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President Trump said Friday he liked the idea of the United States joining the British Commonwealth after a report claimed King Charles III would make an offer.  "I love King Charles," Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning while linking to an article citing a Daily Mail report that said the monarch would secretly offer the U.S. associate membership in the Commonwealth during Trump's second state visit to Britain. "Sounds good to me!"  Trump also reposted the same report about the king’s "secret" offer of membership late Saturday morning.  Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.  PRINCE WILLIAM VIEWS TRUMP RELATIONSHIP AS KEY TO MONARCHY 'S FUTURE: EXPERT The British Commonwealth, created in 1926, is made up of 56 countries, including Australia and Canada, most of which were originally British colonies. The monarch is the head of the Commonwealth, whose maintenance was a major priority of Queen Elizabeth II.  Mem...

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : As Spotify pushes its new video monetization program, sexually explicit videos have appeared on its top podcast charts, violating the company's terms of use   —  The sexually explicit videos, which Spotify doesn't allow, have shown up alongside some of the most popular podcasts on the service

Aria Bendix / NBC News : HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage   —  Kennedy pointed to evidence-based links between social media use and depression, but shared an unfounded claim that cell phones increase cancer risk.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech   —  At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics …

President Donald Trump on Friday pushed back against a reporter's question in the Oval Office by asking whether former President Joe Biden had the legal standing to allow a high number of migrants into the United States during the previous administration. The Trump administration continues in its efforts toward mass deportations , including with recent Immigration and Customs and Enforcement raids, and migrant crossings plummeted in February to their lowest tracked level in decades. "Do you think you have the authority, the power to round up people, deport them and then you're under no obligation to a court to show the evidence against them?" a reporter asked the president. PUERTO RICO NO LONGER SAFE BET FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS AS TRUMP CRACKDOWN EXPANDS TO US TERRITORY "That's what the law says, and that's what our country needs because … unfortunately, they allowed millions of people to come into our country. Totally unvetted, totally unchecked,"...

Bloomberg : Sources: the UK weighs reducing or abolishing its 2% digital services tax on UK revenue of Big Tech companies by April 2 in an effort to avoid some US tariffs   —  The UK government is weighing plans to reduce or even abolish its digital services tax before April 2 in an effort to avoid …

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Germany's Munich Re agrees to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6B; Next Insurance has raised ~$1.2B from Capital G, Redpoint, and others   —  Germany's Munich Re has signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6 billion, the firms announced on Thursday.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon   —  Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded it.

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : Source: Perplexity has discussed raising as much as $500M to $1B in a new round that would double its valuation to $18B; its current ARR is nearly $100M   —  The company has discussed raising as much as $500 million to $1 billion in the round, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, may run for late Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s seat in Congress after Grijalva died last week. The decision could lead to a major shakeup in the state’s politics. It's a seat Grijalva, a Democrat, had held since 2003 until his lung cancer-related death earlier this month at 77. "I have long admired Congressman Grijalva. We should all be grateful for his years of service," Fontes said in a statement Tuesday. DEMOCRATIC REP. RAUL GRIJALVA DEAD AT 77 "I am strongly considering a run to represent AZ-07, a place where I was born and raised, served my country in the Marine Corps, and protected democracy. I will have more to say in the days ahead. "Right now, we must remember and appreciate the life and legacy of the late Congressman Grijalva." As part of the state’s "resign to run" law, Fontes would need to leave his role, and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs would need to appoint his replacement. The ne...

The Trump administration gutted the Institute of Peace of "rogue bureaucrats" who held a tense standoff with a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team Monday that required police intervention, according to the White House.  "Rogue bureaucrats will not be allowed to hold agencies hostage," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "The Trump administration will enforce the president’s executive authority and ensure his agencies remain accountable to the American people." The Institute of Peace is an independent, national institution funded by Congress that was established in 1984 under the Reagan administration to promote peace and diplomacy on the international stage.  President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February regarding reducing the "scope of federal bureaucracy," which included specifically targeting the size of the Institute of Peace, as well as other government programs, such as the U.S. ...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp “a cheap, watered-down imitation”   —  Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users.

