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OpenAI tells investors its infrastructure gives it an edge over Anthropic
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YouTube raises Premium prices in the US, with individual plans up $2 to $15.99 per month, family plan up $4 to $26.99, and Premium Lite up $1 to $8.99
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Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools
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Aventon Current ADV Electric Mountain Bike Review: Feels Just Like the Real Thing
Aventon’s latest electric mountain bike lets you bomb hills while avoiding the part where you get sweaty by pedaling back to the top.
LLMs crush coding and math but choke on casual questions, and that's not a contradiction
AI models can restructure entire codebases in hours but stumble over simple everyday questions. That's not a contradiction, and it might reveal a fundamental limit of today's language models. The arti
Artemis II crew closes in on Earth as mission ends with Pacific splashdown and more top headlines
1. Artemis II crew closes in on Earth as mission ends with Pacific splashdown2. Hormuz choke point persists as Iran halts oil traffic despite Trump ceasefire3. Husband of missing American woman falls overboard while being transported into custodyPARTY CRASHER SCOTUS blocks Ohio candidate after alleged plan to ‘trick’ GOP voters. Continue reading …'IMPOSSIBLE' Sailors who knew missing woman's husband break silence on dinghy conditions. Continue reading …'SENSELESS' Sheriff says suspect 'got what ...
Al Sharpton says America's 250th anniversary is not a 'celebration' for Black people, calls it 'crazy'
MS NOW host Reverend Al Sharpton said the United States' upcoming 250th anniversary is not a "celebration" for Black people and that it's "crazy" to expect them to celebrate it."They're going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country July 4th, but that's not our celebration," Sharpton said at the National Action Network’s 35th Anniversary National Convention on Wednesday.He continued, "We were slaves then, and they celebrate signing the Declaration of Independence 1776. We were not even ...
'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen warns Roblox dangers far worse than past online chatrooms
Investigative journalist Chris Hansen warns parents about Roblox, comparing it to an amusement park where "kids are flying off" the rides.The "To Catch a Predator" host sat down for the "Planet Tyrus" podcast to explain his findings and what he claims is a surge of grooming on the site. Hansen noted that the platform’s visual style, which features cartoon, customizable avatars, often masks the underlying dangers."It was shocking to me that you have this kids' game with characters that appear to ...
Divorce boom may follow use of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs, experts warn
The exploding popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy is often hailed as a public health triumph, but one potential side effect may be flying under the radar.The risk of divorce increases as weight drops, according to historical data from bariatric surgery patients.Some experts believe that the same pattern could occur as more people "take the jab" and decide to call it quits on their marriages.STUDY REVEALS HOW RAPIDLY WEIGHT COMES BACK AFTER QUITTING OBESITY MEDICATIONSPe...
AMB GORDON SONDLAND: NATO blinked on Iran, and Trump has every right to be furious
Imagine, for a moment, the alternative. In the hours immediately following a successful decapitation strike, instead of criticism and handwringing, the European Union and NATO leadership step forward in lockstep with Washington and Jerusalem and say: We stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States and Israel; Iran will never possess a nuclear weapon; and the removal of this leadership has made the world safer.Think about how Tehran would have processed that—not as a tactical setback, but as...
Andy Weir Wrote a New ‘Project Hail Mary’ Adventure, Just Not in the Way You’d Expect
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The Indie News Queen Who’s Not Done Pissing Off the Powerful
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Shooting at Sarnia, Ont., college campus bar kills 1, injures 2 others
A 20-year-old Sarnia man was pronounced dead in hospital after gunfire was reported just before 1 a.m. Friday.
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa dead at 67
Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on Thursday, according to his lawyer. He was 68.
AI Podcasters Really Want to Tell You How to Keep a Man Happy
Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.
AI Podcasters Really Want to Tell You How to Keep a Man Happy
Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.
AI chatbots refilling psych meds sparks debate
If you have ever waited weeks just to renew a mental health prescription, you already know how frustrating the system can feel. Now imagine handling that refill through a chatbot instead of a doctor.That kind of thing is already starting to happen. In Utah, a new pilot program is allowing an artificial intelligence system from Legion Health to renew certain psychiatric medications without direct approval from a physician each time. State officials say this could speed things up and reduce costs....
