intelligence across APIs, AI models and agents , a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, has unveiled its AI Connectivity vision and roadmap, defining a new category for how enterprises connect, govern and scale intelligence across APIs, AI models and agent-based systems. During a live stream from the New ...
Source: aithority.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Gold Coast, Australia — The Iranian women's soccer team left Australia minus seven of its members who were granted asylum, after tearful protests of their departure at Sydney Airport and frantic final efforts inside the terminal by Australian officials who sought to ensure the women understood they were being offered asylum. As the team's flight time drew nearer and they passed through security late ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Intelligence sources claim Iran has begun mine laying as US energy secretary backtracks on claim US escorted a ship through strategic chokepoint The US military said it attacked and destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the strait of Hormuz amid reports that Iran has begun laying explosive devices in the strategically vital waterway. Citing intelligence sources, CNN on Tuesday reported that Iran has laid a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The acquisition includes Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, though financial terms were not disclosed. Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and will integrate the team into Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal, first reported by Axios and confirmed to TechCrunch, includes Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition adds an "always-on ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
FDA worked with GSK to update Wellcovorin labelling for safe, effective use in adult and paediatric CFD-FOLR1 patients. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its approval for the expanded use of GSK's Wellcovorin (leucovorin calcium) tablets to treat cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) in patients with a confirmed variant in the folate receptor one (FOLR1) gene. The approval marks the first authorised ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
GENEVA (AP) — Police are investigating whether a bus fire in a town west of the Swiss capital that killed at least six people was started deliberately. Police spokesperson Frédéric Papaux of Fribourg canton, or region, said an unspecified "voluntary act" could have caused the fire Tuesday evening in the town of Kerzers, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Bern. Five people were also injured ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
MIAMI — Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in NBA history, to carry the Miami Heat to a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. Adebayo had 31 points in the first quarter, 43 by halftime, and 62 by the end of the third quarter. He finished 20 for 43 from the field, 36 for 43 from the foul line, and 7 for 22 from 3-point range. Adebayo's free throw makes and attempts ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
US President Donald Trump has said that Iran is "welcome" to participate at the upcoming World Cup in North America, despite the ongoing Middle East war, FIFA chief Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday. The war, triggered by US-Israeli strikes on February 28, has thrown into doubt Iran's participation at this summer's men's football World Cup, jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States. During a meeting ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
At the opening of the air war against Iran, the U.S. and Israel won a massively one-sided victory that left Iran's defenses in tatters and much of its leadership dead. "We achieved air superiority within two days, if that," says Mark Gunzinger, an analyst at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. But just because a war starts well doesn't mean it will end that way. "The enemy gets a vote," as former ...
Source: nymag.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The expanded access allows all users to interact with the AI health assistant rather than limiting it to Prime members. Amazon announced the expansion of its Health AI assistant to its website and app. The tool was previously limited to the app for One Medical, which Amazon acquired for $3.9 billion in 2023. The expansion significantly broadens access to the tool, making it available to all users rather than just ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! With deepfakes becoming more common , YouTube has expanded access to its AI-driven likeness detection system to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates. The step an earlier rollout of the tool to creators in the company's Partner Program. AI video ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance. Anthropic sued the Trump administration yesterday in an attempt to reverse the government's decision to blacklist its technology. Anthropic argues that it exercised its First Amendment rights by refusing to let its Claude AI models be used for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans and that the government ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The company agreed to pay at least $200 million in damages to participating states as part of the deal. Live Nation reached a settlement with the Department of Justice to avoid the breakup of its subsidiary, Ticketmaster. The agreement requires the live entertainment giant to pay at least $200 million in damages to participating states. Live Nation will also implement structural changes to its business practices ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
A 1,323-pound satellite that has been orbiting Earth for nearly 14 years is expected to reenter the atmosphere Tuesday, presenting a very slight chance that someone could be hurt by one of the pieces that does not burn up, NASA said. NASA said that most of the satellite, the Van Allen Probe A, would be incinerated as it hurtles through the atmosphere but that some components would probably survive. The risk of harm ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Two Supreme Court justices weighed in on the court's growing pattern of granting emergency orders at a rare public joint appearance where they laid out their conflicting views. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh addressed criticism of the court's handling of emergency petitions at a lecture series Monday honoring former US Attorney and Judge Thomas J. Flannery. The event was held at the federal ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Amid nationwide public outcry, Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey—a staunch supporter of capital punishment—on Tuesday spared a death row inmate who did not kill the man for whom he was sentenced to die and scheduled for execution on Thursday. "I firmly believe that the death penalty is just punishment for society's most heinous offenders, as shown by the 25 executions I have presided over as governor," ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! If Maine's real estate market got off to a sluggish start in January, it slowed to a snail's pace in February. Last month, Maine real estate agents sold the fewest number of ...
