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A Chinese illegal immigrant was arrested in California on Wednesday after entering a Marine Corps base without authorization and ignoring orders to leave, officials say. Border Patrol's El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said that agents responded to a call from the base about a Chinese national "who entered the base w/o authorization, ignoring orders to leave." A spokesperson for the U.S. Marine Corps' Training and Education Command told Fox News Digital that the individual had attempted to access the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, without valid ID. CHINESE MIGRANTS MAKE MULTI-COUNTRY TREK TO US SOUTHERN BORDER: ‘I JUST WANT TO MAKE MONEY' "Despite being prompted to exit at the Condor gate by installation security, the individual proceeded onto the installation without authorization. Military law enforcement were immediately notified and detained the individual," the spokesperson said.  The b...

Washington Post : A look at Steven Mnuchin's TikTok plans; sources say his proposal to buy TikTok without its export-blocked algorithm and rebuild it from scratch is far-fetched   —  His proposal to buy the app without its algorithm from its Chinese owner has drawn skeptical reactions, including from those he's pitched

Maryland Governor Wes Moore stated Saturday that conditions remain "unsafe" for rescue divers due to weather and debris following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.  "Conditions in the water make it unsafe for rescue divers. And we're not just talking about weather and wind," Moore said during a press conference, appearing alongside Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott and first responders. "We're talking about debris, we're talking about wreckage. We're talking about pieces of the Key Bridge that are in the water." "We are going to ensure the safety of our first responders and we are not going to compromise one for the other," Moore continued. "We are going to do both at the same time." FUNDING BILL TO REPLACE BALTIMORE KEY BRIDGE COULD TAKE SHAPE IN 'MATTER OF WEEKS': TOP HOUSE REPUBLICAN "Right now, the conditions make it unsafe for rescue divers, but as soon as those conditions change, Col...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Researcher: Instagram is testing Blend, which creates a feed of Reels for two friends to share based on shared interests and Reels they shared with each other   —  Instagram is developing a “Blend” feature that creates a private feed of Reels recommended for you and a friend.

President Biden's re-election campaign isn't revealing the names of any donors who attended its star-studded fundraiser in New York City with Biden and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.  A Thursday evening fundraiser with the three presidents pulled in over $26 million , according to Biden's campaign.  "An Evening with President Biden and Presidents Obama and Clinton" was held at Radio City Music Hall and was sold out, per the campaign, welcoming more than 5,000 attendees. Those at the function included a combination of small grassroots donors, who entered into a contest, all the way up to some of the campaign's highest donors and bundlers, a senior Biden adviser said. However, Biden's team refused to divulge the names of any financial supporters at the glamorous event when requested by Fox News Digital.  TRUMP AIMS TO TROUNCE BIDEN'S RECORD $26 MILLION HAUL AT UPCOMING FLORIDA FUNDRAISER: 'WE FEEL REALLY GOOD' A senior ad...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music   —  U.S. users have just a few more days to make the transition from Google Podcasts as the company moves forward with the process of discontinuing the service globally.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bipartisan bill aimed at expanding access to paid family leave won final passage Thursday as Kentucky's legislature shifted into overdrive before a two-week break. The Senate voted 36-0 to send the family leave legislation to Gov. Andy Beshear . PICKUP DRIVER CHARGED IN CRASH THAT LEFT TRUCKER HANGING OFF LOUISVILLE BRIDGE Supporters said House Bill 179 would amend state law to allow voluntary paid family medical leave to be offered as an insurance product. Such policies would be available to Kentucky employers, who would choose whether to offer it as a benefit to their employees. "This is a market-driven policy proposal that includes no mandates on employers, workers or families," Republican Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe said while presenting the bill to her colleagues. Supporters say the goal is to expand the benefit to more Bluegrass State workers who now can’t afford to take time away from work in times of need at home, without forcing anythin...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to launch new iPad Pro and iPad Air models in early May; iPad Pros will get OLED displays, while iPad Air will get a 12.9" screen option   —  - Company's tablet line hasn't been updated in about 18 months  — Latest iPad Pro will get OLED; Air will have new screen size