HSBC and Standard Chartered obtain the first stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, beating 34 other applicants; they are expected to issue stablecoins in H2 2026
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Irrigreen Smart Irrigation System 3.0 (2026) Review: Smart Watering, Less Hassle
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Rep Randy Fine joins House Freedom Caucus: 'Strongest group of conservative patriots in Congress'
Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida has joined the ranks of the conservative House Freedom Caucus."HUGE NEWS: I’m proud to announce that I have officially joined the strongest group of conservative patriots in Congress," he declared in a Thursday post on X."The House @freedomcaucus exists to save our country and preserve freedom, not manage our decline. That’s what I love about this group. I look forward to continuing the fight alongside my HFC colleagues to advance the MAGA agenda and fight f...
American couple's Bahamas dinghy was ill-equipped for conditions night of wife's disappearance: friend
HOPE TOWN, Bahamas After Brian Hooker's arrest in the disappearance of his wife, Lynette, in the Bahamas, a man who was friends with the couple and knew them from the Caribbean paradise says that their small dinghy was "underpowered" and "undersized" for the conditions they faced.Officials in the Bahamas said Lynette Hooker, 55, and Brian Hooker, 58, left Hope Town's Abaco Inn at around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and went on a smaller boat, referred to as a dinghy, to travel to their yacht. Brian Hoo...
Simple fruit combo could improve heart function in weeks, new study finds
A common fruit combination found in many kitchens may help improve heart health, according to new research.Adults with prediabetes who ate one avocado and one cup of mango daily for eight weeks showed improved vascular function, a key marker of cardiovascular health, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association earlier this year.Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Nutrition Research in Chicago measured how well blood vessels expand ...
Fox News Digital's News Quiz: April 10, 2026
Test your news knowledge with this week's Fox News Digital News Quiz, featuring Tiger Woods seeking treatment after his DUI arrest and a controversial Apache helicopter flyover.Looking for another challenge?Tiger Woods is seeking treatment after his DUI arrest and an Apache helicopter made a controversial flyover, featured in last week's News Quiz.Test your knowledge of Tidal Basin traditions, baseball benchmarks and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.If you're looking to play even more, ...
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A baby uses 3,000 diapers a year. Why a state lawmaker wants parents to know how they're made
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Arellano: Pope Leo's brave stance against Trump
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GOP's best shot at California governor's office in decades mired in angry internal debate
Republicans, who last won the California governor's office in 2006, angrily spar in their best opportunity to win the seat in two decades.
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How thousands of sensitive LAPD files got leaked online and what happens next
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'The wheels are falling off the bus.' Parents scrambling as LAUSD strike date nears
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Chabria: Wipe out a 'civilization'? Minor stuff compared with what just happened in AI
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they’re reversed, lasting damage has already been done.
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Documents: Shenzhen-based computing company Sharetronic bought hundreds of Super Micro systems containing banned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 2025, worth ~$92M (Bloomberg)
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Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
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Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.
OpenAI is building a cybersecurity product for a select group of companies
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TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above ~$35.2B est., signaling global chip demand remained intact during early weeks of the war in the Middle East
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Our fallen heroes' families deserve more than outdated survivor benefits
From the moment you get that knock on the door to the moment you’re handed a folded American flag, Gold Star families face a lifetime shaped by loss. Last week we observed Gold Star Spouses Day on April 5. April is also the Month of the Military Child. I invite you to reflect on the sacrifices of our military families, especially those whose loved one paid the ultimate sacrifice.Losing a loved one in service to our country hits differently. These families are asked to carry on with strength and ...
School choice is booming and families are winning as the education cartel crumbles
Several recent headlines suggest that after decades of dysfunction and cratering student achievement, America may be getting education right again.First came word that the U.S. Department of Education was transferring its $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department. Then came the announcement of the department’s downsize from its current location, which is now 70% vacant, to smaller space nearby. Not only will this move save taxpayers approximately $4.8 million annually, it w...
