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President Donald Trump repeatedly clashed with Terry Moran of ABC News about whether Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was deported by the United States government to El Salvador in March disregarding a court order, had “MS13” – representing the MS-13 gang – tattooed on his knuckles. During the ABC interview that aired on April 29, Trump referred to an image he shared on his Truth Social platform on April 18 showing what he said was Abrego Garcia’s tattoo. The image shows a left hand with four tattoos, one on each finger: a marijuana leaf, a smiley face with the letter…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, saying they reflect the priorities of the previous administration.Grant recipients were notified Tuesday that the funding will not be continued after this year. A gun violence bill signed by Democratic President Joe Biden in 2022 sent $1 billion to the grant programs to help schools hire more psychologists, counselors and other mental health workers.A new notice said an Education Department review of the programs found they violated the purpose of civil rights law, conflicted with the department’s policy of prioritizing merit and fairness,…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 180-year-old private Christian university in South Carolina is closing at the end of the semester after failing to raise $6 million to keep its doors open.Limestone University officials said that after two weeks of furious fundraising and other actions, they collected just a little over $2 million and had no choice but to close its Gaffney campus and online programs.The school had lost about half its enrollment in the past decade.“Our Limestone spirit will endure through the lives of our students and alumni who carry it forward into the world,” said Randall Richardson, chair of…

The crush of traffic going into training and running AI has quickly turned into a major cost and resource headache for organisations. Today, Cast AI — a startup building tools to ease and optimise AI and other workloads with automation — is raising a major round of funding on the back of its strong growth and partnerships with major players in the space.  The company has raised $108 million — a Series C that it will be using both for more R&D as well as to expand its business both in core markets like the U.S., as well as elsewhere.…

Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution provider Vertex. The startup plans to enable more small and medium businesses to use its AI-enabled capabilities for tax calculations and filings. The ongoing growth of e-commerce and cross-border trade, combined with increasingly complex tax regulations, has driven global demand for tax automation solutions. Kintsugi aims to aid companies with its software that integrates with revenue-generating points, whether that’s Shopify, Stripe, Chargebee, QuickBooks, or a custom API implementation. This helps bring…

Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution provider Vertex. The startup plans to enable more small and medium businesses to use its AI-enabled capabilities for tax calculations and filings. The ongoing growth of e-commerce and cross-border trade, combined with increasingly complex tax regulations, has driven global demand for tax automation solutions. Kintsugi aims to aid companies with its software that integrates with revenue-generating points, whether that’s Shopify, Stripe, Chargebee, Quickbooks, or a custom API implementation. This helps bring…

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference (RSAC) in San Francisco. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a daily digest summarizing some of the announcements made by vendors. Here is a roundup of the most important product and service announcements made on the second day of the event.   The announcements from the first day have also been summarized and we have also made a roundup covering the weeks leading up to the event (part 1, part 2, part 3). Black Kite introduces Vulnerability…

Facebook parent company Meta on Tuesday announced the release of new open source Llama AI protection tools, along with new AI-enabled solutions for security operations. The new tools available now for the open source AI community include Llama Guard 4, LlamaFirewall, and Llama Prompt Guard 2. Intended as a unified safeguard across modalities and providing support for text and image understanding protections, Llama Guard 4 is also available on a new Llama API, which was released in preview. LlamaFirewall is a fresh security tool for orchestration across guard models that can detect and prevent prompt injections, insecure code, and risky…

Donald Trump’s speech in Warren, Michigan, marking his 100th day in office sounded a lot like something the United States president clearly loves: a good old-fashioned campaign rally. During the April 29 speech, Trump touted a record number of executive orders, efforts to slash the federal workforce and deportations of migrants in the US illegally, spotlighted in a video showing deportees being booked into a high-security El Salvador prison. But Trump also returned to themes that animated his campaign rallies and looked for familiar faces in the crowd. “I missed you guys. I missed the campaign,” he said. Trump referred…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford in Burlington, Vermont, issued his ruling following a hearing on Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident for 10 years, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on April 14. He has been held at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans.A judge later issued an order barring the government from…