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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 29th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
With just over seven months to go until the midterm elections , the US-Israeli war on Iran pushing gas prices past $4 per gallon, and the rising cost of living bringing consumer confidence to an all-time low, political observers marveled on Monday at Republican senators' decision to center President Donald Trump's demand for a new $400 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House as a top legislative ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
The State Department is planning a limited-edition redesign of the American passport to coincide with the nation's 250th anniversary in July, with new artwork that features a portrait of President Trump, according to a department official. The redesign places the president's portrait and signature over text from the U.S. Declaration of Independence on interior visa pages, marking a departure from passport artwork ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman appeared for Tuesday's opening statements in a high-stakes trial revolving around a bitter feud between the former friends that could reshape the future development of artificial intelligence. The bickering billionaires' early-morning appearances at the Oakland, California, federal courthouse foreshadow the start of a legal drama that is ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
A political and media dispute has erupted involving United States President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel. Melania publicly criticised Kimmel on Monday and urged the TV network ABC to take action against him. The president has gone further, calling for Kimmel to be removed from his role altogether. The controversy centres on remarks Kimmel made during a comedy ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
The United Arab Emirates has announced its withdrawal from OPEC and the wider OPEC+ framework, removing a core pillar of one of the most influential groups in the energy world. The Gulf country, with a capacity of approximately 4.8 million barrels per day and significant room to increase output, announced on Tuesday that it would quit the organisation to focus on "national interests". The move comes as the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
FCC Launches Review Of 8 ABC Stations' Licenses After Kimmel's Melania Trump Joke --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. The Federal Communications Commission filed an order Tuesday to review Disney's ABC broadcast licenses, pressing the media conglomerate after First Lady Melania Trump blasted a joke made by late night host Jimmy Kimmel in which he said the first lady had "a glow like an ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch TechCrunch The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a landmark legal case that could redefine digital privacy rights for people across the United States. The case, Chatrie v. United States , centers on the government's controversial use of so-called "geofence" search warrants. Law enforcement and federal agents use these warrants to compel tech companies, like Google, to turn ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
OpenAI and Microsoft are changing the terms of their partnership, ending exclusivity between OpenAI's artificial intelligence models and Microsoft's cloud offerings — as the AI developer announced new product availability through Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers. In back to back announcements on Monday and Tuesday, OpenAI said its software will be eligible to operate on any cloud service ...
Source: nextgov.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
As Google on Monday became the latest player in the artificial intelligence arms race to sign a classified deal with the US Department of Defense, hundreds of workers at the Silicon Valley giant demanded that its CEO prevent the Pentagon from using the company's AI models for covert work. Reuters reported that the $200 million agreement includes safety filters and allows the Pentagon to use Google's AI "for any ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
The practice known as "Singapore-washing" is under scrutiny after China blocked a major US acquisition on national security grounds. When is a Chinese AI startup not a Chinese AI startup? When it's based in Singapore, or elsewhere, to distance itself legally and politically from Beijing. The practice known as "Singapore-washing" is under scrutiny after China blocked a major US acquisition on national security ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MARIA SHERMAN, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift filed three new trademark applications with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a move one legal expert theorizes it is to protect her voice and image from potential misuse through artificial intelligence. Two of the applications filed Friday are sound trademarks covering her voice, one of her saying ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to the companies behind them if those funds are reinvested in oil and gas. as a way to "promote US energy security and affordability" by funneling funds "away from intermittent, higher-cost energy sources toward proven conventional solutions", in an announcement issued on Monday. Donald Trump's war in Iran has caused a fuel ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — King Charles III reaffirmed the United Kingdom and the United States' long "special" relationship Tuesday, calling it a "story of reconciliation, renewal and remarkable partnership" born out of "bitter divisions of 250 years ago." In a rare speech to Congress, the king marked the landmark anniversary of America's independence from British rule, and he nodded to his late mother, Queen Elizabeth ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones is set to plead guilty Tuesday to charges he cashed in on rigged poker games and gave sports bettors nonpublic injury information about stars, including his one-time teammate LeBron James . Barring a last-minute change, Jones will become the first person to plead guilty in a gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people, ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
It's a social scam. According to the Federal Trade Commission , nearly 30% of people who reported being scammed in 2025 said the swindle began on social media. The agency said losses from these scams reached $2.1 billion in 2025, eight times the amount reported in 20220. Experts maintain that because most scams aren't reported to the government, the true figure could likely be much higher. Social media is a ...
Source: nypost.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes If we're going to throw out the entire script of console gaming, we can't leave any game or control scheme off the table. Xbox's next-gen console, dubbed Project Helix , is likely going to be a PC in all but name. But if we're actually going to play our entire PC game library from a couch, it's time Xbox becomes the shameless vandal it was always meant to be. Valve's Steam Controller offers ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
April 28 (UPI) -- At least 15 people were killed and 84 were injured when two trains collided on the same rail line just east of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Several passengers remain trapped in the wreckage with rescuers scrambling to free them. The crash occurred Monday night when a long-distance commuter train ploughed into the back of a passenger train that was stationary at Bekasi Timur Station, 15 miles ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI missed internal targets for revenue and user growth, including a goal of one billion weekly ChatGPT users by end of 2025. OpenAI called the report "prime clickbait" and said it is "firing on all cylinders," but the market wiped tens of billions off Oracle (-7.7%), CoreWeave ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Ideas So Nobody Is Going to Pay Taxes Now? America actually needs a tax base. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Save Earlier this month, the IRS finished collecting 2025 taxes, taking in an estimated $5.2 trillion from businesses and households. That's a lot of cash. But Congress is spending $7 trillion a year, pumping out as much fiscal stimulus now as it did during the Great Recession. All of those ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
The News Bargaining Incentive applies from 1 July 2026. Platforms that deal with news organisations get full or partial offsets against the levy. The legislation explicitly excludes pure AI chatbot services from coverage. Communications Minister Anika Wells and PM Albanese both announced the draft on Tuesday. The Australian government released draft legislation on Tuesday for a " News Bargaining Incentive ", a ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. A gunman opened fire at a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens on Tuesday, wounding several people, Greek authorities said. The alleged perpetrator, who Greek media reported was an 89-year-old man, was apprehended and arrested in Patras — some 210 kilometres from the capital — on Tuesday ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
SANFORD, Fla. (WFLA)— The 13 surviving sloths from Sloth World, which were donated to the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens, have made it through the second night at the zoo. All 13 sloths have been monitored closely, with the team quickly establishing a dedicated quarantine space and thorough assessment when they arrived. The sloths were transported from a nearby warehouse. where 31 sloths that were ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Proposal for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in the state is opposed by Silicon Valley tech titans and Gavin Newsom The backers of a proposal to levy a one-time tax on California billionaires say they have gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot in November. The initiative has become one of the most politically contentious issues in the state over the past year, spurring tech moguls to spend ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Man pleads guilty to murder 2 decades after death of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder more than 20 years after the fatal ambush shooting of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay. Jay Bryant, 52, changed his plea on Monday to guilty, telling a judge that he helped others get into a building to ambush and kill Jay Mizell, the pioneering rap star who was known as Jam Master Jay. Prosecutors ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Secret Service agents reportedly subdued a gunman Saturday at the Washington Hilton hotel, during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. " A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service ," President Donald Trump said while posting security camera footage to social media. Officials later identified the assailant ...
Source: reason.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MATT OTT, AP Business Writer United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Monday outlined why he thinks a merger between his airline and rival American would benefit travelers, despite American's refusal to engage in negotiations. "I was confident that this combination, which would have been about adding and not subtracting, creating a truly great airline that customers love, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com