U.S. warns shipping firms they could face sanctions over paying Iran's Strait of Hormuz tolls

Iran effectively closed the strait to normal traffic by attacking and threatening to attack ships after the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Feb. 28.

An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers

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The Mother's Day Gifts Our Editors Love (2026)

From smart rings and everlasting flowers to weighted vests and LED masks, there's a gift for every kind of mom.

Spirit Airlines shuts down, blames cost of fuel due to Middle East war

Can a Second-Home Tax Work in New York? The Numbers Don’t Add Up Yet.

The tax proposal is being held up as a generational attempt to make the ultrawealthy pay more to society and potentially raise $500 million a year for New York City.

Too Delicious to Die: The Push to Save Old-School Diners

New Jersey bills itself as the “diner capital of the world.” Lawmakers are trying to help it stay that way, despite economic turmoil causing food prices to skyrocket.

Why Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?

For the past week, a photo of me has been plastered on the CEO of Snap’s Wikipedia page. No one, not even Spiegel, seems to care.

MGM Grand launches retro gaming lounge with free play for guests

MGM Grand launches retro gaming lounge with free play for guests

Las Vegas company abandons plans for luxury resort near Joshua Tree National Park

Las Vegas company abandons plans for luxury resort near Joshua Tree National Park

Nevada’s veterans community marks a busy May of remembrance, recognition and action

Nevada’s veterans community marks a busy May of remembrance, recognition and action

Las Vegas closes out dry April as drought deepens across Nevada

Las Vegas closes out dry April as drought deepens across Nevada

Another petty, vindictive indictment

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ChatGPT now tracks users for ads by default as OpenAI looks for new revenue

OpenAI has turned on marketing cookies by default for free ChatGPT users in countries where ads are running. Tracking is automatically active for free accounts but not for paying subscribers. You can

Who won the lottery? Why you may never know the full name of some jackpot winners going forward

Dems circle the wagons by blaming GOP for their gerrymandering response ahead of midterms: 'Very desperate'

Democratic lawmakers are defending redistricting efforts across the country, calling their efforts a necessary foil to similar Republican-led plans, while arguing vulnerable Republicans should have fought harder to prevent the "arms race" reshuffling district lines nationally."I feel like the system is fundamentally broken, but let's be clear, Republicans began the redistricting arms race. And so, Democrats are left with no choice but to level the playing field for the sake of democracy," Rep. J...

Why saunas are becoming a hot new place to party

Picture this: a DJ, a makeshift dance floor and drinks. Only it’s 8 p.m. on a Wednesday and there’s no alcohol instead, there's a sauna.

Iranian soccer official says he's talking to authorities after former IRGC commander denied entry to Canada

A senior Iranian soccer official says he’s been in contact with "relevant authorities" after Canada’s immigration minister confirmed the government revoked travel documents granted to a former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to attend a FIFA meeting in Vancouver.

Online harassment against female journalists is a growing problem, UN report suggests

A new UN report released Thursday puts numbers to what many female journalists already know: Online violence against women in the media is growing, becoming increasingly sophisticated, and is affecting female journalists both professionally and personally.

'Amazing hitchhikers': Why invasive spotted lanternflies keep reaching Ontario

A recent spotted lanternfly discovery in St. Catharines, Ont., is renewing concern about the destructive insect reaching Canada from the United States. Experts say the invasive insect poses a serious threat to vineyards, fruit trees and hardwoods because it feeds on plant sap and can kill grapevines.

US company Spirit Airlines shuts down, cancelling all flights as jet fuel costs hit hard

The spike in fuel prices was too heavy a blow for the struggling carrier.

xAI drops Grok 4.3 with steep price cuts and an Imagine agent mode for creative projects

With Grok 4.3, xAI is leaning into low prices and better tool use. The model shows gains on practical tasks, but it still trails the top models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The release also brings a new

‘Bookless bookstore’: Audio-only book shop opens in New York

There is no rustle of pages or stacks of bestselling novels at this bookstore.

[AINews] AI Engineer World's Fair Autoresearch, Memory, World Models, Tokenmaxxing, Agentic Commerce, and Vertical AI Call for Speakers

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New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test

NASA engineers have tested a next-generation lithium-plasma electric propulsion system that reached 120 kilowatts, a new U.S. record and about 25 times the power of the electric thrusters on NASA's Psyche spacecraft. "Designing and building these thrusters over the last couple of years has been a long lead-up to this first test," said James Polk, who is a senior research scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's a huge moment for us because we not only showed the thruster works, but we ...

