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)

Thursday, April 25

🚨NATION

📌 Protests on college campuses spread; Crackdowns take place at UT-Austin, USC (AP NEWS)

📌 House speaker visit Columbia University met with hostility as he calls for president's resignation (AXIOS)

📌 Supreme Court will hear arguments on Trump’s immunity claim over 2020 election prosecution today (CBS NEWS)

📌 New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan (CNN)

📌 Dolphin dead after being repeatedly shot in Louisiana, $20,000 reward offered for information (NBC NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Hamas releases propaganda video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin (CNN)

📌 Iranian Ayatollah and Hamas celebrate anti-Israel protests on college campuses (USA TODAY)

📌 Greek skies turn eerie orange as North African dust blows in (NBC NEWS)

📌 Top Israeli and Egyptian officials secretly meet to discuss possible Rafah invasion (AXIOS)

📌 Escaped army horses run amok in central London (BBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 NPR Chief defends coverage, accuses critics of ‘bad faith distortion’ of her views (WSJ)

📌 Surgeons perform first combined pig kidney transplant and heart pump (AP)

📌 U.S. orders cow testing for bird flu after grocery milk tests positive (CBS NEWS)

📌 Woman becomes 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant (ABC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Multiple crew members hospitalized after accident on set of Eddie Murphy film (GUARDIAN)

📌 Christina Applegate shares she started wearing diapers after eating salad contaminated with fecal matter (PAGE SIX)

📌 Reggie Bush getting 2005 Heisman Trophy back (CNN)

📌 Tupac Shakur’s estate threatens to sue Drake over diss track featuring AI-generated Tupac voice (BILLBOARD)

Wednesday, April 24

🚨NATION

📌 Two US senators call for Biden to send National Guard to quell anti-Israel protests on college campuses (POLITICO)

📌 Senate advances Ukraine aid, Israel funding and TikTok ban (NBC NEWS)

📌 Supreme Court appears to favor Starbucks in case on union organizing protections (PBS)

📌 Judge reprimands Trump lawyer but holds off on gag order ruling (GUARDIAN)

📌 Mistrial declared in case of Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting Mexican migrant near border (CBS NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 A look into the rise — or fall — in world leaders’ job approval ratings across the globe (GALLUP)

📌 Grindr facing UK data lawsuit for allegedly sharing users' HIV status with ad firm (GUARDIAN)

📌 Massive floods threaten tens of millions as intense rains batter southern China (CNN)

📌 Musk criticizes Australian court 'censorship' of video of terror attack on X (REUTERS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 U.S. is just 10% of global EV market, new report shows (AXIOS)

📌 ByteDance, TikTok shelled out $7 million on lobbying and ads to combat potential U.S. ban (CBNC)

📌 Apple reportedly cuts Vision Pro production due to low demand (THE VERGE)

📌 Luxury handbag designer sentenced to prison after smuggling bags made out of protected species into U.S. (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Latin music revenue surpasses $1 Billion for second consecutive year (BILLBOARD)

📌 Megan Thee Stallion accused of harassment by cameraman who said he was forced to watch her have sex (NBC NEWS)

📌 Alec Baldwin’s scuffle with anti-Israel agitator (NY POST)

📌 Prince Louis photo released to mark sixth birthday (CNN)

📌 ‘Tortured Poets Department’ breaks record for weekly vinyl sales in just three days, as Taylor Swift sells 700,000 LPs over a weekend (VARIETY)

Tuesday, April 23

🚨NATION

📌 Police arrest anti-Israel supporters at encampment on Yale University plaza (NBC NEWS) NYPD in riot gear arrest dozens at NYU (NY POST)

📌 Suspect arrested after break-in at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' home (ABC NEWS)

📌 Biden unveils $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message (REUTERS)

📌 Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate 'ghost guns' (USA TODAY)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israeli military intelligence head resigns over October 7 terror attack failure (FOX NEWS)

📌 The U.K.'s plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda has cleared Parliament (NPR)

📌 Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average rate, report says (NBC NEWS)

📌 Poland "ready" to host NATO nuclear weapons (CBS NEWS)

