It’s April 5, 2024

President Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to leverage U.S. aid to influence Israeli military behavior. It was later reported that Israel will open more aid routes to Gaza and increase deliveries.

  1. No Labels, the centrist group which has sought to field a third-party presidential bid, is abandoning efforts to create a “unity ticket” aiming to win the White House, the organization announced Thursday.

  2. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or Nato has marked its 75th anniversary with a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers in Brussels, as celebrations are being overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and a blockade of aid to Kyiv by Republicans. (An interesting point of trivia, one US state is not included in the nato agreement, Hawaii has no Atlantic coastline, and is not part of a land mass that does.)

  3. Caitlin Clark is capping her illustrious college career with another record-breaking season and another set of prestigious awards. The star guard from Iowa was honored Thursday as The Associated Press Player of the Year in women’s basketball for the second consecutive year. Clark received 35 votes from the 36-member national media panel that votes on the AP Top 25 each week. Cameron Brink of Stanford received the other vote. Voting was done before March Madness began

  4. U.S. stocks tumbled Yesterday after a Federal Reserve official raised the possibility of delivering none of the cuts to interest rates this year that Wall Street has been banking on, if inflation worsens.

  5. IF YOU STILL think that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a way to protect your privacy online, stop now. Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, is part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed in 2020, it caps off years of disclosures about Google’s practices that shed light on how much data the tech giant siphons from its users—even when they’re in private-browsing mode.

  6. Is your flight on time? Performance results for North American airlines released by aviation analytics experts at Cirium show that Delta Air Lines  (DAL)  was first in 2023 with an on-time percentage of 84.72%. Alaska Airlines  (ALK)  came in second at 82.25% and American Airlines  (AAL)  was third with an on-time percentage of 80.61%. Rounding out the top five were United Airlines  (UAL)  and Southwest Airlines  (LUV) . Frontier Airlines  (ULCC) , however, came in eighth on the list — with an on-time rate of 68.68% — and that was apparently enough to trigger some major scheduling changes.