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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
As time runs out before the midterm elections, Virginia took a step on Tuesday to counter and possibly surpass President Trump's national effort to redraw congressional voting maps in favor of the GOP. Voters narrowly approved a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment to sideline the state's redistricting commission and let lawmakers directly implement a new map. The Virginia delegation to the U.S. House is ...
Source: npr.org
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 ...
Source: huffpost.com
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 ...
Source: theatlantic.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 -
Predictive market platform Kalshi has punished three unnamed United States political candidates for taking part in "insider trading" by betting on their own campaigns. In a statement on Wednesday, Kalshi explained that it had taken the enforcement action after launching a new raft of safeguards. Concerns had been raised over the lack of regulations in online betting, amid an explosion in popularity for prediction ...
Source: aljazeera.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? The movement to inject Christianity into public life, which has been brewing in right-wing circles for years and got a major boost when Donald Trump ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
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