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Top News Stories for Thursday, April 23rd 2026
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Democratic counteroffensive to GOP efforts to redraw maps sets the stage for Republicans to lose in the midterms Months into his second term, Donald Trump wagered that he could beat the historic trend of the party in power losing seats in midterm elections if Republican-led states redrew congressional maps to sweep Democrats out of office. The gamble is looking to be a bust, or at best a draw, for the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on how he plans to act on abortion pills and the ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. during a Referring to the former requirement that abortion pills must be ...
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 -
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today expanded its Cloud Detection and Response service to Google Cloud Platform, adding runtime protection for Google workloads as attackers lean on artificial intelligence to break into cloud environments and pivot between systems at faster speeds. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, the expansion puts Google Cloud alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a well-known civil rights organization that purports to monitor right-wing hate groups, secretly funneled millions of dollars to white nationalists and extremists who worked for those same groups. The SPLC says the purpose of the payments was to compensate informants who were working to dismantle hate groups from the inside, but ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
By While AI was supposed to make our lives easier, it seems it might make it harder to get a job and make a living. AI use has skyrocketed and with it, some jobs are being eliminated. And it seems nearly every sector is being impacted. Companies replacing workers with AI Job losses from AI have come for yet another company, this time in the financial sector. Bolt Financial, a one-click checkout app company, has ...
Source: miamiherald.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 -
Disclosures come after firm tightened rules on insider trading, including candidates betting on own campaigns Before he announced his Senate candidacy, a political hopeful in Virginia did something not so unusual in this day and age: he logged on to a prediction market exchange and wagered money that he would run. Then he ran. Then he bet on that too. The candidate and trader was Mark Moran , a former FBoy Island ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
In summary: Microsoft reduced Xbox Game Pass Ultimate pricing to $22.99 after a staggering 50 percent price increase in October 2025, though new Call of Duty games are no longer day-one releases. Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass was supposed to be the shining ray of light for gamers who wanted value: an all-you-can-eat buffet of both triple-A and indie titles, including unlimited streaming, for a low monthly price. Then ...
Source: pcworld.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
News US appeals court rules Texas can require Ten Commandments in classrooms The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Texas may require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. In a closely divided en banc decision in Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District , the court reversed a lower court injunction which blocked enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 10, ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Musk's AI startup, xAI, has held discussions in recent weeks with Mistral and AI coding startup Cursor about a potential three-way partnership, people familiar with the matter said. Mistral is a French AI startup that was founded in 2023 and has positioned itself as an independent alternative to US frontier labs. SpaceX, which owns xAI, announced a deal this week with Cursor that gives SpaceX the option to buy ...
Source: insider.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
A small group communicating via a private Discord channel accessed Claude Mythos Preview by guessing the model's URL on the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has found no evidence of impact to its core systems. The breach highlights the risks of restricting access to frontier AI capabilities through vendor environments rather than technical controls. A small ...
Source: thenextweb.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. It's likely that in time, no area of our lives will remain untouched by AI. This means fashion brands wanting to remain relevant must tap into the evolving desires, behaviors and concerns of a consumer who's also navigating the AI shift ...
Source: vogue.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. A federal appeals court has halted a California law that requires visible identification for law enforcement, including immigration agents, on Wednesday that the mandate is likely unconstitutional. Circuit had put the law briefly on hold until it could take a closer look. The keeps ...
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 -
April 22 (UPI) -- More than 152 million people in the United States - about 44%-- live in areas that have unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution, the American Lung Association said in the 2026 State of the Air report released Wednesday. The report also noted that 44.6% of U.S. children live in counties that have failing grades for at least one measure of air pollution,while 10% of children live in counties ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
The European Union is expected to sign off on a 90-billion-euro ($106bn) loan for Kyiv after a months-long standoff over the stalled operations of a war-damaged pipeline transporting Russian oil via Ukraine to Europe. EU diplomats meeting in Brussels gave their preliminary approval for the loan on Wednesday, their move coinciding with the resumption of Russian oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
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Source: livescience.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Meta employees are fuming over a new internal tool that tracks their clicks and keystrokes — the latest flashpoint in the company's all-in push on artificial intelligence. Staffers reacted with alarm after learning the software would monitor mouse movements, typing and on-screen activity to help train Meta's AI systems, according to internal communications viewed by Business Insider. One employee wrote, "This ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing crypto exchanges Coinbase and Gemini for allegedly running illegal sports betting operations in the state through their prediction market offerings. Processing Content James filed a pair of lawsuits to the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Tuesday against Coinbase Financial Markets and Gemini Titan LLC. She alleged in the filings that both Coinbase and Gemini ...
Source: americanbanker.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 -
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, April 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is nearing a deal to rescue low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines that could include up to $500 ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
House Republicans introduced two sweeping bills on Wednesday that will preempt state data privacy laws if adopted, and enforce guardrails on how financial institutions and technology companies treat Americans' data. are backed by multiple senior GOP leaders, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., House Financial Services Committee Chair French ...
Source: meritalk.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 -
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said Tuesday that he's had "difficult conversations with people I care about," including his family, his coaching staff, team officials and players, following the publication of photos of the coach and longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. "Those (conversations) have been positive and productive. In order to be successful on ...
Source: apnews.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