📌 Israel yet to offer proof UN staff in Gaza have ties to Hamas (BLOOMBERG)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Clothing store Express, a mall favorite, has filed for bankruptcy (NPR)

📌 Donald Trump set to receive $1.25 billion worth of Trump Media stock in DJT earnout bonus (CNBC)

📌 TikTok says it will fight US ban or forced sale after bill passes (GUARDIAN)

📌 The FAA will require more rest for air traffic controllers (NPR)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger face backlash after demolishing a historic home to build a mega-mansion (NY POST)

📌 Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall (NBC NEWS)

📌 Kid Cudi breaks foot after jumping off Coachella stage (TMZ)

📌 Dominic West relates to King Charles infidelity scandal after 'The Crown' star's drama with Lily James (FOX NEWS)

Monday, April 22

🚨NATION

📌 Supreme Court to decide if ban on homeless camps is 'cruel and unusual,' arguments today (ABC NEWS)

📌 Abortion-rights groups get signal boost after Florida, Arizona rulings (AXIOS)

📌 Opening statements in Trump’s hush money trial start today, here are the key players (CNN)

📌 RFK Jr. candidacy hurts Trump more than Biden, NBC News poll finds (NBC NEWS)

📌 Two young siblings killed, at least nine kids seriously injured, after a drunk driver plowed into a child’s birthday party in Michigan (CNN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 US expected to sanction IDF unit for human rights violations in West Bank (AXIOS)

📌 Ecuadorians head to polls for referendum as current president seeks backing for war on crime (GUARDIAN)

📌 Thousands protest in Spain's Canary Islands over mass tourism, calling for limited visitors (REUTERS)

📌 Frustrated Qatari government looks to potentially kick Hamas leaders out of Doha (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Diversity goals are disappearing from companies’ annual reports (WSJ)

📌 Universal Studios tram crash injures more than a dozen, park and fire officials say (ABC NEWS)

📌 Tax breaks to hire local journalists approved in New York, a national first (POLITICO)

📌 Climate doom is out. ‘Apocalyptic Optimism’ is in. (NY TIMES)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 A Chinese doping scandal rocks Olympic swimming and clean sport (YAHOO SPORTS)

📌 Victoria Beckham: Spice Girls reunite... at Posh's 50th birthday (BBC)

📌 Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ first album in Spotify’s history with 300M streams in single day (BILLBOARD)

📌 Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya plays for 60 hours in Times Square, breaking marathon record (CNN)

📌 Kevin Bacon returns to ‘Footloose’ high school to mark film’s 40th anniversary (EW)

Friday, April 19

🚨NATION

📌 Justice Department ramps up efforts to reduce violent crime with gun intel center, carjacking forces (AP)

📌 Man on terrorist watchlist was dropped from program that monitors migrants (NBC NEWS)

📌 Sarah Sanders' office potentially violated state law in $19K lectern controversy, audit finds (ABC NEWS)

📌 NYPD removes more than 100 anti-Israel protesters from Columbia University campus, including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter (NY POST) 

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 CIA Director warns Ukraine could lose war to Russia by end of year if US doesn’t continue aid (CNN)

📌 How a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ finalist became an unlikely ambassador for Taiwan (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 The U.N. Security Council denies the Palestinian Authority's bid for full membership after US Veto (NPR)

📌 FBI on alert for threats to the Jewish community ahead of Passover, director says (CNN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Popular snacks risk being banned over cancer-linked ingredients (NEWS NATION)

📌 How the strong U.S. dollar is rippling through the world economy (AXIOS)

📌 Salmonella outbreak prompts Trader Joe's to recall herbs sold in 29 states (NBC NEWS)

📌 Netflix to stop reporting subscriber numbers in 2025, citing new focus on ‘engagement’ (THE WRAP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Taylor Swift ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Live Updates/Reactions (NBC NEWS)

📌‘The Office’s’ Jenna Fischer filmed ‘Mean Girls’ with a broken shoulder: 'Still in physical therapy for it' (PEOPLE)

📌 Caitlin Clark reportedly close to 8-figure deal with Nike that includes signature shoe (YAHOO SPORTS)

