• ☝️ The city of Honolulu announced a plan to demolish the Ha‘ikū Stairs, a popular – but technically illegal – trail often referred to as the "Stairway to Heaven," due to an abundance of tourists trespassing and/or needing to be rescued.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.2%; Dow: +0.2%; Nasdaq: -0.1%).
• 🏦💪 America’s biggest banks – Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo – all reported Q1 earnings and revenue that beat or met analysts’ expectations.
• 🌎📈 The International Monetary Fund now expects global economic growth of 3.2% this year, slightly higher than its previous forecast in January.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 NBA Play-in Tournament: The Lakers defeated the Pelicans to earn a spot in the Western Conference playoffs.
• 📲 YouTube is cracking down on third-party ad blocking apps used on mobile devices.
• 📺 CNN scrapped its prime-time show with Charles Barkley and Gayle King less than five months into its run. | 📰 NPR suspended a senior editor for failing to secure internal approval before publishing an essay in another publication; the piece argued that the network had "lost America's trust" because of its left-wing bias.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💰🤖 VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $7.2 billion fund aimed at investing in later-stage companies, with part of its focus on the AI industry.
• 🛰️🌐 SpaceX has begun cracking down on Starlink users in countries where the satellite internet service hasn’t been authorized; the move follows a WSJ report that found a growing number of users – including Russian military units in Ukraine – are bypassing country restrictions.
• ☄️ NASA said a piece of space debris that crashed through the roof of a Florida man’s home last month was a piece of equipment from the ISS that was supposed to burn up in the atmosphere.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🛣️ The Los Angeles 101 freeway will be closed in some places for several weeks while the city builds what it calls “the world’s largest wildlife crossing.”
• ⚖️ The first seven jurors have been selected for former President Trump's New York hush-money trial. (Background)
• 🏛️ Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) became the first GOP lawmaker to join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's call to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson over his plans to hold votes on foreign aid. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

CLICKBAIT

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