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US   POLITICS  
DHS shutdown: House GOP rejects Senate bill
- House Republicans passed an eight-week measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Friday night, rejecting a separate deal that the Republican-led Senate passed earlier in the day. The inter-chamber squabble is likely to lead to a continued stalemate over the department, which has gone unfunded since Feb. 14 - leading to long lines at some airports across the country - as Senate Democrats have already ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Yemen's Houthis claim responsibility for missile attack on Israel, their first since war started
- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel's military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel early Saturday, the first time it had faced fire from that country. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack, which calls into question whether the rebel group backed by Tehran will again target commercial shipping traveling through the Red Sea corridor. Sirens ...

Source: local10.com
US  
Tiger Woods Rolls Over His Range Rover and is Charged with DUI in Florida
- By On Friday afternoon, Tiger Woods rolled his Range Rover on a two-lane road he knows well, just outside his Jupiter Island home. Local police say he tried to pass a slow-moving pickup hauling a pressure-cleaning trailer. The pass didn't go as planned. Investigators say Woods clipped the trailer's rear, sending his SUV onto its side. He ended up crawling out through the passenger door. Despite how it sounds, no ...

Source: miamiherald.com
US   POLITICS  
US District Judge blocks government ban on Anthropic AI
- News WebTechExperts / Pixabay US District Judge blocks government ban on Anthropic AI A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from designating the artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and banning federal contractors from using its technology. US District Judge Rita Lin ruled in favor of Anthropic, halting a presidential directive that ordered all federal agencies ...

Source: jurist.org
Sony hikes prices for the PS5 and PS5 Pro
- Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on March 27 that it is raising prices across its PlayStation 5 lineup, effective April 2. The increases apply to the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal in the US, UK, Europe, and Japan. This is the second price increase in less than a year. Sony raised prices by $50 across the board in August 2025. The latest round is significantly larger, with some models going up by ...

Source: bradenton.com
Indonesia starts implementing social media restrictions for children under 16
- JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Saturday began implementing a new government regulation approved earlier this month that bans children younger than 16 from access to digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction. With the move, Indonesia became the first country in Southeast Asia to ban children from having accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, ...

Source: apnews.com
DIGITAL  
Oracle's new AI bet: Make the AI database the center of agentic workloads
- In the race to define enterprise artificial intelligence, most of the industry is looking up the stack — chasing smarter models, bigger benchmarks and more capable generative AI systems. In some ways, Oracle Corp. is looking in a different direction. At its latest showcase during the Oracle AI World Tour London 2026, the company made a calculated move in the agentic AI market . Instead of competing head-on in ...

Source: siliconangle.com
POLITICS  
Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency in break with tradition
- WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, not the president. It's the latest instance of Trump putting his name and ...

Source: pbs.org
US   POLITICS  
Florida Congresswoman Committed 25 Ethics Violations, House Panel Finds
- 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 (AP) — Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards, the ...

Source: huffpost.com
Iranian hackers, Handala, claim to compromise FBI Director Kash Patel's personal data
- Iranian hackers claimed Friday to have compromised the personal data of FBI Director Kash Patel, and the bureau confirmed that it knew of the targeting of Patel's personal email. The government-connected hacking group, Handala, previously claimed credit for hacking medical device maker Stryker, a boast that threat researchers considered credible. "All personal and confidential email of Kash Patel, including emails, ...

Source: cyberscoop.com
US  
Epstein Survivor Sues US, Google Over Release of Personal Data
- A woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her filed a lawsuit claiming the US government and Alphabet Inc. 's Google failed to protect her identity and that of other victims amid the release of millions of pages of records about the disgraced financier. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, claims the Department of Justice violated US law requiring it to remove her personal identifying information ...

Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Netflix raises its subscription prices for the second time in 2 years. Here are the new fees.
- Netflix subscribers will have to pay more to watch their favorite TV shows and movies after the streaming platform raised its prices. The price hike, implemented this week, raises the cost of the standard plan with ads by $1 a month and the cost of the standard and premium plans by $2 a month, according to pricing posted on its website. Netflix  raised its prices by similar amounts in January 2025, when it was ...

Source: cbsnews.com
US   MARKETS  
Update on the "Lock-in Effect" in the Housing Market: Below-3% & 4% Mortgages Fade Very Slowly
- The super-low mortgage rates of 2020 to 2022 — the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped below 3% even as inflation shot toward 9% — are one of the factors in this frozen housing market, where sales of existing homes have plunged by nearly 25% from 2019 for the third year in a row, and where mortgage applications have plunged by about 35% from 2019. Homeowners who financed and re-financed a home ...

Source: wolfstreet.com
US  
Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her
- Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf Scientists have managed to film a sperm whale giving birth while other female whales worked together to support the mother and her newborn. A team from Project Ceti, an international effort seeking to understand how whales communicate, was in a boat near a pod of 11 whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica ...

Source: theguardian.com
Mexico's navy says two boats ferrying aid to Cuba are missing
- The Mexican navy said Thursday that it was searching for two boats transporting humanitarian aid for Cuba with nine crew of different nationalities on board. The vessels set sail last Friday from Isla Mujeres in Mexico's southeastern state of Quintana Roo and were due to arrive in Havana on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, the navy said in a statement. It said that there had been neither "communication nor ...

Source: digitaljournal.com
US  
Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden accidentally shoots himself in the leg at Philadelphia airport
- A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to former first lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning, according to police. The Philadelphia Police Department said the incident happened shortly before 8:45 a.m. at the airport. Police said preliminary reports indicate the agent accidentally fired his gun while in an unmarked Chevrolet SUV near the 1 PIA Way ...

Source: cbsnews.com
Kauai helicopter crash: Three killed
- HANALEI, Hawaii (AP) — A helicopter crashed on a remote beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing three people and injuring two others, authorities said. The helicopter was carrying one pilot and four passengers when it crashed Thursday afternoon at Kalalau Beach, the Kauai Fire Department said. The beach is on the Na Pali Coast on Kauai's north shore. Police said three people died and two others were ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
BUSINESS  
Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia
- Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia. In a recent policy change , Wikipedia said that the use of large language models (or LLMs) "often violates" its core principles and will not be allowed. The English language version ...

Source: theguardian.com
US  
Education Department tells 7.5 million student loan borrowers in "illegal" SAVE plan to prepare for repayment
- More than 7 million student loan borrowers who have been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices beginning Friday with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt, the Education Department said. Borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan, which was struck down by a federal court earlier this month, have been in forbearance since July 2024 as a legal battle played out in courts. Starting July 1, ...

Source: cbsnews.com
Whale freed by rescuers after days stranded on Baltic coast | World News
- Rescuers were locked in a race against time to save the struggling mammal - which had become entangled in nets off the north German coast. A humpback whale that was stranded in shallow water off the north German coast has been set free by rescuers. The whale had been stranded for several days on the Timmendorfer Strand, a popular resort town on the Baltic Sea coastline, with several rescue attempts made amid fears ...

Source: news.sky.com
US   POLITICS  
Hegseth reportedly cuts two Black men and two women from military promotion list
- US defense secretary axed the four officers' names from list to become one-star generals, the New York Times reports Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers – two women and two Black men – to become one-star generals. The remaining promotion list includes about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, though a few women ...

Source: theguardian.com