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gtc In Pixar’s Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, “The claw chooses who will go and who will stay.” The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. 

In Nvidia’s tech narrative, the claw chooses the tools it will use to carry out data processing directives and network traversal. Nvidia is referring to the trending shorthand for software agents, which are AI models given access to software tools and services. At its GTC conference in San Jose, CA, on Monday, the company unveiled NemoClaw, a set of software tools meant to help corporate customers use the OpenClaw platform.

“Claws are autonomous agents that can plan, act, execute tasks on their own, and they’ve gone from just thinking and executing on tasks to achieving entire missions,” said Kari Briski, VP of generative AI software for enterprise at Nvidia, during a media briefing on Sunday ahead of the conference. “We used to prompt with what, how, or why, but for claws now we prompt with build, create or make.”

The claw terminology dates back to the end of January with the debut OpenClaw, an open platform for connecting software agents to various applications with few constraints. (It had previously been known as Clawd, then Moltbot.) OpenClaw achieved social media fame for showing people how easy it could be to enable automation, albeit with uncertain results and multiple security nightmares. Shortly thereafter, OpenAI “acquihired” OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and said the project would end up being managed by a foundation.

Now Nvidia is looking to arm itself with OpenClaw, which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang describes as “the operating system for personal AI.”

Briski was more blunt. “Claws are the new application layer for AI, and they’re driving orders of magnitude more demand for compute.”

Nvidia, the provider of picks-and-shovels for the AI boom, wants to capitalize on that demand. But the excitement of letting AI agents muck about in corporate databases, personal correspondence, and the enterprise network tends to be a bit much for lawsuit-averse companies. As Briski observed, “Claws are exciting but they’re risky too, because they could access sensitive data, misuse connected tools, or escalate privileges autonomously.”

Just as NanoClaw has made a home in Docker’s Sandbox, Nvidia aims to tamp down the excitement to an enterprise-compatible level.

Nvidia’s NemoClaw stack lets users of OpenClaw install Nvidia’s Nemotron models and OpenShell runtime using a single command via the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, a collection of models, runtimes, and blueprints for safer, long-running agents.

Briski describes OpenShell as an open-source safety and security runtime for agents. It sandboxes OpenClaw agents to limit their access to sensitive data and reduce the opportunity for unwanted behavior.

“OpenShell provides the missing infrastructure layer beneath clause to give them the access they need to be productive while enforcing policy based security, network and privacy guardrails,” she explained.

NemoClaw for OpenClaw supports local computing for AI agents on PCs with Nvidia GeForce RTX, workstations equipped with Nvidia RTX Pro, Nvidia DGX Station, and DGX Spark supercomputers. ®



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Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed first three guest hosts of UK Saturday Night Live | Saturday Night Live

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Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed have been named as the first three guest hosts of the UK spin-off of Saturday Night Live.

The first episode of the long-awaited British version of the US late-night comedy show will air live on Sky on 21 March.

SNL’s famously fast turnaround process will be recreated in the UK version, with the show written and rehearsed in the week of broadcast before being performed live to a studio audience in London.

Each episode will feature an opening monologue, topical sketches, live music and a British take on SNL’s satirical news segment, Weekend Update.

The first three music acts to launch the new show will be Isle of Wight indie band Wet Leg, Brit award-winners Wolf Alice and rock legends Kasabian.

The American comic Tina Fey, 55, spent years as a writer and cast member of SNL from 1997 before going on to become the show’s first female head writer and hosting six times.

Lorne Michaels, who created SNL in 1975, will be the UK show’s executive producer, along with a team of 20 writers and a regular cast of 11 comedians.

The cast’s age range is from 26 to 36, and the head producer, James Longman, said he wanted “a new generation on the screen”. The full cast includes Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi and Paddy Young.

