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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 22nd 2026
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Documents submitted as evidence in a suit against the Trump administration appear to back up allegations that officials delegated leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to an outside contractor who is currently a subject of multiple ethics investigations. Plaintiffs challenging the White House's various moves to downsize the federal government obtained undated messages between Kara Voorhies, a ...
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 -
April 21 (UPI) -- Voters in Virginia narrowly approved a constitutional amendment in a special election Tuesday, clearing the way for a new congressional map expected to favor Democrats in November's midterm elections. With all localities reporting less than two hours after polls closed at 7 p.m. EDT, 51.33% of the nearly 3 million ballots cast supported the redistricting amendment, compared with 48.67% opposed, ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
In September 2024, the Teamsters, whose strutting fool of a president , Sean O'Brien, had been gifted the month before with a prime time slot at the Republican National Convention, took a dive on endorsing a presidential candidate. It was the first time the Teamsters had not endorsed since 1992, and a thoroughly irrational choice , given that Donald Trump opposed labor rights during his first term and, ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
from overseas, due to a combination of the end of the de minimis exemption for lower-value imports and the smattering of new tariff fees. In many cases, shipping companies that imported international packages paid the tariffs on behalf of the intended recipient and required payment to complete the delivery. "Our intent is straightforward: if refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds for IEEPA ...
Source: insider.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 -
WASHINGTON — The military will no longer require US troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday, rolling back what he described as an "overly broad" mandate that had been in place for seven decades. "We're seizing this moment to discard any absurd, overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities," Hegseth said in a video posted to his social media ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the civil rights organization has engaged in financial crimes. Blanche said at a news conference that the DOJ's investigation found the organization had been "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred," and then hiding those ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Apple's new CEO, John Ternus , will have to deal with a lot of issues when he takes the reins of the company in September. But undoubtedly the biggest challenge Ternus will have to immediately reckon with is AI. Apple announced on Monday that Cook will be stepping down as CEO after 15 years. Cook led Apple through years of major transformations and big product drops that are now part of the daily fabric ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
California's top law enforcement official on Monday released a legal filing packed with evidence that Amazon is leveraging its dominance of the online retail market to artificially drive up prices for a range of goods, fueling a nationwide affordability crisis while padding its profits. The filing was first submitted to the San Francisco Superior Court in February as part of California Attorney General Rob Bonta's ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Sacked Foreign Office chief tells MPs he was briefed that UKSV considered Mandelson 'a borderline case' An account of Peter Mandelson's vetting process given by the former top civil servant Sir Olly Robbins has raised new questions about whether Robbins was misled about the findings of the agency responsible for vetting. Robbins, who was sacked from his role of permanent secretary at the Foreign Office last week ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes Florida has been home to some high-profile deaths tied to the use of artificial intelligence and State Attorney General James Uthmeier wants to figure out what is going on. Florida's top prosecutor announced Tuesday that his office is launching an investigation into OpenAI to determine if the company should face any criminal liability for the deaths tied to its popular chatbot. Uthmeier's ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
The monthly subscription is less again, but subscribers will lose out on Call of Duty until a year after launch. Reading time 2 minutes Good news, everyone! Xbox Game Pass is now cheaper. The Ultimate subscription, which Xbox hiked to $30 last October , is dropping down to $23 a month. It's still 35% more expensive than the subscription was two years ago, and Microsoft will need to consider more drastic changes to ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said Tuesday that he's had "difficult conversations with people I care about," including his family, his coaching staff, team officials and players, following the publication of photos of the coach and longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. "Those (conversations) have been positive and productive. In order to be successful on ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Laptop includes Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, a bigger battery, and a touchscreen. Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you count ). The laptop around those components has gradually gotten better, too. ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Seven held over alleged plot to commit another attack and man held over drone incident near Israeli embassy Detectives investigating a series of attacks on Jewish targets have arrested seven people for allegedly plotting a further new firebombing, as a teenager pleaded guilty to an arson attack on a synagogue on Saturday. The arrests by counter-terrorism officers follow fire bombings or attempted arson of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren sparred with Kevin Warsh , President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, during a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday, focusing on his financial disclosures and his refusal to say who won the 2020 election. Near the start of the hearing, Warren, the Senate Banking Committee's ranking member, grilled Warsh over more than $100 million in assets he did not ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - New York's attorney general sued Coinbase Financial Markets (COIN.O) and Gemini Titan (GEMI.O) on Tuesday, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling. In petitions filed in state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James said Coinbase and Gemini failed to obtain New York State Gaming Commission licenses to operate their markets, ...
Source: reuters.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
The House Ethics Committee is currently investigating Mills over allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations. April 20 (UPI) -- Rep. Nancy Mace, R-N.C., on Monday filed a resolution to expel fellow Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., from the House over allegations of sexual misconduct and corruption. Mills in under investigation by the House Ethics Committee on allegations of stolen valor, violence ...
Source: upi.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 -
House Democrats Are the Latest to Raise Data Collection Privacy, Security Alarms A plan by the U.S. federal agency that oversees federal benefits that would require insurers to hand over the identifiable health data of civil servants received pushback from House of Representatives Democrats who said it throws up privacy and security risks. The Office of Personnel Management in December published a notice soliciting ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return The deal is Amazon's second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic's annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement locks Anthropic into AWS's Trainium chips through Trainium4 and secures up to 5 gigawatts of ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
A disabled kea parrot rewrites the rules of survival to rule his flock unaided. At New Zealand's Willowbank Wildlife Reserve, an endangered kea parrot named Bruce sits at the top of the pecking order. He has feeding priority, commands grooming from lower-ranked individuals, and has never lost a fight. Yet, Bruce is missing the entire upper half of his beak. In nature, a severe physical impairment is usually a death ...
Source: zmescience.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket following its Sunday launch from Cape Canaveral. The rocket looked good on the way up, but the upper stage wasn't able to put its payload into the correct orbit. "The FAA is aware that Blue Origin New Glenn 3 experienced a mishap during the second-stage flight sequence following a successful ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
FBI Director Kash Patel hit The Atlantic magazine with a $250 million defamation lawsuit on Monday, claiming an article that talked about mismanagement at the agency and his alleged excessive drinking was false and a "malicious hit piece." The Atlantic said it stood by its reporting and would vigorously defend against the "meritless lawsuit." In the article, posted on the magazine's website Friday, author Sarah ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
The satirical news outlet The Onion is back with a new plan to take over the Infowars platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as his company faces liquidation over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Under a proposal submitted Monday to a state judge in Texas, The Onion would be granted an exclusive, temporary license to the ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia announced on Monday that his daughter Madison has died following a lengthy battle with juvenile diabetes and other health issues. She was 36. "We are heartbroken beyond words by the passing of our beloved daughter, Madison," Warner and his wife, Lisa Collis, wrote in a statement shared on social media. "She filled our lives with love and laughter, and her ...
Source: cbsnews.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