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Telework tips: How to set up the best home office for remote workIf you’re working from home, here are some tips to stay productive and ensure your home office is optimized for working remotely.ProblemSolved, USA TODAYRemote work is getting harder to find.  Only 13% of American workers remain fully remote in early 2025, and another 26% have hybrid jobs, according to the academic clearinghouse WFH Research. Both figures are down from their pandemic peaks. And with President Donald Trump ordering many federal workers back to the office, the numbers may be slipping further in the months to come.  If you are in the…

Security experts say the operation to secure the pope’s funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City will be anything but uncomplicated and straightforward.Pope Francis funeral date set as Catholics mournPope Francis’ procession will be held on Wednesday, and his funeral service will take place Saturday April 26.LONDON — Pope Francis specified in his last wishes he wanted a “simple” funeral “without particular decoration.” This was in keeping with his aim during his papacy to eschew formalities and bring the Roman Catholic Church closer to the people.Security experts, however, say the operation to secure the pope’s funeral in…

CNN  —  Welcome to Trendlines, your weekly installment of what’s trending up and what’s trending down in sports. Let’s talk about the media landscape for a second. Media is fractured in ways it hasn’t been since before radio. You have a million different things you can watch or follow at any given time. That’s what makes the NFL so incredible. Not only do millions tune in to watch their team’s games, and also nationally televised games of other teams … but even their draft has become a primetime event. Many are going to sit around this over the draft’s three…

CNN  —  Measles could become endemic in the United States if routine childhood vaccination rates continue to decline, with up to 51 million illnesses over a 25-year period, according to a new study. Although the disease is endemic in some other countries – meaning it happens regularly within an area or community – it was declared eliminated in the US in 2000 because of vaccination efforts with the highly effective measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. More than 900 measles cases have been recorded in the US this year, according to a CNN tally using data from state health departments and the US…

President Donald Trump’s hyperaggressive use of executive power in the first months of his presidency has sent many on the left seeking refuge in the Constitution. Commentators have pointed out the ways his actions are at odds with our founding principles, and advocates have filed more than one hundred cases challenging the constitutionality of moves like dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, abolishing birthright citizenship, and targeting sanctuary cities. But when it comes to the administration’s firing of thousands of federal employees, the Constitution may offer only limited recourse, if any. As currently written, it does not explicitly mention…

CNN  —  The day commissioner Roger Goodell called his name as the newest member of the NFL will always carry mixed emotions for Derrick Harmon. Just hours after being selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 21st pick in the 2025 NFL draft Thursday night, his mother, Tiffany Saine, died at a Michigan hospital, according to multiple media reports. The Steelers later confirmed the news. In a phone interview with Pittsburgh media from the Detroit suburb Farmington Hills just minutes after being drafted, the defensive tackle out of Oregon shared that he was about to go see his mother at…

AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report. Over the past year, the tech giant says it has prevented $4 billion in fraud attempts, blocking approximately 1.6 million bot sign-up attempts every hour – showing the scale of this growing threat. The ninth edition of Microsoft’s Cyber Signals report, titled “AI-powered deception: Emerging fraud threats and countermeasures,” reveals how artificial intelligence has lowered the technical barriers for cybercriminals, enabling even low-skilled actors to generate sophisticated scams with minimal effort. What previously took scammers days or weeks to create can…

CNN  —  In an abrupt reversal, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it no longer plans to cut funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, a groundbreaking research project focused on preventing disease in older women. The move comes after a wave of concern and criticism about the threat to the longstanding study. For decades, the initiative – conducted by the National Institutes of Health – has tracked the health of tens of thousands of women to understand how to reduce the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and more in women after menopause. Seminal findings…

US consumer sentiment plummeted in April after Donald Trump’s trade war threw the global economy into chaos, according to a new report.The index of consumer sentiment, a score based on a monthly survey asking Americans about their financial outlooks, fell by 32% since January – the largest drop since the 1990 recession, according to the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.“Expectations worsened for vast swaths of the population across age, education income and political affiliation,” said Joanne Hsu, director of the surveys of consumers, in a statement. “Consumers perceived risks to multiple aspects of the economy, in large part…

100 days of Trump: 3 key changes impacting people across America100 days after returning to power, Donald Trump is charging ahead with tariffs, an immigration crackdown and federal cuts, including dismantling DEI.Within the first 100 days of his second administration President Donald Trump has been incredibly busy, implementing major changes from enacting tariffs to targeting diversity initiatives.  But Americans are divided about whether the changes have been good, according to a recent survey of more than 900 voters conducted by the New York Times and Siena College Research Institute.Around 54% of participants said they disapprove of the president’s handling of…