Saturday Night Live UK’s lineup, from left: Jonno Johnson, Charlie Skelton, Celya AB, Omar Badawy, Gráinne Maguire, Laura Claxton, Chris Cantrill, James Farmer, Humphrey Ker, Omodara Olatunji, Joseph Moore, Lorna Rose Treen, Hari Kanth, Louis Waymouth, Keith Akushie, Bella Hull, Ayo Adenekan, Nathan Foad, Al Roberts and Ellie Fulcher. Photograph: Saturday Night Live UK/PA

Although the cast are far from household names, many come from the usual routes to UK comedy success, including the Cambridge Footlights and being nominated for Edinburgh fringe awards.

Over its 50-year history, SNL has launched many a comedy career in the US, including those of its original cast – John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner – and later Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell.

The Guardian went behind the scenes with the team of performers and writers who spent the last month hashing out premises for skits and workshopping each other’s material.

Cast member and standup comic Bamgboye described it as “finding the alchemy”. Actor and TikToker Shep said it had been like “comedy boarding school”.

The series’ head writer, Johnson, said: “The number of funny, talented writers we have got to work on SNL UK is ludicrous.”

“All of them make me giddy to come to work each day,” he added. “I could not imaginably feel luckier that we get to make this show together.”

The first episode of SNL UK will air on Sky One on 21 March at 10pm. The series will also be available on streaming service Now.



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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer request for a Mexican illegal migrant who was charged with soliciting sexual content from children under 10 years old. 

Angel David Rubio Marin allegedly used “Robux” in the Roblox video game to entice children to send him sexually explicit videos and images of at least three young children under 10 years old. He was arrested in Prince William County, VA.

Rubio Marin was previously charged with two counts of public masturbation, but was released in Virginia prior to the current charges, according to DHS.

“This sicko preyed on innocent children by offering to pay them in a video game currency in exchange for child pornography,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital in a statement. ”This illegal alien was RELEASED from jail after an arrest for public masturbation. This case is a perfect example of why we need state and local cooperation with ICE.”

Roblox building next to illegal migrant Angel David Rubio Marin

The case highlights criticism of Virginia’s sanctuary-style policies under Governor Abigail Spanberger, who recently ended the 287(g) program and state cooperation with ICE, allowing the illegal migrant suspect to be released back into communities before federal intervention. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Courtesy of ICE)

SANCTUARY POLICIES LET ALLEGED CHILD PREDATOR ROAM FREE UNTIL DHS MADE PORTLAND, OREGON, AIRPORT ARREST

“We are calling on Virginia sanctuary politicians and Governor Spanberger to commit to not releasing this child predator back into Virginia neighborhoods,” Bis added. “No one wants this pedophile loose on American streets.”

Roblox is an online video game where users interact via chat. Robux is an in-game currency where players can purchase accessories and items for their character. The game is popular among young children.

Roblox made clear that the platform’s filters make it impossible for users to share images or videos through in-game chat.

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DHS and ICE issued an arrest detainer for Mexican national Angel David Rubio Marin, who allegedly used Robux in Roblox to solicit sexually explicit images and videos from at least three children under 10, after he was previously released from custody in Virginia following charges of public masturbation. (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rubio Martin entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown place and time, according to DHS. 

The department was quick to bash Democratic Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, who ended cooperation with state agencies and federal immigration authorities through an executive directive in February shortly after her inauguration.

In a statement issued after signing the directive, she argued that requiring state and local officers to take on federal immigration duties diverts them from their primary responsibilities of enforcing Virginia law and investigating crimes.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers an address in Richmond. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

According to Spanberger, shifting those duties can damage relationships between police and residents and create an atmosphere of fear and mistrust that ultimately makes it more difficult for officers to effectively do their jobs.

The directive also reverses the 287(g) program adopted under former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. That policy allowed certain local law enforcement officers to carry out limited immigration enforcement responsibilities under the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including helping ensure criminal illegal migrants were not released back into communities and identifying illegal migrants already being held in local jails.

Fox News Digital reached out to Spanberger’s office but has not yet heard back.

