LAST WEEK IN THE NEWS

The Fourth Estate

TOP NEWS FROM APRIL 11 to APRIL 15

BY BRAD BYRNE, NEWS EDITOR

Monday, April 11

  • Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince.
  • President Emmanuel Macron and hard-right leader Marine Le Pen will compete in a run-off for the French presidency on April 24.
  • Texas will dismiss the murder charge against a woman connected to ‘Self-Induced Abortion’.

Tuesday, April 12

  • Mexican citizens voted President Andrés Manuel López Obrador back into office.
  • A man set off smoke grenades and opened fire on patrons at a Brooklyn subway stop, injuring at least 30.
  • Ukraine is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on Mariupol.

Wednesday, April 13

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted the war in Ukraine is going as planned.
  • President Joe Biden calls the war in Ukraine “genocide”
  • Truckers have blocked a bridge that links Mexico and Texas, protesting inspections ordered by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Thursday, April 14

  • Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter after becoming one of its largest shareholders.
  • Frank James, the perpetrator of the Brooklyn subway attack, appeared in federal court and is being held without bail by the NYPD.
  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill into law banning abortions after 15 weeks.

Friday, April 15

  • More than 900 bodies of civilians have been found in the Kyiv region in Ukraine after Russian forces left.
  • Ukraine hits and sinks a Russian warship in the Black Sea.
  • Ohio man who blamed Trump for Storming the Capitol is found guilty of all six charges brought against him.