HOUR 1
- A Mexican national – reported to be an illegal immigrant – wanted for the Texas shooting of five neighbors including a young boy, remained at large Monday morning.
- More murders across America are going unsolved,exacerbating the grief of families already reeling and worsening the largely cracked trust between police and the public, especially communities of color most affected by gun violence.
- Hollywood braces for writer's strike / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/04/30/hollywood-braces-for-writers-strike?
- First Republic Bank’s collapse marks the second-biggest banking failure in US history. / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/05/01/the-big-get-better-jpmorgan-to-acquire-first-republic?
- If production companies and unionized writers don’t reach a new contract by midnight tonight, the scribes will put down their No. 2 pencils and strike for the first time in 15 years. / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/04/30/hollywood-braces-for-writers-strike?
- NBC’s Chuck Todd clashed with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Sunday over whether gender is binary during an intense discussion on laws limiting a parent's ability to get sex-reassignment surgery for their child. / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbcs-chuck-todd-clashes-vivek-ramaswamy-over-gender-binary-know-scientist
- Wasilla's only bookstore to host a drag story time / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2023/04/30/wasillas-only-bookstore-announced-it-would-host-a-drag-story-time-event-an-uproar-followed/
HOUR 2
- Continuing on Wasilla's only bookstore to host a drag story time / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2023/04/30/wasillas-only-bookstore-announced-it-would-host-a-drag-story-time-event-an-uproar-followed/
- Alaska transportation planners and an Anchorage neighborhood group have launched separate initiatives that could one day change how the Seward and Glenn highways connect. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/04/30/highways-connecting-in-anchorages-fairview-have-long-marred-the-neighborhood-renewed-efforts-aim-to-fix-that/
- Voters elected seven new members to the Anchorage Assembly in April, and the new crowd represents a further shift to the left of the political spectrum / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/04/29/republicans-suffer-losses-blue-wave-anchorage-assembly-victories/
