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Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Iran received a 15-point proposal from the U.S. to reach a ceasefire in the war, two Pakistani officials said Wednesday. The Pakistani officials described the proposal broadly as touching on sanctions relief, civilian nuclear cooperation, a rollback of Iran's nuclear program, monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency, missile limits and access for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. ICE agents have been deployed to airports across the U.S. amid the ongoing DHS shutdown Removed from bookmarks Republican Representative Lauren Boebert got into an online spat with a journalist over a recent video about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at U.S. airports. The Trump ...
Source: independent.co.uk
As New Mexico jury finds Meta platforms harm children, social media firms await more legal decisions
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it's not looking good for Meta. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the social media giant's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposed a $375 million penalty. While the fine is a tiny fraction of Meta's $201 billion revenue in 2025, the verdict illustrates a ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal OpenAI has shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) video-generation app Sora less than two years after its unveiling made headlines for creating realistic clips based on simple prompts. At the same time OpenAI will also wind down its $1bn content partnership with entertainment giant Disney , the BBC understands. OpenAI told the BBC on Wednesday ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
ServiceNow SecOps now natively includes Zenity security signals and controls, giving customers built-in protection and governance for AI agents the leading security and governance platform for AI agents, announced its partnership with ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention. As a Build Partner, Zenity will bring comprehensive agent security, posture management and vulnerability assessment into ...
Source: aithority.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
NASA will build a base on the moon instead of a space station orbiting it. The Lunar Gateway station was mostly built, so its components will be repurposed for the base on the moon. It leaves an uncertain future for NASA partners Japan, Canada and the European Space Agency that agreed to supply the station's components. NASA has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead build a $28.7 ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
From cryptocurrency-based online platforms to oil futures and the United States S&P 500 stock benchmark, traders have made bets worth hundreds of millions of dollars since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran with suspiciously well-timed trades that suggest knowledge of key White House decision-making. One of the most well-documented examples has been Polymarket, a platform that lets users anonymously bet on ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
If you're a chief data officer still scheduling your AI strategy for Q3, Gartner has news: Q3 isn't coming back. The research firm recently released its annual Data & Analytics predictions, and the message isn't subtle. The world of enterprise data is entering a phase where the pace of change has made conventional roadmaps look quaint, and the leaders who ignore that are about to learn an expensive lesson. ...
Source: cdotrends.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
A California court denied the state attorney general's appeal to halt the Riverside County Sheriff's election fraud investigation on Tuesday. In a statement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office said the appellate court denied their request "based solely on where we filed the case and is not a ruling on the underlying of the petition." "The facts have not changed. The Riverside County Sheriff continues to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Arm just confirmed the rumors: It's producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won't alienate the many chipmakers who license the company's designs. Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED's photographer first asked him to assume this position. The headlines came ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout The deal, Amazon's second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company's portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Russian air defenses downed 389 incoming Ukrainian drones, Russia's Defense Ministry said Wednesday, in what was the largest reported overnight attack on Russian regions and Crimea since Moscow's forces invaded Ukraine more than four years ago. The drones were stopped over 13 Russian regions as well as the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The attack underlined the growing ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has imposed a ban on all new routers manufactured overseas being imported into and sold within the United States. Foreign-made routers added to FCC Covered List The move follows a by a White House-led interagency group that ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's $1 billion payout to a French energy company to walk away from U.S. offshore wind development is a novel approach against the industry that supporters see as creative — but opponents see as foolish and extreme. The Interior Department announced Monday that TotalEnergies agreed to what is essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Delta Air Lines is punishing Congress for failing to fund the Department of Homeland Security . The airline company has temporarily yanked its special congressional desk service to lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill until Congress finally funds the DHS, which has been in a partial shutdown since Feb. 28. "Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will ...
Source: nypost.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The US Supreme Court appeared divided over what, if anything, to do about a defunct government policy that allowed immigration officers to stop some asylum seekers before reaching the southern border. The Trump administration says the policy, known as "metering," is a critical tool for dealing with surges at the border with Mexico. The government asked the justices to greenlight its use in the future, arguing it ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A professional cornhole player who is a quadruple amputee has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting. Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of killing a man in the front seat of his car during an argument on Sunday in his hometown of La Plata, Md.— about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. — according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office said in a press release that passengers ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
DoD announces 'interim' policy for journalists decried by newspaper as 'end-run around the court's ruling' The New York Times on Tuesday accused the Pentagon of disobeying a judge's ruling that undid much of the restrictive agreement journalists were forced to sign or lose access to the building. The judge, Paul Friedman, granted an injunction on Friday that overturned much of the language in the "media in-brief" ...