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Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation Tyson Chen

Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain -- meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year in all. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboar...

Mills Drops Out In Maine Governor's Race As Oysterman With Nazi Tattoo Becomes Democratic Frontrunner

Mills Drops Out In Maine Governor's Race As Oysterman With Nazi Tattoo Becomes Democratic Frontrunner Maine Gov. Janet Mills suspended her U.S. Senate campaign Thursday morning, citing a lack of financial resources. That's the official explanation. The more accurate one is that the polls showed her trailing badly to Graham Platner, an oysterman from coastal Maine with no electoral experience.  Mills had every structural advantage working for her: she’d already won a statewide ele...

Toronto Raptors force Game 7 after 112-110 overtime win against Cavaliers

RJ Barrett hit a late, high-bouncing game winner in overtime as the Toronto Raptors extended their season with a 112-110 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Friday's Game 6 at Scotiabank Arena.

Middle East conflict live updates: US to withdraw about 5000 troops from Germany, Trump ‘not satisfied’ with latest Iranian proposal

The movie is the US' latest spat with a European leader over the Middle East war.

Ex-CIA Analyst Warns Hegseth's Claim Of "Ironclad" Hormuz Blockade Deeply Misleading 

Ex-CIA Analyst Warns Hegseth's Claim Of "Ironclad" Hormuz Blockade Deeply Misleading  Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson Pete Hegseth is lying about the US blockade of Iranian ports. On April 12, after JD Vance announced that talks with Iran had failed, Trump declared a naval blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas. CENTCOM clarified that the blockade would be enforced against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports, but would not impede freedom of ...

Thousands rally in L.A. for May Day to protest immigration sweeps, high cost of living

Thousands of people took to the streets in Los Angeles Friday to mark May Day and International Workers' Day amid heightened concerns about affordability, immigration sweeps and the Iran war.

#TheMoment a shark chased a foil surfer

Tavis Boise and Ron Takeda tell The National about the moment a shark went into pursuit mode while they were foil surfing in Santa Barbara, Calif.

These First Nations students are teaching themselves and their peers to speak Cree

Vern Lewis is in his first year teaching Aboriginal studies at a Frog Lake First Nation high school, and he's putting his computer science skills to work by using technology to teach tradition.

Airline lost Oscars statuette after checking it in as ‘potential weapon’

Staff in New York said the 3.9kg Oscar could be used as a weapon.

This Is The Salary Needed To Live Comfortably In US Cities

This Is The Salary Needed To Live Comfortably In US Cities How much do you need to earn to live comfortably in a major American city? Increasingly, the answer is a six-figure salary. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, shows the income required for a comfortable lifestyle across 56 U.S. cities, factoring in housing, food, transportation, savings, and discretionary spending. The data comes from SmartAsset, using the MIT Living Wage Calculator and updated in February...

El Cajon man gets 10 years for sex trafficking 15-year-old girl in California and Arizona

An El Cajon man, Samuel Melvin Cooper, 21, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl.

Pete Alonso rips on traffic, crushes homer against Yankees in return to NYC

For the first time in his MLB career, Pete Alonso rolled into New York City as part of a visiting team.Only, on Friday, he wasn't headed to his old Citi Field stomping grounds; he was headed to the Bronx as he and his Baltimore Orioles teammates took on the New York Yankees.And, right off the bat, Alonso knew he was back in the Big Apple, and that was all thanks to the city's trademark nightmare traffic.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!The Baltimore fir...

Bus plunges into river after trainee driver crash, massive rescue response: reports

A driver in training sent a bus careening into the River Seine near Paris Thursday after hitting a parked car and veering off the road, triggering a massive rescue operation, according to BBC and Reuters.All four people on board were pulled to safety as more than 90 firefighters, divers and emergency crews along with boats and a helicopter responded, officials said.The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and drug and alcohol tests came back negative.EMERGENCY CREWS RESPOND TO TOUR BU...

Qatar-donated 747 ready for Trump's use as fill-in Air Force One this summer: USAF

The U.S. Air Force has finished modifying and testing a Boeing 747 jet donated by Qatar and expects to have it ready for U.S. President Donald Trump to use this summer, the service announced late Friday.

