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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy came under fire after he did not return to the Garden State following the historic earthquake on Friday that left residents rattled. U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, N.J.-R, spoke with "FOX News Live" on Saturday after Murphy did not issue an on-camera address to residents, despite a few TV and phone interviews, including an interview Saturday with CBS. "We haven’t heard from the governor — and you know, on a lighter side, Arthel, there are those that say maybe it’s good he didn’t come, because every time he’s in New Jersey, he’s increasing taxes, tolls, fees and subsidizing illegals," Van Drew told "FOX News Live" co-anchor Arthel Neville .  "But on a serious note, he wasn’t at a world summit for world peace. I mean he was at a Democratic convention — basically an association of democratic governors who were probably working on ways to make more democratic governors," he said. 4.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEW JE...

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M   —  Ex-Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg thinks advanced AI can help  —  By the time Renate Nyborg quit her job in 2022 she had become accustomed …

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Email: Galaxy Digital's venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups   —  Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting - and investing - outside capital.  —  Galaxy Digital's venture team …

Julian Chokkattu / Wired : OnePlus Watch 2 review: runs Wear OS with a big, bright screen and three-day battery life but lacks some health features, the accuracy of results is a mixed bag   —  A month with the OnePlus Watch 2 has made me wish that every fully-featured smartwatch had this battery life.  —  Rating:  —  7/10

Former First Lady Melania Trump is finally getting back on the campaign trail, according to reports. Melania, wife of former President Donald Trump , will reportedly be attending a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans later this month, multiple publications have reported. The group is the most prominent pro-LGBT Republican advocacy group in the country. It would be Melania's first public fundraising event in months.  MELANIA JOINS TRUMP IN FLORIDA, TELLS REPORTERS TO 'STAY TUNED' FOR CAMPAIGN FUTURE Fox News Digital reached out to Log Cabin Republicans and representatives for the Trump campaign for confirmation but did not receive a response. The Log Cabin Republicans' event will roll out the group's "Road to Victory" — a voter-targeting program planned for swing states.  Melania made her first public appearance of the 2024 election cycle last month when she briefly joined her husband to cast votes in Florida . MELANIA 'GOING TO BE OUT A LO...

A leading Democrat in the race to represent Maryland in the Senate never committed to a debate against his primary opponent at a previously scheduled event later this month. The April 23 debate between Rep. David Trone, D-Md. — who is running against Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks to become Maryland's next U.S. Senator — was canceled Tuesday after the Trone campaign "refused to commit," according to the debate host, NBC’s Baltimore affiliate. The announcement from NBC's WBAL-TV came after it had partnered with NBC Washington, "Meet the Press" and Maryland Public Television to bring voters in Maryland a televised debate between the two Democratic candidates in the race ahead of the May 14 primary election. The Trone campaign defended its decision in a statement, saying the congressman had already committed to "a dozen public forums and a televised debate." WATCH: DEMOCRAT FRONTRUNNER IN TIGHT SENATE RACE DROPS RACIAL SLUR D...

Niamh Rowe / Fortune : Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm   —  Ellipsis Labs today announced $20 million in Series A funding, led by Paradigm with participation from Electric Capital.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is vowing to fight back against what he says is the Biden administration's unlawful use of parole authority to allow illegal migrants to fly into the U.S. in the tens of thousands each month as a new report finds Miami is a top destination for migrants on those flights. "It’s an illegal program. They’re bringing people in who don’t have a right to be in this country from foreign countries," DeSantis said on Wednesday. His administration highlighted a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, which, using Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, reported that migrants admitted to the U.S. via the parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) were overwhelmingly flying to Miami. The study found that more than 326,000 migrants have arrived so far via Miami. CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE "This is but one of the many examples of how Biden’s egregious and unlawful immigration policies are disproportio...

Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI says that paid users can now edit DALL-E images in ChatGPT across web, iOS, and Android, using a selection tool and additional text prompts   —  - DALL-E will also begin letting people choose the aspect ratio of the desired image as well as to add styles, such as “motion blur” or “solarpunk.”

The White House on Tuesday answered whether President Biden believes that some of those crossing the border illegally could be in the U.S. plotting a terror attack on the homeland. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked John Kirby, the U.S. National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, if, as the person in charge of "preventing a terrorist attack in the homeland, does President Biden think that some of these border crossers could be in the United States right now plotting a terrorist attack against Americans?" "The president is confident that throughout the interagency – DHS, intelligence community – that we're doing everything we can to be as vigilant as we can to ensure the safety and security of the American people here at home," Kirby said at a press briefing, before pivoting to another reporter.  Doocy had initially referenced how former President Trump is scheduled to appear in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to deliver a spe...

research!rsc : A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros from Debian, Red Hat, others   —  Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library …

The White House is calling the squatting trend in which strangers seize and live in a homeowner's property against their wishes a "local issue" that local governments must address themselves. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday whether Americans need to be worried about squatters and where President Biden stands on the issue as horror stories continue to make headlines. "My understanding is that this is obviously a local issue," Jean-Pierre said. "We are certainly tracking that issue. The rights of property owners and renters must be protected." "And we believe that ultimately what needs to happen is that the local government needs to make sure that they address this, and they take action," the press secretary continued. ‘SQUATTER SCAM’ ENDS IN FLORIDA AS DESANTIS, SHERIFF TOUT NEW CRACKDOWN: ‘STRAIGHT TO JAIL’ Jean-Pierre said all Americans in communities across the country...

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg : Binance names its first board of directors, which has seven members including CEO Richard Teng and three other Binance execs   —  - Board includes three independent members, four insiders  — The firm still has not announced its global headquarters

Max Tani / Semafor : Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to be on its Podcast “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 podcasts last week were participants   —  To get their show featured at the top of the Apple Podcasts feed, one of the best placements in the audio world …

Katie Hafner / New York Times : Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82   —  After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.

Heather Knight / New York Times : A profile of YC's Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism   —  The tech investor Garry Tan has courted San Francisco's moderate Democrats and angered its progressives.Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times

John Thornhill / Financial Times : Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023   —  British AI pioneer says the billions of dollars being poured into start-ups is obscuring scientific progress in the field