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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) recently confirmed agents from the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector arrested two Mexican fugitives with active warrants for homicide and lewd acts upon a child. Agents conducted coordinated surveillance on Feb. 26 targeting Silvia Del Rosario Torres-Castro, a Mexican national wanted in Mexico for homicide .  Torres-Castro was arrested without incident in Anaheim, California, and turned her over to Mexico’s Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), according to DHS. Officials said she entered the U.S. illegally in December 2023 under the Biden administration in the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station’s Area of Responsibility. ICE ARRESTS 'WORST OF THE WORST' CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INCLUDING MURDERERS AND PEDOPHILES In a separate surveillance operation on March 6, agents targeted Salvador Suazo-Garcia, a Mexican national wanted in Mexico for lewd and lascivious acts upon a child.  Agents arrested Sua...

Drew Harwell / Washington Post : Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real   —  The beautiful Army blonde Jessica Foster has posed with an F-22 Raptor fighter jet, donned camouflage in the desert and walked …

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., accused Senate Democrats of not having "any excuses" to continue blocking Homeland Security funding as Republicans and the White House continue to make repeated offers to reopen the government. "The opportunity to actually drive this to a conclusion is there," Thune said at a press conference on Saturday in response to Fox News Digital. "You have to have, obviously, to negotiate a deal, you got to have two sides at the table. The White House is there, Senate Republicans are there. The question is, are Senate Democrats going to take yes for an answer?" The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered its 36th day of shutdown as Senate Democrats continue to block funding for the agency in their pursuit of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). DHS SHUTDOWN TIED FOR SECOND-LONGEST EVER AS DEMS AGAIN BLOCK FUNDING AMID AIRPORT CHAOS, TERRORISM CONCERNS After more than two weeks of negotiations app...

Ed Bott / ZDNET : Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more   —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11.  — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg : Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4   —  Roblox Corp. will take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games as part of a major overhaul of its advertising policies.

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI   —  Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup

All four Democrats on the House Administration Committee voted against advancing a measure to authorize land on the National Mall to construct the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum . The measure cleared the committee on a 7-4 party-line vote, the bill's sponsor, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis , R-N.Y., said.  Malliotakis, who does not sit on the committee, said in a post on X that Democrats opposed an amendment to ensure the museum only honors biological women. "Democrats in the House Administration Committee just voted against my bill to build a Women’s History Museum on the National Mall because an amendment was adopted to ensure only biological women are exhibited. What a way to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth!" Malliotakis said in the post . CALIFORNIA'S TRANS AGENDA SUFFERS ANOTHER LEGAL BLOW AFTER ATTEMPT TO UNDERCUT SCOTUS ORDER FAILS Her post includes a screenshot of the legislative text that states, "The Museum shall be dedicated to preserving,...

Maxwell Zeff / Wired : Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects   —  As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

Lone wolf attackers inspired by extremist ideologies pose the most likely terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland , according to the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The 34-page document was released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard Wednesday. She testified at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats alongside other key military and Trump administration officials. The 2025 threat assessment similarly warned that terrorist threats to the U.S. increasingly come from individuals acting alone or in small groups. The new report says I SIS and al Qaeda remain intent on targeting the United States, but their ability to plan and execute complex attacks has been significantly degraded over time. CRITICAL SWING STATE CANDIDATES REVEAL WHERE THEY STAND ON DHS FUNDING AFTER SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACKS Officials warn that individuals radicalized online are increasingly carrying out or attempting attacks with little dire...

Kanika Talwar / WWD : Meta makes its Meta Lab NYC pop-up on Fifth Avenue a permanent flagship location after signing a 10-year lease; it opened its first flagship store in LA in 2025   —  The tech company has signed a decade-long lease for its Meta Lab town house on Fifth Avenue.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani referenced the "genocide" of Palestinians during a St. Patrick’s Day event Tuesday at Gracie Mansion. Mamdani made the remarks at a breakfast honoring Irish New Yorkers, where he praised former Irish President Mary Robinson for her record on human rights and her support for Palestinians.  "I say this as over the past few years, as we’ve witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many," Mamdani said. "For those who have long cared about universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians, silence, however, is nothing new – for Palestinians are so often left to weep alone. Yet former President Robinson has never been silent." Mamdani tied Irish history to broader themes of solidarity, calling it "no coincidence" and asking, "Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long?" MAMDANI'S WIFE LIKED S...

Bloomberg : NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained, in a bid to curb VPNs, ahead of the Festival of Fire tied to protests   —  Iran's internet, which has been heavily throttled by the regime since the outbreak of war, has gone even darker over the past 48 hours …

Richard Leadbetter / Digital Foundry : Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs   —  At its GTC 2026 event, Nvidia has revealed the next generation of DLSS.  DLSS 5 isn't a frame-rate, frame generation or performance enhancing technology.

President Donald Trump said Monday that White House doctors helped treat Rep. Neal Dunn after the Florida Republican was given what he described as a "terminal" diagnosis. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., recounted the episode during remarks at the White House, saying Dunn was continuing to work in Congress despite a "pretty grim" outlook. "He would be dead by June," Trump told reporters. Johnson said he informed Trump of Dunn’s health challenges and the president suggested involving White House medical staff. FLORIDA REPUBLICAN REP NEAL DUNN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM CONGRESS AFTER FIVE TERMS The speaker said White House doctors arranged for Dunn to receive treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery . "The man has a new lease on life. He acts like he's 30 years younger," Johnson said. Trump praised White House doctors as "miracle workers," saying they moved q...

Eliza Triantafillou / OCCRP : Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month   —  The founder of the commercial spyware firm Intellexa, recently convicted in a landmark wiretapping trial …

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia   —  The company connects AI agents to security data lakes for interactive investigations, detection engineering, and autonomous response.

The United States is left vulnerable even by its own naturalized U.S. citizens from hostile foreign lands, proving a free country can be exposed to security risks by the very freedoms the Constitution endows, an expert warned on Fox News. "That's partially because of legal reasons: They can't just monitor constitutionally protected free speech and opinions after they become a naturalized citizen, indefinitely, just to keep tabs on them," Mauro Institute president Ryan Mauro told Fox News on Saturday. "They legally can't do it, and they also don't have the resources to do it." Just this month alone, the U.S. has experienced four attacks with ties to naturalized citizenship. TULSI GABBARD WARNS OF 'DIRECT THREAT' FROM SUSPECTED TERRORISTS NOW LIVING IN UNITED STATES "There's a bit of a jihad olympics going on, which is where you have the Sunni radicals like ISIS competing with the Shiite radicals of the Iranian regime because th...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021   —  Unacademy, once a one of India's most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal …