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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 11th 2026
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
– Since the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. was announced, leaders in President Donald Trump's administration have been quick to say Iranian military and arms capacity have been all but wiped out during weeks of fighting. But there is also an acknowledgment that Tehran , whether to strike back or defend itself. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this week said the U.S. military has hit ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
A new Gallup survey of 14- to 29-year-olds shows growing misgivings from a generation poised to enter higher education and a workforce changed by AI. This story first appeared at The 74 , a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. While some might envision Gen Z welcoming artificial intelligence into their lives, a new Gallup survey finds ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Friday, April 10, 2026: The latest updates on the Artemis II mission as the crew prepare for a perilous reentry to Earth following a 10-day journey around the moon. Here's the latest on the final stage of the Artemis II mission: Refresh "The vehicle is in excellent shape" That was NASA's mission commentator, Rob Navias on NASA's YouTube livestream, who highlighted how smooth and perfect this landing was. He called ...
Source: livescience.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 -
CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic Friday to power its Claude AI models. The deal comes one day after the AI cloud provider announced a $21 billion expansion of its agreement with Meta. CoreWeave now provides services to nine of the 10 leading AI providers, according to the company. In this article CoreWeave announced Friday that it has entered a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to power ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters, a setback in the administration's efforts to impede the work of journalists. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sided with The New York Times for the second time in a month. He had earlier said the Pentagon's new credential policy violated journalists' ...
Source: military.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's visit to Beijing has sparked controversy in Taiwan, with critics accusing her of being too close to China In a rare meeting with Taiwan's opposition leader, China's president, Xi Jinping , declared that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were Chinese and wanted peace. The meeting in Beijing between Xi and Cheng Li-wun, the chair of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT), is the first such contact in a ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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Source: livescience.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
New rules approved by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could blunt the impact of a federal judge's order freezing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee and putting many of its decisions on hold, experts say. The changes were posted online Thursday in a new charter for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP — the document that lays out how the ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's plans for a new triumphal arch in the capital, unveiled on Friday, include a towering winged figure with a Lady Liberty-like torch and crown, flanked by two eagles and guarded by four lions — all gilded. The 12-page plan released by the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts shows the arch will stand 250 feet tall (76.2 meters) from its base to the tip of the winged ...
Source: pbs.org
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 -
In short: Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile gap that remained after the feature launched on the web in April 2025. Enterprise users on Google Workspace Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add-on can now compose and read encrypted messages directly in the Gmail app, with no extra software required. External recipients who do not use the Gmail app ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
This week has proven pivotal for the prediction markets industry, with a series of legal and regulatory developments that could have far-reaching consequences for federally-regulated event contracts in the United States. Notably, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has taken an aggressive stance in asserting its exclusive jurisdiction, joining the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in blocking ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Irish drivers told to buy only fuel they need as filling stations run out and hauliers and farmers block motorways in fourth day of action Protests over fuel prices have caused chaos in Ireland and spread to Norway in a knock-on effect from the conflict in the Middle East . People in Ireland were urged to only buy fuel they needed as 100 fuel stations ran out, and the National Emergency Coordination Group warned ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters A 20-year-old man allegedly tossed a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman , OpenAI 's CEO, before the sun rose on Friday, according to statements from San Francisco police. The suspect, who allegedly threw the fire bomb at the $27m North Beach residence around 4.12am, has been arrested but not ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Washington — House Democratic leadership on Friday called on Rep. Eric Swalwell to drop out of the race for California governor in the wake of allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staffer. Swalwell denied the allegations and called them "false." In a statement Friday night, House Democratic leaders called for a "swift investigation" into the allegations and for Swalwell to immediately end his ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Court of International Trade on Friday appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump 's use of a little-known emergency trade law to justify his sweeping, 10% global tariffs — teeing up a familiar, if technically new, legal fight focused on when and how a sitting president can act to unilaterally impose steep import fees on most U.S. trading partners. During nearly ...
Source: foxnews.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
Friday, Apr 10th, 2026 -
Claude Mythos's apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostility I n June 2024, a cyber-attack on a pathology services company caused chaos across London's hospitals. More than 10,000 appointments were cancelled. Blood shortages followed and delays to blood tests led to a patient's death . Lethal cyber-attacks like this are thankfully rare. But a ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
The United Kingdom has issued a strong warning to Russia after detecting what it described as a covert submarine operation targeting vital undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic. Defence Secretary John Healey said British forces had successfully tracked multiple Russian vessels operating near sensitive infrastructure, stressing that any attempt to cause damage would trigger serious consequences. Watch ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.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 Department of Justice is investigating the NFL's media deals with streaming companies as more of its games go behind subscription pay walls. The investigation first reported by the Wall Street Journal centers on the financial impact of live sports streaming on consumers and whether the league's traditional broadcast partners are getting fair treatment. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 -
So this is what Rory McIlroy's new normal looks like. The defending champion is footloose and fancy-free at Augusta National. He is plainly no longer of a mind to revel in the events of the 2025 Masters. McIlroy returned to Augusta, for so long a place that exacted psychological torture on him, to deliver an emphatic statement. The floodgates are wobbling. Parallels between McIlroy on day one at this major and his ...
Source: theguardian.com