📌 UK’s Prince William returns to public duties for first time since Kate’s cancer diagnosis (AP)

Thursday, April 18

🚨NATION

📌 NPR editor resigns after publicly criticizing coverage, calls new CEO ‘divisive’ (AP)

📌 Lawmakers vote against hearing Arizona bill repealing abortion ban on House floor (CNN)

📌 Mike Johnson sets up weekend showdown on foreign aid bills for Ukraine, Israel (AXIOS)

📌 Elephant roams streets in Montana after escaping from circus (PEOPLE)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 China lobbies Congress behind closed doors on TikTok, staffers say (POLITICO)

📌 Inside Story: Miscalculation led to escalation between Israel and Iran (NY TIMES)

📌 Iran's president vows to completely destroy Israel if it launches ‘tiniest invasion’ (FOX NEWS)

📌 Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.(WASHINGTON POST)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Americans check their phones 144 times a day (CNBC)

📌 Google fires 28 employees involved in anti-Israel office takeover/sit-in (NY POST)

📌 NASA confirms International Space Station object crashed through home in Naples, Florida (ABC NEWS)

📌 Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’ (CNN)

📌 Ford recalls over 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick cars due to loss of drive power risk (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Taylor Swift’s new album drops tonight: Everything you need to know (NY POST)

📌 Beatles II: John Lennon and Paul McCartney's sons release first song together (CBS NEWS)

📌 Kate Hudson had a lifetime to make a record. The result is ‘Glorious,’ out in May (AP)

📌 Travis Kelce confirms he'll host ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity’ saying, 'I'm just happy to be on the hosting side' (BBC)

📌 NBA bans Toronto Raptors players for life after gambling on games, giving info to bettors and limiting play for betting purposes (NBC NEWS)

Wednesday, April 17

🚨NATION

📌 Murder numbers plummets in a number of major U.S. cities (except Atlanta and LA) (AXIOS)

📌 House sends DHS Secretary Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate (CNN)

📌 Supreme Court appears divided on case that could upend felony charges against Jan. 6 rioters, Trump (ABC NEWS)

📌 Columbia University’s president to testify at antisemitism hearing today (CNN) What she plans to say (COLUMBIA)

📌 USC valedictorian banned from giving graduation speech over ‘security concerns,’ after complaints about anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic rhetoric (NY POST)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Justin Trudeau plans to win over Canadians with his Gen Z-friendly budget (POLITICO)

📌 Historic Copenhagen stock exchange in Denmark goes up in flames (BBC)

📌 Dubai gets nearly 2x annual rainfall in a matter of 6 hours (CBS NEWS) ‘Cloud seeding’ may have been partially to blame (INSIDER)

📌 US Treasury Department plans to impose new sanctions on Iran after Israel attack (CNBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 UnitedHealth to take up to $1.6 billion hit this year from Change hack (REUTERS)

📌 Zuckerberg wins bid to avoid personal liability in addiction lawsuits (THE HILL)

📌 Pro-Palestinian Google employees stage ‘sit-ins’ over company contract with Israel (WIRED)

📌 World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts (GUARDIAN)

📌 American Airlines’ pilots report ‘significant spike’ in safety issues (NY POST)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Celine Dion documentary gets a release date (GMA)

📌 Michigan given three-year probation, recruiting penalties by NCAA for football violations — case vs. Jim Harbaugh pending (AP)

📌 Blake Griffin retires after high-flying NBA career that included Rookie of the Year, All-Star honors (CBS SPORTS)

📌 First product of Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand revealed (BBC)

Tuesday, April 16

🚨NATION

📌 US experiencing growing OBGYN shortage: Here is why (THE HILL)

📌 American Airlines pilots seeing ‘significant’ spike in safety issues (BLOOMBERG)

📌 Florida bans local heat protections for outdoor workers in extreme heat (NPR)

📌 'Rust' armorer Hannah Gutierrez gets maximum 18 months for fatal on-set shooting, lack of remorse and trashing of jurors (ABC NEWS)

📌 Justice Thomas misses Supreme Court session Monday with no explanation (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Allies urge Israel to show restraint after Iranian attack (REUTERS)

