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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters last July, was bullish about picking up GOP seats by redrawing congressional lines. Now, his redistricting ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on how he plans to act on abortion pills and the ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. during a Referring to the former requirement that abortion pills must be ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Federal Reserve chair, but only not anytime soon, unless unprecedented political and legal entanglements affecting the central bank are permanently resolved. , Warsh is likely wondering the same about his future. and other reforms. Warsh told the senators he would work for a " inflation and the sometimes nasty (I'm looking at you, Elizabeth Warren Retiring North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis declined to question ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today expanded its Cloud Detection and Response service to Google Cloud Platform, adding runtime protection for Google workloads as attackers lean on artificial intelligence to break into cloud environments and pivot between systems at faster speeds. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, the expansion puts Google Cloud alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a well-known civil rights organization that purports to monitor right-wing hate groups, secretly funneled millions of dollars to white nationalists and extremists who worked for those same groups. The SPLC says the purpose of the payments was to compensate informants who were working to dismantle hate groups from the inside, but ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
By In September 2026, Apple will welcome its second chief executive since founder Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. John Ternus, who has worked at Apple for more than two decades, will replace Tim Cook as CEO in the third quarter. Here's how much Ternus is likely to make as CEO and what his net worth is in 2026. Ternus has a net worth of around $75 million to $100 million, according to MSN . Most other sources list ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Attorney General James Uthmeier said prosecutors reviewed chat logs showing ChatGPT advised the suspect on weapons, ammunition, and timing. The probe is the first criminal investigation into an AI company over an alleged role in a mass shooting in the US. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday that the state's Office of Statewide Prosecution has opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI over ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Prediction market Kalshi said Wednesday that it had fined and suspended three political candidates for trading on their own races during primary campaigns. "Just like in traditional financial markets, bad actors will try to cheat," Kalshi said in a statement . "These three cases are an example of how developing proactive engineering solutions can help identify illicit trading activity." Kalshi described the actions ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
In summary: Microsoft reduced Xbox Game Pass Ultimate pricing to $22.99 after a staggering 50 percent price increase in October 2025, though new Call of Duty games are no longer day-one releases. Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass was supposed to be the shining ray of light for gamers who wanted value: an all-you-can-eat buffet of both triple-A and indie titles, including unlimited streaming, for a low monthly price. Then ...
Source: pcworld.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
An appellate court ruled Tuesday that Texas may require that public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments, a significant win for the conservative campaign to break down the legal walls between church and state and inject more religion into the public square. The 9-8 ruling came from the conservative Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. The case is widely expected to head next to the Supreme ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
SpaceX announced the deal on X, pre-empting a New York Times report that framed it as a completed acquisition. The structure gives SpaceX optionality: exercise the call by year end or walk away having paid $10B for shared compute access and joint model work. Cursor CEO Michael Truell called it a partnership to 'scale up Composer'. SpaceX has secured a call option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor , developed by ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
A group of unauthorized users reportedly has gained access to Anthropic's controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model despite the AI vendor's efforts to keep it out of public hands by limiting the organizations that can use it. Bloomberg reported that the unnamed group had tried multiple ways to gain access to the AI model since it was first announced earlier this month, and finally was able to get ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
This article is part of the Future of AI , a collection of articles that investigates how artificial intelligence will impact the fashion and beauty industries in the years to come. In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing proposed the "imitation game", questioning whether a machine should be considered "intelligent" if its users couldn't tell they were communicating with a computer. Decades later, the idea became ...
Source: vogue.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court issued an order Wednesday blocking a California law requiring federal immigration agents to wear identification, another blow to the state's attempts to limit the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement tactics. The Trump administration argued that it would threaten the safety of officers who are facing harassment, doxing, and violence and that it violated the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The United Kingdom has passed a landmark law which will make it illegal for anyone born after 2008 to ever buy tobacco products. On Tuesday, the House of Lords – the UK parliament's upper house – approved the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which had passed through the House of Commons. Health advocacy groups hailed the new law as the first time an entire generation of young people will never be allowed to buy ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA's expansive rollback of environmental protections Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the American Lung Association (ALA) released on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
EU approves €90bn loan for Ukraine as pipeline is turned on ending deadlock Ukraine says it has resumed pumping Russian oil through a pipeline into Hungary and Slovakia, bringing to an end months of deadlock over a €90bn (£78bn) loan seen as vital European Union support for Kyiv. Soon afterwards, EU ambassadors meeting in Brussels gave preliminary approval to the loan, as well as a 20th package of ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Justin Sun, who invested in World Liberty Financial, claims the company illegally froze his token holdings. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Trump family's cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial is being sued by one of its billionaire investors, who claims the company froze his token holdings. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Justin Sun accused World Liberty ...
