The Petersburg Post

Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 - Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war, as uncertainty hangs over a two-week ceasefire and further negotiations are expected in Pakistan. The shaky ceasefire has been largely holding between the U.S., Israel and Iran, although Tehran and Washington have offered of the initial ...

Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 - Taxes on Social Security benefits have become a hot-button issue. Originally, Social Security benefits were not taxed. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, lawmakers imposed new taxes on up to 50% or up to 85% of benefits, depending on income. These taxes originally hit only high earners, but the thresholds when they kicked in were not indexed to . The result is that a growing number of retirees owe taxes on their ...

Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026 - HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii anesthesiologist who was accused of trying to murder his wife on a scenic cliffside hike with ocean views last year has been convicted of the lesser charge of attempted manslaughter. A Honolulu jury returned the verdict against Gerhardt Konig, 47, on Wednesday after a day of deliberations. He was convicted of attempted manslaughter based on extreme mental or emotional disturbance, ...

Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 - Musk won't seek a "single dollar" in OpenAI suit after asking to pocket up to $134 billion. On Tuesday, Elon Musk amended his lawsuit that accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of abandoning its mission, clarifying that any ill-gotten gains recovered should be returned to the AI firm's charitable nonprofit arm, not to Musk. Musk "is not seeking a single dollar for himself," according to his lawyer, Marc Toberoff. ...

Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2026 - A US appeals court on Wednesday denied Anthropic's request to put on hold a move by the Pentagon to label it a supply chain risk, but ordered the AI startup's legal battle with the Department of War to be put on a fast track. "On one side is relatively contained risk of financial harm to a single private company," the three-member appellate panel here reasoned. "On the other side is judicial management of how, and ...

Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2026 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's new leader said Tuesday that "nobody" other than President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week. "Nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general, and I'm the acting attorney general, except for President Trump," Todd Blanche told reporters when asked at an unrelated news conference if Bondi lost ...