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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 25th 2026
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Amid widespread concerns about the struggling economy, a deadly and destabilizing war that hasn't gone according to the White House's plans and a burgeoning global energy crisis, recent polling has found two-thirds of Americans are convinced their unpopular president . Donald Trump could take steps to change their minds, but he apparently doesn't want to. On the contrary, the Republican appears far more interested ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was released on bond after appearing in court on charges related to alleged bets on Polymarket. Prosecutors say Van Dyke made nearly $410,000 on wagers that paid off due to the U.S. raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Kalshi said it previously blocked Van Dyke from creating an account on that prediction market. The Polymarket ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said the Department of Justice will drop its investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, ending a monthslong standoff that had imperiled the confirmation of the White House's pick to replace Powell. Processing Content Pirro said that the inspector general for the Federal Reserve will take over looking into spending ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 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! The former Androscoggin Mill in Jay, shown here April 2025, is the proposed site of a data center redevelopment project. The project would reuse the long-vacant industrial ...
Source: pressherald.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Layoffs in the tech industry are increasing as companies that are spending the most on AI infrastructure are simultaneously cutting thousands of jobs. Meta said on Thursday that it's cutting 10% of its workforce, just as Microsoft announced that it's offering employee buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history. "This represents a fundamental structural shift rather than a temporary market correction," said ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots enter Day 2 of the 2026 NFL Draft with a pair of picks and some areas of need worth addressing sooner rather than later. New England will make its first pick at the end of the second round (63rd), and the end of the third round as well (95th). "Obviously, we don't have an early Round 2 pick, so it's going to be a lot like [Thursday] where we're going to have to watch a lot of names ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies that the Trump administration will be enhancing its engagement with the private sector to counter foreign-led distillation campaigns designed to undermine U.S. AI advances. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Thursday accused China and other foreign entities of engaging in "deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday Washington had no objections to Iranian players participating in ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Justice Department is targeting at least 300 foreign-born Americans to possibly revoke their citizenship as part of the Trump administration's effort to ramp up denaturalization, according to a person familiar with the investigations. A Justice Department official told NBC News the number was in the hundreds. NBC News previously reported that the Trump administration was dramatically expanding an effort to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese journalist who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague this week described hours of agony as they waited for help to arrive, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. Zeinab Faraj, a young freelance photographer and video journalist, frequently moved on assignment with Amal Khalil , a longtime correspondent in southern Lebanon with the Lebanese ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The personal health data of over half a million UK Biobank volunteers has been put up for on e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces in China, following a data beach at the scientific research organization. In a statement made to the House of Commons, the Minister for Digital Government and Data, Ian Murry, confirmed the breach. "Biobank told us that three listings that appear to sell UK Biobank participant ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
Dozens of sloths destined for a Florida "slotharium" died in a warehouse or while in transit to the Orlando attraction, state wildlife officials said. The 31 deaths occurred between December 2024 and February 2025, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a report from last year that was recently released. The majority of the sloths died in an unheated warehouse while awaiting transfer to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls "marginally short" of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, a gap DeepSeek says is "approximately 3 to 6 months." Both models are open-source. DeepSeek The company posted DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash on ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
The mortgage rate dips that may have seemed like brief but temporary reprieves just a few weeks ago are starting to look more like a trend. The 30-year mortgage rate , for example, has officially dropped below 6.20%, a level that felt out of reach during the volatile stretch that kicked off this month, when tariff-driven market chaos was pushing borrowing costs higher by the day. The shift reflects a broader ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
– A powerful in Oklahoma damaged about 40 homes in one county, ripping roofs off of some and reducing others to rubble in a rural community as emergency crews went door-to-door and rescued some trapped residents, authorities said. The confirmed tornado Thursday moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people near the state's northern border in Garfield County, according to the National Weather ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
By WASHINGTON -- You probably won't receive a huge tariff refund. The largest businesses stand to reap the biggest bucks as the Trump administration begins to return more than $166 billion in duties deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. Even though President Donald Trump's trade policies have led to higher prices for companies and consumers, many families aren't in line to benefit directly from the coming refund ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Apr 24th, 2026 -
It took more than two years, but we can finally rest easy that it's not the contorted remains of an alien creature. Reading time 3 minutes A strange, mound-shaped object was found at the bottom of the ocean in 2023, and scientists had no idea what it was. After years of running tests and working with hundreds of samples, a team of researchers has finally solved the puzzle. And no, it's not weird alien stuff. ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel will miss a portion of the NFL Draft and undergo counseling in the wake of photos emerging of himself and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini together, the team said Thursday. Vrabel will not be with the Patriots on Saturday during the third day of the NFL Draft, which begins on Thursday night. "As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization and this team that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Apple has issued an emergency update to fix a Notification Services flaw that caused deleted alerts to remain stored on devices, potentially exposing sensitive message content. Tracked as CVE-2026-28950, the issue has been resolved in iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2, with patches also released for older supported versions of Apple operating systems. The company said the bug stemmed from a logging issue that ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times says the FBI investigated whether one of its reporters , Elizabeth Williamson, violated laws against stalking after she wrote a story nearly two months ago about how federal agents had been assigned to protect and give rides to FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend . The FBI said Wednesday that its agents interviewed Patel's girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, when she ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (Reuters) - Intel (INTC.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, underscoring booming demand for the company's server processors used for artificial intelligence in data centers. Shares of Intel surged 19% in extended trading, adding $64 billion to its market value and extending its 81% rebound so far this year. Nasdaq futures rose 0.3%, showing traders ...
Source: reuters.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The inspector general at the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is opening an investigation into whether the agency is complying with a law passed by Congress forcing the release of files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement by the DoJ's internal watchdog comes amid criticism from lawmakers over how the files were released, and millions of other files that have not been made public. The ...
Source: bbc.com