Hundreds of anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested on several college campuses across the US over the past week. Tent encampments have spread across about 40 American universities in recent days.
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Speed Read
Friday, April 26
🚨NATION
📌 Polling: America warms to mass deportations (AXIOS)
📌 TikTok parent company says it would rather be banned vs. selling the app (CNN)
📌 Biden is giving $6 billion to Micron for a semiconductor project in upstate New York (NPR)
📌 Support for US aid to Israel plummets among swing-State voters (BLOOMBERG)
🌎 AROUND THE WORLD
📌 New Haiti government takes over in secret ceremony (GUARDIAN)
📌 Venice tests a 5-euro fee for day-trippers as the city grapples with overtourism (NPR)
📌 José Andrés eulogizes seven aid workers killed in Gaza (NY TIMES)
📌 U.S. to begin construction of Gaza pier as Rafah invasion looms (CNN)
📌 Pope Francis says of Ukraine, Gaza: "A negotiated peace is better than a war without end" (CBS NEWS)
📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH
📌 Millions more salaried US workers are set to be eligible for overtime pay starting July 1 (AP)
📌 USDA announces changes coming to school meals (ABC NEWS)
📌 Net neutrality rules restored by US agency, reversing Trump (REUTERS)
📌 As bird flu spreads in cows, fractured U.S. response has echoes of early covid (WASHINGTON POST)
🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT
📌 Sophia Bush comes out as queer, confirms relationship with Ashlyn Harris (NBC NEWS)
📌 About 300 musicians, from Diplo to Nile Rodgers, lobby Congress for ticketing reform (NPR)
📌 All seven ‘Harry Potter’ books to be recorded as full-cast audio productions with more than 100 actors, will release exclusively on audible (VARIETY)
📌 Rebel Wilson’s memoir to be published in U.K. with Sacha Baron Cohen allegations redacted (PEOPLE)
Featured Interview
One-on-one with Secretary of State Antony Blinken & White House National Securty Council Spokesman Admiral John Kirby
As the Israel-Hamas war continues, Mo News heads to Washington to interview two key national security leaders about the conflict, the US role and other top chanllenges for the US.