Tuesday, April 15

🚨NATION

📌 Trump administration freezes $2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism (AP)

📌 White House bars AP reporter, defying court order (AXIOS)

📌 Trump ‘looking into’ legality of deporting U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, White House says (CNBC)

📌 Salvadoran fugitive convicted in deadly attack of Maryland hiker (CNN)

📌 Joe Biden will speak about Social Security in his return to the national stage (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Trump administration looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates (CNN)

📌 Trump holds situation room meeting on Iran nuclear deal negotiations (AXIOS)

📌 Sudan talks in London as war enters third year (NPR)

📌 Pope puts architect Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood (BBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Autism rates have risen to 1 in 31 school-age children, CDC reports (NBC)

📌 The first meteor shower of spring will be visible from parts of the U.S. April 21-22 (YAHOO)

📌 Amid declining sales, Starbucks tightening restrictions on dress code for baristas (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 His conviction was hailed as a #MeToo victory. After winning his appeal, Harvey Weinstein is back on trial (CNN)

📌 Baseball teams celebrate Jackie Robinson Day amidst uncertainty over MLB diversity initiatives (AXIOS)

📌 Lil Nas X in hospital with partial face paralysis (BBC)

📌 Jesse Eisenberg’s next film will be an A24 musical comedy with Julianne Moore and Bernadette Peters (VARIETY)