Source: pressherald.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Gemini can access relevant information from your other sources to give personalized help. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you've ever struggled with starting a letter or a presentation, Google has a little help coming your way courtesy of Gemini. Google is introducing several new Gemini integrations across Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drive, the most notable ...
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Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
March 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin is facing a complaint that could lead to disciplinary action for a letter he wrote to to Georgetown University Law School, threatening action if it didn't end diversity policies. A filing submitted to the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility also alleges that Martin tried to evade action from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel by ignoring its ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Washington — Unscheduled absences among airport security officers have more than doubled during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown, with more than 300 employees leaving the agency since the start of the DHS shutdown, according to internal TSA statistics obtained exclusively by CBS News. TSA officer call-out rates have climbed into double-digit percentages at some airports, including ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article A federal judge has disqualified three Justice Department officials from overseeing federal prosecutions in New Jersey , characterising their appointments as an "illegal power grab" by the Trump administration. The scathing 130-page ruling marks the latest escalation in an ongoing ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 12 minutes Apple's $600 MacBook Neo isn't the pinnacle of design. It can't be at this price point. And still, it's perfect for all the people who don't give a damn about what PC or Mac nerds have to say about memory constraints. The ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Prosecutor says Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, 3 kids were home when woman charged with attempted murder fired
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna , her partner A$AP Rocky , their three children and her mother were all at home when a woman now charged with attempted murder and many other felony counts is alleged to have fired at the property, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35, of Orlando, Florida, was charged with attempting to kill Rihanna, along with 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The singer joined the band in 2007, touring with them and providing lead vocals on their last album, Life, Love & Hope Tommy DeCarlo, the frontman of US rock band Boston since 2007, has died of brain cancer, his family have confirmed. "It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our dad, Tommy DeCarlo, on Monday, 9 March 2026," they wrote in a statement. "After being diagnosed with brain cancer last ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar, 14, and Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, who performed in Washington over the summer, were placed in immigration detention last month Teenage mariachi musicians who once performed on Capitol Hill have been released from Immigration and ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Members of Congress demand investigations after complaint alleges unprecedented breach of Americans' data A former employee with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency allegedly claimed he tapped into two sensitive Social Security Administration databases and intended ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The FBI has obtained election audit records from Maricopa County, Arizona , following a grand jury subpoena, as part of its efforts to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential contest, despite multiple reviews of that race demonstrating that no widespread fraud occurred . In a rare but by no means impossible outcome, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party nominee for that year's election, defeated then-incumbent ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors have charged two men accused of throwing improvised explosive devices near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, alleging they were inspired by ISIS and wanted to carry out an attack bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint, filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, charges 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi with attempted provision of ...
Source: bnonews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Anthropic's Claude Code Review is a new tool, available as a research preview beta for Team and Enterprise plans, that sends a team of AI agents to examine every pull request. "We needed a reviewer we could trust on every PR. Code Review is the result: deep, multi-agent reviews that ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans — to say nothing of the rest of the world — less safe. Over the weekend, the Washington Post was the latest to publish a claim that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the threat of launching a war with Iran solo as a ...
Source: jacobinmag.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes A satirical prize with a playful approach to scientific research is not playing around when it comes to the safety of its guests, opting to relocate its annual ceremony to Europe in order to ensure the safety of attendees. The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (yes, that's what they're calling it) will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September. The award ceremony has been held in ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Since the advent of AI roughly three years ago, Nvidia provide the computational horsepower that underpins the technology. However, it's Nvidia's software platforms that have proven to be its most durable competitive advantage, helping users get the most out of the processing capability of its chips. As the next phase of AI development unfolds, Nvidia is staying ahead of the curve and is about to go all-in on AI ...
Source: fool.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Monday about oysters and clams that could be contaminated with norovirus and were sent to nine states, including California, Florida and New York. The shellfish caution covers "certain raw oysters" harvested by Drayton Harbor Oyster Co. and Manila clams harvested by Lummi Indian Business Council from Feb. 13 to March 3, the FDA said in a statement . The potentially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
By A federal jury on Monday found the Alexander brothers guilty of orchestrating a sex-trafficking conspiracy involving the drugging and raping of dozens of women over decades, from New York City to their hometown of Miami. The 12-person jury, which deliberated for three days in New York federal court, convicted twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 38, and their older brother, Tal Alexander, 39, of the main conspiracy ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
The NBA has called off the Atlanta Hawks' plans for a night of celebrating the city's famed Magic City adult entertainment club, saying it was responding to "concerns" from many across the league. Atlanta announced the plan last month, saying it wanted to pay tribute to an "iconic cultural institution" with food — including the club's famous lemon pepper wings, a version of which is named for former Hawks ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
New data suggests multivitamins work best for people who are already aging too fast. We all know our chronological age. But inside our nuclei, a different kind of clock is ticking. This is our biological age, a measure of how much our cells have actually weathered over time. It's one of the reasons why some people look much younger than their age . But sometimes, your cells are older than your birth certificate ...
Source: zmescience.com