Hormuz choke point persists as Iran halts oil traffic despite Trump ceasefire
Oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively halted despite a U.S.-backed ceasefire that hinged on reopening the critical waterway, raising fresh questions about whether Iran is following through on a central condition of the truce.A backlog of roughly 3,200 vessels among them 800 tankers and cargo ships has built up west of the strait, with ships idling as operators wait for clarity on whether it is safe to pass.No oil tankers have risked the journey in recent days, according to...
DoorDash data offers snapshot of economy voters are feeling ahead of midterms
A new DoorDash report tracking millions of purchases shows inflation cooling ahead of the midterms, though the cost of everyday essentials still varies widely across the country.The findings offer a closer look at how those shifts are playing out for consumers, with affordability still shaped largely by where they live.The State of Local Commerce report highlights evolving spending patterns as price pressures ease in key categories.To track those changes, DoorDash analyzed affordability trends u...
I'm a drone CEO. Our skies are dangerously exposed here's the solution
Imagine building a solution to a problem you never fully defined.That’s where we are with airspace sovereignty. Especially when it comes to drones.We’ve spent billions of dollars on counter-UAS systems (C-UAS), deploying sensors and expanding capabilities. For many officials, C-UAS has become the solution. The problem is, it was never the full problem to begin with.Before we talk about stopping drones, we should answer a more basic question: which ones belong in the air?BORDER ON THE BRINK AS CA...
How and When to Watch the Artemis II Mission’s Return to Earth
Splashdown for the Artemis II crew is scheduled for Friday evening, and NASA will livestream the historic homecoming.
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Revealed: All Members Of UK Government's 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' Group Have Islamist Links
Revealed: All Members Of UK Government's 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' Group Have Islamist Links Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK Labour government’s new definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” – rebranded from “Islamophobia” – is being shaped by a working group where every single member has links to Islamist organisations. The details are exposed in the Free Speech Union’s latest investigative briefing which highlights ties between the group members and the Muslim Co...
McCain daughter says she’s ‘trapped’ in family company
An heiress to the multibillion-dollar McCain french fry empire says she is financially “trapped” by the family-owned company and its policies, which she claims prevent her from selling her ownership stake for a fair price.
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OpenAI Pauses U.K. Stargate Over "Regulation And Power Costs"
OpenAI Pauses U.K. Stargate Over "Regulation And Power Costs" OpenAI's broader Stargate push to build next-generation AI infrastructure in the UK has been put on hold, with the company citing regulatory conditions and high energy costs as major obstacles to long-term investment. That outcome is hardly surprising: Britain, like much of dying Europe, has layered on regulatory burdens, while years of backfiring 'green' energy policies have left power costs structurally elevated. It's ...
Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store
Google has removed popular psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store. According to Dan Salvato, who led its development team, and publisher Serenity Forge, Google told them the visual novel was removed because it violated its Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. The game is “widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world,” they said in their announcement. Its free version, wh...
Artemis II nears end of historic mission with splashdown off California coast
The Artemis II mission to the moon is nearing completion, but first comes a safe splashdown off the San Diego coast.The Orion spacecraft, carrying four astronauts, is expected to return Friday, with the U.S. Navy helping recover the capsule and crew from the Pacific Ocean.San Diego, a city with deep Navy roots, is playing a central role in that effort. Several bases in the area are helping lead the recovery, bringing a sense of pride and excitement to the community.Locals and visitors from acros...
The ostrich con: Arguments to save birds from cull in B.C. were based on falsehoods, evidence shows
The 10-month standoff on a B.C. ostrich farm last year was the most expensive poultry cull in Canada’s history. A fifth estate investigation reveals the campaign to save the ostriches was based on falsehoods.
You, Me and Tuscany proves that we're killing rom-coms
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Immigration Department informing some 30,000 applicants they may be ineligible for refugee hearings
Canada's Immigration Department is sending tens of thousands of refugee claimants letters that they may not be eligible for asylum and is telling some of them that they should leave immediately.