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The EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit.

At a public meeting of the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly in Brussels, the European Commission vice-president and trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, said both sides had to “change gears” now to ensure the deal got over the line.

Deadlock over the tuition fees EU citizens would pay in a proposed youth mobility scheme is a major challenge, he said, while the UK’s trade minister, Chris Bryant, said that talks on a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement was tricky because of the amount of legislation needed in the British parliament.

Šefčovič told the MPs and MEPs on Monday that finding agreement before the next summit – pencilled in for early July – was “very ambitious”.

But he added: “We need to change gears and work through complexities.”

He repeatedly called for a compromise on tuition fees, the first time he has spoken publicly on the issue since a so-called “common understanding” or formal agenda for a reset between the EU and UK was signed off last May in Lancaster House.

Keir Starmer, the prime minister, has put agreeing a new deal with Brussels at the centre of his economic and foreign policy, and is hoping to announce a number of agreements at the summit this summer.

While talks on SPS and on emissions trading rules are well advanced, the two sides are deadlocked over whether EU students should be charged the same fees as British ones rather than the higher international ones, which they currently have to pay.

“To come to an agreement on the youth experience scheme, we will need a solution of tuition fees,” said Šefčovič.

The disagreement threatens to scupper not only the planned summit but also the broader plans to realign with the EU, which the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will highlight in a speech on Tuesday as central to her growth agenda.

Officials have told the Guardian that Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet Office minister in charge of negotiations with Brussels, is already working on which other parts of the economy would benefit from following EU regulations.

Thomas-Symonds has instructed officials to conduct a “scoping exercise” to find out where companies are already complying with EU rules and so it no longer makes sense to apply separate UK ones. In return the two countries could then remove border checks on those goods.

It is understood that the government believes all sectors apart from financial services and some hi-tech industries such as artificial intelligence might benefit from this approach.

Brussels sources said the UK is looking to draw up an agenda for the 2026 and 2027 reset, with a deal on touring artists, mutual recognition of professional qualifications and the elimination of costly dual regulation of chemicals high on the UK’s priorities.

At the parliamentary assembly Šefčovič also revealed one element of the 2020 trade and cooperation agreement signed by David Frost that had failed – a deal to allow people servicing equipment and machinery in the UK to have work visas for up to 180 days.

“Only 49 visas were granted in 2025. That is a very low number of visas and shows the scheme does not work,” he said.

Attempts for a wider realignment are likely to be put on ice, however, if the two governments cannot find a way past the student fees issue.

Šefčovič said EU student numbers in the UK had collapsed and it was vital in “this very turbulent world” that relations between future generations were fostered through education in each other’s countries.

“We should avoid the situation where we would be depriving our young generation from the common knowledge, common history.

“I know that it is challenging, it is difficult, but I believe that on both sides of the channel there is a strong wish from elected representatives of the people that we should solve this problem,” he said.

EU students before Brexit represented 27% of the student population but the intake for the 2026-2027 academic year is 5%.

The “slow” and methodical nature of talks didn’t help, said Bryant.

“Our system is very slow and let me put it this way, the European Union isn’t much faster. And when you put the two of us together, I don’t think it drives the pace of change that actually all of our voters and our communities really, really want and actually need economically.”

Thomas-Symonds said he took onboard the sense of urgency MEPs and MPs were looking for.

“The message I take from this room very much today is about putting our foot on the accelerator,” he said.

The Labour MP Stella Creasy said the UK was still “marriage” material and hoped that the competing voices in the party leadership, those insisting on red lines and those wishing to move closer to the EU did not stymie a deal.

“It is precisely because we are not yet willing to go bigger that these negotiations are turning out to be so hard.”



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Amazon’s Big Spring Sale starts March 25, but early discounts are already popping up.

