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12:57 PM on Wednesday, April 22

A Moldovan oligarch and former opposition leader has been sentenced to 19 years in a fraud case in which a billion dollars stolen from banks in the country more than a decade ago

12:45 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Gates Foundation confirmed Wednesday that it is reviewing its ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

12:03 PM on Wednesday, April 22

More kids than ever are attending state-funded preschool in the U.S., 1.8 million of them the last school year

11:25 AM on Wednesday, April 22

The Kansas City Royals are moving from Kauffman Stadium to downtown Crown Center

10:02 AM on Wednesday, April 22

SpaceX says it has the rights to buy artificial intelligence coding tool Cursor for $60 billion later this year as Elon Musk’s space exploration and AI company looks for ways to compete with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI ahead of a planned Wall Street debut

10:00 AM on Wednesday, April 22

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study in the journal Nature that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile

9:40 AM on Wednesday, April 22

The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court

8:47 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Thousands of students have marched through the Czech capital to protest a government plan to overhaul and reduce public media funding

8:11 AM on Wednesday, April 22

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6:26 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Officials say a work vehicle hit a commuter train in downtown Washington, leaving 11 people with minor injuries

4:51 AM on Wednesday, April 22

The European Union is close to approving a 90 billion euro ($106 billion) loan package to support Ukraine’s military and financial needs for the next two years

1:57 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”

12:48 AM on Wednesday, April 22

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran as a new round of peace talks was on hold

12:39 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Iran has fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them

12:36 AM on Wednesday, April 22

The U.S. stock market is rallying toward more records after GE Vernova and other big companies joined the list of those reporting fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected

11:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The president of Cyprus says fellow European Union leaders meeting on the island nation need to start preparing a playbook on what should happen if an EU country under attack puts out the call to bloc partners for help

7:13 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse in the past year

12:15 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell are donating $750 million to the University of Texas at Austin