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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 22nd 2026
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Declaration comes amid intense efforts to bring two sides together in Pakistan for new round of talks Donald Trump unilaterally announced an extension of the two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday amid frantic efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table. Hours after announcing that he "expected to be bombing", the US president said he would extend the ceasefire until Iranian negotiators submitted ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Apple just handed the keys to someone most people have never seen on a stage, given an interview, or heard speak publicly about where the company is headed. Tim Cook Ternus is 51 years old and has spent nearly his entire career inside Apple. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1997. He was also a competitive swimmer at Penn, winning both the 50-meter freestyle and ...
Source: bradenton.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
The GOP Senate primary in Georgia is heating up one month before voters head to the polls, with Rep. Buddy Carter launching the first attack ad of the race, former football coach Derek Dooley hitting the airwaves and Rep. Mike Collins touting his fundraising. The three Republicans are vying to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, a top GOP target as the party looks to expand its 53-47 majority in the Senate. With ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
It long has been axiomatic here in the shebeen that the contention, "Nothing but the best people," is the funniest thing ever to emerge from a Trump presidency. Now, though, the second time around, it's gone from hilarious to absolutely ghoulish. On the same day that the FBI director launched a futile $280-million nuisance suit against The Atlantic for a story about what a boozehounding party animal he is, the ...
Source: esquire.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Refunding that money, which was a part of President Trump's sweeping import tax program, will be no easy task. The that more than 330,000 U.S. companies made a total of 53 million transactions that were affected by the tariffs. To facilitate the process, the administration created an where businesses can file for reimbursement. The ability to recoup the costs of the now invalidated tariffs could prove to be a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Kevin Warsh , President Trump's nominee to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, testified at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday that the central bank will remain "strictly independent" in setting monetary policy. Warsh's opening statement comes after Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell for not cutting interest rates faster. At the same time, Powell has steadfastly maintained that ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Department of Defense/screen grab More U.S. troops could soon be suffering from influenza after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the flu vaccine was no longer mandatory for the armed forces. "Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
The Department of Justice said the Southern Poverty Law Center had been indicted on charges related to secretly funding right-wing extremist groups that it claimed to be battling. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said the SPLC was "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred." The SPLC paid at least $3 million to eight individuals, some associated with the Ku ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
This blog reported on Judge Jed Rakoff's widely discussed "AI is not your lawyer" pronouncement in United States v. Heppner . The court's conclusion that attorney-client privilege was waived with respect to information that a client divulged to a consumer-grade generative artificial intelligence tool – when coupled with other recent court rulings explaining that AI-generated data can be discoverable ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
California's top law enforcement official on Monday released a legal filing packed with evidence that Amazon is leveraging its dominance of the online retail market to artificially drive up prices for a range of goods, fueling a nationwide affordability crisis while padding its profits. The filing was first submitted to the San Francisco Superior Court in February as part of California Attorney General Rob Bonta's ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Sacked civil servant discloses he overturned vetting ruling without knowing full extent of national security concerns The sacked senior civil servant Oliver Robbins has said he was subject to "constant pressure" when he arrived in the Foreign Office to get Peter Mandelson in post as soon as possible. He said the Cabinet Office urged the Foreign Office to allow Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Florida's attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after reviewing conversation logs between its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, and a Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding several others after opening fire on campus last April. "My prosecutors have looked at this and they've told me if it was a person on the other end ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Microsoft has also reduced the price of its Xbox Game Pass video game subscription service, Microsoft Gaming boss Asha Sharma has announced Microsoft's gaming subscription service Xbox Game Pass will be coming down in price from today, but future Call of Duty titles will no longer be available on the service at launch. Other games from Microsoft-owned studios will still be playable on Game Pass from the day of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has said he has had "difficult" conversations after photographs of him and NFL reporter Dianna Russini were made public earlier this month . Russini resigned from her post at the Athletic after the New York Post published photos of her and Vrabel embracing and holding hands at an Arizona resort. The pair are married to different people and have said their relationship is ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes "Pro"-level gadgets don't always imply what you think they do. For instance, the newly announced Framework Laptop 13 Pro promises better specs, but there's something more in store. The new laptop will let you ditch Windows and its Copilot obsessions entirely with Linux installed right out of the box. Framework shared details of its new laptops and accessories on Tuesday. All the modularity of ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to arson not endangering life after an attack on a synagogue in north-west London on Saturday night. The plea on Tuesday came as seven people were arrested over an alleged separate plan to commit an arson attack targeting the Jewish community, the Metropolitan Police said. The teenager, a British national from Brent who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested by the Met ...