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale starts March 25, but early discounts are already popping up. (Fox News Composite)

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale runs March 25-31, bringing a week of discounts on everything from home upgrades to Apple tech and beauty products. It’s one of Amazon’s first major sales of the year and a good time to save on seasonal items like solar lights, cleaning supplies, tire inflators and vacuums. Some deals arrive early, and limited-time discounts can sell out quickly.

Below, we explain how to prepare for the sale, plus early deals FOX News readers are already shopping.

READ MORE: Amazon’s Big Spring Saler hasn’t started yet — but these early deals are live right now

How Amazon’s Big Spring Sale compares to Prime Day

Amazon hosts several major sales each year, including Prime Day in July and Prime Big Deal Days in October. Amazon’s Big Spring Sale typically focuses on seasonal categories like patio furniture, cleaning tools, outdoor lighting and spring wardrobe updates.

Another key difference: While many deals are available to all shoppers, Prime members often get early access or deeper discounts on select items. Because the event runs for a full week, Amazon also rotates limited-time offers and Lightning Deals throughout the sale. That means the best prices don’t always appear on day one. In fact, some discounts may only last a few hours before selling out.

Based on previous years, we expect discounts on Apple Watches, bed pillows and vacuums. We’re also watching for price drops on popular items like outdoor lighting and tire inflators.

Tips for finding the best deals

Become a Prime member: Some of the best discounts during Amazon sales are often reserved for Prime members. Signing up ahead of time can unlock exclusive deals, faster shipping and early access to limited-time offers. You can join or start a 30-day free trial before the sale begins.

Add items to your cart early: If you already have products in mind, add them to your cart before the sale begins. That way you can quickly see when prices drop and check out before popular items sell out.

Sign up for deal alerts: Amazon often releases limited-time Lightning Deals during major events. Setting up alerts through the Amazon app or adding items to your watchlist can help you catch discounts before they disappear.

Follow FOX News Deals: Another easy way to stay ahead of the biggest discounts is to follow FOX News Deals on Facebook, where we share articles highlighting standout bargains during major shopping events.

FOX readers’ favorite Amazon deals from past sales

From hotel-quality pillow sets to Apple AirTags, these were some of the most popular purchases during past Amazon sales and they’re already discounted ahead of the Big Spring Sale.

Original price: $99 

A smart buy for travel, busy schedules and life on the go.

A smart buy for travel, busy schedules and life on the go. (Amazon)

Traveling before Amazon’s Big Spring Sale? You don’t have to wait to grab Apple AirTags. This four-pack is down to $64 and can help you keep track of luggage, keys, wallets and even pets. At that price, the bundle offers better value than buying a single AirTag for $29.

Original price: $399

Trade in an old watch for a newer model that has longer battery life.

Trade in an old watch for a newer model that has longer battery life. (Apple)

Apple Watches tend to sell fast during Amazon sales. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading, the Series 11 is now 25% off. It brings improvements like scratch-resistant glass, longer battery life and faster charging.

Original price: $129

Grab the latest AirPods for less than $100.

Grab the latest AirPods for less than $100. (Apple)

There’s no need to wait for the Amazon Big Spring Sale to grab the new Apple AirPods 4. They’re currently under $100 and feature an advanced chip, improved voice isolation for calls and a compact charging case.

Original price: $59.99

Upgrade your sleep quality with a pillow swap.

Upgrade your sleep quality with a pillow swap. (Amazon)

The Beckham Hotel Collection pillows are a longtime reader favorite, especially when the price drops. Soft yet supportive, they’re a simple upgrade for a better sleep and work well for any sleep position.

READ MORE: Amazon products that fix annoying household problems, all 40% off or more

Original price: $69.99

Premium sound and noise cancellation at an affordable price.

Premium sound and noise cancellation at an affordable price. (Amazon)

If you want rich audio without spending a fortune, Anker headphones are worth a look. The Q20i model uses hybrid active noise cancellation to cut background noise whether you’re on a flight or working in a busy office.

Original price: $99.99

For effortless flossing use this Waterpik.