📌 Anti-Israel protesters shut traffic to O’Hare Airport, Sea-Tac Airport and Golden Gate Bridge for hours (NY POST)

📌 Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of civil war (NPR)

📌 Bishop and worshippers attacked in another mass stabbing in Sydney, Australia (REUTERS)

📌 5 years after fire ravaged Notre Dame, an American carpenter is helping rebuild Paris' iconic cathedral (CBS NEWS)

 📌 AI chatbots spread falsehoods about the EU election, report finds (POLITICO)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung as iPhone shipments drop (REUTERS)

📌 Trump stock tanks after announcing massive share sale (NBC NEWS)

📌 Rural Americans are way more likely to die young. Why? (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 Scientists identify three new species of ancient kangaroo—and one was more than 6.6 feet tall (CNN)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Caitlin Clark drafted #1 by Indiana; Her first-year salary $76,535 (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 Sisay Lemma wins his first Boston Marathon title, while Hellen Obiri retains her crown for second year following thrilling finish (WBUR)

📌 Nike’s US women’s Olympic team outfits criticized for being ‘born of patriarchal forces’ (CNN)

📌 Grimes apologizes for disastrous Coachella set (NBC NEWS)

Monday, April 15

🚨NATION

📌 Trump’s first criminal trial begins today: Here is what to watch (PBS)

📌 Supreme Court tackles Jan. 6 obstruction charge with Trump case looming (NBC NEWS)

📌 Texas county at center of border fight is overwhelmed by migrant deaths (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 RFK Jr. says he has ruled out Libertarian run for president (ABC NEWS)

📌 Multi-day severe weather threat this week for Northeast and Central US (CNN)

📌 Biden closes gap on Trump but third-party candidates pose danger, polls show (GUARDIAN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Attacker in stabbing rampage at Sydney mall kills 6, wounds 9-month old baby (NBC NEWS)

📌 Italy’s prime minister says surrogacy ‘inhuman’ as party backs steeper penalties (CNN)

📌 West Bank sees biggest settler rampage since war in Gaza began as Israeli teen’s body is found (AP)

📌 Drones are crowding Ukraine’s skies, largely paralyzing battlefield (WASHINGTON POST)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Bird flu is spreading to more farm animals. Are milk and eggs safe? (AP)

📌 Oil seen opening up after Iran's attack on Israel, but further gains may depend on response (REUTERS)

📌 How to get rid of NYC rats without brutality? Birth control is one idea (ABC NEWS)

📌 A pet octopus upends a family’s life and destroyed their home after giving birth to 50 babies (DAILY MAIL)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Payouts, winnings for Scottie Scheffler, each golfer from $20 million pool (CBS SPORTS) The landline’s not dead (at least at the Masters) (NY TIMES)

📌 Sofia Vergara goes Instagram official with new boyfriend as she recovers from 'major knee surgery’ (FOX NEWS)

📌 No Doubt reunites at Coachella for the first time since 2015 — with special guest Olivia Rodrigo (PEOPLE)

📌 ‘Golden Bachelor’ host Jesse Palmer breaks silence on Gerry Turner’s shock divorce (NY POST)

Friday, April 12

🚨NATION

📌 Tornadoes and life-threatening flooding hit Florida. More dangerous storms are in the forecast (CNN)

📌 Biden administration to close 'gun show loophole' (ABC NEWS)

📌 Former Virginia school administrator charged after 6-year-old shot teacher (NBC NEWS)

📌 Latino support for border wall, deportations jumps (AXIOS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Iranian attack on Israel expected in next 48 hours (WSJ)

📌 Russian airstrikes destroy Kyiv’s largest power plant (CNN)

📌 Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $12.5 billion fraud case (CNBC)

📌 Posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be published (NBC NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Drug shortages reach all-time high (AXIOS)

📌 Meta to blur Instagram messages containing nudity in latest move for teen safety (REUTERS)

📌 CDC investigating several cases of illnesses from Botox injections (GUARDIAN)

📌 San Francisco's train system still uses floppy disks—and will for years (WIRED)

