Today’s edition of quick hits.
* An understandable reaction: “During his press briefing today, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, reacted to Trump’s Easter Sunday post threatening to destroy bridges and power plants if Iran doesn’t make a deal soon. ‘We were alarmed by the rhetoric, seen in that social media post that threatened American attacks on power plants, bridges and other infrastructure should Iran not agree to a deal,’ Dujarric said.”
* Crisis conditions in Lebanon: “More than 1.1 million people, which is more than 20% of Lebanon’s population, are now displaced within the country’s borders as Israel continues its military offensive, the U.N. said in a report today. A third of those affected are children.”
* Artemis II: “NASA’s Artemis II mission made history on Monday by sending humans farther from Earth than ever before.”
* Keep an eye on this one: “Almost immediately after an immigration agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis this winter, the federal government cast the injured man as an attempted murderer and the agent as the victim of a brutal beating. That version of events began unraveling when prosecutors dropped felony charges against the injured man, Julio C. Sosa-Celis, and one of his housemates, Alfredo A. Aljorna, who had fled from immigration agents. Yet video footage of the shooting, newly obtained by The New York Times, raises questions about why it took weeks for the government’s case to fall apart.”








