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Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. of the Catholic Church. "If I was advising him, as I did every day for 4 1/2 years, I'd say, 'Let the pope be the pope and you be the president,'" Pence told MS NOW in an interview clip shared Thursday. When pressed by MS NOW's Ali Vitali about whether the former Trump official had aired his concerns directly with the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Trump administration's order to reclassify medical marijuana from a Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 controlled substance could throw a lifeline to a struggling medical-use industry in Massachusetts. The order, signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche on Thursday, designates medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug and acknowledges its medicinal uses. In Massachusetts, the action could have significant effects ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Studio enables payors and pharmaceutical companies to design, test, and deploy AI agents without code, delivering 40% greater accuracy and 90% faster deployment than manual approaches , healthcare's leading agentic communications partner powering more than 100 million minutes of conversations, announced the launch of Infinitus Studio, the first healthcare-specific AI agent builder that enables users to design ...
Source: aithority.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Meta is planning to lay off approximately 8,000 employees and eliminate another 6,000 open roles as it seeks to reduce costs amid its massive bet on artificial intelligence. With approximately 78,000 employees at the end of 2025, the cuts will affect about 10% of the company's existing workforce. In an internal memo, a Meta executive did not explicitly mention AI when discussing the cuts but said they were needed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Three congressional candidates wagered on the outcome of their own elections on Kalshi, according to the prediction market, which said Wednesday that it fined and suspended the men from their platform for five years. It is the latest high-profile case of alleged insider trading on prediction markets including Kalshi and Polymarket, which have brought bipartisan scrutiny from Congress and calls for ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
By Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano When Anthropic told the world this month that it had built an artificial intelligence model so powerful that it was too dangerous to release widely, the company named 11 organizations as partners to help mount a defense. All were from the United States. Within two weeks, the model, called Mythos, had set off a global scramble unlike anything yet seen in the AI era. Mythos, which ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
A U.S. Army soldier who helped plan and carry out the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information to place bets on the operation through prediction platform Polymarket, according to federal prosecutors. He made more than $400,000 in profit. The indictment was unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court against Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, ...
Source: bnonews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Irán vuelve a endurecer su control sobre el estrecho de Ormuz Aunque EE. UU. e Israel han dicho que su intención era acabar con el programa nuclear iraní y deponer a sus líderes, Teherán ha convertido la guerra en un conflicto del transporte marítimo. El número de barcos que atraviesan el estrecho de Ormuz se ha convertido en un barómetro del modo en el que la ...
Source: nytimes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Mike Vrabel has so far escaped professional consequence for his Arizona antics. He is not facing any sort of investigation from the NFL or the Patriots for the clandestine tryst with a national NFL reporter. In truth, there is no crime to punish. But that hasn't stopped the tentacles of the ongoing saga from reaching into Vrabel's ability to do his job, with the hard evidence coming as he confirmed before the draft ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that Israeli and Lebanese diplomats agreed to extend their cease-fire by three weeks in talks held at the White House. The announcement came after the president hosted the countries' ambassadors for negotiations along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio , U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Summer travel, when demand for flights surge, may be disrupted in Europe if airlines can't secure additional jet fuel imports. The International Energy Agency's chief told CNBC jet fuel demand in August is typically 40% above March demand. Analysts expect airlines to hedge against rising fuel costs and customers to travel closer to home. In this article Jet fuel shortages threaten to disrupt the upcoming summer ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam late Wednesday accused the Israeli military of war crimes after rescue workers recovered the body of journalist Amal Khalil from the ruins of a house in southern Lebanon that Israel bombed hours earlier. "Targeting journalists, obstructing the access of relief teams to them—and indeed, re-targeting their locations after these teams have arrived—constitutes a clear-cut ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The suggestion that Iran should be replaced by Italy at this year's World Cup drew a mix of embarrassment and apathy from Azzurri fans on Thursday, with Italian media reminding readers that the idea has a very familiar feel. President Donald Trump's U.S. special envoy Paolo Zampolli told the Financial Times that he made the suggestion to the U.S. president and FIFA President Gianni Infantino. "I'm an Italian native ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
A new table tennis robot shows a ChatGPT moment for physical machines is rapidly approaching. Artificial intelligence has essentially been a disembodied brain during most of its applications. It easily conquered chess and Go, but always within the pristine, digital confines of a screen. The physical world — messy, fast, and ruled by gravity — presents many challenges. But now, a new AI-driven robot ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Cash-strapped Ukraine has secured a crucial European Union loan that will provide a vital lifeline to sustain its wartime efforts this year. The 90 billion-euro ($106 billion) package was formally approved on Thursday, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline had been repaired and the flow of oil would resume to ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center this week was met with much outrage but little surprise from civil rights leaders, who have for more than a year prepared for heightened legal scrutiny from the Trump administration, and how to mount a coordinated response. In rounds of calls immediately following the indictment, advocates discussed how to support the SPLC, a ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com The FBI started investigating a journalist with The New York Times last month after she reported in January that FBI Director Kash Patel had assigned an around-the-clock SWAT team to protect and escort his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the Times said Wednesday , citing a person briefed on the matter. FBI agents ...