📌 Recent increase in measles cases threatens elimination status in the US, CDC says (CNN)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 JK Rowling says 'Harry Potter' stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson who criticized her trans views can 'save their apologies' (FOX NEWS)

📌 First look at the Donald Trump movie ‘The Apprentice,’ set to premiere at Cannes (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 Kendrick Lamar teams with ‘South Park’ creators for new movie musical (THE WRAP)

📌 NEW DETAILS: Former Ohtani interpreter Mizuhara faces federal charge after allegedly stealing $16 million from the baseball superstar (CNN)

Thursday, April 11

🚨NATION

📌 TV networks prepare letter to Biden and Trump campaigns urging them to commit to 2024 election debates (CNN)

📌 Florida woman sentenced to a month in prison for theft of Ashley Biden's diary (ABC NEWS)

📌 Key Bridge wreckage lies in deepest parts of Baltimore shipping channel, sonar imaging finds (CBS NEWS)

📌 California spent billions on homelessness without tracking if it worked (YAHOO)

📌 Pictures of impacts of severe storms, tornados & flooding slamming the South (ABC NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 3 of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's sons killed by Israeli airstrike (FOX NEWS)

📌 Biden announces new steps to deepen military ties between the U.S. and Japan (CBS NEWS)

📌 Hamas tells negotiators it doesn’t have 40 Israeli hostages needed for first round of ceasefire (CNN)

📌 Amanda Knox back on trial in Italy in lingering case linked to roommate Meredith Kercher's murder (NBC NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Consumer Reports asks USDA to remove Lunchables from schools' lunch menus (NPR)

📌 They’re young and athletic. They’re also ill with a condition called POTS. (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 Some Apple Vision Pro users suffer black eyes, headaches and neck pain (MARKET WATCH)

📌 OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’ (FT)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Margot Robbie making ‘Monopoly’ movie and Blumhouse reviving ‘Blair Witch’ (AP)

📌 Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella tears up while sharing unexpected chemotherapy update (E NEWS)

📌 Travis Kelce says he doesn’t know how he wooed Taylor Swift: ‘she wasn’t into sports’ (BILLBOARD)

📌 ‘The View’ co-hosts evacuate ABC Studio after grease fire breaks out next door at ‘The Tamron Hall Show’ (PEOPLE)

Wednesday, April 10

🚨NATION

📌 Senate Democrats to dismiss Mayorkas charges today, skip full impeachment trial (AXIOS)

📌 Norfolk Southern reaches $600M settlement more than a year after Ohio train derailment (CBS NEWS)

📌 Idaho teen arrested and accused of planning to kill churchgoers in the name of ISIS (NBC NEWS)

📌 18 states sue to block Biden's student loan handout plan as lawsuits pile up (FOX BUSINESS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 2,000 Swiss women win landmark climate change ruling (AXIOS)

📌 Netanyahu's defense minister contradicts him, tells U.S. Rafah invasion date not set (AXIOS)

📌 “Where is the outrage?” Secretary of State Blinken says world is “deafeningly silent” when it comes to Hamas (MO NEWS)

📌 Russia, China to work on ‘double counteracting’ US-led alliance (BLOOMBERG)

📌 Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them (CBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 TikTok to take challenge Instagram with new TikTok photo app (BBC)

📌 New EPA rules for about 200 US chemical manufacturers take aim at ‘cancer alleys’ (CNN)

📌 More Americans now prefer hybrid over fully remote work, survey finds (AXIOS)

📌 A whistleblower claims that Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is flawed. The FAA is investigating (CNN)

📌 Election worker turnover has reached historic highs ahead of the 2024 vote, new data shows (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Joker 2 Trailer: Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix unleash bad romance (VARIETY)

📌 Matt Lauer is “planning a comeback” years after he was fired from NBC amid allegations of sexual misconduct (US WEEKLY)

📌 Sylvester Stallone accused of mocking ‘ugly’ actors on ‘Tulsa King’ set (NY POST)

📌 Paris Olympics medals production hit by strikes and protests (NBC NEWS)

Tuesday, April 9

🚨NATION

📌 New warning: Social order could collapse in the era of AI (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

