Friday, April 26

Apr 26

Written By Will Myers

🚨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)