FIRST ON FOX: A university doctor has resigned from his position after Fox News Digital reported on unearthed audio where he touted how he has been avoiding anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) laws in Florida while attacking state and federal officials, including top White House official Stephen Miller. "Shortly after learning of Dr. Brown’s comments, the university decided to place him on administrative leave to allow for a thorough review of the matter," a University of South Florida spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "In response, he has chosen to resign effective immediately." Dr. Haywood Brown, associate vice president of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida, explained how he continues to implement DEI policies and how he has avoided state and federal discrimination laws, as well as a recent Supreme Court ruling that colleges cannot consider race in admissions decisions, during a recent presentation last month at Virginia C...

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times : French music streamer Deezer reports €542M in 2024 revenue, up 12% YoY, ~9.7M total subs, and that it achieved positive free cash flow, a first for the company   —  Spotify rival seeks to invest in research and development after reaching ‘massive milestone’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt chastised a low-ranking French politician who made headlines for demanding that the United States return the Statue of Liberty.  During a Monday press briefing, Leavitt reminded Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, that he would be speaking German if it weren't for American troops.  Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt on Monday if President Donald Trump would give the Statue of Liberty, which has graced New York City's harbor since the 1800s, back to France.  FRENCH PARLIAMENT MEMBER WANTS US TO RETURN STATUE OF LIBERTY: 'APPARENTLY YOU DESPISE IT' "Absolutely not," Leavitt said with a smile. "And, my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now."  "So they should be very...

The federal judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's use of a wartime law to deport Venezuelan nationals could be at the center of a larger battle after Trump's border czar vowed Monday to continue sending migrants back to Latin America. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg made headlines Saturday for granting an emergency restraining order blocking the Trump administration from invoking a 1798 law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals , including alleged members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua, for 14 days. Boasberg sided with the plaintiffs, Democracy Forward and the ACLU, in ruling that the deportations would likely pose imminent and "irreparable" harm.  "Given the exigent circumstances that [the court] has been made aware of this morning, it has determined that an immediate Order is warranted to maintain the status quo until a hearing can be set," Boasberg said in his order, which blocked Trump from invoking any deportations ...

Mike Pastore / Search Engine Land : Adobe: traffic from AI sources to US retail sites in February rose 1,200% from July 2024; 39% of US consumers used generative AI for shopping, 53% plan to do so   —  Traffic from generative AI surged to U.S. retail sites over the holiday season and that trend has continued into 2025, according to new Adobe data.

Rachyl Jones / Semafor : CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as a bellwether for both the tech industry and how the public market perceives AI in the years ahead   —  The Scene  —  One cloud computing company is trying to cut through the economic noise to become a herald of the artificial intelligence …

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump ’s airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, arguing that the U.S. is "doing the world a favor" by targeting the militant group. "We're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping. That's the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out," Rubio said during an appearance on CBS’ "Face the Nation" on Sunday. The comments come after Trump announced on social media Saturday that he had ordered "decisive and powerful" airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen , arguing that that terrorist group has "waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones." HOUTHIS POST CRYPTIC VIDEO OF AMERICAN FLAG-DRAPED COFFINS "It has been over a year since a U.S.-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea,...

Former Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., has died at age 87, according to her family. Lowey, who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives for 32 years and was the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee, died Saturday after a long battle with metastatic breast cancer, according to a report from the New York Post. "Nita’s family was central to her life as she was to all of ours," the longtime lawmaker’s family said in a statement. "We will miss her more than words can say and take great comfort in knowing that she lived a full and purposeful life." NITA LOWEY, LONGTIME DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER AND HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIRWOMAN, TO RETIRE The New York lawmaker was born Nita Sue Menikoff in the Bronx in 1937, later graduating from Bronx High School of Science before going on to receive a degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1959, the Post report noted. She married attorney Stephen Lowey in 1961, and was first elected to Congress in 1988 to r...

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : A look at the growing battle over how to define a podcast, as YouTube pushes deeper into podcasting and Spotify pursues video   —  As YouTube pushes deeper into podcasting and Spotify pursues video, once-distinct business lines are getting increasingly blurry  —  Hello, hello.  Welcome back to Soundbite.