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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 22nd 2026
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Iran is refusing to send its negotiating team to Islamabad to continue talks this week until President Donald Trump lifts the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, according to two Middle East officials briefed on the situation, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Trump, who hinted on Tuesday that high-level negotiations with Iran would resume "soon," has given mixed signals about ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
John Ternus built Apple's hardware for 24 years and now he has to figure out AI Summary: John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO effective 1 September, is a 50-year-old mechanical engineer who reversed a period of declining product quality, personally lobbied for the creation of iPadOS, oversaw the Apple Silicon transition, and now controls products generating roughly 80% of Apple's revenue. His leadership style ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
The GOP Senate primary in Georgia is heating up one month before voters head to the polls, with Rep. Buddy Carter launching the first attack ad of the race, former football coach Derek Dooley hitting the airwaves and Rep. Mike Collins touting his fundraising. The three Republicans are vying to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, a top GOP target as the party looks to expand its 53-47 majority in the Senate. With ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
It long has been axiomatic here in the shebeen that the contention, "Nothing but the best people," is the funniest thing ever to emerge from a Trump presidency. Now, though, the second time around, it's gone from hilarious to absolutely ghoulish. On the same day that the FBI director launched a futile $280-million nuisance suit against The Atlantic for a story about what a boozehounding party animal he is, the ...
Source: esquire.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Illinois businesses report mixed experiences navigating the tariff refund process, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched an online portal Monday for firms to start filing claims. Some companies submitted documents smoothly but are anticipating obstacles in getting refunded. Others are still trying to understand the complex guidelines before filing claims. The U.S. Supreme Court in February ruled that ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Kevin Warsh , President Trump's nominee to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, testified at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday that the central bank will remain "strictly independent" in setting monetary policy. Warsh's opening statement comes after Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell for not cutting interest rates faster. At the same time, Powell has steadfastly maintained that ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the end of the Pentagon 's long-running flu vaccine mandate for U.S. troops. "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force," Hegseth announced in an X post , linking to a video statement of his signing the new policy. "We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately." Hegseth said ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
The Department of Justice said the Southern Poverty Law Center had been indicted on charges related to secretly funding right-wing extremist groups that it claimed to be battling. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said the SPLC was "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred." The SPLC paid at least $3 million to eight individuals, some associated with the Ku ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
This blog reported on Judge Jed Rakoff's widely discussed "AI is not your lawyer" pronouncement in United States v. Heppner . The court's conclusion that attorney-client privilege was waived with respect to information that a client divulged to a consumer-grade generative artificial intelligence tool – when coupled with other recent court rulings explaining that AI-generated data can be discoverable ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Newly unsealed filings in California's antitrust case outline allegations that Amazon influenced pricing across competing retailers and suppliers California officials allege Amazon may have quietly driven up prices across the internet by pressuring retailers and brands not to undercut its listings, according to newly unsealed court evidence. The allegations, revealed Monday as part of the state's antitrust lawsuit, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — The top official behind the decision to approve the appointment of Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to Washington said Tuesday that he felt political pressure from Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office to rush through the selection, despite security concerns . Former Foreign Office head Olly Robbins said that Starmer's office had a "dismissive attitude" to security vetting of the ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally liable for use in a mass shooting. The announcement came 11 days after statewide prosecutors said they were probing a shooter's use of ChatGPT to plan and carry out an attack last spring at Florida State University that killed two people. "If that bot were a person they'd be charged with a ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Asha Sharma's first big move as Microsoft's gaming chief is a trade-off. The company is cutting the price of its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription by $7 a month, from $29.99 to $22.99. However, future games in the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise from Microsoft-owned Activision will no longer be available on the service at launch. The changes, announced Tuesday, come a week after Sharma acknowledged in a ...
