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? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that U.S. troops will no longer be required to get the flu vaccine in support of their "medical ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons DOJ indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for fraud The US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for wire fraud and other fraudulent crimes in connection to its covert operations. The indictment alleged that the SPLC misled donors and made false statements to banks in its use and transmission of funds to SPLC individuals. These individuals, ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
from designating the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security. , the DOJ asked U.S. District Judge Rita Lin to freeze the appeal — which the DOJ launched earlier this month — until a separate set of judges at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals can rule on a related set of questions regarding the supply chain risk designation against Anthropic. "At an absolute ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
5 min read The prediction market Kalshi suspended three political candidates from its platform on Wednesday for "political insider trading" after an internal probe found that they bet on their own campaigns. These suspensions and fines, reported first by CNN, are the most aggressive enforcement actions taken to date by a prediction site against political candidates, with primaries for the 2026 midterms already ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Editors' note, April 21: Xbox Game Pass offers a slew of benefits, like the ability to play on a myriad of devices -- not just consoles -- and access to games on Day 1 of release on certain plans, making this a convenient gaming subscription service for a wide range of people. Every Xbox Game Pass plan costs less than the price of a new AAA game each month, yet gives access to dozens -- if not hundreds -- of ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
News US appeals court rules Texas can require Ten Commandments in classrooms The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Texas may require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. In a closely divided en banc decision in Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District , the court reversed a lower court injunction which blocked enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 10, ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
that it struck a deal with Cursor, giving it the right to acquire the AI coding startup for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for Cursor's work if it's not acquired. The deal lets the space and AI company put its own horse in the AI coding race. SpaceX, which owns AI assistant Grok, competes with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and, now, will allow us to build the world's most useful models," SpaceX said. ...
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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 ...
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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. It's likely that in time, no area of our lives will remain untouched by AI. This means fashion brands wanting to remain relevant must tap into the evolving desires, behaviors and concerns of a consumer who's also navigating the AI shift ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Two weeks ago, the Houston City Council enacted an ordinance clarifying the extent to which local police may cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. When police detain a pedestrian or driver, the ordinance says, they may not prolong the stop after its purpose has been accomplished simply because a background check reveals a civil administrative warrant issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes Teenagers turning 18 in Britain will no longer be able to buy a pack of cigarettes following new legislation aimed at implementing a generational smoking ban. Lawmakers approved a bill that makes it illegal for shops to sell tobacco to anyone born after January 1, 2009, Reuters reported . The new legislation, called the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, is part of a broader series of measures aimed at ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union envoys gathered on Wednesday with most cautiously optimistic that a massive loan to help meet Ukraine's military and financial needs for the next two years is close to being approved after months of deadlock. Meeting in Brussels, the envoys assessed whether Hungary might lift its veto on the 90 billion euro ($106 billion) loan package , originally agreed in December, which ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Justin Sun alleges World Liberty Financial installed tools to prevent sale of his tokens after they became tradeable The billionaire crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Tuesday sued World Liberty Financial, the digital currency venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons, alleging that World Liberty illegally froze his holdings of tokens issued by the company. Sun, the largest investor in World Liberty, alleged ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Watch out Marty Supreme , there's a new contender for the throne of table tennis champ—and it's not human. Research out today showcases a robot that can match and even best elite human players. Scientists at Sony's AI division developed the autonomous robotic system, dubbed Ace. Their study details how Ace won a majority of its matches against table tennis players with extensive ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The move, disclosed in an internal memo seen by Reuters , is framed as a way to teach AI agents how humans navigate software. Critics say it is workplace surveillance under a different name. Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees' work computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots, which will be fed into the company's AI model training pipeline, Reuters ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Trump administration on Wednesday neared a rescue deal for struggling Spirit Airlines, in a rare move to support a single air carrier. The deal, which has not yet been finalized, would offer $500 million to the discount airline, according to a person familiar with the matter. It would give the airline additional liquidity as it works toward emerging from bankruptcy and grapples with elevated fuel costs due to ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Privacy organizations and advocates are raising concerns about the SECURE Data Act, a piece of federal legislation introduced Wednesday that would preempt state privacy laws. Introduced by Rep. John Joyce, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and Rep. Brett Guthrie, a Republican from Kentucky who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee, the legislation aims to create a nationwide standard for protecting personal data. ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Mike Vrabel doesn't want to be a distraction. The New England Patriots coach knows that much of the chatter around his team in recent weeks has nothing to do with the reigning AFC champions ' offseason workouts or their plans for the NFL draft later this week. Instead, it's been about a "personal and private matter" that Vrabel decided to address at the top of his news conference Tuesday in Foxborough, Mass. ...
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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 ...
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