📌 Speaker Johnson faces Ukraine aid dilemma and a threat to his job as Congress returns (NBC NEWS)

📌 RFK addresses his gravelly voice: “If I could sound better, I would” (LA TIMES)

📌 250 colleges ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports (REUTERS)

📌 Teen girls confront an epidemic of deepfake nudes in schools (NY TIMES)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Palestinians returning to Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal find an unrecognizable city (AP)

📌 Former Israeli hostage recounts sexual abuse at hands of captors (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📌 The Vatican says surrogate parenting and gender theory are 'grave threats' to human dignity (NPR)

📌 Brazil Supreme Court justice orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news and obstruction (ABC NEWS)

📌 Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (CNN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 JPMorgan’s Dimon warns inflation, political polarization and wars are creating risks not seen since WWII (AP)

📌 Tesla heads to court after Apple engineer’s family says Autopilot caused his fatal crash (CNN)

📌 How Walmart shoppers can qualify for cash from $45 million settlement (GOOD MORNING AMERICA)

📌 Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after accelerated approval, study finds (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 NCAA Women’s championship breaks viewership record (THE WRAP)

📌Actor Jonathan Majors gets probation, avoids jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend (NBC NEWS)

📌 Country star Morgan Wallen arrested on felony charges after throwing a chair from a Nashville rooftop bar (CNN)

📌 Billie Eilish announces new album “Hit Me Hard and Soft” with a trailer (PITCHFORK)

📌 'Cowboy Carter' becomes the first album by a Black woman to top the country chart (NBC NEWS)

Monday, April 8

🚨NATION

📌 Trump’s campaign said it raised a record $50.5 million at a Florida fundraiser (AP)

📌 Ohio warns that Biden may not make deadline to be on ballot in November (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 Oregon Powerball player wins $1.3 billion jackpot, beating odds of 1 in 292 million (FORTUNE)

📌 Suspect arrested after setting fire to Bernie Sanders' Vermont office (NBC NEWS)

📌 Mike Johnson prepares to unwrap mystery Ukraine aid package (WSJ)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Mexico’s president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid (NBC NEWS)

📌 Rwanda Genocide 30 years Later: Country’s president says that the world failed the country(BBC NEWS)

📌 The world’s oldest man says the secret to his longevity is luck, plus regular fish and chips (AP)

📌 Tens of thousands protested against the government of Viktor Orban in Budapest (REUTERS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 8.2 million Tide Pod bag packages recalled because they might split open and allow the pods to be ingested (NBC NEWS)

📌 Boeing engine part fell off during Southwest flight takeoff, FAA says (CNBC)

📌 Russian Soyuz spacecraft brings crew of 3, including NASA astronaut, back to Earth (CBS NEWS)

📌 Insurance companies are using aerial images of homes as a tool to ditch properties seen as higher risk (WSJ)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Kristen Wiig inducted into ‘SNL’s’ Five-Timers Club by Ryan Gosling, Paul Rudd, Matt Damon during he hosting gig (NY POST)

📌 Bronny James, the son of NBA superstar LeBron James, will enter the 2024 NBA Draft (MO NEWS)

📌 Larry David reveals why he is really ending Curb and that he speaks with Richard Lewis after his death (DAILY BEAST)

📌 Biggest Night In Country Music: All the CMT Music Award winners (CBS NEWS)

📌 Video of Aoki Lee Simmons, 21, and ‘boyfriend’ Vittorio Assaf, 65, in St. Barts causes concern (PAGE SIX)

Friday, April 5

🚨NATION

📌 The ‘No Labels’ bipartisan movement will not run a presidential candidate this year (CNN)

📌 How far $100 now takes you at the grocery store after 5 years of inflation (WSJ)

📌 Police say use of racial slur clearly audible as they investigate racist incidents toward the Utah women’s basketball team (AP)

📌 Judge rejects a bid by Trump to dismiss criminal charges in classified documents criminal case (ABC NEWS)

📌 Deadly April storm batters Northeast, snarling travel and knocking out power to half a million (NBC NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Kremlin says Russia and NATO are now in "direct confrontation" (REUTERS)

