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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Washington — The Trump administration has reached a settlement agreement with ex-Trump campaign aide Carter Page over his claims arising out of surveillance warrants obtained by the FBI during its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The settlement is for $1.25 million, according to a source familiar with the settlement discussions. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
, faced intense questioning from several US senators on Wednesday during a hearing largely focused on how the administration has responded to the and the spread of vaccine misinformation. In his opening remarks to the Senate finance committee, the senator Ron Wyden criticized Kennedy's messaging on vaccines, saying: "When it comes to vaccines, Robert Kennedy has used this once-in-a-lifetime platform to make parents ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Atlantic Daily The Big Question the Fed-Chair Hearing Leaves Open At yesterday's confirmation hearing, Kevin Warsh remained tactically opaque. Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg / Getty April 22, 2026, 7:35 PM ET Save This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Speaking ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Google LLC today rolled out a sweeping set of security updates at Google Cloud Next '26, including three new artificial intelligence agents in Google Security Operations and a major expansion of Wiz Inc. coverage across rival clouds and agent-building platforms. The announcements span agentic defense, cloud workload protection, identity, data security and the company's reCAPTCHA-derived fraud platform. The updates ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com The Justice Department on Tuesday charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with financial crimes, accusing the civil rights organization of secretly paying informants in the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups Todd Blanche said the SPLC paid at least eight unidentified insiders a total of $3 million ...
Source: theweek.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
By While AI was supposed to make our lives easier, it seems it might make it harder to get a job and make a living. AI use has skyrocketed and with it, some jobs are being eliminated. And it seems nearly every sector is being impacted. Companies replacing workers with AI Job losses from AI have come for yet another company, this time in the financial sector. Bolt Financial, a one-click checkout app company, has ...
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 platform Kalshi said it suspended and fined three candidates for Congress from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia for "political insider trading" activity on their own campaigns. Kalshi said all three "were flagged because of our newly released safeguards to block political candidates from trading on their own elections." The candidates are Mark Moran, a former Virginia Democratic primary candidate for ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
April 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Texas can require schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, finding the legislation that mandates the Decalogue in classrooms does not require students to believe in the religious teachings. The Tuesday ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for Texas conservatives and Christians who have fought to further include religion in public ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Musk's AI startup, xAI, has held discussions in recent weeks with Mistral and AI coding startup Cursor about a potential three-way partnership, people familiar with the matter said. Mistral is a French AI startup that was founded in 2023 and has positioned itself as an independent alternative to US frontier labs. SpaceX, which owns xAI, announced a deal this week with Cursor that gives SpaceX the option to buy ...
Source: insider.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Anthropic is investigating a possible breach of Mythos, a new model the artificial intelligence company rolled out to a small pool of companies earlier this month to help them detect software vulnerabilities. The AI company behind the chatbot Claude is looking into a report of unauthorized access to Mythos from one of its third-party vendor environments, an Anthropic spokesperson told CBS News in ...
Source: cbsnews.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 Hangzhou, a shopper can ask an AI agent to assemble an entire wardrobe, try it on their virtual avatar, and purchase it all within the same super-app. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, startups are racing to build even more powerful ...
Source: vogue.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Temporary protected status (TPS) holders, who have historically been protected from deportation due to safety concerns in their home countries, contribute around $29bn every year to the , according to a new report published this week. , which comes from FWD.us, have emerged one week before the supreme court is set to hear arguments challenging the Trump administration's attempts to strip TPS status from Syrians and ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
2026 State of the Air report: 46% of pediatric population breathe polluted, unhealthy air The number of U.S. individuals aged under 18 years breathing unhealthy, polluted air where they lived between 2022 and 2024 totaled 33.5 million, or 46% of this population, according to a press release from the American Lung Association. Considering all ages, the number of Americans breathing unhealthy, polluted air where they ...
Source: healio.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
EU agrees to unblock €90bn loan for Ukraine after Hungary lifts veto Agreement for urgently needed loan reached after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia EU member states have reached agreement on unblocking an urgently needed €90bn (£78bn) loan for Kyiv and a new package of sanctions against Moscow after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, prompting ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture co-founded by President Donald Trump and his sons, alleging the company illegally blocked him from selling digital tokens worth up to $1 billion. The lawsuit , filed on Tuesday in California federal court, also accuses World Liberty Financial of trying to pressure Sun into investing "hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
April 22 (UPI) -- New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed lawsuits against cryptocurrency companies Coinbase and Gemini for violating state gambling laws. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, targets the companies' prediction markets . James said prediction markets fit the state's legal definition of gambling. "Gambling by another name is still gambling and it is not exempt from regulation under our state laws and ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities on Wednesday continued to muddle the official account over the role of two CIA agents in a counternarcotics operation in northern Mexico and the extent to which Mexico's federal government was aware of the U.S. involvement in the incident, which has started to ignite tensions with the White House. The incident has increasingly fueled speculation in the Latin American ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Trump administration is in advanced talks for a financing package for Spirit Airlines, according to a person familiar with the matter. Spirit had been facing a potentially imminent liquidation, people familiar with the matter told CNBC last week. The airline could receive around $500 million from the government, financing that could give the government an equity stake in the discounter. In this article A Spirit ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe Troops of monkeys living on the Rock of Gibraltar have learned to eat soil in what scientists believe is an effort to settle their stomachs after all the junk food they receive – and sometimes steal – from crowds of tourists. Researchers spotted the intentional mud eating, known as geophagy, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Measure will also limit device use during passing periods, lunch and recess and block YouTube on district devices The Los Angeles unified school district's board passed a resolution on Tuesday to curb students' classroom screen time for the upcoming school year, in the latest effort nationwide to address adverse effects from excessive device use. The measure, which passed 6-0 at a Tuesday school board meeting , ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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
Trump's Fed chair pick says he'll maintain independence – but won't say president lost 2020 election
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Kevin Warsh says 'we need to take politics out of monetary policy' as Elizabeth Warren calls him Trump's 'sock puppet' Donald Trump 's nominee for US Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh , faced a tumultuous hearing in Washington on Tuesday, fielding scrutiny over his wealth and his ability to operate independently of the president who appointed him. Should he be confirmed, Warsh will hold one of the most powerful ...
Source: theguardian.com