ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn’t expecting a fully grown humpback whale. Glover saw the whale surfacing on Wednesday while he was fishing for salmon and striped bass from a 21-foot (6.4-meter) boat
Sept 18 (Reuters) – About $18 billion in loans tied to an Oracle-leased data center in New Mexico has come under pressure, with loans quoted at 89 to 91 cents on the dollar by syndicate banks, including Santander and Jefferies, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The 1,400-acre “Project Jupiter”
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historical reliance on the United States after a whirlwind week in which he embraced the prospect of becoming the European Union’s first associate member. Carney, who returned from Europe on Thursda
The Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Friday. The Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the Solar for All funds in August 2025 aft
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage and “fake news,” and threatened that more such media bans could be coming — the latest salvo in the president’s increasingly aggressive resp
CHICAGO (AP) — As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries. And the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has now approved the company’s ask for sizeable indirect ownership from those foreign investors. Th
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that all 50 states will join in on a program set to provide Most Favored Nation pricing to some drugs within the Medicaid program, bringing the net price of selected drugs down to prices paid in certain other countries. The Trump administrati
Sept 18 (Reuters) – AI cloud firm Nscale filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Friday. The fall IPO season has kicked off on a shaky note as surging bond yields and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tightening cycle weigh on investor sentiment. The London-based company plans to sell new sh
Behind NAZA: How AI Is Used to Assess and Reduce Collateral Damage Cyber intelligence expert Matías Rott says the same systems scrutinized by NAZA are used to assess and reduce expected civilian harm before a strike By Gabriel Colodro / The Media Line The title of one of the most discussed films to
BOSTON (AP) — The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn’t listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday in his first public comments on the case. Eleven of 12 jur
NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. state of Virginia is tightening controls on data centers, with plans that include banning non-disclosure agreements for the projects, requiring stricter permitting and imposing clean energy mandates on the server warehouses, Governor Abigail Spanberger said on
Sept 18 (Reuters) – Italian cable maker Prysmian said on Friday it had partnered with Rio Tinto to supply electrical cables made with low-carbon aluminium for an Amazon data centre in Ohio. The cables will use aluminium produced with ELYSIS “inert-anode” technology, which Prysmian said eliminates di
The US State Department Clears $24.3 Billion F-35 Sale to Saudi Arabia By The Media Line Staff The US State Department has approved a possible $24.3 billion sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, saying the aircraft would strengthen the kingdom’s defenses and its ability to opera
President Donald Trump came to battleground North Carolina doubling down on a tantalizing and implausible midterm promise. “If we win,” he said, “we’re going to get you $5,000. So that’s it. Very simple.” The Republican candidates who spoke at the rally had nothing to say about it. Their silence ref
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An immigration officer pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he lied to the FBI about being attacked before he shot and wounded a Venezuelan man during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis early this year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian C
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Todd Blanche is blurring traditional boundaries between politics and federal law enforcement with recent speeches at political events that mark a sharp departure from norms meant to protect the Justice Department from the appearance of partisan bias. Blanche took t
(SRN NEWS) – “Global Landscape,” a standout feature from SRN News, is a concise two-minute audio segment that delivers a snapshot of the day’s top religion-related news stories from around the world. This engaging feature provides listeners with timely insights into significant developments, cultura
(SRN NEWS)-( ) A growing number of American colleges and universities are hiring full-time Muslim chaplains to go with the Christian and Jewish chaplains already at work on campus. Rutgers, a state university with three locations across New Jersey, became one of the first public schools to privately
(SRN NEWS)- It comes from the American Bible Society and it reveals that 40% of Americans say they have a hard time forgiving people who do the wrong. A lot of people have a hard time forgiving themselves as well — 26% of men and 33% of women. Even more troubling, 20% of people who self-identify as
(SRN NEWS)- The Trump administration says Medicaid will no longer pay for sex-change operations and other so-called “gender care” for children. This has prompted Democratic Governor Maura Healy to announce that Massachusetts will cover those procedures with state dollars adding that “residents must
(SRN NEWS)-In an Instagram post that is drawing ridicule from both right and left, the nation’s largest abortion business states that “People of all genders need abortions”. It’s apparently an effort to burnish the organization’s credentials as a supporter of the LGBT agenda and some critics say to
MINNA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria fired tear gas at dozens of people who gathered Friday to protest the deaths of 37 miners while they were in custody. Niger State Gov. Mohammed Umaru Bago said on Thursday that the miners, who were arrested earlier in the week on suspicion of illegal mining by
LONDON (AP) — How does a grizzly bear cross the road? With the help of Indigenous people, ranchers and governments. That’s the idea behind the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, which is working to keep the Rocky Mountains an unfettered migration route for wildlife from Wyoming to northwe
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Friday left two 14-year-old students and the teenage gunman dead and wounded at least eight people, local government and police officials said. The shooting at Banga National High School in the South Cotabato town
By Adnan Abidi, Tyrone Siu and Sahana Bajracharya BETRAWATI, Nepal/DEVIGHAT, Nepal, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Anusa Thapa Magar rushed home from her job in the Maldives after hearing about Nepal’s devastating floods, hoping that her beloved grandmother was one of those who survived. She headed for the fam
By Jeffrey Dastin and Michael Erman SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a
MILAN, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Italian Apple store employees went on strike over their working conditions on Friday, the launch day for the new iPhone18 Pro, the latest version of the US tech giant’s flagship smartphone. The Filcams CGIL, Fiascast CISL and Uiltucs trade unions said their members would r
BANGKOK (AP) — An Australian man appeared in court for the first time Friday on charges of murder and concealment of a body in connection with the death of a teenage girl in an eastern tourist city in Thailand, police said. Simon Peter Carman was arrested in June after the 17-year-old girl was repor
NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — South Korean field hockey players were perplexed Friday when the national anthem of North Korea was played — instead of their own — before a men’s field hockey match against Bangladesh at the Asian Games. South Korean players looked on, unsure of how to respond. Many South Korea
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man was killed by a shark as he swam off a Western Australian city beach Friday, police said. Search boats and helicopters extensively searched the ocean off Sorrento Beach in Perth’s northern suburbs after the late morning attack without finding any trace of the victim