For effortless flossing use this Waterpik. (Amazon)

Now at one of its lowest prices, the Waterpik water flosser uses targeted water pressure to clean between teeth and along the gum line. Its compact size makes it convenient for small bathrooms or travel.

Deals you can shop right now

You don’t have to wait for the sale to start. Deals on vacuums, household essentials and patio upgrade are already live.

Original price: $359.99

Snag this tire inflator while it’s deeply discounted.

Snag this tire inflator while it’s deeply discounted. (Amazon)

At 85% off, the deal on this tire inflator is hard to beat. It fills car, bike and motorcycle tires in minutes and features a digital display with automatic shutoff to prevent overfilling. It’s compact enough to stash in your trunk and includes a built-in LED emergency light.

Original price: $199.99

Grab a deal on this lightweight, powerful vacuum.

Grab a deal on this lightweight, powerful vacuum. (Amazon)

If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your vacuum, this Shark model drops to $99 during the sale. Powerful suction that tackles pet hair, while the bagless design keeps maintenance simple. Though it’s corded, the lightweight build helps you reach corners and tight spaces.

Original price: $12.96

Protect devices and create more room to charge them.

Protect devices and create more room to charge them. (Amazon)

Surge protectors are one of those practical items that frequently show up during Amazon sales. This version plugs directly into the wall and expands your charging space with five outlets and four USB ports so you can power everything in one place.

READ MORE: Amazon Renewed store deals: Save up to 63% on AirPods, Shark vacuums and more

Original price: $23.49

Stock up and save on these 13-gallon trash bags.

Stock up and save on these 13-gallon trash bags. (Amazon)

Everyday household essentials like these trash bags often show up during the Big Spring Sale. The sturdy 13-gallon bags fit standard kitchen cans, feature a fresh Febreze scent and cinch closed for easy cleanup.

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Original price: $32.99

Lighting can change the look of your space.

Lighting can change the look of your space. (Amazon)

Shoppers can expect patio upgrades like these string lights to be on sale. The solar-powered shatterproof bulbs cast a warm glow and come with a remote and timer. 

If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can get these items sent to your door ASAP. You can join or start a 30-day free trial to start your shopping today.

Nora Colomer is a writer reporting on beauty, style, home, kitchen, tech and fitness for Fox News.



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Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused the Pakistani army of carrying out an airstrike targeting a drug de-addiction hospital in Kabul. Four people died in this attack, while many others were injured.



Taliban government spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said on social media that this attack by Pakistan is a violation of Afghanistan’s sovereignty. He said most of those killed and injured in the attack were drug addicts undergoing treatment in the hospital.

Also read: Iran wants to compromise: Trump said – talks are going on with American officials; Fake pictures being spread through AI

What did Shahbaz government say on Kabul attacks?
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s spokesperson Mosharraf Zaidi termed these allegations as baseless and said that no hospital was targeted in Kabul. Pakistan says that its army takes action only on those targets from where attacks are carried out against it.

This allegation has come at a time when the border conflict between the two countries has entered the third week. According to Afghan officials, four people were killed and ten people were injured in firing on the border on Monday.

UNSC demands strict action from Taliban on terrorism
Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council has also called on the Taliban government of Afghanistan to take strict action against terrorism. Pakistan has long alleged that groups based in Afghanistan, particularly Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, carry out attacks inside the country. Kabul has been denying these allegations.

Also read: Russia: After China, Russia also warned on West Asia war, appealed to stop the war immediately and start talks

Tension between the two countries began in late February, when Afghanistan took action across the border in response to Pakistan air strikes. Since then, the situation has remained extremely tense due to continuous shelling and air strikes on the border.

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Gregory Bovino, who led Minnesota operation, says he’s retiring end of March | Trump administration

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Gregory Bovino of the US border patrol, who was demoted in late January as the public face of the controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, says he is retiring at the end of March.

