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NYTIMES (Alan Blinder and Kevin Serna) - Plunging International Student Enrollment Under Trump Squeezes Colleges

The Trump administration’s campaign to curtail international students is not just hitting the elite schools targeted by the government.

NYTIMES (Ernesto Londoño, Mitch Smith, Haley Willis and Robin Stein) - Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account

Prosecutors did not watch video of the nonfatal shooting until weeks after charging the wounded man, an official said.

NYTIMES (David E. Sanger) - Trump’s Lesson From Risky Rescue: Threaten to Go Harder at Iran

In an expletive-laced social media post, the president said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he would bomb bridges and power plants.

WASHINGTONPOST (Todd Wallack) - More states adopt college entrance exam touted by conservatives despite concerns

Military academies and colleges in North Carolina and Indiana will soon accept the Classic Learning Test, embraced by the Trump administration and mainly featuring Western texts.

WASHINGTONPOST (Adam Taylor) - Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments

A dearth of information has been disclosed about the agreements, fueling speculation that the “America First” approach to foreign aid is exploitative.

NEWSNATIONNOW (Associated Press) - 3 killed as high winds topple a tree on an Easter egg hunt in Germany

Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany.

AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Behind the Curtain: Sam's superintelligence New Deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He's publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he's racing to build and spread. Why it matters: Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract — on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression . The big picture: The threats of inaction or slow action are grave, Altman warns — widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control. The two most immediate threats, he said, are cyberattacks and biological…