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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Republicans on Wednesday that efforts to redraw the Florida congressional map will backfire on the GOP. Speaking to reporters in Washington, Jeffries noted that Democrats have already flipped several seats in local elections around the Sunshine State in recent months. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. heads to Capitol Hill on Wednesday on a potential collision course with the Republican who helped put him in the job: Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy. It will be Kennedy's first appearance in nearly a year before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, which Cassidy chairs. The senator, who is up for reelection, cast the key vote to confirm Kennedy last year ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Federal Reserve chair, but only not anytime soon, unless unprecedented political and legal entanglements affecting the central bank are permanently resolved. , Warsh is likely wondering the same about his future. and other reforms. Warsh told the senators he would work for a " inflation and the sometimes nasty (I'm looking at you, Elizabeth Warren Retiring North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis declined to question ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Commvault Systems Inc. is deepening its integration with Google LLC's cloud platform in order to help bolster the defenses of modern "agentic enterprises" and enhance their data resilience. At Google Cloud Next 2026 , the company announced today that it's bringing the full Commvault Cloud platform to Google's hyperscale cloud infrastructure. In addition, it's bringing specialized, software-as-a-service-based rapid ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a well-known civil rights organization that purports to monitor right-wing hate groups, secretly funneled millions of dollars to white nationalists and extremists who worked for those same groups. The SPLC says the purpose of the payments was to compensate informants who were working to dismantle hate groups from the inside, but ...
Source: reason.com
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 ...
Source: news.yahoo.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
Xbox Just Dropped The Price of Game Pass Ultimate - And Dropped A Huge Franchise From Day One Access
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
After weeks of rumors and internal memo leaks, Xbox is officially dropping the price of its most expensive Game Pass Xbox Game Pass shocked many gamers in October 2025 when prices rose for select tiers of the service. Game Pass Ultimate, which was once considered the best deal in gaming by many console owners, climbed a staggering 50%. "Today, we're dropping the price of Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99. ...
Source: vice.com
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, ...
Source: jurist.org
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 -
A small group communicating via a private Discord channel accessed Claude Mythos Preview by guessing the model's URL on the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has found no evidence of impact to its core systems. The breach highlights the risks of restricting access to frontier AI capabilities through vendor environments rather than technical controls. A small ...
Source: thenextweb.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. When Prada redesigned its New York flagship with Rem Koolhaas in 2001, luxury got its first taste of a futuristic shopping experience that felt personalized and highly data-driven. Every product in-store had an RFID tag embedded, ...
Source: vogue.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 -
A smoking ban for people born after 2008 may be on the cusp of becoming law in the U.K. Here's what to know set to ban people born after 2008 from purchasing tobacco products such as cigarettes. Lawmakers approved the amendments to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill on April 20, although it is unclear when the legislation will take effect. As a result, it will become illegal in the U.K. to sell tobacco products to anyone ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
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 ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Russian oil flowed through the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline on Wednesday after a halt lasting months, officials said, allowing Hungary to lift its veto on a 90 billion euro ($105.79 billion) E.U. loan urgently needed by Kyiv. The Druzhba pipeline has become one of the most politically charged pieces of infrastructure in Europe since a Russian drone strike damaged the pipeline in western Ukraine and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
April 22 (UPI) -- A billionaire backer of the Trump family's World Liberty Financial crypto business is suing the organization alleging extortion. Justin Sun is accusing the company of a scheme to take his WLFI tokens, which are the cryptocurrency the company issued, the BBC reported . "Unfortunately, certain individuals on the World Liberty project team have been operating the project in a manner that goes against ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
PCWorld reviews the Framework Laptop 13 Pro, featuring Intel's new Panther Lake processors and promising over 20 hours of battery life with its upgraded 74Wh battery. I usually give Framework laptops a bit of a pass. After all, they're the upgradeable, modular laptop that you'll want to live with for years, right? Not the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro. It's something you'll want to live with right now . I've used the ...
Source: pcworld.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI's Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rules An AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a significant achievement for a machine faced with human athletes in a real-world competitive sport. Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost the two it played against ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Meta will track its employees' keystrokes, clicks and mouse movements -- and even capture screenshots of what's on their computer screens -- to help train the company's AI models. That's according to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing an internal memo sent to workers. According to the memo, Meta will install a new software program called the Model Capability Initiative on the computers of US-based ...
Source: cnet.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 -
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, April 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is nearing a deal to rescue low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines that could include up to $500 ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
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. ...
Source: statescoop.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 -
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 -
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
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