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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The share of Americans who disapprove of the job that Congress is doing stands at an all-time high as the partial government shutdown drags on, according to new polling from Gallup. Eighty-six percent of US adults disapprove of Congress — tied with the record high notched since Gallup started asking the question more than 50 years ago — while only 10% approve. Notably, Republicans are largely driving ...
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 -
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, ...
Source: jurist.org
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 Kalshi said Wednesday that it had fined and suspended three political candidates for trading on their own races during primary campaigns. "Just like in traditional financial markets, bad actors will try to cheat," Kalshi said in a statement . "These three cases are an example of how developing proactive engineering solutions can help identify illicit trading activity." Kalshi described the actions ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
DALLAS (AP) — Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms, including making Bible stories required reading for students. The biggest drive yet to put the Ten Commandments in every classroom began last year in Texas, where a challenge to the law was batted down Tuesday by a U.S. appeals ...
Source: apnews.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 -
Two committee heads are releasing coinciding bills aimed at data privacy in tech and financial services like banks and credit cards. The measures would preempt state laws on data privacy in more than 20 states. Republicans are working to unite their own members around proposals after the previous Congress failed to advance a data privacy bill. Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., arrives for the House Energy and Commerce ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
Kevin Warsh, the financier picked by President Donald Trump to be the next chair of the US Federal Reserve , found himself tripped up by a seemingly simple question from Sen. Elizabeth Warren . During a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Warren (D-Mass.) said she wanted Warsh to demonstrate he had the prerequisite independence to serve as chairman of America's central bank. "Independence ...
Source: commondreams.org