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Germany Restricts Emigration To Prevent Young Men From Escaping The Military Draft
Germany Restricts Emigration To Prevent Young Men From Escaping The Military Draft Authored by Ryan McMaken via the Mises Institute, Late last year, German lawmakers passed new legislation paving the way for military conscription. As the Guardian reports, “The change will include the obligatory screening of all 18-year-old men to gauge their suitability to serve in the military from 1 January..” This is not (yet) full-blown conscription, but clearly moves in that direction, providi...
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How to Be Mayor in 100 Days: Mamdani Grapples With a Learning Curve
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Why Melania Trump is denying alleged smears related to Jeffrey Epstein–and wants victims to testify
It was, and I don't say this lightly, a jaw-dropping moment. I'm sitting here with the TV on and all of a sudden there's a live shot of Melania Trump, reading a speech at the White House. A speech about Jeffrey Epstein. A speech about how she's being smeared in connection with the late pedophile. None of the journalists knew what to say. The first lady, talking about Epstein. Reporters were told she would be making remarks, but not the subject matter. Only that it would be newsy.EPSTEIN'S LAWYER...
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How to Steal a Subway Train: First, Get Yourself a $10 Skeleton Key.
Inside the world of “conquesting,” where vandals break into the operator’s booth, fool around with the control panel and maybe take a quick joyride.
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Tracking 7 of Mamdani’s Biggest Campaign Promises
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Particles Seen Emerging From Empty Space For First Time
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from NewScientist: According to quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- widely considered to be our best theory for describing the strong force, which binds quarks inside protons and neutrons -- even a perfect vacuum isn't truly empty. Instead, it is filled with short-lived disturbances in the underlying energy of space that flicker in and out of existence, known as virtual particles. Among them are quark-antiquark pairs. Under normal conditions, thes...
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China's Debt Surpasses Europe For The First Time
China's Debt Surpasses Europe For The First Time China’s government debt has surpassed the European Union’s for the first time, marking a major shift in the global debt landscape. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S., China, and Europe have followed very different borrowing paths. While Europe kept debt growth relatively constrained, both the U.S. and China expanded rapidly—especially after 2020. The chart below, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, visualizes annual govern...
OpenAI has a new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan to better match up with Claude
OpenAI has closed a yawning gap in its ChatGPT subscription pricing with a new $100 per month Pro plan that slots between the $20 per month Plus plan and $200 per month Pro plan. Offering five times more Codex than the $20 option, it appears designed to challenge Anthropic's $100 per month Claude option. "Compared with Claude Code, Codex delivers more coding capacity per dollar across paid tiers," an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. So what's the difference between OpenAI's two Pro plans? T...
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UK Government's Twisted Priorities Exposed...
UK Government's Twisted Priorities Exposed... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In Two-tier Britain words trigger instant action, but violent offenders get indefinite leave to remain. UK border policy under Keir Starmer’s Labour government has never looked more lopsided. An Afghan migrant who carried out a ‘horrific’ bottle attack on a 14-year-old girl and her mother has been allowed to stay in the country despite his violent criminal record. At the same time, the Pr...
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Microsoft Locked Out VeraCrypt, WireGuard, and Windscribe from Pushing Windows Updates
Microsoft has had a complicated relationship with the open source world. VSCode, TypeScript, and .NET are all projects it created, and its acquisition of GitHub put it in charge of the world's largest code hosting platform. But it is also the same company that bakes telemetry into Windows by default and has been aggressively pushing Copilot AI into every corner of its software. That last part especially has been nudging a growing number of people toward open alternatives.And now, a wave of devel...
Five AI Compute Architectures Every Engineer Should Know: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and LPUs Compared
Modern AI is no longer powered by a single type of processor—it runs on a diverse ecosystem of specialized compute architectures, each making deliberate tradeoffs between flexibility, parallelism, and
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US Government Interest Payments, Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q4 2025
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US Fertility Rate Falls To All-Time Low
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AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M+ annual run rate
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Trump blasts Biden admin for releasing illegal immigrant now charged in fatal hammer attack on Florida mother
President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned a violent video allegedly showing a Haitian illegal alien fatally attacking a Florida mother with a hammer last week, blasting the Biden administration for releasing the suspect in 2022.Rolbert Joachim, 40, is charged with second-degree murder and criminal damage to property after he was caught on camera bludgeoning the mother of two in broad daylight last Friday outside a Fort Myers gas station."An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti, who was released ...
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British PM Keir Starmer says he is ‘fed up’ with US President Donald Trump
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Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M
Seth Joseph / Forbes: Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M Cleveland, Ohio, US
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Southwest Airlines Limits Passengers To One Portable Charger On Flights
Southwest Airlines Limits Passengers To One Portable Charger On Flights Southwest Airlines is limiting passengers to one lithium portable charger each - "to strengthen our ability to contain and mitigate lithium battery incidents, including reducing the risk of battery fires," the airline said in a Tuesday statement. A Southwest Airlines flight arrives at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colo., on Nov. 8, 2025. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Passengers will also be prohibited f...
Coast Guard seizes over 4,500 pounds of cocaine worth $34M from suspected narco-terrorist vessel on Easter
The U.S. Coast Guard seized more than 4,500 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $34 million what officials described as a suspected "narco-terrorist" vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Easter Sunday, according to DHS.According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Coast Guard cutter Escanaba was alerted by a maritime patrol aircraft that the crew of a suspected narco-terrorist vessel was throwing contraband overboard.The Coast Guard deployed an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew to investigat...
An End-to-End Coding Guide to NVIDIA KVPress for Long-Context LLM Inference, KV Cache Compression, and Memory-Efficient Generation
In this tutorial, we take a detailed, practical approach to exploring NVIDIA’s KVPress and understanding how it can make long-context language model inference more efficient. We begin by setting up th
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Some Jaded Shah Supporters Express Regret After Scale Of US Bombing On Iran Revealed
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ICE says more criminal migrants arrested on 1-year anniversary of program to support victims of migrant crime
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Thursday it had arrested more alleged illegal migrants who have been convicted of various crimes, which coincides with the one-year anniversary of the agency reopening its program to support victims of migrant crime. The arrests and convictions described by ICE have not been independently verified.ICE's Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office was relaunched on April 10, 2025, aiming to offer resources to victims of crimes committed ...
Supreme Court blocks candidate after alleged GOP infiltration scheme exposed
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a self-described "progressive" candidate’s bid to enter Ohio’s Republican primary, leaving in place a decision by state election officials to disqualify him for misrepresenting his party affiliation.Samuel Ronan, a former Democratic state and national candidate, attempted to run as a Republican in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District against GOP incumbent Rep. Mike Carey. To do so, he signed a declaration of candidacy under penalty of election falsification s...
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36 hours of chaos: The scramble for a ceasefire in Iran
NYT: Trump has found himself with a fragile deal that is already showing signs of fraying.
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Pricing Doritos At $7 A Bag Cost Pepsi "Billions" In Revenue
Pricing Doritos At $7 A Bag Cost Pepsi "Billions" In Revenue Turns out there's a price point for everything where consumers just stop paying. Guess that whole "price as a rationing mechanism" talk means something after all... Just ask Pepsi. The iconic brand had recognized for some time that its Frito-Lay snack prices were becoming too expensive, with major retailers like Walmart repeatedly raising concerns, according to Bloomberg. Even so, prices remained high as sales declined, ...
U.K. military deployed to deter threat to undersea cables amid Russian sub presence
Britain deployed military vessels to prevent any attacks on cables and pipelines by Russian submarines that spent more than a month in and around British waters earlier this year, Defence Minister John Healey said on Thursday.
MAN VS MACHINE: Philadelphians aren't taking kindly to sharing sidewalks with delivery robots
Philadelphia residents have been sharing sidewalks with robot delivery drivers for about a month, and they're not thrilled with the change. Uber Eats held a demo March 10 showing off Avride autonomous delivery robots, which officially launched in the city of brotherly love that same week.The robots were described as "the future of delivery," but the humans around them quickly began resenting the automated couriers. In late March, an Uber Eats delivery robot in Philadelphia's Center City neighbor...
