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Top News Stories for Friday, April 24th 2026
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution during a late-night voting marathon that lasted until early Thursday morning, setting the stage for Congress to vote next month on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement and reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The resolution passed by a vote of 50-48 shortly after 3:30 a.m. Thursday. GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Rand Paul ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Washington — The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has issued an order rescheduling certain marijuana products to a lower drug classification, while moving to expedite the process to reclassify marijuana more broadly. The order was signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and places FDA-approved products containing marijuana and products regulated by a state medical marijuana license in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
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Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, about 8,000 employees. The job cuts will begin May 20, and the company is scrapping plans to hire people for 6,000 open roles, according to a Thursday memo to employees. Meta's latest layoffs follow several smaller job reductions that the company said was necessary to improve efficiency while focusing on generative AI. In this article Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market. The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army's special forces, for allegedly using "classified, nonpublic" information about the capture of Venezuelan ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Marimar Martínez, la mujer de Chicago a la que le disparó un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza en octubre, testificó el miércoles ante el Comité de Seguridad Nacional en Washington, D.C., advirtiendo a los legisladores federales que si no se responsabiliza a los agentes de inmigración, "más ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said he is taking accountability for actions that have created a distraction for New England without addressing specifics about photos published recently of him with longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. Vrabel spoke for just over seven minutes prior to the start of Thursday's NFL draft . He vowed to prioritize his family by beginning ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Washington (AP) — President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks at the White House on Thursday. Trump said the meeting between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the United States, the second in the past week, went "very well," but during an Oval Office gathering he acknowledged that "they do ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Jet Fuel Costs Wiped Billions From Airlines' Bottom Lines In Q1 --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. Airlines' first-quarter earnings reports reveal how soaring jet fuel prices are draining billions from U.S. carriers, even as they post record revenue. Airline chiefs: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, JetBlue Airways CEO ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon that killed a journalist on Wednesday were a war crime, Lebanon's prime minister said. A journalists' union said rescuers were prevented from accessing the destroyed building where the reporter was left trapped beneath rubble. Amal Khalil, 43, a journalist with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, bled to death in the ruins of a building that was hit in an Israeli drone strike after ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
– Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming following a suggestion to that effect by a Trump administration official. Iran has not withdrawn from the World Cup, and the team is in the U.S. despite the war in the Middle East. its group stage games near Los Angeles and in Seattle will go ahead as planned in June. The Financial Times reported that ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern states and enforce federal civil rights protections for formerly enslaved Americans. On Tuesday, Justice Department officials announced what may be the first Klan-friendly prosecution in the department's history. The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, is ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
In February, The New York Times reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had assigned rotating SWAT teams to guard his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, as she traveled around the country. The article portrayed that use of FBI resources as highly unusual and ethically questionable. "If you want to be a celebrity or a social media star, get your own security," a former FBI official told the ...
Source: reason.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 -
April 23 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans have again blocked the Democrats from curbing President Donald Trump 's ability to wage war with Iran, as negotiators try to find a diplomatic end to the conflict during the fragile cease-fire. The Senate voted 51-46 on Wednesday afternoon against Sen. Tammy Baldwin 's War Powers Resolution, the fifth time since March 4 that the Senate has voted against directing the removal of ...
Source: upi.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 -
The latest iOS 26.4.2 update resolves a vulnerability that allowed the FBI to retrieve deleted text messages from a user's Signal app. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Many people use the popular Signal app to send and receive encrypted text messages. As an added bonus, you can set all texts to automatically disappear after a certain amount of time. But those protections ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Trump-Xi summit may be rocked by US mulling huge sanctions. The US is preparing to crack down on China's allegedly "industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs' intellectual property," the Financial Times reported Thursday. Since the launch of DeepSeek—a Chinese model that OpenAI claimed was trained using outputs from its models —other AI firms have accused global rivals of using a ...
Source: arstechnica.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department's compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files , stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration over the past year. The audit from the inspector general's office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Donald Trump administration is serious about denaturalizing people who got American citizenship by fraudulent means and already identified 384 foreign-born Americans who will lose their citizenship, the reported. This will a part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations which they plan to expand by assigning cases to prosecutors across US attorney's offices. The NYT report said that senior Justice ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions with legitimate access violated their data-sharing agreements. The data was de-identified but includes genome sequences, hospital diagnoses, and biological measures that experts say can be re-identified. Alibaba removed the listings before any sales were made, ...
Source: thenextweb.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 -
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NSCS) has fully backed passkeys, stating that it should be "should now be consumers' first choice of login". This follows a shift over the last 12 months which saw the agency work closely the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) alliance , observe positive progress across the passkey ecosystem and see success in the use of passkeys within the National Health Service (NHS). The NCSC ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
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 -
News WikiMedia ( ) Voting rights group sues DOJ over national voter database Voting rights advocates on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in an attempt to block the government from collecting and centralizing voter registration data. Tuesday's complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, names voting advocacy group Common Cause and four individual ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Trump administration had filed suit against the 2025 law, arguing it would threaten officers' safety An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification. The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in November challenging the law, arguing it would threaten the safety of officers who are facing harassment, doxing and violence, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
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 Wednesday evaluates pollution across the country by grading levels of ground-level ozone – also known as ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
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 ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
A new bill approved in the United Kingdom's legislature will stop people born on or after January 1, 2009 from buying tobacco during their whole lives, as part of a years-long effort by ministers to create a "smoke-free generation". Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting introduced the Tobacco and Vapes Bill in the House of Commons in 2024, aiming to protect public health and reduce the harm ...
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 -
Exit of John Phelan, navy's top civilian official, comes a week after Pete Hegseth fired army's top officer The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the navy's top civilian official, John Phelan, the secretary of the navy, is leaving his job. In a statement posted to social media, Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Phelan was "departing the administration, effective immediately". Hung Cao, the navy ...
Source: theguardian.com