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Conor Benn will face Regis Prograis on the undercard of the Tyson Fury-Arslanbek Makhmudov fight at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 11th.The announcement followed Benn’s industry-shaking decision to sever ties with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing and join Zuffa, a new promotion run by UFC boss Dana White. Benn’s first fight under his new regime will see him return to his win over Chris Eubank Jr. and face two-time light welterweight world champion Prograis (30-3, 24 KOs). Ben said: “April 11th can’t come soon enough and it means everything to me to be back at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium where we…

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s testimony during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policy at the Capitol on April 8, 2025 in Washington, DC.Kevin MohatreuterDemocratic senators raised concerns about conflicts of interest over Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s former firm Cantor Fitzgerald’s involvement in deals with critical mineral startups. American rare earths.Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, said in a letter obtained by CNBC that the deal raised questions about whether Mr. Lutnick’s…

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesInstagram announced Thursday that its parent company will warn parents if their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm terms. Meta Scrutined across multiple trials.”These alerts are designed to ensure parents are aware if their teen is repeatedly attempting to search for this content and provide them with the resources they need to support their teen,” the company said in a release.The parental monitoring feature comes as the company faces allegations that…

Republican lawmakers are pushing for limits on the ability of U.S. companies to sell advanced semiconductors to China, an effort that has clashed with some key figures in the Trump administration.The effort pits China’s hardliners against Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. He has repeatedly told lawmakers and government officials that the more American chips are used in China, the more American companies will become leaders in the field. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Florida) has been at the forefront of ensuring that artificial intelligence and chips are considered national security assets and has not been afraid to directly criticize…

In January 2003, President George W. Bush stood before the US Congress and warned of the “grave danger” of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed by “dictators” in America’s former client states in the Middle East.Twenty-three years later, in the same chamber, President Donald Trump told a strikingly similar story of a rogue regime, a looming nuclear threat, and a ticking clock in his State of the Union address.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn a dark twist of historical irony, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, armed to the teeth by America in the 1980-1988 war between Iraq and the emerging…

Traders at work at the New York Stock Exchange on February 18, 2026. new york stock exchangeU.S. Treasury yields were little changed Thursday as investors awaited some economic data and weighed the state of the U.S. economy.The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was flat at 4.048%, while the 30-year Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point to 4.693%. The yield on two-year government bonds also fell by less than 1 basis point to 3.469%.One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.Investors are waiting for some economic data, including Thursday’s unemployment claims numbers, to be released…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang was right when he told CNBC investors that he was “misinformed” that concerns about AI led to a selloff of software stocks, market participants said. Software stocks have been caught in a slide amid fears that AI will make software-as-a-service (SaaS) obsolete, dragging the sector into bear market territory. It’s called “Saaspocalypse.” Speaking to CNBC’s Becky Quick after the chipmaker’s earnings call on Wednesday, NVIDIA’s CEO said investors are overestimating the impact AI will have on the industry. “I think the market got it wrong,” Huang told Quick, calling the decline “counterintuitive.” He added that AI agents…

At first glance, these two photos look almost like duplicates. A young cyclist looks determined as he slings his bike onto his shoulders beneath a glacier near Everest Base Camp. These images may have been taken within seconds of each other, in the same location, in the same light, and in the same shadow. However, they were separated for 40 years. The first is about the adventures of cycling enthusiast Phil Hargreaves, who sets out from the UK in 1984 at the age of 22, traveling through Europe, Asia and finally arriving in Sydney, accompanied by two friends for part…

After Luke Littler’s impressive win at the Polish Darts Open, Josh Locke believes the Warrington ace remains ‘the man to beat’ in this year’s Premier League.Littler struggled in the first three weeks of the Premier League, but was in devastating form on the way to a dominant win in Krakow at the weekend, averaging more than 108 touches and hitting seven 180s. The teenage prodigy easily beat Ross Smith, Josh Locke and Chris Dobbie to reach the final and took the title with an 8-4 victory over Jan van Veen, who scored a nine-dart finish in the final. Use Chrome…