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Indiana Suspends Gas Sales Tax Amid US–Iran War
Indiana Suspends Gas Sales Tax Amid US–Iran War Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Indiana has suspended its gas sales tax for 30 days as prices keep rising amid the United States’ war with Iran. Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (C) speaks during a press conference in Gary, Ind., on Oct. 30, 2025. Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images Gov. Mike Braun announced the suspension on April 8. “I am declaring a gas tax holiday to give Hoosiers relief from the pain at the ...
Child among 4 dead as accused arsonist allegedly drank beer during chaos
A New York City man is facing murder charges after allegedly randomly setting a fire in a Queens apartment building that killed four people, including a 3-year-old girl, and injured seven others, authorities announced.Roman Amatitla, 38, of Maspeth, was arrested Wednesday and arraigned on multiple charges, including eight counts of second-degree murder and first-degree arson, for the March 16 blaze at a three-story building in Flushing. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted.Quee...
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday Treasury Secretary Scott Bess
Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s cloud division led a 2 billion
Neighbor fatally shoots alleged gunman after 2 women shot in domestic dispute
A Washington state man was shot and killed by a neighbor after allegedly opening fire on two women during a domestic dispute that spilled into a nearby driveway, police said.Officers with the Puyallup Police Department (PPD) responded around 9:10 a.m. April 2, when investigators allege 47-year-old Arnino Guanlao shot two adult female relatives after a family argument escalated outside the home.A neighbor, who had been inside at the time, went outside and intervened, fatally shooting Guanlao, acc...
California school board member refuses to follow state’s sanctuary policies, citing 'rule of law'
A California school district told Fox News Digital Thursday it is not following the state’s updated guidance on handling immigration enforcement.Districts across the state were expected to update state guidance by March 1 to ensure students are shielded from immigration enforcement. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced in December 2025 that "approximately 133,000 undocumented children attend California’s public K-12 schools, and many more have parents or relatives who do not have lega...
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Turns Out the Elites Like The Administrative State Better Than Democracy
Turns Out the Elites Like The Administrative State Better Than Democracy Authored by William L. Anderson via MisesInstitute, If there is a mantra among progressive American political and media elites, it would be “our democracy,” usually preceded by what they believe to be a threat from the Right. For example, progressives deemed the recent reversal of Roe “a threat to our democracy” because it removed laws regulating abortion from Supreme Court jurisdiction and returned the issue ...
Melania Trump's forceful Epstein denial draws bipartisan support from lawmakers
Reactions poured Thursday after First Lady Melania Trump issued a rare on-camera statement forcefully rebuking allegations linking her to disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.Speaking earlier in the day, Melania Trump said she was never friends with Epstein or his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and stressed that neither played any role in her introduction to her husband, President Donald Trump."The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,...
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London pub thief swaps $4.8m rare whiskey set and Fabergé egg for drugs
Only seven 'The Emerald Isle' whiskey sets exist worldwide.
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War On The Shore: Maryland Dem Officials Freak Out At Journalists Ahead Of Exposé On Governor
War On The Shore: Maryland Dem Officials Freak Out At Journalists Ahead Of Exposé On Governor The Democratic kings and queens in the one-party–ruled state of Maryland are absolutely panicking, something that should not be happening in a deep-blue state, as their crown jewel, left-wing Gov. Wes Moore, a prospective Democratic presidential candidate, has seen polling data implode. High taxes, surging power bills, a state budget crisis, poor leadership, and even questions about honest...
Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI
Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year
Caufield scores 50th goal, becomes 1st Hab to reach milestone in more than 35 years
Cole Caufield scored his 50th goal of the season on Thursday evening in the Montreal Canadiens' game versus the Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first Habs player to reach that milestone since Stéphane Richer did it during the 1989-90 season.
Caufield scores 50th goal, becomes 1st Hab to reach milestone in 36 years
Cole Caufield scored his 50th goal of the season on Thursday evening in the Montreal Canadiens' 2-1 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first Habs player to reach that milestone since Stéphane Richer did it during the 1989-90 season.