Bovino announced his retirement in an interview with Breitbart on Monday, weeks after federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good to death in separate cases in January.

Bovino said: “The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside border patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced.”

Bovino joined the border patrol in 1996 and spent most of his career in California’s El Centro sector before being tapped by the Trump administration to lead its sweeping Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.

The Trump administration removed Bovino from his commander-at-large role, sent him back to California and replaced him with border czar Tom Homan after the shooting deaths of Good and Pretti, each of which remain under investigation.

A homeland security spokesperson at the time, Tricia McLaughlin, said Bovino had “NOT been relieved of his duties” entirely and remained “a key part of the president’s team and a great American”.

Trump later said that Bovino’s return to California was “a little bit of a change” – but did not elaborate on the reasoning behind it.

Shortly before Operation Metro Surge, Bovino had led a team of border patrol agents in Los Angeles where they conducted immigration arrests. The agents were then deployed to Chicago, Charlotte and New Orleans. At each stop, local residents and leaders protested that agents’ enforcement actions were heavy-handed.

But it was Bovino’s comments after Pretti’s death that may have precipitated his transfer out of Minneapolis. He said Pretti, who had been disarmed by agents before they shot him, intended to “massacre law enforcement” without any evidence to back up the assertion.

He also said “the suspect put himself in that situation” and that “the victims are the border patrol agents there”.

Furthermore, the New York Times reported earlier in March that Bovino was under investigation after making disparaging remarks about the Jewish faith of Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor.

Bovino, who was raised in North Carolina’s Appalachian region, held a degree in natural resource conservation and served on foreign border patrol assignments in Egypt, Africa and Honduras.

In 2018, well into his border patrol career, an email sent to him by a colleague compared Bovino to a Confederate general, according to multiple reports.

The Confederate army was the white supremacist and losing side of the US civil war in the mid-19th century.

Bovino told Breitbart it was “humbling” to have watched “these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced”.



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Greg Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol commander who became the face of the Trump administration‘s mass deportation campaign before he was reassigned from his leadership role amid controversial immigration raids throughout the country, will retire. 

Bovino was removed from his role as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commander at large in January amid the deaths of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis during immigration enforcement operations. 

He announced his retirement in an interview with Breitbart. 

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U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory K. Bovino walks out of a gas station in Minnesota. Bovino announced his retirement over the weekend, following his tenure in which he led the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.   (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

“The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside Border Patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced,” Bovino told the outlet. “Watching these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced was humbling.”

He returned to his role as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California.

Bovino and his team were dispatched to Los Angeles in June 2025, where they arrested criminal illegal immigrants, sparking local outcry, including from Mayor Karen Bass, who confronted Bovino. 

The events there were followed by operations in several other cities before deploying to Minneapolis. 

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People yell at U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and other agents while they stop at a gas station. Bovino will be leaving Minnesota amid contentious immigration enforcement operations, sources told Fox News.  (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Over time, Bovino and federal immigration authorities came under heavy scrutiny from Democrats, who denounced them as being indiscriminate and aggressive. They were accused of targeting immigrants with no criminal records and even U.S. citizens. 

In Minneapolis, agents were followed by civilians who were seen impeding law enforcement operations. 

Good was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as she drove forward in his direction, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. 

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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and his men stop at a gas station while on patrol on December 17, 2025 in Evanston, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Pretti was fatally shot after he approached immigration agents with a 9 mm handgun and resisted when they tried to disarm him, authorities said. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the DHS and the USBP. 



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Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee’s credentials during a phishing attack.

Intuitive’s statement on the cybersecurity incident doesn’t indicate when the attack occurred or when the company discovered it. The Register has reached out to Intuitive about these and other questions, and we will update this story as soon as we receive any response.

Stolen data includes some customer business and contact information, along with Intuitive employee and corporate data, according to the statement. 

