NYTIMES (Mark Arsenault and Debra Kamin) - Epstein Wanted Connections at Harvard. Files Show Many Faculty Members Were Happy to Help.
New documents reveal what professors did to help Jeffrey Epstein get inside Harvard’s gates.
NYTIMES (Michael M. Grynbaum) - The President Is Coming to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner
A president who relishes attacking the news media is set to break his boycott of an event celebrating the news media. What could go wrong?
NYTIMES (Lydia DePillis) - Why Gas Prices Go Up Fast and Take So Long to Fall
Fuel station owners take some of the hit for consumers when oil prices surge. On the way down, they try to get their money back.
NYTIMES (Ben Casselman, Nour Idriss, Sutton Raphael and Stephanie Swart) - Why Your Paycheck Feels Smaller
Ben Casselman, our chief economics correspondent, explains why wages are not keeping up with inflation and what that means for American workers and the economy.
NYTIMES (Tony Romm and Ana Swanson) - Trump Administration to Begin Refunding $166 Billion in Tariffs
The government will debut a system to repay importers two months after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs at the heart of the president’s trade policy.
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart and Michael D. Shear) - U.S. Attacks and Seizes Cargo Ship Near Iran, and a First Step Toward Tariff Refunds
Plus, Lego crime.
NYTIMES (Tyler Pager) - Vance Heads to New Talks With Iran. At Stake: Peace and His Own Standing.
The vice president is again center stage, after abruptly leaving the first round of high-level Iranian peace talks without an agreement.
REDSTATE (RedState Guest Editorial) - A Loss for Trump in the Birthright Citizenship Case Doesn’t Have to Be a Loss for America
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Trump’s ‘flame war’ with the pope; market surges as Strait of Hormuz reopens | Batya! Full Show 4/18
On this week’s episode of “Batya!”, Pope Leo XIV has publicly called for an end to the war in Iran and for all “who have weapons, lay them down.” This has sparked reaction from President Trump, creating what Batya Ungar-Sargon calls a back-and-forth “flame war.” Plus, the stock market continues to hit record highs despite the continuing war in Iran. Ungar-Sargon suggests while many of President Trump’s opponents refuse to see the success of the war, the stock market seems to have anti-Trump derangement syndrome. And Ungar-Sargon unveils a new live debate-style show called “Prove it with Batya!” where she hosts conversations with fellow Americans who “radically” disagree with her on a topic. You can catch the new…
NYTIMES (Javier C. Hernández) - Tsunami Warning in Japan After Strong Earthquake Strikes Offshore
The 7.5-magnitude undersea quake occurred off Iwate Prefecture, on the northeastern coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. Waves of up to 10 feet were forecast.