Trending Stories & Gists to know for April

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• Bed Bath & Beyond bankruptcy

• Access to mifepristone

• Sudan evacuations

• Barry Humphries dead

• Aggressive new rules to regulate pollution

Monday

• Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of the man accused of killing 11 people and wounding several others at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty on charges that include obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime. The mass shooting was the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

Tuesday

• President Joe Biden is expected to formally announce his bid for a second term with the release of a campaign-style video that would coincide with the anniversary of his campaign announcement in 2019, according to sources familiar with the matter. Advisers inside and outside the White House caution that timing could still change, pending unforeseen events, but a decision has been reached that it is “no longer helpful or necessary to not just say the obvious: He’s running,” a senior Democratic official told CNN.

Wednesday

• The trial in a civil lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump is expected to get underway in Manhattan. Carroll, a former magazine writer, alleges Trump raped her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. She first sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied the rape, said “she’s not my type” and alleged she made the claim to boost sales of her book. Trump denies all claims brought against him by Carroll. Last week, Trump’s attorney said the former president “wishes” to appear at the trial but that his attendance should not be necessary because it would be a “burden” on the city and court.

Thursday

• Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO and founder of failed blood-testing startup Theranos, is scheduled to report to prison to begin serving an 11-year sentence following her 2022 conviction on charges of defrauding investors. Once valued at $9 billion, Theranos attracted top investors and retail partners with claims that it had developed technology to test for a wide range of conditions using just a few drops of blood. The company began to unravel after a Wall Street Journal investigation in 2015 reported that Theranos had only ever performed roughly a dozen of the hundreds of tests it offered using its proprietary technology, and with questionable accuracy.

• We will also get an initial reading on the health of the US economy in the first three months of the year when the Commerce Department releases its gross domestic product report for Q1. GDP, the broadest measure of economic activity, increased by 2.6% in the final quarter of 2022. That was a slower pace than economists had initially estimated.

• And if you’re a big fan of the Big Mac, it’s your lucky day. For a limited time, McDonald’s will begin offering Big Mac sauce in a dip cup to customers who order through its app.