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Top News Stories for Tuesday, April 28th 2026
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Britain's King Charles III will emphasize the long history and democratic values his country shares with the United States in an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, delivered while relations between the two nations are at an unusually low ebb. He will start his speech, which is expected to last around 20 minutes, by expressing solidarity and talk about how the US and United Kingdom stand ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Hours after the president and first lady called for Jimmy Kimmel's ouster , the late-night host defended the joke that sparked their ire in the wake of an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Days before an armed man charged a security checkpoint at Saturday's dinner, Kimmel aired a skit on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" mocking the annual dinner and addressing the first lady. "You ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
The practice known as "Singapore-washing" is under scrutiny after China blocked a major US acquisition on national security grounds. When is a Chinese AI startup not a Chinese AI startup? When it's based in Singapore, or elsewhere, to distance itself legally and politically from Beijing. The practice known as "Singapore-washing" is under scrutiny after China blocked a major US acquisition on national security ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
in the U.S. on Monday afternoon, in the king's first visit to the country as monarch. The king's speech on Capitol Hill will be the first address to Congress by a British monarch in 35 years. The king and queen are in the U.S. to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this year. It comes at a time when the U.S. war with Iran and the president's criticism of NATO threaten ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
An eightfold increase since 2020, with Facebook generating more losses than text and email scams combined New FTC data published Monday show that nearly 30% of all reported scam losses last year began on social media. Investment scams alone cost $1.1 billion. Shopping scams were the most frequently reported. Romance scams started on social media in 60% of reported cases. All age groups except the over-80s lost more ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme Anthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on local revenues, warning digital giants should not be able to exploit the work of journalists to boost profits. But tech giants Google and Meta have criticised the government's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 28th, 2026 -
BEKASI, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers finished removing victims from a damaged commuter train car Tuesday, confirming that the crash outside Indonesia's capital killed 15 people, all of whom were women. The crash occurred Monday when a long-distance train crashed into the rear car of the stopped commuter train at Bekasi Timur Station outside Jakarta . The car was one designated for women only, a common ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
The Girls Are Fighting, AI Edition While Elon Musk and Sam Altman squabble over OpenAI's corporate structure, the company has openly relinquished responsibility of ensuring safety. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are set to square off in court over OpenAI's mission. In his lawsuit, Musk accuses Altman of illegally transforming OpenAI from a ...
Source: motherjones.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Amended agreement clears the way for OpenAI models to run on Amazon Bedrock. Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 , the exclusive partnership between the two firms has been one of the strongest and most consequential in the AI industry. Today, though, OpenAI and Microsoft jointly announced an amended agreement that will allow the company to go beyond Microsoft's Azure and "serve all its products to ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Opponents warn the tax could kill 108,000 high-paying jobs; Gov. Newsom has called it bad economics After months of campaigning for a first-of-its-kind retroactive wealth tax in California , the union-led effort is now taking its next step. The Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) said it has collected more than 1.55 million signatures, according to a press release, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
--:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office—two tied to her voice and one to her likeness, following numerous instances of her persona being used in AI-generated content without her consent. The applications were filed Friday by TAS Rights Management, LLC, a Nashville, Tennessee-based company established in 2011 to manage, protect and ...
Source: forbes.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
The US Supreme Court appeared wary of issuing a sweeping decision on how a law enforcement technique leveraging the digital footprint of mobile phone users squares with the constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures. Hearing arguments on Monday, the justices struggled with the question of whether a geofence warrant that compelled Alphabet Inc.'s Google to share certain geographic mobile data ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Man pleads guilty to murder 2 decades after death of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder more than 20 years after the fatal ambush shooting of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay. Jay Bryant, 52, changed his plea on Monday to guilty, telling a judge that he helped others get into a building to ambush and kill Jay Mizell, the pioneering rap star who was known as Jam Master Jay. Prosecutors ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Guess what? Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine still aren't here yet, and there's still no price known for them either. But another piece of Steam hardware is arriving very soon. The new Steam Controller is coming May 4 for $99, and I've been living with one at home for a few weeks now. I bet it'll make your Steam gaming a lot nicer. Especially if you plan on connecting your Steam Deck to a TV. In fact, that's ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
Janet Mills said the moratorium bill, which would have banned data centers larger than 20 megawatts until Nov. 2027, did not take into account a popular local project. This article was originally published by Maine Morning Star . Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Friday vetoed a bill that would have banned data centers larger than 20 megawatts until November, 2027 — which would have been the first such moratorium in ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
United Airlines' CEO confirmed Monday that he approached rival American Airlines about a potential merger — his first public acknowledgment of his proposal — saying it would benefit travelers despite American's refusal to engage in talks. "I was confident that this combination, which would have been about adding and not subtracting, creating a truly great airline that customers love, could get ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
OpenAI is collaborating on the development of smartphone processors and may build a new artificial intelligence agent ecosystem based on a phone, TF International Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a Sunday (April 26) article on X. OpenAI did not immediately reply to PYMNTS' request for comment. Kuo wrote that OpenAI would make a phone because delivering a comprehensive AI agent service would require full ...
Source: pymnts.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
ADT, a Florida-based provider of alarm monitoring solutions, confirmed that hackers breached its systems and accessed a portion of customer data. According to a company statement, unauthorized access was detected on April 20 and affected "a limited set of customer and prospective customer data." ADT said it immediately launched a forensic investigation with third-party cybersecurity experts and notified law ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2026 -
The Trump administration has hired dozens of new immigration judges with no immigration law experience, including some with openly pro-MAGA views, in a bid to fast-track deportations. In an unprecedented purge, the Department of Justice has fired more than 100 immigration judges since President Donald Trump took office last year, and has hired more than 140 new judges to replace them. Just 24 percent had worked for ...
Source: thedailybeast.com