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2:03 PM on Wednesday, April 22

One of the most comprehensive studies ever of flood risk has determined that more than 17 million people in eight cities along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at the highest risk of being affected by flooding

1:44 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Six people have been charged with plotting to steal at least 20 cars from the Washington, D.C., area and sell them to buyers in the United States and Ghana in West Africa

12:51 PM on Wednesday, April 22

A man who stole a purse from then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant under the protection of Secret Service agents has been sentenced to three years in prison for a string of thefts in the nation’s capital

12:25 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Liam Rosenior has been fired as Chelsea manager after less than four months in the job and just four days before it plays in an FA Cup semifinal at Wembley

12:20 PM on Wednesday, April 22

F1’s governing body says a repeat of the high-speed crash which left Oliver Bearman limping and alarmed the Formula 1 paddock “should basically be avoided” with regulation changes from next week’s race in Miami

11:31 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Rhode Island has moved its primary elections to Wednesday, Sept. 9, to avoid conflict with Labor Day

11:30 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Large chunks of ice have rammed into homes along Michigan's Black Lake in the northeastern Lower Peninsula as constant spring rainfall and winter melt have flooded homes and threatened to overflow stressed dam systems

11:04 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Dave Mason, co-founder of the psychedelic British band Traffic and songwriter behind “Feelin’ Alright” and “Hole in My Shoe,” died Sunday at his home in Gardnerville, Nevada

11:02 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

11:00 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

9:48 AM on Wednesday, April 22

French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for his book “Houris.”

9:02 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Four debut novelists are among the six finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, announced Wednesday

6:02 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Authorities have found the body of one of the six missing crew members from a cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon

5:51 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

12:05 AM on Wednesday, April 22

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

12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Museums and other cultural institutions across the globe have added barrier-free tours and guides to their repertoire

11:56 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Authorities say a man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead has died in jail

8:13 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

1:15 PM on Tuesday, April 21

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

12:44 PM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon