By Alexandra Banner, CNN

Fresh concerns about aviation safety are surfacing this week after another close call in the skies. Two Southwest Airlines jets recently had to take evasive action at Nashville International Airport after collision alarms sounded in the cockpit.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ Ceasefire deadline

President Donald Trump pushed the expiration of the truce with Iran to Wednesday evening ET, saying it’s “highly unlikely” he will extend it further if no deal is reached. This gives negotiators an extra 24 hours of talks before Trump must decide whether to follow through on his threat to blow up Iranian bridges and power plants — a possible war crime. Read more.

2⃣ Summer travel

On top of higher airfares and added fees driven by the war with Iran, airlines in Europe and Asia are now facing a potential jet fuel shortage. This raises the odds of flight cancellations and schedule cuts, spelling trouble for the summer travel season. Read more.

3⃣ Redistricting

Voters in Virginia will head to the polls today to decide whether to accept or reject a Democratic plan that could dramatically redraw the state’s congressional maps and help shape the midterm elections. Nearly 1.4 million Virginians have already cast early ballots, a sign of unusually high interest for an April special election. Read more.

4⃣ Apple

John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become the company’s CEO on September 1. This comes after Tim Cook announced Monday that he will step down following more than a decade spent transforming the company into a $4 trillion behemoth. Read more.

5⃣ Mexico’s pyramids

An eyewitness captured the moment a gunman opened fire on a crowd of tourists visiting Mexico’s historic Teotihuacán pyramids on Monday. Authorities say the suspect shot and killed a Canadian woman and injured at least 13 others. Read more.

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By Griffin Shea, CNN

Kampala (CNN) — Walking through the compound that houses the Kasubi Tombs, the main path leads to what should be an entrance. But it ends at one of the layers of thatch covering the 25-foot structure known as Muzibu Azala Mpanga. It looks like a giant basket turned upside down. If it weren’t for the rows of shoes laid neatly outside, you’d never know there was a way in.

Brush aside the long-dried spear grass, and you’re in another world. Uganda’s equatorial heat is left outside; inside, a double-layered ceiling of woven reeds and grass regulates the temperature, keeping the air cool and still. Women sit on grass mats on either side of the entrance — “widows” of the dead kings, descendants of the royal family who serve one-month shifts to welcome pilgrims and tend to the spirits of the kings behind the curtain.

Pilgrims kneel in front of four photographs, one for each king buried here. Behind them hangs a floor-to-ceiling curtain of rust-brown bark cloth, the distinctive Ugandan textile made from pounding the bark of a local fig tree.

The curtain looks like a wall. But for people from the Buganda kingdom, it marks a portal to a sacred, invisible forest. They believe kings never die; they enter the forest and continue to communicate with the living through spirit mediums.

The Kasubi Tombs, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Uganda’s capital Kampala, are the spiritual heart of the Buganda kingdom.

But for 16 years, that portal was closed.

A fire tore through the site in 2010, destroying the main structure. First built in 1882 and spanning more than 100 feet, the building stood little chance: it was constructed almost entirely from plant materials. Wooden columns supported a vast thatched roof, each wrapped in bark cloth. Some surrounding buildings survived, but the central tomb was reduced to ash.

Painstaking process

The cause of the fire has never been made public, but the blaze sparked an outpouring of grief and outrage that escalated into deadly riots.

Now, the tombs are finally back open to the public, through a painstaking process that involved more than construction work. When architect Jonathan Nsubuga took on the project, he discovered that many of the traditional building skills used to create the original structure were at risk of dying out. New craftspeople had to be trained, and the spiritual elements that define the space carefully restored.

“In my research, and based on the cultural norms, we formulated a new saying of heritage recovery, not reconstruction. It’s recovery,” he says. “Because that’s what I’ve been doing for 15 years — recovering the heritage that was destroyed.”

Few cities in Africa preserve this kind of traditional architecture and sacred ground at the heart of a modern capital. When British missionaries — and later colonizers — arrived in the late 19th century, the hills of what is now Kampala were already the center of the Buganda kingdom.

Sacred space

Under Buganda tradition, when a king died, his palace became his burial site. The physical resting place is concealed behind the bark cloth curtain, accessible only to close family members. Each new monarch would build a new palace nearby, shifting the seat of power over time. As the British settlement expanded, it grew around this existing royal landscape.

