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Top News Stories for Saturday, April 18th 2026
Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026 -
Iranian state media say the Strait of Hormuz has been closed again because the U.S. "did not fulfill their obligations." Iran had declared the Strait of Hormuz open on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump said the blockade of Iranian ports will remain in place. The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations said a tanker reported being fired on by two gunboats operated by Iran's military. Oil tankers and gas tankers were ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Quantum computing keeps gaining momentum even though practically it's years away from wide commercialization, and World Quantum Day April 14 provided an excuse for a lot of announcements . Among them: Nvidia unveiled AI models for quantum error correction. Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin concluded at Hewlett Packard Enterprise's quantum day event on theCUBE that artificial intelligence, quantum and high-performance ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
President Trump's top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, Todd Lyons , said he would resign on Thursday as acting director, adding to the list of leadership shakeups at the Department of Homeland Security. His exit, which will be effective May 31, comes amid continued scrutiny of his agency's aggressive immigration tactics and a record-long funding lapse from Congress that resulted in a lack of pay for ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. President Trump on Thursday announced his third nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dr. Erica Schwartz, a well-qualified former public health official and board-certified physician in preventive medicine, who has publicly supported vaccination and followed evidence-based medicine. The uncontroversial ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow. At least 12 more legislatures are weighing bills to halt grid-killing AI development. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The AI infrastructure reckoning has until recently stayed local, its battles fought in the relatively puny arenas of town council and zoning commission meetings . But the pushback to ...
Source: motherjones.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The latest addition to Anthropic PBC's product portfolio is Claude Design, a tool that enables users to generate visual assets with prompts. The company launched the offering into public preview today. It's available to Claude users with Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriptions. The first component of the Claude Design interface is a "Let's prototype" sidebar. It contains a chat box that allows users to describe ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Days after the high cost of World Cup fees became a political football, officials in New Jersey on Friday revealed the final price fans will pay just to get to the stadium. Round-trip train tickets to MetLife Stadium — which will host eight games, including the July 19 final — will cost $150, an elevenfold increase over the typical $12.90 fare. A bus ride will set fans back $80. Those prices were ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been charged with two counts of assault. Minnesota state prosecutors accused the officer of pulling alongside a civilian vehicle on a Minneapolis-area highway and pointing his gun at the occupants during a road rage incident. Minnesota prosecutors have issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., marking the first criminal case against an ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York's JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. Canada's flag carrier said Friday that service from Toronto and Montreal to JFK will cease June 1 and resume Oct. 25. Service to the New York metropolitan area's two other airports — ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 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? April 17 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court handed a win Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana. The unanimous procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740 million to clean up damage to the state's coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits. Backed by the Trump ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
Uber Eats has begun offering returns on retail items purchased on its app. Calling it a first for the on-demand delivery space, the company announced Friday (April 17) that customers can now send back eligible retail items bought over Uber Eats and receive a refund, without leaving home. "Returns are one of the biggest pain points in retail, and we're reimagining them the way only Uber can," Rohan Mathew, ...
Source: pymnts.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The number of immigrants who have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached an all-time high this fiscal year. Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. The most recent death was of 27-year-old Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
With a Federal Reserve meeting looming later in April and discussions there about the future of interest rate policy, borrowers looking to secure a below-average mortgage interest rate may be tempted to wait to see what happens before making a move. And if a rate cut was likely for that meeting, that would typically be the strategic position to take. But, right now, the chances of a Fed rate cut look ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 17th, 2026 -
The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available to federal agencies amid concerns the tool could increase cybersecurity risk. (TNS) — The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's new pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a public health veteran who has led vaccination programs, a new sign of the administration's shifting views on vaccines. Dr. Erica Schwartz's nomination to lead the embattled agency came just hours after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appearance at a congressional hearing where he made some ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Washington, DC – The latest effort to curtail United States President Donald Trump's power to wage war with Iran has failed in the House of Representatives by a slim margin. Only a single vote on Thursday separated the yeas and nays, with 213 in favour and 214 against the latest war powers resolution. The House vote did show increased consolidation among Democrats, signalling the increasingly entrenched view ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 16th, 2026 -
Police say couple were living together amid divorce and that teenage children called 911 from Annandale home Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax on Thursday before killing himself, police said. Kevin Davis, the chief of the Fairfax county police department in Virginia, said at a press conference ...
Source: theguardian.com