U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, Vermont's first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress, announced Wednesday that she's running for a second term. Balint, a Democrat, said in Congress she has focused on making affordable housing more accessible, mental health care for all and protecting the country's democracy. "When I was first elected to Congress, we made history together," she said in a video message announcing her reelection campaign. "I ran because I believed politics can be different and I couldn’t be more proud to continue that fight on behalf of Vermont in Washington. With courage, kindness, and hope, we can take on the extreme right-wing set on taking our rights and tearing down our democracy." KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE DEM ANNOUNCEMENT STUNS POLITICAL WORLD: 'BIG SURPRISE' Balint, the former president of the Vermont state Senate and a former middle-school teacher, won the race for Vermont's single seat in U.S....

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation   —  Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI.  —  Alan Cowen feigns a dejected expression.

Former President Donald Trump leads President Biden in the race for Texas' 40 electoral votes by double his margin of victory in the Lone Star State four years ago, according to a new poll. And the survey released Tuesday by Marist College also indicates Republican Sen. Ted Cruz with a six-point advantage over his Democratic challenger, Rep. Colin Allred, in a key Senate showdown as the GOP aims to regain the chamber's majority in November's elections. Trump carried Texas over Biden by roughly 5.5 points in 2020, which was the smallest margin of victory for a GOP presidential nominee in the deep-red state in nearly a quarter-century. TRUMP HOLDS EDGE OVER BIDEN IN CRUCIAL BATTLEGROUND STATE POLL But according to the Marist poll , which was conducted March 18-21, the former president leads his successor in the White House by 11 points (55%-44%) among registered voters. But Trump's lead narrows to 7 points (53%-46%) among those who say they'll definitely cast a ...

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg : A look at MatX, which was founded by ex-Google engineers, has raised $25M, and hopes to design chips that are 10x faster than Nvidia's GPUs at training LLMs   —  A new startup called MatX from former Google engineers reflects a renewed enthusiasm for chipmakers.

Washington's drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China's control of the critical minerals sector. Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it's unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. soils, how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to process it into a form usable by manufacturers. These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment - alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices - to America's plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S. states, legal experts, politicians, landowners, investors, royalty firms, industry executives and consultants. INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN ARGENTINA AND CHILE GRAPPLE WITH S...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Eliyan, which is developing chiplet interconnects to increase AI chips' performance, raised a $60M Series B co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Tiger Global   —  Eliyan has raised $60 million in funding for its chiplet interconnect technology that speeds up the processing for AI chips.

Financial Times : Analysis: Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg lead a group of insiders selling their company stocks in Q1, a sign that the tech bull run may be peaking   —  Bosses sell hundreds of millions of dollars in company shares this quarter in sign that markets may be peaking

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said he'd be "amazed" if a fellow justice leaked the court's draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, which effectively ended the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion.  "Do you have a sense of what the motive of the leaker was?" NBC's Kristen Welker asked Breyer in an interview aired Sunday on "Meet the Press."  Breyer shied away from answering directly, saying he does have theories, but that he was not willing to discuss them at length. Breyer, who retired in 2022, did say who he thought did not leak the draft opinion.  "I'd be amazed if it was a judge," he said.  Breyer's comments came amid an interview on his new book, "Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism," which is critical of conservative justices for their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.  FORMER SCOTUS JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER CALLS DOBBS RULING LEAK ‘UNFORTUNATE...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., doubled down Sunday on claiming Israel is carrying out "genocide" in Gaza and implementing a "forced famine" by blocking humanitarian aid to Palestinians.  Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," Ocasio-Cortez defended her speech on the House floor on Friday in which the progressive "Squad" member called on President Biden to stop U.S. military aid to Israel.  "If you want to see what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents," she told the House floor. "We must write our story in this moment of what it means and who we are as Americans. And our story must be not that we were good men who did nothing."  CNN's Jake Tapper challenged that "genocide" is a word that has "serious and specific connotations and allegations," that is defined by "the intent to destroy in whole or in part a natio...