Just boarded an early morning flight wearing my Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gear. A seat mate looked at me and asked, “Basketball?” I said, “No. Engineering!” What about me prompted him to think I was playing or coaching basketball? 🤔

Israel says it intercepted 99% of Iran's 170 drones, 30+ cruise missiles and 120+ ballistic missiles. link.axios.com/click/35031190…

Caitlin Clark (Caitlin Clark) stopped by Weekend Update!

Willie Mays makes a catch at the wall at Ebbets Field, 1954.

Scoop: Biden told Netanyahu the U.S. won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran. My story on Axios
axios.com/2024/04/14/bid…

As always on a night like tonight:

Scrutinize who is posting.

Be careful when sharing.

Question if visuals are what they appear to be, and if they were captured when people suggest.

Watch out for bad actors in the information space.

When Kameenah Bronzell was just 15, she started an Instagram page to honor Philadelphia’s gun violence victims. Then her brother became one.

Read about this angel of a teen and the grief she shoulders from strangers every day, while navigating her own. inquirer.com/crime/inq2/phi…

Morgan Price, a Fisk University sophomore, has become the first gymnast from an HBCU to win a national title hbcugameday.com/2024/04/12/hbc…

Inside the Biden campaign and across the Democratic Party, officials see a potential silver bullet that they hope supersedes all of the president’s challenges in his rematch against former president Donald Trump: abortion rights. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Big improvement for Biden. nytimes.com/2024/04/13/us/…

NEW: NPR chief executive Katherine Maher addresses the criticism of the network this week

“Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

Focus groups: Swing voters aren't buying Trump's abortion stance

axios.com/2024/04/12/abo…

VP Kamala Harris responds to Trump’s abortion comments: “Just minutes ago, standing beside Speaker Johnson, Donald Trump just said the collective of state bans is ‘working the way it is supposed to.’”

The crowd boos. Harris adds “a second Trump term would be even worse.”

In March, 55% of Black Americans said they approved of Biden’s while 45% disapproved, according to a poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Research. But a February poll found only a 25% favorability rating for Trump among Black Americans. apnews.com/article/trump-…

the greatest myth of the o.j. trial was “black people” thought he was innocent and “white people” didn’t. it was a lot of mixing in that one.

Focus groups: Swing voters aren't buying Trump's abortion stance axios.com/2024/04/12/abo…

Keep forgetting a lot of ya’ll were not alive in 94/95😂

'Latine,' a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people with Latino origins, is surging in popularity over terms like 'Latinx' on university campuses, in museums, and among researchers and media.

trib.al/Gdrrv24

The disgusting and unforgivable harassment from this WaPo reporter is *checks notes* leaving a polite voice mail.

I swear there’s an industry that makes $ off students who are not college material

Higher ed enrolled 30% of students with high school GPAs less than 2.5

Of this group, 67% didn’t graduate with any post-secondary credentials

Opposite results for those w/higher HS GPAs