Stranger Than Fiction

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• U.S. Temporarily Suspends New H-1B and Other Job Visas “President Trump signed an order temporarily barring new immigrants on a slate of employment-based visas, including the H-1B for high-skilled workers, from coming to the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic.” - WSJ

• New York City Begins Phase Two in Restart “After more than three months of lockdown, New York City took the biggest step in its reopening Monday as workers streamed back into offices and hair salons and other businesses resumed services.” - WSJ

• Major League Baseball May Resume In July “The bitter, months-long negotiation between Major League Baseball and its players’ union effectively ended Monday night when the union’s executive board voted to reject the owners’ last offer of a 60-game regular season and expanded postseason, and MLB responded by saying it intended to exercise its power to implement a 2020 schedule — which it will attempt to shoehorn into a dwindling calendar amid a global pandemic.” - WaPo

• China Trade Deal is Over, According to White House Trade Advisor “White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told "The Story" Monday that President Trump has decided to terminate the China trade deal as intelligence officials grow increasingly confident that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.” - Fox News

WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO

• Apple announces a slew of updates for Mac, iPhone, Apple TV and Apple Watch

• Your boss says you can work indefinitely from wherever you want. Now what?

• How social distancing is transforming mass transit.

• The new normal of everyday life.

THE COMMENT

“The kids aren’t all right (though many are). The kids are fed up. More specifically, Generation Z is disillusioned by a country and its myriad institutions whose moral arc seems to bend toward corruption and stagnation. It is also, like any generation, not monolithic. And the way that its justified disillusion will play politically, culturally and socially is unknown.” - Charlie Warzel

THE STRANGEST

• A U.S. Army soldier is facing a slew of terrorism charges after allegedly giving classified military information to a white supremacist group with Satanic leanings as part of a deadly plot against members of his own unit.

THE AV ROOM