At Kasubi, the original structure was built in 1882 by Kabaka Mutesa I. He died two years later, and the kingdom entered decades of upheaval through colonization and the struggle for independence. In total, four kings are buried here.

When the building burned, the loss was not only architectural. For many in Buganda, the tombs represent both a sacred space and a symbol of unity and resistance.

Inside, the vast roof is supported by massive wooden poles and 52 concentric rings woven from grass.

By Antoinette Radford, Billy Stockwell, Farida Elsebai, CNN

(CNN) — Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe.

Satellite images are giving an insight into destruction in the region, including to the fragile biodiversity of the Persian Gulf. Oil spilt there has the potential to affect the lives and livelihoods of people along the Gulf coastlines, as well as the region’s rich marine life.

One image, taken on April 7, shows a spill spanning more than five miles in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran’s Qeshm Island. An Iranian vessel, the Shahid Bagheri, was leaked oil in the same area after US forces hit the vessel on February 28, Greenpeace Germany spokesperson Nina Noelle told CNN.

Another image shows oil around Lavan Island after what Iranian state media called a hit “by enemies” on an oil facility near the island’s coast on April 7. Video shared on social media and geolocated by CNN also shows a large fire erupting from the Iranian oil refinery.

The hit on Lavan is a “major environmental emergency,” said Wim Zwijnenburg, a project leader at Dutch peace organization PAX, who tracks the consequences of strikes around the Gulf.

At least five locations on Lavan were damaged, with subsequent spills happening around the island and oil leaking into the sea, he told CNN. The spills are “also now reaching the Shidvar Island… which is a protected site. It’s uninhabited, but it has a range of protected species there,” he added.

Shidvar Island is a coral island in the Persian Gulf, around one mile east of Lavan Island, that is rich in wildlife, including turtles and sea birds.

Satellite images also show spills just off Kuwait’s coast on April 6. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted fuel and petrochemical facilities in Gulf countries, including Kuwait, that day in retaliation for an attack on a petrochemical complex in southwestern Iran.

In the worst case scenario, these oils spills could have consequences for thousands of people, especially those living along the coast of Iran, including contaminating the fish they rely on for income and food, Zwijnenburg warned.

The spills threaten other marine life, too, such as turtles, dolphins and whales that might ingest or become trapped in the oil. They could also potentially affect the filtering systems of desalination plants, on which nearly 100 million people in the region rely for clean water.

At this stage, it’s hard to quantify what damage these spills may be causing, but there are fears of an ecological catastrophe, especially if more ships are hit. There are an estimated 75 large oil tankers in the Gulf, carrying a total of almost 19 billion liters of crude oil, according to data from Greenpeace Germany.

Oil spills can have huge, wide-ranging impacts, “affecting the entire ecosystem, from microorganisms to fish, birds, and marine turtles that depend on mangrove habitats,” said Greenpeace’s Noelle.

They are very hard to clean, she said, due to “structural complexity, limited accessibility and challenging working conditions,” adding that the ongoing conflict makes the prospects of gaining access to the Gulf to clean it up all but impossible.

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By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon, CNN

(CNN) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche traveled to Florida on Monday where he met with a new prosecutor tapped to handle one of the most important cases to President Donald Trump — the investigation into former CIA director and Trump critic John Brennan.

The meeting comes as Blanche fights to prove he’s the man to deliver on Trump’s biggest priority: prosecuting the president’s political adversaries.

Less than two weeks in, Blanche has taken public steps toward delivering on Trump’s agenda by making changes to the team investigating Brennan, releasing a much-anticipated report on anti-abortion protests, and overseeing an effort to vacate the convictions of members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Trump has commended Blanche’s work as acting attorney general so far, and, according to current and former administration officials who spoke to CNN, the job appears to be his to lose.

But officials say Blanche must still contend with many of the hurdles that plagued the tenure of former Attorney General Pam Bondi before her recent firing.

Like Bondi, he must face low morale among prosecutors and the persistent controversy surrounding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The high profile prosecutions of Trump’s political foes must survive judges and grand juries who have so far rebuffed many of the attempts.

And buy-in from career prosecutors tasked with the investigations isn’t guaranteed.

“There are many prosecutors out there who are opposed to the president’s agenda and are not interested in doing the kinds of cases that are important to the White House,” Civil Rights Division Chief Harmeet Dhillon recently told CNN.

Blanche will have to face these challenges while other top Justice Department officials attempt to prove their ability to carry out Trump’s agenda if he cannot.