Source: motherjones.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes Framework's ultra-repairable PCs are, by their nature, open platforms. So it seemed strange for the company's founder and CEO, Nirav Patel, to call its latest "Pro"-level Framework Laptop with its new choice of open-source OS "the MacBook Pro for Linux users." Instead, you should see Framework as pushing the envelope of what we expect from PCs. Sure, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro is supposed to ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
On Wednesday, Sony announced its project Ace , an autonomous robot capable of competing with professional table tennis players. Sony says this breakthrough demonstrates that AI systems have achieved human-like, expert-level performance in a competitive sport in the physical world. While the world is currently focused on the agentic AI craze -- allowing AI agents to perform tasks on your behalf -- physical AI ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Meta employees are fuming over a new internal tool that tracks their clicks and keystrokes — the latest flashpoint in the company's all-in push on artificial intelligence. Staffers reacted with alarm after learning the software would monitor mouse movements, typing and on-screen activity to help train Meta's AI systems, according to internal communications viewed by Business Insider. One employee wrote, "This ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing crypto exchanges Coinbase and Gemini for allegedly running illegal sports betting operations in the state through their prediction market offerings. Processing Content James filed a pair of lawsuits to the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Tuesday against Coinbase Financial Markets and Gemini Titan LLC. She alleged in the filings that both Coinbase and Gemini ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she is considering possible sanctions against the government of Chihuahua — a state bordering Texas — for allowing CIA agents to participate in an operation to dismantle drug laboratories because any security collaboration with the U.S. should be approved by Mexico's federal government. Sheinbaum's comments come after days of contradictions of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is nearing a deal to rescue low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines that could include up to $500 ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Prosecutors say the charges against alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, span more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, including a weekend that was El Salvador's bloodiest since its civil war. A Salvadoran court on Tuesday began a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, one of the biggest mass trials under President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on gang violence through ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
House Republicans unveiled on Wednesday Congress' latest effort to tackle comprehensive digital privacy legislation for Americans. The Secure Data Act would allow consumers to opt out of data collection for individual businesses for the purposes of targeted advertising, selling to third parties or for use in automated decisionmaking. It would also require companies to inform consumers when their personal data is ...
Source: cyberscoop.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes A man who was supposed to help victims of ransomware attacks was actually helping the other side. Angelo Martino, a 41-year-old from Florida and a former ransomware negotiator, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit ransomware attacks against U.S. companies, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Citing court records, the DOJ said in a press release this week that Martino abused his ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Monkeys 'learn to eat soil to cope with junk food' Monkeys living on Gibraltar have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by eating snacks offered or stolen from tourists, research suggests. Food such as chocolate bars, crisps and ice cream have negative digestive effects for the macaques but are "as delicious for them" as they are for humans, according to a Cambridge University study. Eating ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Los Angeles becomes first major US school district to limit classroom screen time Los Angeles' education board has voted to restrict student screen time in classrooms, making it the first major US school system to do so. The resolution requires staff to develop screen-time policies based on grade level and bans first-grade and younger students from using devices. It comes as the district, which serves about half ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
April 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Houston has dismissed a case brought by FBI Director Kash Patel accusing pundit Frank Figliuzzi of defamation. U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr. of the Southern District of Texas said in an order released Tuesday that comments Figliuzzi made on MSNBC's Morning Joe on May 2 were "rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation." Figliuzzi is a former assistant ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has said he has had "difficult" conversations after photographs of him and NFL reporter Dianna Russini were made public earlier this month . Russini resigned from her post at the Athletic after the New York Post published photos of her and Vrabel embracing and holding hands at an Arizona resort. The pair are married to different people and have said their relationship is ...
Source: theguardian.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