The company said that the cyber intrusion had no operational impact on its platforms or the hospitals that use its robotic systems. Intuitive makes robotic-assisted surgical platforms, and its main products include the da Vinci surgical systems and the Ion endoluminal system for lung biopsies. 

“There has been no impact on our operations or the work we do to support our customers,” the company added. “Our robotic systems have their own security protocols and operate independently of our internal business network.”

Intuitive said that it segments its network infrastructure, and all of the infrastructure supporting its internal IT business systems, manufacturing operations, and digital products remain separate. Because of this network segmentation, the company’s da Vinci, Ion, and digital platforms were not affected by the breach, and “continue to be safe and operational,” according to the statement.

“Hospital customer networks remain separate from Intuitive networks and are secured and managed by customers’ IT teams, therefore they are also unaffected,” it added.

Upon discovering the intrusion, Intuitive says it took “immediate action” to contain the breach and begin an investigation, which remains ongoing. It also notified data privacy regulators, and pledged to share updates as the investigation continues.

The timing is noteworthy in that the Intuitive breach follows a cyberattack against another medical-tech company last week. On Wednesday, Stryker, which makes orthopedic implants, surgical equipment, and other medical devices, disclosed a breach in which miscreants gained access to its internal Microsoft environment.

Handala, a hacktivist crew believed to be a front for the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), claimed to be responsible for the incident.

At publication time, no one had yet claimed the Intuitive attack. And in a Friday update to its Iran-war cyberthreat advisory, Cisco’s Talos said that the Stryker digital intrusion “likely does not indicate that the health care sector is at any higher or specific risk of targeting by Iran-linked threat actors. We make this assessment with high confidence based on our understanding of the motivation and capability of threat groups like Handala, which have historically compromised targets of opportunity.”

The threat hunters noted that they have not seen any recent increase in “systematic or elevated targeting of health care or health care-adjacent sectors over any other industry.”

The Intuitive attack does, however, indicate that cybercriminals continue to use tried-and-true methods to gain initial access to victims’ environments, Ensar Seker, chief information security officer at security company SOCRadar, told The Register.

“Even highly advanced technology companies can be compromised when a single credential is exposed, because identity systems are now the primary gateway into corporate infrastructure,” Seker said. “Phishing remains effective because it targets people rather than technology. Security controls around software vulnerabilities have improved dramatically over the past decade, but social engineering continues to exploit human trust, urgency, and routine workflows.” ®



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Cuba’s national electric grid has collapsed, the country’s grid operator has said, leaving approximately 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system.

The grid operator, UNE, said on social media on Monday that it was investigating the causes of the blackout, the latest in a series of widespread outages that last for hours or days and that last weekend sparked a rare violent protest in the communist-run country.

The US has ratcheted up pressure this year on its longtime foe Cuba since capturing the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro – Cuba’s most important foreign benefactor – in January. The US president, Donald Trump, cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to put tariffs on any country that sold oil to Cuba, strangling the Caribbean island’s already antiquated grid.

Cuba said on Friday that it was in talks with the US with the hope of defusing the crisis. Trump has said in recent weeks that Cuba is on the verge of collapse and is eager to make a deal with the US.

Cuba has received only two small vessels carrying oil imports this year, according to LSEG ship-tracking data seen by Reuters on Monday.

The first tanker discharged fuel at the Havana port in January, coming from Mexico, which was a regular supplier to the island until then. The second vessel, from Jamaica, discharged liquefied petroleum gas – known as cooking gas – in February.

Venezuela, once Cuba’s main oil supplier, has sent no fuel to the island this year.

Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, last month loaded gasoline in a tanker that it had previously used to transport fuel to Cuba, but the vessel has not left Venezuelan waters, PDVSA documents and tanker monitoring data showed.

No large imports have entered this year through Cuba’s main hubs of Matanzas or Moa, which typically handle crude for refining and fuel oil for power generation, according to satellite images analysed by TankerTrackers.com. The ports of Havana and Cienfuegos have not had import activity in more than a month, it added.



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