Global News 4/4/19 – How corporations write laws in your state's legislature, Guiadó stripped of immunity, and Syria kills at least 12 in bombardment

This Thursday, read an exposé from USA Today, The Arizona Republic, and the Center for Public Integrity on how corporations write many of the bills passed by state legislative bodies. Also, catch up on the latest in Venezuela’s political upheaval, the Syrian civil war, and more below.

• You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead. (USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Center for Public Integrity)

• Venezuela: Juan Guaidó stripped of parliamentary immunity (The Guardian)

• Syrian government forces shell rebel-held northwest, kill 12 (Reuters)

• Myanmar villagers, lawmaker say 'helicopter attack' kills five Rohingya, wounds 13 (Reuters)

• Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote (BBC)

• Libyan tensions rise as warlord Haftar closes in on Tripoli (Bloomberg)

• Nigeria to close most of its embassies (BBC)

• Eritrea angry at Turkey, Qatar and Sudan over ‘subversion’ of peace process (BBC)

• MIT terminates funding and research links with China's Huawei and ZTE (CNBC)

• New report asserts that a Russian businessman mentioned in the Panama Papers is helping Putin associates get around U.S. sanctions (Meduza)

• The snap decision society (Axios)

• Scientists thought they had measles cornered. They were wrong. (NY Times)

• The nuclear "dread" zone and climate (Axios)

• The climate case for rail vs. trucks (Axios)

• China has turned a city into a prison (NY Times)

Global News 4/3/19 – Algeria's president Bouteflika resigns after 20 years, new Brexit strategy for May, and Venezuela parliament looks to remove immunity for Guiadó

Algeria’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in 2015. Long ill, Mr. Bouteflika announced on Tuesday that he had resigned. Credit Thomas Trutschel/Photothek, via Getty Images

This Wednesday, Algeria’s president resigned after weekslong protests roiled the country, PM May began working with her main opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, on Brexit solutions, and Venezuela’s parliament considered removing parlaimentary immunity from Guiadó. Read more below.

• Algeria's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after 20 years (The Guardian)

• Brexit gamble: May to meet opposition leader to seek a deal (Reuters)

• Venezuela lawmakers loyal to Maduro open door to prosecution of Guaidó (Reuters)

• Long Read: How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world (NY Times Magazine)

  • 6 takeaways from the investigation

• Shifting climate battle over Big Oil (Axios)

• Sky-high valuations inspire housing-crisis flashbacks (Axios)

• Thousands of Venezuelans break barricades, cross Colombia border (Reuters) 

• Malaysia's former PM Najib in the dock for three hours as 1MDB graft trial begins (Reuters)

• Philippine journalist and Duterte critic Maria Ressa pleads not guilty in tax case (Straits Times)

• Pierre Moscovici says risk of a no-deal Brexit on April 12th is increasing (Irish Times)

• Aiming higher on African electricity access (Axios)

• Egypt’s soap opera clampdown extends el-Sisi’s iron grip to TV (NY Times)

• 1 big thing: The threat of AI voice impersonators (Axios)