Largest Primary Field, Microsoft Hits $1 Trillion & Avengers: Endgame - Friday, April 26th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, April 26th, 2019!
We're talking about why the 2020 race to the White House is already historic, why hundreds of college students and staff members are quarantined, and when you can expect Uber and Lyft drivers to go on strike.
Plus: what to know about Amazon's new one-day shipping goals, and Avengers: Endgame sets a new one-day record (will it reach $1 billion in its opening weekend?).
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
Biden 2020: AP, Fox News, NBC News, NYT
Measles Quarantine: NBC News, LA Times
Uber Strike: CBS News, Salon, Bloomberg
Cannabis Industry Jobs: NYT
Microsoft $1 Trillion: WSJ, The Verge
Amazon's One-Day Shipping: Reuters, TechCrunch
Walmart's IRL: TechCrunch, Engadget, AP
CVS SmileShops: CNBC, USA Today
Avengers: Endgame: AP, Deadline, NBC News
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, April 26th. The 2020 race to the White House is already historic. |
| 0:05.6 | Why hundreds of college students and staff are quarantined, and when you can expect Uber and |
| 0:09.7 | lift drivers to go on strike. Plus Amazon's new one day shipping and |
| 0:14.0 | Avengers endgame sets a new one day record. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica |
| 0:26.4 | Mandy, thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:30.5 | And that makes 20. 20 Democratic candidates officially running for |
| 0:38.0 | president in 2020. CBS News calls it the largest presidential |
| 0:41.6 | primary field in US history. |
| 0:44.0 | The latest to join the race, as expected, former Vice President Joe Biden. |
| 0:48.1 | And with his announcement, he's already dealing with some controversy. |
| 0:51.4 | First, Biden and Trump are trading criticisms. |
| 0:54.0 | Biden openly targeted President Trump in his announcement video yesterday, pointing to the |
| 0:58.0 | white supremacist rally in Virginia back in 2017 and how Trump said there were very fine people on both sides. |
| 1:04.8 | Biden says when he heard that he decided to run, saying it's a battle for the soul of our |
| 1:08.9 | nation. |
| 1:10.1 | But Trump mocked Biden, tweeting Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe, and warning |
| 1:14.4 | that this race will be nasty. |
| 1:16.4 | There's also criticism about Biden's role back in the 90s |
| 1:19.2 | when Anita Hill accused a Supreme Court nominee |
| 1:21.2 | of sexually harassing her. |
| 1:22.9 | At the time, Biden was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
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