Father of teen allegedly killed by stepbrother on cruise says he can't 'relive' trauma at murder trial

The father of a teen allegedly slaughtered by her stepbrother on a cruise is skipping the June murder trial, saying he simply cannot "relive" the trauma of discovering the girl's body in her cabin."Unless they ask for me to be there, neither my wife or I will be attending," Christopher Kepner, 41, told the Daily Mail."I’ve heard all the evidence. I saw it for myself. They have everything they need. It’s going to be too painful to relive it all again."Kepner’s 16-year-old stepson, Timothy Hudson,...

Kennedy Consulted With Scandal P.R. Firm While Seeking Cabinet Nomination

An associate of the firm, which has been accused of running a smear campaign against the actress Blake Lively, promised to suppress negative stories about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., records show.

Palestinian soccer boss refuses to shake hands with Israeli counterpart at FIFA Congress

Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub refused to shake hands or even stand beside Israel Football Association Vice President Basim Sheikh Suliman during a tense exchange at the FIFA Congress Thursday.Both officials were invited to the stage by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, but the Palestinian representative resisted efforts to bring him closer to his Israeli counterpart.Infantino briefly placed a hand on Rajoub’s arm and gestured for him to step forward, but Rajoub did not ...

Four noncitizens charged with illegally voting in 2020, 2022 and 2024 federal elections in New Jersey

Four noncitizens were charged with illegally voting in multiple federal elections and making false statements while applying for U.S. citizenship, federal prosecutors announced Friday.According to criminal complaints filed in the District of New Jersey, each defendant allegedly cast ballots in at least one federal election, including the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections."Four individuals have been charged with illegally voting in federal elections and making false statements applying for U.S...

DOJ Probes 36 Illinois School Districts Over Sexual Orientation Content In Pre-K–12 Classes

DOJ Probes 36 Illinois School Districts Over Sexual Orientation Content In Pre-K–12 Classes Authored by Naveen Anthrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division has launched multiple investigations into 36 Illinois public school districts to assess whether sexual orientation and gender ideology content is being taught in pre-K-12 grade classes. If the districts are determined to be teaching sexual orientation and gender ideology-related co...

Trump teases US will be 'taking over' Cuba 'almost immediately' in Florida speech

President Donald Trump appeared to joke during remarks at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida Friday that the U.S. would be "taking over" Cuba "almost immediately," while recognizing attendees including former Rep. Dan Mica."And he comes from, originally, a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately," Trump said."Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first. I like to finish a job."TRUMP AIMS TO RESET WAR POWERS CLOCK WITH CONTROVERSIAL BID TO BYPASS CONGRESSTrum...

Pentagon orders withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany as Trump escalates feud with Merz

The Pentagon will withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, a spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital.The redeployment comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating feud with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other NATO allies after tensions over their response to the conflict involving Iran."The Secretary of War has ordered the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 troops from Germany," chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told Fox News Digital. EUROPEAN LEADERS ON EDGE AS PROSPECT LOOMS OF ...

Stephen A Smith says he argued with Michael Jordan about whether NASCAR drivers are athletes

Stephen A. Smith saying that NASCAR drivers are not athletes has been one of my favorite stories for quite some time.You've got someone giving a demonstrably incorrect hot take, and then just digging their heels in.It's everything that's both great and terrible about sports media rolled up in a single package.NASCAR DRIVER WHO WAS LEFT BLOODIED FROM HORRIFYING DAYTONA CRASH HAS HARSH WORDS FOR STEPHEN A. SMITHBut, I thought if there was one person who could break through to Stephen A. and point ...

The National | Feds to fine airlines $1M for abusing passenger rights

May 1, 2026 | Ottawa sets a new maximum fine for airlines caught repeatedly violating air passengers' rights at $1 million. A Calgary father is charged with murdering his two young children. And a Las Vegas billionaire moves to relocate the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Hawaii Has America's Highest Life Expectancy, West Virginia The Lowest

Hawaii Has America's Highest Life Expectancy, West Virginia The Lowest Life expectancy varies widely across the U.S., with clear regional patterns emerging in the latest data. States in the Northeast and on the West Coast tend to have higher life expectancies, while many in the South and Appalachia rank lower. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, shows these differences using data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, based on 2022 life tables published...

Kumanjayi Little Baby killing: Police expected to charge Jefferson Lewis today

Kumanjayi Little Baby was found dead near Alice Springs on Thursday.