Source: theguardian.com
Stories of survival emerge from deadly New York airport collision as officials investigate its cause
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
NEW YORK – Moments after an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing the pilots and hurling a flight attendant from the aircraft, the passengers took their escape into their own hands. With the smell of fuel in the air and debris dangling from the obliterated cockpit, passengers tore open emergency exit doors, jumped off the plane's wings and then turned around to catch others coming up behind ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Israel says it will take control of large buffer zone in southern Lebanon Israeli troops will control a large swathe of southern Lebanon as part of their campaign against Hezbollah, Defence Minister Israel Katz says. Katz said troops had blown up bridges on the Litani River, about 30km (19 miles) from the Lebanon-Israel border, and a security zone would be established, with displaced residents not being allowed ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Mohamed Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, the English club said Tuesday, after nine years at Anfield in which he has established himself as one of its greatest-ever players. Liverpool said the 33-year-old Salah has "reached an agreement" to leave the team a year before his contract was due to expire. "Salah expressed his wish to make this announcement to the supporters at the earliest possible ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
– Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police said Tuesday they have arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on a U.S. Park Police officer who was shot while driving in an unmarked vehicle. Darren Foster, 21, and Asheile Foster, 22, have both been charged with assault on a federal police officer (gun). The officer, whose identity was not disclosed, was shot Monday evening as he drove in a Washington ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Marco Rubio welcomes release of Dennis Coyle, who was detained in January last year for violating unspecified laws Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have released the American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. A statement from the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do. One benefit of most of Apple's hardware and software is that it's relatively privacy-focused and light on advertising, compared to something like modern Windows or the Roku operating system. But ads have still crept into various apps and services over time, and Apple confirmed today that its Maps app would begin showing ads to users in the US ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Anthropic wants a judge to pause the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation and President Donald Trump's directive banning federal agencies from using its Claude AI models. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said her concern is that Anthropic is being "punished" and questioned if the DOD violated the law. Without the injunction, Anthropic has said, it could lose billions of dollars in business. The Pentagon's decision ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Images and videos online showed large plume of smoke and flames billowing out from refinery, but no one was injured An oil refinery fire near the Texas coast was put out on Tuesday and a temporary shelter-in-place order was lifted, hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air, officials said. No one was injured in Monday's explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, about 90 ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, anti-abortion rights advocates have continuously pursued laws and court cases to make access to abortion more difficult. A report published Tuesday finds those efforts haven't worked in one basic way: The number of abortions in the country hasn't budged. "There were an estimated 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in the U.S. in 2025 — that's pretty much ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
More than 300 species of migratory freshwater fish are in dire need of "urgent coordinated cross-border collaboration" amid a crisis of rapid collapse, according to a report released Tuesday at a key United Nations conservation conference in Brazil . "Some of the longest, most important migrations of species on Earth are happening beneath the surface of the world's rivers and many are rapidly collapsing," the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Diplomatic sources say negotiations in Islamabad may begin next week, though no formal agreement is in place Pakistan's military leadership has been attempting to broker negotiations between the US and Iran, after the White House confirmed that Pakistan's army chief, Asim Munir, had a call with Donald Trump on Sunday to discuss the conflict. Diplomatic sources said the US and Iran could meet for negotiations in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Lawsuit alleges federal officials refused to give Minnesota investigators basic information, including the names of federal agents involved in the shootings Removed from bookmarks Minnesota officials are asking a federal judge to force the Trump administration to share evidence it collected after the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Donna Motsinger alleges she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1972 after he gave her a glass of wine in his limo A California jury found Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault in a civil trial on Monday, awarding Donna Motsinger $19.25m in damages. Motsinger alleged in the case that while working as a restaurant server in 1972, she was drugged and raped by Cosby after he gave her a glass of wine in his limousine. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Senate confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to lead the Department of Homeland Security amid a growing crisis within the agency over ...
Source: huffpost.com