Source: geekwire.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH — Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said he's had "some difficult conversations" over the past two weeks after Page Six published photographs of him hugging and holding hands with NFL reporter Dianna Russini. "Those have been positive and productive," Vrabel said Tuesday, two weeks after Page Six's story . "We believe in order to be successful on and off the field, you have to make good decisions. That ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Years of user feedback have led to the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, an ultraportable device that's both modular and premium. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Framework's new Laptop 13 Pro is a new product with a redesigned chassis. Framework , makers of modular, repairable laptops, just announced an all-new product: the Framework Laptop 13 Pro , a ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to arson not endangering life after an attack on a synagogue in north-west London on Saturday night. The plea on Tuesday came as seven people were arrested over an alleged separate plan to commit an arson attack targeting the Jewish community, the Metropolitan Police said. The teenager, a British national from Brent who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested by the Met ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Kevin Warsh, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be next chair of the Federal Reserve, has a drink, as he attends a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing to testify, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 21, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz President Donald Trump's pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Kevin Warsh, repeatedly dodged questions Tuesday during his confirmation ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry, arguing that the companies' unregulated and unlicensed platforms are illegal gambling operations. Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state court in Manhattan, seeks to bar the companies' platforms from operating in the state unless and until they obtain licenses from the ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Congressional expulsions are exceedingly rare. It's a punishment mostly reserved for convicts and Confederates. But in recent months, expulsion threats have been flying among members of Congress. And this week, a pair of Republican representatives, Cory Mills of Florida and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, escalated their long-running feud with new efforts to oust the other from the House of ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
April 21 (UPI) -- The Cuban government confirmed it recently held talks with a United States delegation, following U.S. media reports that envoys sent by Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the island about 10 days ago. The confirmation came Monday from Alejandro García del Toro, a senior Cuban Foreign Ministry official in charge of U.S. affairs, during an interview with state-run newspaper Granma. ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
McKinsey identifies four coordinated steps that connect strategy, technology, and people to build strong foundational data capabilities. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gartner forecasts that worldwide AI spending will total $2.5 trillion in 2026, a 44% year-over-year increase. Spending on AI platforms for data science and machine learning will reach $31 billion, ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration halt plans to collect sensitive medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management has asked 65 insurance companies to provide monthly reports with detailed medical and pharmaceutical claims data of more than 8 million people enrolled in federal health plans, KFF Health ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon's custom silicon as Claude demand soars. Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion—enabling Anthropic to eventually secure up to 5 gigawatts' worth of AI chips from Amazon to help train and run its popular Claude AI models. Amazon is already one of Anthropic's largest investors, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Most wildlife stories about disability tend to be framed as stories of survival against the odds. But a recent study shares a very different case. It follows an endangered kea parrot named Bruce, who turned a severe disability into a surprising advantage. Bruce lives at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in New Zealand. He lost his entire upper beak, a structure most parrots rely on for daily ...
Source: earth.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
A strong magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck off northern Japan, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning for waves of up to 3 metres (10 feet). The quake hit on Monday at 4:53pm local time (07:53 GMT) in waters off Iwate prefecture on Japan's Pacific coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). It was felt across a wide area, shaking buildings in Tokyo, hundreds of kilometres (miles) to the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Musician charged after the dismembered and decomposing body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez found in abandoned Tesla The singer D4vd pleaded not guilty to the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez , the teenage girl whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in the artist's apparently abandoned Tesla in September. The 21-year-old, whose legal name is David Burke, was arraigned on Monday afternoon hours after Los ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Earlier this month, Beijing played host to the unusual spectacle of humanoid robots running a half-marathon. The robots ran alongside the 12,000 or so human runners who slogged their way around southern Beijing, although they were confined to a separate lane for everyone's safety. And boy, did they go fast. The winner—a robot called "Lightning," which was built by Honor, the same folks ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family that stretched across two houses in a Shreveport, Louisiana, neighborhood left shaken by one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. The gunman's wife, who was the mother of their children, and another woman were also shot and critically wounded in the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Blue Origin 's New Glenn Mission 3 (NG-3) was supposed to mark another step forward for the company's long-awaited entry into the commercial space launch market. Instead, the heavy-lift rocket's third flight ended in a partial failure and, for now, a full stop. The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded the New Glenn vehicle from future missions following a "mishap" during Sunday's launch from Cape Canaveral ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Washington — FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic magazine on Monday, saying a recent story about his alleged frequent drinking and absences included "false and obviously fabricated" claims. The 19-page lawsuit , filed in the District of Columbia, is seeking $250 million in damages. Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter who wrote the story, is also named as a defendant. Patel and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
The Onion Says It Has Again Struck a Deal to Take Over Infowars The move would allow the satire site to turn Alex Jones' conspiracist creation into a parody of itself. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Infowars could finally have a new owner: Global Tetrahedron, the Chicago-based company that owns the satirical news outlet The Onion . The news was first reported by ...
Source: motherjones.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
"We are heartbroken beyond words by the passing of our beloved daughter Madison … after a decades-long battle with juvenile diabetes and other health issues," Warner, 71, and wife via Instagram on Monday, April 20. "She filled our lives with love and laughter, and her absence leaves an immeasurable void." The statement continued, "We are grateful for the loving support of friends and family during this ...
Source: bradenton.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Searchers from several countries scoured the Pacific near the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday for six crew members from a cargo ship that overturned during a typhoon that tore through the U.S. territory. An HC-130 Hercules crew from the U.S. Air Force 31st Rescue Squadron confirmed Sunday night that the overturned ship spotted Saturday is the cargo ship Mariana, the U.S. Coast Guard ...
Source: pbs.org