🥁 Axios PM: 100,000 homes needed

Musk's new billions | Thursday, April 21, 2022

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Morgan Stanley   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Apr 21, 2022 Good afternoon: Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 434 words, a 2-minute read. 🌐 You're invited: Please join Axios Generate co-author Ben Geman and me tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET for an Earth Day virtual event. Sign up here.     1 big thing: 100,000 homes needed Oleksii Yeromin, wrapped in a Ukrainian flag, hugs Ukrainian refugees at the San Ysidro (PedWest) port of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images A nonprofit group that helped relocate Afghan refugees in the U.S. is launching a new effort to recruit 100,000 American residents to sponsor Ukrainian refugees, Axios' Russell Contreras reports. The Biden administration announced today the Uniting for Ukraine program, which will allow Ukrainian citizens to apply for humanitarian parole. Welcome.US is spearheading the sponsor recruitment, funded primarily by $3.6 million from the Goldman Sachs Gives fund. What's next: Americans interested in sponsoring a Ukrainian family can sign up at ukraine.welcome.us beginning Monday. Sponsors can offer temporary hosting through Airbnb or donate to Airbnb to help cover temporary housing costs. People can donate airline miles through Miles4Migrants or purchase needed items for refugees. Share this story.     2. CNN+ killed after 3 weeks Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR, is among the CNN+ stars. Photo: CNN   CNN+ — which launched March 29, just ahead of the merger that created Warner Bros. Discovery — will cease operations April 30, Axios' Sara Fischer and Erin Doherty report. Hundreds of employees are at risk of losing their jobs. CNN and its new parent company disagreed over whether the streaming service investment made sense long term. CNN+ staff will get paid and keep their benefits for 90 days after the shutdown. What's next: Variety reports it's unclear whether CNN will keep some of its flashy new hires, including Chris Wallace ... Kasie Hunt, formerly of NBC News ... and Audie Cornish, the NPR veteran.     A message from Morgan Stanley Coast Haven Brokerage wins Sustainable Investing Challenge     A proposal from graduate students at the University of Cambridge to create a new type of parametric insurance to protect and restore mangrove forests won the 2022 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. Learn more about their winning idea.     3. Catch up quick A drone shows a grave digger at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine. The first several rows contain people killed during the Russian occupation of the area. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images The Fed is likely to raise interest rates half a point at its policy meeting in two weeks, the first such move in 22 years. Go deeper. Elon Musk has secured billions of dollars' worth of loan commitments from Morgan Stanley as part of his bid to take over Twitter. Go deeper. The Obamas are parting ways with Spotify, Axios Pro: Media Deals co-author Tim Baysinger reports. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is expected to sign a bill revoking Disney's special government status in the state, with major tax implications for the entertainment giant. Go deeper. Scoop: The Activision Blizzard board is adding two women senior executives, Lulu Cheng Meservey and Kerry Carr, Axios' Hope King reports.     4. 📷 Parting shot Photo: Francois Mori/AP Ahead of a runoff Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron wore boxing gloves today as he campaigned in the Auguste Delaune stadium in Saint-Denis, a working-class suburb north of Paris. Polls today show Macron maintained a slight lead over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, following a prickly head-to-head debate that Macron was judged to have won. —Reuters     A message from Morgan Stanley Coast Haven Brokerage wins Sustainable Investing Challenge     A proposal from graduate students at the University of Cambridge to create a new type of parametric insurance to protect and restore mangrove forests won the 2022 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. Learn more about their winning idea.   Like this email style and format? It's called Smart Brevity®. Over 200 orgs use it — in a tool called Axios HQ — to drive productivity with clearer workplace communications.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. Axios, 3100 Clarendon B‌lvd, Suite 1300, Arlington VA 22201   You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from Axios. Change your preferences or unsubscribe here.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: