Monday, March 18

🚨NATION

📌 Young men and women are drifting apart politically, and the US has one of the widest gaps (ECONOMIST) (see chart above)

📌 White House wants TikTok's parent company to divest: 'We don't want to see a ban' (ABC NEWS)

📌 Biden campaign slams Trump over ‘political violence’ for warning of ‘bloodbath’ when discussing auto industry (FOX NEWS)

📌 Supreme Court to hear arguments today on whether White House crosses First Amendment line on social media disinformation (CNN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israeli PM rejects Sen. Schumer’s call for new Israeli elections as ‘totally inappropriate’ (REUTERS)

📌 Iceland rocked by fourth volcano eruption in recent months, spewing fountains of lava (FOX NEWS)

📌 Egypt strikes $8 billion deal for aid from Europe as its economy struggles (AP)

📌 Six more years of Putin worry many countries, but not China (CNN)

📌 First charter flight with Americans fleeing Haiti lands in Miami (AP)

📌 Haiti healthcare system on verge of collapse as gang warfare rages on (GUARDIAN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 TikTok’s American growth is already stalling (WSJ)

📌 Marriage rates are up, and divorce rates are down, new data shows (CNN)

📌 Apple’s new CarPlay becomes last hope to crack the auto industry after Apple Car was canceled (BLOOMBERG)

📌 U.S. measles milestone: 60 cases so far in 2024 — more than all of 2023 (CBS NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Usher, Fantasia Barrino, ‘Color Purple’ honored at 55th NAACP Image Awards (AP)

📌 Celine Dion says living with stiff person syndrome ‘has been one of the hardest experiences of my life’ (CNN)

📌 Olivia Rodrigo's team won't allow free contraceptives to be handed out on tour anymore (BUSINESS INSIDER)

📌 University of Michigan fires men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard (CNN)

📌 Broken clock, reviews mar final minutes of Lakers-Warriors (ESPN)