Federal appeals court blocks mailing of abortion pills in ruling with nationwide effect

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone under current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules, a move the court acknowledged would, "as a practical matter, have a nationwide effect," one that sets up a likely Supreme Court battle over abortion access.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling could restrict abortion pill access across the country, restoring rules supporters say protect patient safety and state authority, while critics warn it wi...

Browns coach Todd Monken keeping QB competition open amid uneven practice reps, Shedeur Sanders buzz

The Cleveland Browns entered last season with one of the NFL's more crowded quarterback rooms.Shedeur Sanders took over the starting quarterback duties in Week 12 last season, and after two more starts, he was named the starter for the remainder of the season. Dillon Gabriel moved to a backup role as Deshaun Watson stayed on the physically unable to perform list, even after the team opened his 21-day practice window in December.Sanders, Gabriel and Watson are all set to return in 2026, but it re...

Federal Judge Blocks Plan to End Deportation Protections for Yemenis

A Supreme Court court decision involving similar deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians could have implications for Yemeni migrants.

Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza

After a debate over the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, students say the university president hit them with his vehicle. He says he was the victim in the incident.

Federal Judge Blocks Plan to End Deportation Protections For Yemenis

A Supreme Court court decision involving similar deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians could have implications for Yemeni migrants.

Lebanon says 12 killed in Israeli strikes on southern town

Eight people, including a child and two women, died in Habboush alone.

Lebanon says 13 killed in Israeli strikes on southern town

Eight people, including a child and two women, died in Habboush alone.

Major US city urges residents to work from home this summer for highly unusual reason

If the daily commute to work this summer is already sparking dread, officials in a major metropolitan area have a blunt warning for folks in 2026: Stay home. Especially on certain days. Leaders in New York and New Jersey are warning commuters about serious travel congestion during World Cup matches this June and July. NJ Transit says only 40,000 round-trip tickets from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will be sold per game, significantly limiti...

U.S. withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, Pentagon announces

College baseball game delayed after umpire takes a scary foul ball straight to the mask

There was a scary moment during Friday's college baseball game between Vanderbilt and Alabama when the umpire took a blistering foul tip straight to the head.This was the second game of the two SEC teams' series at Sewell-Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa, and in the bottom of the second inning, Alabama was already up 3-0.Alabama's Brennan Holt took a swing at the 1-0 offering and got a piece of it, but that sent it straight into the face of umpire Scott Kennedy, and he went down hard.ZERO BS. JUST D...

Estée Lauder Accelerates Turnaround, Adds 3,000 Jobs To Chopping Block

Estée Lauder Accelerates Turnaround, Adds 3,000 Jobs To Chopping Block Beauty and cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is accelerating its workforce restructuring, announcing Friday morning that it will cut another 3,000 jobs, bringing total planned reductions to as many as 10,000 roles. The move is expected to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in additional savings. Still, it also suggests a deeper reset in the company's workforce after its hiring spree leading up to  Covid, potentia...

Kennedy Messaged With Scandal P.R. Firm While Seeking Cabinet Nomination

An associate of the firm, which has been accused of running a smear campaign against the actress Blake Lively, promised to suppress negative stories about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., records show.

Domino’s driver runs down customer over tip dispute, caught on camera: police

A Missouri Domino’s delivery driver is behind bars after police say he turned a routine pizza delivery into a violent encounter, allegedly using his car to strike a customer during a heated dispute over not receiving a tip.Zachary Nicholus Walton, 36, was arrested April 29 in Fulton and is facing multiple felony charges, including first-degree assault, armed criminal action and leaving the scene of an accident. Jail records show he is being held without bond.According to a probable cause affidav...

Bob Odenkirk predicts end of ‘manosphere comedy,’ rejects it as 'low-hanging fruit' in NY Times interview

Bob Odenkirk criticized what he described as "manosphere comedy" as shallow and declining during an interview in which the actor addressed trends in modern stand-up, performance and cultural commentary."It’s definitely about low-hanging fruit big time," Odenkirk said on "The Interview" podcast for The New York Times. "It’s like literally on the ground. It’s fruit that’s on the ground rotting." The "Better Call Saul" star made the remarks when asked what today’s comedy landscape is reacting again...

Robot dances at the airport gate, then delays Southwest flight from Oakland to San Diego

A human-like robot boarded a Southwest Airline flight from Oakland to San Diego but delayed the plane due to its lithium battery.

