Here’s what I’m reading about this morning:
- At least four people are dead, and nearly 300 people (mostly students) are missing after a ferry sinks off the coast of South Korea.
- Residents in eastern Ukraine are preparing for the worst.
- A man is in custody after a bomb scare at the Boston Marathon yesterday.
- Obama will announce a $600 million jobs training and apprenticeship program.
- Bank of America loses $6 billion on legal expenses in the first quarter.
- Twitter acquires analytic firm Gnip (which it was selling your data to all along).
- The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off today, with Nas himself at the Beacon Theater:
- A week after Shabazz Napier said he sometimes goes to bed hungry, the NCAA announces athletes will get unlimited food and snacks.
- Remember how GlaxoSmithKline was accused of bribing doctors Monday? Its new diabetes drug is approved by the FDA today.
- Mexico’s former president Felipe Calderón, who fled his own drug war amid corruption scandals and left his country an economic disaster, actually makes economic arguments for tackling climate change.