Prosecuting Trump’s political foes

While in Florida to speak at a legal event Monday, Blanche met with Jason Reding Quiñones, the US attorney for the southern district of Florida; justice official Christopher-James DeLorenz; and newly installed Counselor to the Attorney General Joseph diGenova, according to a Justice Department official. The meeting has not yet been reported.

DiGenova will now work on the investigation into Brennan, which is focused on one of the president’s longest standing political grievances — the 2017 intelligence assessment that found ​Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help him.

For Trump, prosecutions like Brennan’s — and the pursuit of debunked claims of a stolen 2020 election — are top of mind. He previously complained directly to Justice Department officials that he has not been pleased with the slow-moving progress.

Some prosecutions that did move along quickly since fell apart. In November, a federal judge dismissed the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. The Justice Department tried multiple times to re-indict James, but failed to convince a grand jury to bring charges.

In February, a grand jury rejected criminal charges against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members to defy illegal orders from the Trump administration.

The job of delivering on Trump’s agenda took a toll on Bondi, who sources said believed that she was at times being asked to do the impossible.

Bondi declined to comment for this story.

When she first took office, she for

Por Betsy Klein, CNN

Un día después de publicar —y luego borrar— una imagen en la que se comparaba con Jesucristo, el presidente Donald Trump se sentó en su escritorio en el Despacho Oval y leyó la Biblia directamente a la cámara.

Trump es una de las casi 500 personas que leen las Escrituras esta semana como parte de “Estados Unidos lee la Biblia”, un evento de una semana de duración que sus organizadores describen como una “celebración espiritual” del 250 aniversario del país.

Esta iniciativa está liderada por una organización cristiana sin fines de lucro cuyo objetivo es concienciar al país y a sus líderes sobre la necesidad de las enseñanzas bíblicas.

Los participantes, entre los que se encuentran Trump, su jefa de gabinete Susie Wiles, el secretario de Defensa Pete Hegseth y el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio, entre otros, están leyendo pasajes desde el Libro del Génesis hasta el Libro del Apocalipsis.

Algunos lo hacen de forma presencial en el Museo de la Biblia y otros, como Trump, realizan lecturas virtuales.

El presidente grabó la semana pasada su pasaje de dos minutos y medio, 2 Crónicas 7:11-22, y se reproducirá en el museo y en línea a través del servicio de transmisión Pure Flix, de inspiración religiosa, el martes por la noche.

El pasaje que Trump está leyendo es significativo, y ha servido como grito de guerra para la derecha cristiana en Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo durante décadas.

Dice en parte: “Si mi pueblo, que es llamado por mi nombre, se humilla y ora y busca mi rostro y se aparta de sus malos caminos, entonces yo oiré desde el cielo, perdonaré su pecado y sanaré su tierra”.

Bunni Pounds, exasesora política que ahora organiza la lectura de esta semana como fundadora y presidenta de Christians Engaged, y su equipo habían reservado este pasaje para un funcionario electo. Afirmó que rezó para que Trump estuviera dispuesto a leerlo.

“He estado orando con un pequeño grupo de personas, pidiéndole al Señor que permita que nuestro presidente eleve esta oración, las palabras de Dios que él escucharía”, declaró Pounds en una entrevista con CNN.

Pero esta lectura llega en un momento complicado para la relación del presidente con los cristianos estadounidenses.

La reciente publicación de Trump en redes sociales, generada por IA, en la que aparecía como Jesús curando a un enfermo, provocó una inusual reacción de aliados clave de la derecha cristiana.

El presidente finalmente rectificó, eliminó la publicación y sugirió que pensaba que “era yo como médico y tenía que ver con la Cruz Roja”.

Al mismo tiempo, ha intensificado las tensiones con el papa León XIV, criticando al primer pontífice estadounidense durante días en redes sociales y afirmando enfáticamente que no tiene planes de disculparse, mientras ambos discrepan públicamente sobre la guerra con Irán.

Esa extraordinaria división ha puesto de manifiesto un cambio entre algunos fundamentalistas y evangélicos estadounidenses hacia la adopción de un “Jesús MAGA”, un movimiento invocado por algunos de sus seguidores en los últimos años que presenta a Trump como su “elegido”.

El presidente, un asistente irregular a la iglesia que arremetió contra sus enemigos políticos durante el Desayuno Nacional de Oración de este año y que en su momento fue criticado