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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said the United States is extending the ceasefire until Tehran submits its latest proposal with conditions for ending the war, and until negotiations conclude, keeping diplomacy open while maintaining pressure on Iran. However, Trump said the US naval blockade on Iran would remain. Iran has insisted that the blockade represents a violation of the ceasefire, and has said it will not negotiate ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
, faced intense questioning from several US senators on Wednesday during a hearing largely focused on how the administration has responded to the and the spread of vaccine misinformation. In his opening remarks to the Senate finance committee, the senator Ron Wyden criticized Kennedy's messaging on vaccines, saying: "When it comes to vaccines, Robert Kennedy has used this once-in-a-lifetime platform to make parents ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
New Rubrik Agent Cloud Integration with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform provides a unified control layer for AI agent operations the Security and AI Operations company, launched Rubrik Agent Cloud (RAC) for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The collaboration will help organizations to accelerate and secure the deployment of AI agents on Google Cloud with a critical layer of semantic governance and operational ...
Source: aithority.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused the Southern Poverty Law Center, a storied civil rights organization, of defrauding donors and stoking "racial hatred" through payments it made to informants working for a variety of hate groups. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that a grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11-count indictment against the nonprofit, charging it with bank fraud, wire ...
Source: abajournal.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 -
logo appears in this illustration taken April 22, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Kalshi, a so-called prediction market that allows betting on events, said it caught three candidates for federal office after they attempted to place trades on their own elections . In a press release on Wednesday, Kalshi's Bobby DeNault touted the enforcement actions as proof of a "commitment to policing all types of unfair or ...
Source: rawstory.com
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 ...
Source: cnet.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 -
SpaceX's multibillion-dollar deal with AI coding startup Cursor marks a colossal step for Elon Musk and his ambitions to win the AI race. The space company, which owns AI startup xAi, said in an X post on Tuesday that it's working with Cursor to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI." It's expected to combine Cursor's AI-powered coding model with SpaceX's Colossus training supercomputer, the ...
Source: insider.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
'Handful' of people allegedly gain unauthorised access to model adept at detecting cybersecurity vulnerabilities The AI developer Anthropic has confirmed it is investigating a report that unauthorised users have gained access to its Mythos model, which it has warned poses risks to cybersecurity . The US startup made the statement after Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that a small group of people had accessed the ...
Source: theguardian.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. In Hangzhou, a shopper can ask an AI agent to assemble an entire wardrobe, try it on their virtual avatar, and purchase it all within the same super-app. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, startups are racing to build even more powerful ...
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 -
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 ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Close to half of the children in the United States—more than 33 million kids—live in counties with dangerously high levels of toxic air pollution , according to the American Lung Association's annual air quality report out Wednesday. The 27th iteration of the ALA's report examines "two of the most widespread and dangerous air pollutants"—fine particles and ground-level ozone, commonly known as ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
EU agrees to unblock €90bn loan for Ukraine after Hungary lifts veto Agreement for urgently needed loan reached after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia EU member states have reached agreement on unblocking an urgently needed €90bn (£78bn) loan for Kyiv and a new package of sanctions against Moscow after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, prompting ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Crypto billionaire Justin Sun and his companies sued World Liberty Financial , a crypto project co-founded by President Donald Trump , accusing the company of extortion and an "illegal scheme" to seize his tokens. In a complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Sun also claimed that "World Liberty is on the verge of collapse" and questioned whether it holds enough reserves to back its USD1 stablecoin. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.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 -
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 ...
Source: gizmodo.com
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 ...
Source: thenextweb.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 -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she is considering possible sanctions against the government of Chihuahua — a state bordering Texas — for allowing CIA agents to participate in an operation to dismantle drug laboratories because any security collaboration with the U.S. should be approved by Mexico's federal government. Sheinbaum's comments come after days of contradictions of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
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 ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
A former ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to secretly working with the BlackCat ransomware group and consipring to launch attacks against multiple victims across the US. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O'Lakes, Florida, admitted one count of conspiracy to obstruct, delay or affect commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by extortion. Martino, who is believed to have worked for ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.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 -
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. ...
Source: latimes.com
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 ...
Source: rawstory.com