Source: theweek.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Maine Legislature recently passed L.D. 307 , temporarily pausing construction of new large data centers until November 1, 2027. If signed into law by Governor Mills, the act would represent the first state-wide data center ban in the United States. Maine's legislation responded to political and public questions over electricity prices, overall grid reliability, and expanding development. The ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
With U.S. President Donald Trump's unpopular war against Iran showing little sign of ending, his Republican backers on Capitol Hill are facing a fresh dilemma on what to do if he insists on flouting a 1973 law mandating that unauthorized military operations end if they have gone past 60 days. It's too early to tell what most Republican lawmakers will do if the clock runs out on May 1 and the war against Iran is ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Elon Musk's SpaceX announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with coding platform Cursor to build new AI models. As part of this deal, Cursor gave SpaceX the right to acquire the company later this year for $60 billion or to pay $10 billion for their work together. SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor's leading ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was weighing a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines with the intent of reselling the struggling budget carrier after oil prices drop. The president confirmed his continued interest in offering Spirit a financial lifeline after a lawyer told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court that the airline was in advanced talks with the U.S. government on a financing ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Apple has issued an emergency update to fix a Notification Services flaw that caused deleted alerts to remain stored on devices, potentially exposing sensitive message content. Tracked as CVE-2026-28950, the issue has been resolved in iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2, with patches also released for older supported versions of Apple operating systems. The company said the bug stemmed from a logging issue that ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The White House is reportedly accusing China of "industrial-scale" theft of U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) technology. With that accusation comes the warning that the government will crack down on this practice, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (April 23), citing a memo seen by the news outlet. "The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
AI governance without enforcement is ineffective. Enterprises must implement technology guardrails to adopt and scale AI with confidence. AI governance is a hot topic these days. Organizations are assembling councils, publishing principles, rolling out "approved AI tools" lists, and asking employees to opt in to acceptable use policies. In most enterprises, however, the reality on the ground is that the horse has ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (UPI) -- The remains of three young children have been uncovered in a wooded area in Tennessee, Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis announced. Local authorities were trying to find the causes of death and the identities of the children who were believed to be between ages 3 and 7, Davis said Wednesday. A search of local missing children did not find any matches, she said. "Somebody knows where these ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Justice Department's internal watchdog is investigating compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that compelled the department to release records related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The preliminary objective of the probe is "to evaluate the DOJ's processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act," said Deputy ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The US Department of Justice has referred hundreds of citizens for denaturalization, beginning what some fear will be a massive effort to strip Americans of their citizenship. Months ago, it was reported that the Trump administration would seek to enlist the DOJ in its effort to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of people each month. On Thursday, The New York Times reported that the effort to carry out what DOJ ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
UK Biobank data from all 500,000 participants within the charity's health database was put up for sale on the Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba. Last week, data from 500,000 participants of UK Biobank's database were made available for sale online following a breach, the UK Government's technology minister has confirmed. In an oral statement delivered in the House of Commons today (23 April), UK technology ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes A pair of Nintendo gamers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, seeking a cut of any tariff refunds that the company could receive from the U.S. government. The lawsuit , filed earlier this week in federal court in Washington state, argues that Nintendo should not be able to keep "ill-gotten profits" after it allegedly raised prices on consumers to offset tariff costs while ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Can states force public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms? The Supreme Court may soon decide this, after a federal appeals court upheld a controversial Texas law earlier this week. On Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Senate Bill (S.B.) 10 , requiring Texas public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in a "conspicuous place." It also requires that the posters, ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
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Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Iran on Wednesday captured two foreign container ships seeking to exit the Strait of Hormuz and fired at a third one, marking the latest escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran in the narrow shipping passage, and coming amid a United States naval blockade of Iranian ports which commenced on April 13. On Monday this week, the US military fired on and then captured the Iranian-flagged container ship ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Voting-rights groups sued Alaska officials over their decision to turn voter rolls over to the Justice Department. The lawsuit is the latest in a spate of them against and by the Trump administration over its quest for voter roll access following the president's and his allies' baseless voter fraud claims. Advocates fear the administration's actions could mean that eligible voters can't cast their ballots in the ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
California lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families and attorneys to find them. Two bills moving through the state Senate seek to prevent immigration enforcement officers from isolating patients from their loved ones and ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Close to half of the children in the United States—more than 33 million kids—live in counties with dangerously high levels of toxic air pollution , according to the American Lung Association's annual air quality report out Wednesday. The 27th iteration of the ALA's report examines "two of the most widespread and dangerous air pollutants"—fine particles and ground-level ozone, commonly known as ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Billionaire backer sues Trump family's crypto firm over alleged extortion The Trump family's World Liberty Financial crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company. Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by US President Donald Trump and his son Eric ...
Source: bbc.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 -
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 -
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 (AP) — The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the Navy's top civilian official, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan , is leaving his job. ...
Source: huffpost.com