Friday, April 18

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Severe storms expected across Plains, Midwest on Easter weekend (FOX WEATHER)

📌Students at Florida State University gather for memorials after yesterday’s deadly shooting (AP)

📌 Judge restricts DOGE access to personalized social security data (FOX NEWS)

📌 Trump administration announces fees on Chinese ships docking at US ports (REUTERS)

📌 An American citizen held under ICE detainment has been released. (CNN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 US, Iran set for another round of nuclear talks this weekend: A preview (CNN)

📌 Rubio says that Trump administration may abandon Ukraine peace talks in days (NBC)

📌 Houthis claim that 72 killed in US strike on Yemen oil port (AP)

📌 Huckabee, new U.S. ambassador for Israel, visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem (NPR)

📌 China and Cambodia forge diplomatic ties amid Trump tariffs (DW)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Google to appeal against part of US court’s decisions in monopoly case (REUTERS)

📌 Trump’s tariffs may start a french fry war 🍟 (BUSINESS INSIDER)

📌 Instagram launches new “blends” feature to let you share reels with friends (THE VERGE)

📌 Planet discovered outside solar system orbiting two stars resembles fictional Star Wars setting (NBC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Speaking of a galaxy far, far away…Ryan Gosling set to star in a new Star Wars film, Starfighter, premiering 2027 💫(CNN)

📌 Wendy’s is not apologizing for saying Katy Perry should “go back” to space. (NYPOST)

📌 Bryce James, son of LeBron James, signs with Arizona (USA TODAY)

📌 It’s a bird 🦜…it’s a plane ✈️ …it’s holy? A new report on the religious undercurrents in Superman 🦸 (AP)