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Top News Stories for Friday, April 24th 2026
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
President Trump, in a morning social media posting, said the military is intensifying its mine clearing efforts in the critical waterway. "I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be ... that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz," Trump posted. "There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine 'sweepers' are clearing the Strait right now. I ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The FDIC today released guidance with steps intended to provide regulatory relief to financial institutions and facilitate recovery in areas of affected by severe weather. The agency encouraged banks in affected areas to work constructively with borrowers experiencing difficulties due to severe weather, including extending repayment terms, restructuring existing loans or easing terms for new loans. The agency said ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Most enterprises experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) agents face the same problem. Building an agent is one task. Connecting it to live data is another. Securing it, governing it and knowing when it fails has historically required a separate tool, a separate vendor and a separate procurement decision for each. At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a unified ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Meta's latest workforce reduction comes as the company aims to spend up to $135 billion on AI this year On Thursday, Meta Platforms confirmed recent reports of impending layoffs, revealing plans to shed 10% of its staff in May to boost artificial-intelligence efforts. Meta META will lay off approximately 8,000 employees and eliminate another 6,000 open roles, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday and a Meta ...
Source: marketwatch.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 -
--:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. An unauthorized group of users gained access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos model on the same day it was announced, according to a Bloomberg report released Tuesday. The users are said to be part of an online Discord group that searches for information about unreleased AI models. I requested comment from Anthropic on the incident, and a spokesperson ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was arrested on Thursday after allegedly betting on Maduro's removal from office before news of the raid was made public, a law enforcement source and a senior military official told CBS News. Federal investigators believe U.S. Army Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke made bets of more than $33,000 on the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Irán vuelve a endurecer su control sobre el estrecho de Ormuz Aunque EE. UU. e Israel han dicho que su intención era acabar con el programa nuclear iraní y deponer a sus líderes, Teherán ha convertido la guerra en un conflicto del transporte marítimo. El número de barcos que atraviesan el estrecho de Ormuz se ha convertido en un barómetro del modo en el que la ...
Source: nytimes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
By A few weeks back, Page Six shared photos of New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and NFL reporter Dianna Russini holding hands and embracing at an Arizona resort. This scandal led to Russini resigning from her position as lead NFL writer for The Athletic, and prompted Vrabel to announce his decision to enter counseling as the Patriots participate in the 2026 NFL Draft. On Thursday, the New York Post ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, due to expire Sunday, will be extended for three weeks, President Donald Trump said Thursday during the second round of peace talks at the White House. The announcement of an extension, which had been requested by Lebanon, came as Trump and Vice President JD Vance joined participants of the talks in the Oval Office. Led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and State ...
Source: washingtonpost.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 -
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam late Wednesday accused the Israeli military of war crimes after rescue workers recovered the body of journalist Amal Khalil from the ruins of a house in southern Lebanon that Israel bombed hours earlier. "Targeting journalists, obstructing the access of relief teams to them—and indeed, re-targeting their locations after these teams have arrived—constitutes a clear-cut ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Paolo Zampolli, special envoy for global partnerships within the Trump administration, has personally asked both President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino to remove Iran from this summer's World Cup tournament, to be replaced by Italy, Zampolli's home country. Zampolli — who reportedly introduced Trump to his third wife , first lady Melania Trump — is a businessman and a former modeling ...
Source: truthout.org
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 -
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Russian supplies of crude oil began flowing into Hungary on Thursday, Hungarian energy group MOL said in a statement, bringing an end to a nearly three-month interruption in deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline that led to spiralling political tensions with Ukraine. In the statement, MOL said it had "received crude oil at the Fényeslitke and Budkovce pumping stations earlier ...
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 -
With U.S. President Donald Trump's unpopular war against Iran showing little sign of ending, his Republican backers on Capitol Hill are facing a fresh dilemma on what to do if he insists on flouting a 1973 law mandating that unauthorized military operations end if they have gone past 60 days. It's too early to tell what most Republican lawmakers will do if the clock runs out on May 1 and the war against Iran is ...
Source: foreignpolicy.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 -
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies that the Trump administration will be enhancing its engagement with the private sector to counter foreign-led distillation campaigns designed to undermine U.S. AI advances. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Thursday accused China and other foreign entities of engaging in "deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to ...
Source: nextgov.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 -
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 Justice Department is pushing to revoke the citizenship of 384 foreign-born Americans, according to a New York Times report published Thursday . ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Medical data belonging to half a million British citizens has been offered for sale on a Chinese website following a security breach at health information database UK Biobank. Technology minister Ian Murray said that data obtained from UK Biobank had been advertised for sale by several sellers on Alibaba e-commerce platforms in China, in what he called an "unacceptable abuse". UK Biobank, a non-profit charity, ...
Source: computerweekly.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 -
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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 -
Voting-rights groups sued Alaska officials over their decision to turn voter rolls over to the Justice Department. The lawsuit is the latest in a spate of them against and by the Trump administration over its quest for voter roll access following the president's and his allies' baseless voter fraud claims. Advocates fear the administration's actions could mean that eligible voters can't cast their ballots in the ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
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 -
More than 2 million kids in Illinois are breathing unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to new report issued on Wednesday by the American Lung Association to mark Earth Day. The yearly "State of the Air" report found nearly half of U.S. children are breathing polluted air. According to the report, the Chicago-Naperville metro area was named the 15th most polluted in the nation for ozone pollution and ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 (AP) — The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the Navy's top civilian official, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan , is leaving his job. ...
Source: huffpost.com