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State Department Says 'America First Global Health Strategy' Has Put $20.6 Billion Into 30 Bilateral Health MOUs

Friday's press statement announcing a health cooperation framework with the Philippines also disclosed the running total for the Trump administration's PEPFAR successor: 30 bilateral MOUs signed, $12.8 billion in U.S. assistance matched by $7.8 billion in recipient-country co-investment, and a geographic footprint that remains concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa.

PowerApr 10

IBM Pays $17M to DOJ to Settle First-Ever Civil Rights Fraud Initiative Case, Targeting Diversity Modifiers and 'Diverse Interview Slates'

In the inaugural resolution of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, IBM agreed Friday to pay $17,077,043 over allegations that its federal contracts were tainted by DEI practices that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called "repackaged" racial discrimination.

PowerApr 10

FAA Opens 8,000-Slot Controller Hiring Window April 17, Pitching Gamers in a Campaign Built on Fortnite and Xbox Sound Effects

Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy unveiled a new FAA recruitment push Friday aimed at the roughly 200 million Americans who play video games — citing exit interviews in which controllers credited gaming with the multitasking and quick-decision skills the job requires.

ScienceApr 10

New Paper Tests Whether Chatbots Pick Ads Over Users. They Do, Up to 94% of the Time.

A team at Princeton and the University of Washington ran GPT 5.1, Grok 4.1 Fast, and Qwen 3 Next through conflict-of-interest scenarios designed to pit user welfare against sponsor revenue. All three compromised the user — and the rate varied with how expensive the user appeared to be.

PowerApr 10

Former IU Postdoc Sentenced, Ordered Deported Over E. coli DNA Shipped From China in Box Labeled 'Women's Underwear'

Youhuang Xiang, a Chinese postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University, was sentenced to four-plus months in prison and stipulated to immediate removal to China after admitting he had plasmid DNA samples smuggled to his Bloomington residence inside a mislabeled package.

ScienceApr 10

The 17-Year-Old FreeBSD Vulnerability That Claude Mythos Found -- And Why Anthropic Won't Release the Model

Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview autonomously discovered a 17-year-old unauthenticated remote root vulnerability in FreeBSD -- one of thousands of zero-days it has found across every major operating system and web browser. The company is restricting access through Project Glasswing, a 12-company coalition. Over 99% of the discovered vulnerabilities remain unpatched.

PowerApr 10

Ten Indicted in Boston Over Scheme That Staged Armed Robberies to Fake Crime-Victim U Visas

A federal grand jury charged ten Indian nationals with conspiring to set up fake armed robberies at Massachusetts convenience stores so that clerks could falsely claim to be crime victims on U Visa applications. The indictment follows the 2025 conviction of the scheme's organizer and getaway driver.

PowerApr 10

Federal judge finds Pentagon violated his March 20 order restoring press access

Judge Paul Friedman ruled April 9 that the Defense Department's replacement credential policy -- which requires escorts for all reporters and relocates the press corps to a basement library in a separate building -- was an attempt to reinstate an unlawful policy under the guise of taking 'new' action.

PowerApr 10

Melania Trump denies Epstein ties in rare White House statement, calls on Congress to hear survivors

The first lady declared "I am not Epstein's victim" and called on Congress to hold public hearings for survivors -- the most extensive public remarks she has made on any policy matter since returning to the White House.

PowerApr 10

Federal Judge Blocks TPS Termination for 5,000 Ethiopians, Calling DHS Rationale 'Pretextual'

Judge Brian Murphy ruled that DHS Secretary Noem 'flagrantly ignored' the statutory requirement to consult with other agencies before ending protections, and that DHS's own 2025 reports contradicted its claim that Ethiopia was safe. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on similar TPS cases involving 350,000 Haitians on April 29.

WorldApr 9

Uganda Receives First US Deportation Flight: Eight Non-Citizens Sent to a Country They Have No Ties To

Eight African nationals, none of them Ugandan citizens, arrived at Entebbe airport on April 1 aboard a private charter -- the first transfer under an agreement that allows the US to send denied asylum seekers to countries they have no connection to.

PowerApr 9

After Wrongful Deportation to CECOT and a Supreme Court Order, DHS Now Wants to Send Abrego Garcia to Liberia

The government admitted sending Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador's maximum-security prison was an error. The Supreme Court ordered his return. Now DHS insists on deporting him to Liberia -- a country he has no connection to -- while simultaneously prosecuting him in Tennessee.