April 21: SpaceX rocket explosion, food banks, UK Deputy PM, Chile lithium industry, China, Taiwan

1. SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars

2. Food banks across the U.S. are straining to meet spiking demands as high food costs and shrinking federal benefits drive more Americans to depend on free groceries just as Republicans seek to narrow access to food assistance

3. British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigns from the government following an independent investigation into complaints that he bullied colleagues

4. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric says he will nationalize the country’s vast lithium industry to boost its economy and protect its environment. The country is the world’s second largest producer of the metal essential in electric vehicle batteries

5. China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang says both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to China and that it is right and proper for China to uphold its sovereignty

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