Source: bbc.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
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - New York's attorney general sued Coinbase Financial Markets (COIN.O) and Gemini Titan (GEMI.O) on Tuesday, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling. In petitions filed in state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James said Coinbase and Gemini failed to obtain New York State Gaming Commission licenses to operate their markets, ...
Source: reuters.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Congressional expulsions are exceedingly rare. It's a punishment mostly reserved for convicts and Confederates. But in recent months, expulsion threats have been flying among members of Congress. And this week, a pair of Republican representatives, Cory Mills of Florida and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, escalated their long-running feud with new efforts to oust the other from the House of ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
April 21 (UPI) -- The Cuban government confirmed it recently held talks with a United States delegation, following U.S. media reports that envoys sent by Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the island about 10 days ago. The confirmation came Monday from Alejandro García del Toro, a senior Cuban Foreign Ministry official in charge of U.S. affairs, during an interview with state-run newspaper Granma. ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
McKinsey identifies four coordinated steps that connect strategy, technology, and people to build strong foundational data capabilities. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gartner forecasts that worldwide AI spending will total $2.5 trillion in 2026, a 44% year-over-year increase. Spending on AI platforms for data science and machine learning will reach $31 billion, ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration halt plans to collect sensitive medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management has asked 65 insurance companies to provide monthly reports with detailed medical and pharmaceutical claims data of more than 8 million people enrolled in federal health plans, KFF Health ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon's custom silicon as Claude demand soars. Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion—enabling Anthropic to eventually secure up to 5 gigawatts' worth of AI chips from Amazon to help train and run its popular Claude AI models. Amazon is already one of Anthropic's largest investors, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2026 -
A disabled kea parrot rewrites the rules of survival to rule his flock unaided. At New Zealand's Willowbank Wildlife Reserve, an endangered kea parrot named Bruce sits at the top of the pecking order. He has feeding priority, commands grooming from lower-ranked individuals, and has never lost a fight. Yet, Bruce is missing the entire upper half of his beak. In nature, a severe physical impairment is usually a death ...
Source: zmescience.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan Monday, shaking large buildings in Tokyo hundreds of kilometres away and prompting a warning for tsunami waves of up to three metres (10 feet). The quake hit at 4:53 pm (0753 GMT) in Pacific waters off northern Iwate prefecture, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. Around 40 minutes later, an 80-centimetre (31-inch) tsunami wave hit a port in Kuji in Iwate, ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
5 min read The singer d4vd pleaded not guilty Monday to all charges in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a 14-year-old whose remains were found in his apparently abandoned Tesla last year. D4vd was charged Monday with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 years old and mutilating human remains, records show. It came seven months after ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Earlier this month, Beijing played host to the unusual spectacle of humanoid robots running a half-marathon. The robots ran alongside the 12,000 or so human runners who slogged their way around southern Beijing, although they were confined to a separate lane for everyone's safety. And boy, did they go fast. The winner—a robot called "Lightning," which was built by Honor, the same folks ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family that stretched across two houses in a Shreveport, Louisiana, neighborhood left shaken by one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. The gunman's wife, who was the mother of their children, and another woman were also shot and critically wounded in the ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket suffered a malfunction during its third flight, placing its payload in a lower orbit than planned. The anomaly deals a blow to the company, which was aiming to increase the launch cadence of its heavy-lift launch vehicle. New Glenn lifted off on Sunday at 7:25 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket was carrying AST SpaceMobile's ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
Magazine has stood behind the story, which was written by veteran national security reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick Kash Patel has followed through on a threat to sue the Atlantic and the author of a story the magazine published that included allegations of "excessive drinking" as well as "conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences" while in charge of the FBI. The FBI director filed a defamation lawsuit in US ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
The Onion is one step closer to taking over InfoWars. The satirical news site on Monday launched a rebrand of right-wing commentator Alex Jones' controversial platform under a licensing deal that the Onion agreed to with a court-appointed administrator who is currently overseeing InfoWars. The administrator, Gregory Milligan, has asked a Texas district judge to approve the agreement. Under the terms, first reported ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
"We are heartbroken beyond words by the passing of our beloved daughter Madison … after a decades-long battle with juvenile diabetes and other health issues," Warner, 71, and wife via Instagram on Monday, April 20. "She filled our lives with love and laughter, and her absence leaves an immeasurable void." The statement continued, "We are grateful for the loving support of friends and family during this ...
Source: bradenton.com
Monday, Apr 20th, 2026 -
An overturned ship found near the U.S. territory of Saipan after a typhoon hit is the vessel that went missing with six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard said it was still searching for the six. It said the overturned boat was first spotted Saturday. Debris included a partially submerged life raft that was partly inflated. It was seen 95 nautical miles northeast of the vessel, the ...
Source: cbsnews.com