now let's get to some other stories you need to
know this morning. Author J. D. Vance
is projected to win. Ohio's Republican Senate primary.
The trump backed candidate will move forward with his party's
nomination. He will face Democratic congressman Tim Ryan in
the general election. The Ohio primary is the first
Senate contest of the year to test the power of
former president trump's endorsement. Indiana's primary went as expected
with Air Force veteran General jennifer Ruth Green projected to
take the GOP nominee, the state's first district and
state senator Orrin Hatch in securing the party's nomination for
the ninth district. The midterm elections will likely determine
whether President biden can advance any part of his agenda
after this year. Also in Ohio. On Tuesday
, governor Mike dewine won the GOP gubernatorial primary To
run in the general election for a second term.
Meanwhile, President Biden's pushing Congress down to pass the
$33 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine. As I
said from the beginning, this fight is not going
to be cheap, but caving to aggression would even
be more costly. We either back the Ukrainian people
as they defend their country and we stand by as
Russia continues its atrocities and aggression. The president visited
a Lockheed martin facility that makes javelin missiles yesterday and
he thanked workers there for their efforts in making weapons
to send to Ukraine and several other allies like Israel
and the UK also renewed their own commitments to the
region and the great resignation still in full effect according
to new data from the Labor Department to stats hit
record highs in March was the number of job openings
and the number of people who quit turnover remains historically
high as 4.5 million people quit their jobs in March
up 2.9% from february now at the same time,
March saw 11.5 million jobs open and waiting also up
from the month before. But the rate of hiring
hasn't budged sitting at 4.5%. A senior labor economist
at EMC burning glass wrote on linkedin quote things will
get better, but Q 1 22 will go down
as the pit of despair for employers. 22 of
course, referring to 2020. That's interesting there.
Meanwhile, let's turn to the highest profile case in
Hollywood that's going on right now. Johnny Depp's attorneys
now have rested their case in the actor's definition trial
against his ex wife. Actress Amber heard Depth claims
herds 2018 op ed in the Washington Post caused him
to lose work in Hollywood. His lawyers also calling
more than two dozen witnesses over 13 days. Many
of those testified that the couple had explosive fights.
Now heard's team began their case with a psychologist who
testified that she diagnosed her with post traumatic stress disorder
all caused by intimate partner violence that contradicts the testimony
of a psychologist that was called by johnny Depp's team
and an update for you on the twitter. Ellen
saga. Elon musk will be taking twitter private after
his near$44 billion deal is complete, but it
may not be for long musk telling potential investors that
he plans on taking the social media giant public in
as little as three years. According to sources familiar
with the matter, Twitter is expected to go private
later this year once musk's deal officially closes. So
far, musk has not provided many details regarding his
plans for twitter only committing to the platform being less
critical in content moderation. Still many questions have yet
to be answered regarding shares of twitter, particularly for
company employees who are still reportedly in the dark right
now. Meanwhile, the first apple store union vote
is set to take place on june the second in
Atlanta Georgia, employees at the Cumberland mall store filed
for a union drive back in april And they'll need
more than 50% to the stores. Near 100 employees
to vote in favor of that union in order to
be certified here. Now, organizers have previously said
about 70% of those employees have expressed interest in unionization
. The Atlanta Apple story is one of a handful
that are moving towards unionizing as other locations in new
york city and near Baltimore. Also working towards unionizing
as employees are seeking better pay and better benefits and
over to the latest on Covid 19 top FDA officials
say the U. S. May need to update
Covid 19 vaccines each year and become an annual shot
similar to the flu shot in a report published on
monday in the journal Java. The officials said that
the widespread global presence of the virus that causes covid
19 is quote the new normal. The researchers also
said getting a new updated Covid booster every fall could
save lives and help minimize societal disruptions. This comes
a week after the FDA announced its plans to convene
its vaccine and related biological products advisory to discuss the
composition of vaccines and whether or not modifications will need
to be made for the upcoming fall season. So
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