📌 Zimbabwe declares drought disaster, the latest in a region where El Nino has left millions hungry (NBC NEWS)

📌 Israel is using artificial intelligence to help pick bombing targets in Gaza, report says (CNN)

📌 Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’ (GUARDIAN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 The New Science of Death: “There’s something going on in the brain that makes no sense” (GUARDIAN)

📌 Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation for the blowout of a panel during flight (AP)

📌 Efforts to curb deforestation around the world are stalling, report finds (AXIOS)

📌 New 3D cosmic map raises questions about future of universe (GUARDIAN)

📌 Tens of millions stolen from money storage facility in one of the largest cash heists in Southern California (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Jimmy Kimmel blasts US as ‘filthy and disgusting’ after trip abroad (NY POST)

📌Former Double Dare Host Marc Sommers says Nickelodeon doc producers ambushed him (VARIETY)

📌 Coachella will offer free livestream on YouTube this month (VARIETY)

📌 Legally Blonde spinoff in development at Amazon, Hello Sunshine (THE WRAP)

📌 Molly Ringwald confesses Studio 54 was where she likely conceived her first child (FOX NEWS)

📌 Watch Kristen Wiig visit her old dressing room in new ‘SNL’ teaser — she’s hosting tomorrow night (CNN)

Thursday, April 4

🚨NATION

📌 California looks to make late messages from bosses at work illegal (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 Nebraska avoids changing electoral college vote, for now (NBC NEWS)

📌 Lauren Boebert has surgery to remove blood clot, diagnosed with rare condition (FOX NEWS)

📌 Texas asks court to decide if the state’s migrant arrest law went too far (AP)

📌 Pres. Biden and Bernie Sanders partner to push for lower prescription drug costs (REUTERS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years kills 9 people, 50 missing (REUTERS)

📌 Zelensky signs law lowering draft age to 25 in bid to boost military ranks (TIME)

📌 Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to "roam free" in Germany in public dispute over trophy hunting (CBS NEWS)

📌 Finnish school shooting motivated by bullying, police say (BBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Microsoft could have prevented Chinese cloud email hack that breached senior US government officials emails, US cyber report says (VERGE)

📌 Ozempic @ Costco: Store to offer eligible members access to GLP-1 weight-loss drugs (CBS NEWS)

📌 Amazon ditches cashier-less checkout system at its grocery stores (CNBC)

📌 Spotify is planning on increasing prices (BLOOMBERG)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Feds raided Diddy’s home over concerns video of sex crimes could be destroyed (THE WRAP)

 📌 LSU star Angel Reese officially declares for WNBA draft (ESPN)

📌 Gillian Anderson says she is open to the X-Files reboot (THE WRAP)

📌 Chance the Rapper and Kirsten Corley announce divorce (CNN)

📌 Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix's “Joker: Folie à Deux” gets R rating for violence, 'full nudity' and more (PEOPLE)

📌 'Euphoria' star Hunter Schafer says she doesn't want to take on 'tons of trans roles' (NBC NEWS)

Wednesday, April 3

🚨NATION

📌 14 Million under tornado watch as storms sweep through Ohio Valley (AXIOS)

📌 RFK Jr. argues that Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump (CNN)

📌 New York prison inmates sue state to get permission to watch solar eclipse (FOX NEWS)

📌 Freight railroads must keep 2-person crews, according to new federal rule (ABC NEWS)

📌 Car loan financier who put up $175m bond for Trump was ‘happy to do it’ (GUARDIAN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Strongest earthquake in 25 years hits Taiwan, collapsing buildings (CNN)

📌 One dead, two injured in Finland school shooting as 12-year-old suspect detained (BBC)

📌 Biden, Xi speak for first time since November summit (CNN)

📌 Kidnapped American YouTuber who paid $50,000 ransom is still unable to leave Haiti (BLOOMBERG)

📌 J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say (NBC NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Ozempic should only cost $5 a month, according to recent study (FAST COMPANY)

📌 Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida (ARS TECHNICA)

📌 You'll need more than $100,000 in income to afford a typical home in the US, studies show (NPR)

📌 White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon (REUTERS)

