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Top News Stories for Friday, April 24th 2026
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) on Thursday accused conservative media personality Tucker Carlson of engaging with a "dangerous" campaign of "misinformation" after recently saying he Sanders told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on "Squawk Box" that though she could not speak for Carlson about his comments, what he has ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
) — President Donald Trump announced a on Thursday, calling it "the biggest cut in drug prices in the history of our country," as the administration continues its push to lower prescription costs. , which he said will allow American patients to pay the lowest prices available anywhere in the world. builds on broader industry commitments, claiming that 17 major pharmaceutical companies — representing ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
April 23 (UPI) -- Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, plans to lay off 10% of its workforce worldwide -- about 8,000 people -- and focus on artificial intelligence, an employee memo said Thursday. The first round of layoffs is expected to start May 20, with more coming later in the year. The memo also said Meta will not hire people for 6,000 open roles, CNBC reported. The company had earlier chopped ...
Source: upi.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
Federal officials charge US soldier with using classified intel to win over $400K bet on Maduro raid
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By HALLIE GOLDEN and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel will miss a portion of the NFL Draft and undergo counseling in the wake of photos emerging of himself and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini together, the team said Thursday. Vrabel will not be with the Patriots on Saturday during the third day of the NFL Draft, which begins on Thursday night. "As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization and this team that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
US President Donald Trump will meet Lebanese and Israeli envoys at a new round of peace talks Thursday, with Beirut seeking a one-month extension of a shaky ceasefire set to expire. With Trump struggling to push Iran into a deal on the wider regional war, the United States is hoping for progress on Lebanon, which Israel has pounded in response to Hezbollah fire. The talks, previously planned at the State Department ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
German aviation company Lufthansa Group says it would cut 20,000 short-haul flights up until October as the Iran war drives up oil prices and deepens worries that some countries may run low on jet fuel. Lufthansa on Thursday said it would cancel less profitable routes and focus on flights to and from its hub airports in Frankfurt and Munich, which could save approximately 40,000 tonnes of jet fuel. The German ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of crimes against humanity for killing journalist Amal Khalil and wounding her colleague Zeinab Faraj in an air strike in the village of al-Tayri in southern Lebanon. Khalil and Faraj were reporting on an earlier Israeli attack on a vehicle on Wednesday, when they were targeted while fleeing towards a building to take shelter. Paramedics rescued Faraj and ...
Source: aljazeera.com
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 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Cash-strapped Ukraine has secured a crucial European Union loan that will provide a vital lifeline to sustain its wartime efforts this year. The 90 billion-euro ($106 billion) package was formally approved on Thursday, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline had been repaired and the flow of oil would resume to ...
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 -
Inquiry began in March after report on security arrangements involving FBI director's girlfriend, NYT says The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter after the newspaper published a story raising concerns about the security arrangements surrounding the girlfriend of Kash Patel, the FBI director, the Times has reported. According to reporting from the Times on Wednesday, the inquiry into Elizabeth ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Reading time 4 minutes Throughout the last few decades of cinema, data centers have mostly appeared as "server rooms," or occasionally "server farms" when that room was exceptionally big. For the bulk of their early film appearances, these rows of server racks functioned more or less as plot device/set piece hybrids wherein the protagonists could hack, steal, bypass, or reroute some technobabble MacGuffin while ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
April 23 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans have again blocked the Democrats from curbing President Donald Trump 's ability to wage war with Iran, as negotiators try to find a diplomatic end to the conflict during the fragile cease-fire. The Senate voted 51-46 on Wednesday afternoon against Sen. Tammy Baldwin 's War Powers Resolution, the fifth time since March 4 that the Senate has voted against directing the removal of ...
Source: upi.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 -
Apple has issued an emergency update to fix a Notification Services flaw that caused deleted alerts to remain stored on devices, potentially exposing sensitive message content. Tracked as CVE-2026-28950, the issue has been resolved in iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2, with patches also released for older supported versions of Apple operating systems. The company said the bug stemmed from a logging issue that ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The White House is reportedly accusing China of "industrial-scale" theft of U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) technology. With that accusation comes the warning that the government will crack down on this practice, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (April 23), citing a memo seen by the news outlet. "The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged ...
Source: pymnts.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 -
Police chief says human remains had been in a wooded area for years and did not match local missing persons reports Memphis police have found the remains of three children in an area of woodland, saying they had probably been there "for several years". Police said the children are believed to have been between three and seven years old. "This is heartbreaking, is disturbing, and at this time, we have numerous ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
The Donald Trump administration is serious about denaturalizing people who got American citizenship by fraudulent means and already identified 384 foreign-born Americans who will lose their citizenship, the reported. This will a part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations which they plan to expand by assigning cases to prosecutors across US attorney's offices. The NYT report said that senior Justice ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions with legitimate access violated their data-sharing agreements. The data was de-identified but includes genome sequences, hospital diagnoses, and biological measures that experts say can be re-identified. Alibaba removed the listings before any sales were made, ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 -
The Trump administration is finally, slowly, beginning the process of refunding the illegal tariffs it collected over the past year, and some private companies say they will speed those refunds along to consumers. In theory, this is a straightforward act of restitution. In practice, it reveals a more complicated—and, for many consumers, likely less satisfying—truth about tariffs. This week, U.S. Customs ...
Source: reason.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 -
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NSCS) has fully backed passkeys, stating that it should be "should now be consumers' first choice of login". This follows a shift over the last 12 months which saw the agency work closely the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) alliance , observe positive progress across the passkey ecosystem and see success in the use of passkeys within the National Health Service (NHS). The NCSC ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
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 -
agents was amended on Wednesday after Texas' governor threatened to take away millions of dollars in public safety grants. Houston, as well as Austin and Dallas — three of the state's biggest cities and Democratic strongholds — are being confronted by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott with threats of losing public safety dollars over policies that dictate how law enforcement interacts with federal immigration ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture co-founded by President Donald Trump and his sons, alleging the company illegally blocked him from selling digital tokens worth up to $1 billion. The lawsuit , filed on Tuesday in California federal court, also accuses World Liberty Financial of trying to pressure Sun into investing "hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
A smoking ban for people born after 2008 may be on the cusp of becoming law in the U.K. Here's what to know set to ban people born after 2008 from purchasing tobacco products such as cigarettes. Lawmakers approved the amendments to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill on April 20, although it is unclear when the legislation will take effect. As a result, it will become illegal in the U.K. to sell tobacco products to anyone ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
Gibraltar macaques have been observed eating soil, perhaps to cope with the negative effects of human junk food, according to a study published in Scientific Reports . This strange new habit seems to help the monkeys digest treats taken from tourists that would otherwise cause an upset stomach – for instance, when these lactose-intolerant animals pilfer ice cream. "Foods brought by tourists and eaten by ...
Source: sciencefocus.com
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2026 -
– Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving his job, the Pentagon abruptly announced Wednesday, the first head of a military service to depart during President Donald Trump's second term but just the latest or be ousted. No reason was given for the unexpected departure of the Navy's top civilian official, coming as the sea service has imposed a during a tenuous . Another Trump loyalist is taking over as acting ...
Source: news4jax.com