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NYTIMES (Stefanos Chen) - A Long Island Rail Road Strike May Be Near. Here’s What to Know.

America’s busiest passenger rail service will shut down on Saturday if workers and transit officials cannot agree on a new contract.

NYTIMES (Lily Kuo, Jiawei Wang and Pei-Lin Wu) - ‘For Example, Putin’: How Xi Used a Private Garden Walk to Charm Trump

Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia’s president.

AXIOS (Emily Peck) - Bonds worry, while stocks enjoy the "bliss trade"

The stock market and the bond market are telling different stories about the economy: Bonds fear doom, while stocks see boom. Why it matters: That's a bit confusing for investors and policymakers looking to these markets to make decisions — or for anyone trying to get a read on (waves hands) everything. The intrigue: Stocks are betting on what former IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath calls the "bliss trade " — a belief that stocks can keep rallying even as bond investors price in more inflation risk. Zoom in: Central to this thinking is that any real geopolitical shocks will be offset by government spending, Gopinath, now a professor at Harvard University, wrote in the Financial Times. - That's what happened in the 2022 energy shock…

NYTIMES (Neil Vigdor) - Nebraska Blocks Bar From Using ‘Barber Shop’ Name, Saying That’s Just for Haircuts

The Omaha establishment changed its name this week from the Barber Shop Blackstone to the Censored Shop Blackstone in protest while it is suing the state in federal court in a trademark fight.