📌 Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast (AXIOS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Lizzo says she didn’t mean she will quit music when she posted “I Quit” on Instagram (BBC)

📌 Angie Harmon says Instacart driver shot and killed her dog (CNN)

📌 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex shares new footage of raid on his LA home, slams agents using ‘militarized force’ (NY POST)

📌 Iowa, LSU make history as most watched women's college basketball game ever (ESPN)

📌 Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI (AXIOS)

Tuesday, April 2

🚨NATION

📌 Florida Supreme Court allows 6-week abortion ban to take effect, but voters will have the final say with vote in November (NBC NEWS)

📌 What to know about Havana Syndrome — illness impacting US officials — after investigation links to Russia (AXIOS)

📌 Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm (CBS NEWS)

📌 A channel has opened for vessels clearing wreckage at the Baltimore bridge collapse site (AP)

📌 RFK Jr’s sister, other siblings, condemn his presidential run (ABC NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Germany becomes biggest E.U. country to legalize marijuana possession (CNN)

📌 Iran says Israel bombed its consulate in Syria, killing several top militar leaders (REUTERS)

📌 Peru’s president accused of amassing $500k in jewelry on $50k salary (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 ‘It’s a siege, it’s a war’: Haiti’s gangs tighten violent grip in lethal insurrection (GUARDIAN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 United asks pilots to take unpaid time off, citing Boeing’s delayed aircraft (CNBC)

📌 Israeli parliament passes law paving the way for temporary Al Jazeera closure (GUARDIAN)

📌 Trump’s net worth plunges by $1 billion as his media stock tumbles (CNN)

📌 Cicadas are nature’s weirdos — they pee stronger than us and an STD can turn them into zombies — and are about to come out (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Caitlin Clark and Iowa advance to the Final 4 with a win over defending champs, LSU (CNN)

📌 Shakira says ‘Barbie’ movie was “emasculating”and her son “hated it” (DEADLINE)

📌 Sean 'Diddy' Combs returns to Instagram following home raids, lawsuits (FOX NEWS)

📌 JK Rowling challenges Scotland's new hate crime law - inviting police to arrest her (BBC)

📌 Actor Michael Stuhlbarg hit in back of the neck with rock while in Central Park, chased his alleged attacker (CNN)

Monday, April 1

🚨NATION

📌 April will bring severe storms, snow and flooding as a wide-reaching storm crosses the US (CNN)

📌 White House bashes 'dishonest' Republican criticism of Biden's transgender proclamation on Easter (ABC NEWS)

📌 Half of senior staffers in Congress are so fed up that they may quit (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 New York City Mayor Eric Adams marked Good Friday by receiving a jailhouse baptism from the Rev. Al Sharpton (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Journalist critical of Iranian regime stabbed in London, as authorities open counter-terrorism investigation (BBC)

📌 Pope Francis overcomes health concerns to preside over windy Easter Sunday Mass, renews calls for peace in Gaza & Ukraine (PBS)

📌 King Charles attends Easter church service in most significant public appearance since cancer diagnosis (CNN)

📌 White House sends more weapons to Israel amid criticism from progressives (NBC NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California set to start today (NBC NEWS)

📌 KIA recalls over 400,000 Telluride SUVs (CNBC)

📌 Inside Mnuchin's far-fetched plan to rebuild TikTok from scratch (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 Why are older Americans drinking so much? (NY TIMES)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Several NCAA Women’s games played with mismatched 3-point lines (AP NEWS)

📌 Lizzo says ‘I QUIT:’ Say she's tired of being 'dragged by everyone' on the internet (NBC NEWS)

📌 LSU and Iowa prepare for championship rematch in Elite Eight: 'A really great game for women's basketball' (CBS SPORTS)

📌 Men’s Final Four set with NC State shocking win over Duke (NBC NEWS)

📌 ‘Zoey 101’ star Matthew Underwood reveals sexual assault, explains why some Nick actors are ‘staying silent’ after ‘Quiet on Set’ (THE WRAP)

📌 Beyoncé fans confused over five missing tracks on ‘Cowboy Carter’ vinyl, fueling theories about last-minute changes (VARIETY)