A Robot Economy: Who Gets Rich, Who Gets Left Behind

A Robot Economy: Who Gets Rich, Who Gets Left Behind Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Robots are coming to the economy. It is inevitable, really, and there is nothing that will stop it. At some point in the not-so-distant future, robots will infiltrate every aspect of our lives, from office work and manufacturing to service work and trade skills, and even your home. Here are some numbers for you. The real question I want to explore in today’s post is what ...

Trump says Iran conflict is ‘terminated’ as he hits congressional deadline

Trump says hostilities ended following a ceasefire agreed with Iran last month.

Pickleball team plane crashes in Texas, killing everyone on board

A plane carrying a pickleball team to a tournament in Texas crashed Thursday, killing all five people on board.Names of the victims were not immediately released by authorities, though the Amarillo Pickleball Club in Amarillo, Texas, said they were members who were flying to a tournament. The plane crashed in Wimberley, a city 40 miles southwest of Austin, at 11 p.m. Thursday."The pilot and four passengers on board were pronounced deceased on scene," local police Sgt. Billy Ray told reporters.CL...

Stretch Armstrong: the gloriously goo-filled toy that shouldn't have worked (but did)

In the golden age of toys that could maim, melt, or mysteriously stain the carpet, Stretch Armstrong stood out: a blond, musclebound figure filled with a bizarre, syrupy gel that could be pulled, twisted, and abused far beyond reason. A new deep dive from Secret Galaxy traces how this improbable mix of chemistry, marketing, and kid-proof engineering became a pop culture icon. Read the rest The post Stretch Armstrong: the gloriously goo-filled toy that shouldn't have worked (but did) appeared fi...

WATCH: Driver smirks in mugshot after allegedly hitting group of cyclists in caught-on-camera road rage

An elderly man offered a smirk for his mugshot after being arrested in a caught-on-camera hit-and-run involving a cyclist group.Jerry Wayne Ross, 72, faces charges for an alleged hit-and-run with his Honda Pilot, all caught on video, on April 23 in Cherokee County, Georgia, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.The North Georgia Cycling Association was on its weekly Thursday night ride when the driver was accused of driving up on the group in a suspected road rage incident.One rider, identified as Richard ...

ESPN's Holly Rowe claims I'm 'bullying women' due to Angel Reese criticism | Jon Root

The WNBA and much of its media are politically liberal and often treat criticism of the league and many of its players, minus Caitlin Clark, as a microaggression or an attack on women’s sports as a whole. That’s ironic, given that they’ve done little to protect the integrity and fairness of the sport, instead backing policies and politicians that, in critics’ view, undermine it.A good example of taking criticism to an unfounded extreme is self-professed "anti-racist", as it says in her X bio, ES...

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone

From 'Moana' to 'Leviticus,' here are summer movie breakouts you need to know

From 'Moana' to 'Leviticus,' here are summer movie breakouts you need to know

Caitlin Clark raises eyebrows with comment on team's AI post that showed her with a distorted hand

Caitlin Clark left a comment on the Indiana Fever's recent social media post, appearing to mock a poor AI image generation."New hand alert," Clark wrote in the comment section of a broadcast schedule calendar the team posts on Instagram. The post no longer shows the image of Clark's distorted hand, which was first reported by Front Office Sports.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMFox News Digital has reached out to the Fever for comment.Clark's comment prompted joking responses on...

Female inmate sues Washington state after alleged attack by male-born prisoner in women's facility

A female inmate in Washington state is suing corrections officials after she says she was brutally attacked by a male-born prisoner housed in a women’s prison under the state’s gender-identity housing policy.Faith Booher-Smith, who is incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, alleges in a federal lawsuit she was "violently attacked" by inmate Christopher Williams, a convicted sex offender who had been transferred to the prison after identifying as female.According to the compl...

Trump signs executive order to broaden sanctions against Cuban government

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday ‌broadening U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government, two White House officials told Reuters, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuela's leader.

A Coding Implementation of End-to-End Brain Decoding from MEG Signals Using NeuralSet and Deep Learning for Predicting Linguistic Features

In this tutorial, we explore how we can decode linguistic features directly from brain signals using a modern neuroAI pipeline. We work with MEG data and build an end-to-end system that transforms raw

Anti-Israel NYC protesters chant support for Hamas, demand Mamdani make major changes at rally

NEW YORK Anti-Israel protesters gathered at Columbia University for a From Harlem to Gaza march Thursday evening to voice support for the Palestinian cause and make radical demands of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.The march marked the second anniversary of the dismantling of the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at Columbia University and the City College of New York (CCNY), as well as the infamous takeover of Columbia's Hamilton Hall. Students who took over the building unfurled a banner that sa...

