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April 14th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• House Democrats introduced a long-shot bill to create a 17-member “Commission on Presidential Capacity” that would evaluate whether the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove President Trump from office…the measure faces extremely long odds due to the Republican-controlled Congress, and Trump could veto it even if it passed, but it already has 50 Democratic co-sponsors

• Pakistan is working to convene a second round of U.S.-Iran peace talks before the current two-week truce expires and President Trump told the New York Post he believes new Iran talks “could be happening over the next two days” in Pakistan…also Lebanese and Israeli officials held their first direct meeting since 1993 in Washington, D.C., under U.S. mediation today

• The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Chief Judge James Boasberg to shut down his criminal contempt investigation into Trump administration officials over 2025 deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants…read more here

• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was slated to shut down in May, will instead continue publishing after its owner Block Communications agreed to sell to the nonprofit Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism

• Amazon has agreed to acquire satellite operator Globalstar for about $11.57 billion…pending approvals, closing is expected in 2027

• Microsoft plans to purchase about 3,200 acres of land in Cheyenne, Wyoming to develop new data centers

• Novo Nordisk has struck a strategic partnership with OpenAI to apply advanced AI models across its business, using them to analyze complex biomedical data, spot promising new drugs earlier, and shorten the time it takes for therapies to reach patients

• March PPI inflation came in at 4.0% year over year, below the expectations of 4.6%…Core PPI inflation came in at 3.8% year over year, below the expectations of 4.1%

• S&P up 1.18% / Nasdaq up 1.96% / DOW up .66%

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