Microsoft's Xbox Mode Is Now Available For All Windows 11 PCs

Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam's Big Picture Mode. "Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in those markets over the next several weeks," says the Xbox team. The Verge reports: Xbox mode aims to try and bridge the gap between Xbox consoles and Windows, but its original debut felt like a beta on the Xbox Ally devices....

Trump aims to reset war powers clock with controversial bid to bypass Congress

President Donald Trump informed Congress Friday that a ceasefire with Iran has ended hostilities and reset the clock on congressional war powers limits, but legal experts say ongoing military operations complicate that claim."For War Powers Resolution purposes, the hostilities that began on Saturday, February 28 have terminated," a senior administration official told Fox News Digital. "Both parties agreed to a 2-week ceasefire on Tuesday, April 7 that has since been extended," the official went ...

Gap between Single-Family Rents and Multifamily Rents Widens to Record as Multifamily under Pressure

The big divergence of asking rents in 14 big metropolitan areas by single-family rentals and multifamily units.

New California DMV Rules Allow Autonomous Vehicles To Be Cited

New California DMV Rules Allow Autonomous Vehicles To Be Cited Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), SAN FRANCISCO—Driverless vehicles such as Waymo robotaxis could be ticketed for moving violations, according to updated autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations approved by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on April 28, to enhance safety, oversight, and enforcement requirements. Waymo driverless vehicles charge at a Waymo charging station in Santa Mon...

Trump jokes about security concerns, mic problems and Dr Oz during freewheeling Florida speech

President Donald Trump turned a microphone problem into a comic riff during remarks at The Villages in Florida, asking staff to "turn the mic up please" before joking he was "screaming my a-- off because the mic is no good."The moment came during a wide-ranging, joke-heavy speech before the Florida retirement community, where Trump bounced between policy remarks, crowd work and off-the-cuff riffs, and, at one point, quipping, "What’s more secure than The Villages?" as he played to the audience.T...

Seattle mayor's interview cut short as staff blocks questions on gun violence, surveillance

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's staff abruptly ended an interview with a local news reporter this week after he pressed her on rising gun violence and surveillance cameras in the city after a recent shooting. Chris Daniels of KOMO News asked Wilson about community concerns over increasing gun violence and whether additional surveillance measures might be reconsidered. The mayor was quickly cut off mid-response by a member of her staff. "I appreciate it, but let’s keep it on topic, OK?" the staffer ...

Canadian beer company buys Sabres fans drinks for saving their anthem after Game 5 mic failure

It's no secret that there has been some friction between the United States and Canada in recent years, and just because the Americans won gold at the Olympics.Say it with me: USA! USA! USA!But fortunately, some international fences are being mended, and it's all thanks to Buffalo Sabres fans and beer brand Molson Canadian.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!Game 5 between the Sabres and Boston Bruins was on Tuesday at KeyBank Center, and before the game, t...

Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars

As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.

Meta Introduces Autodata: An Agentic Framework That Turns AI Models into Autonomous Data Scientists for High-Quality Training Data Creation

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Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Judge sanctions US Attorney’s Office for missing deadlines in Nevada resident's immigration case

Judge sanctions US Attorney’s Office for missing deadlines in Nevada resident's immigration case

City "where everything grows" fines homeowner's edible garden

In a city that proudly bills itself as "where everything grows," one homeowner is being fined for doing exactly that: turning a front lawn into a thriving, food-producing garden that feeds his family and their neighbors. Despite sharing some of his produce with neighbors, a recent complaint has placed his beloved home garden in danger of getting removed. Read the rest The post City "where everything grows" fines homeowner's edible garden appeared first on Boing Boing.

In Charts: Communist Cuba's Lights Dim Amid US Oil Blockade

In Charts: Communist Cuba's Lights Dim Amid US Oil Blockade Authored by Sylvia Xu, Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Blackouts, shortages, fuel rationing, and empty streets now define daily life in Cuba. People wait to fill their water containers during a nationwide blackout in Havana on March 22, 2026. Cuban authorities scrambled on March 22 to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an agin...