Google cancels April Fools’ Day, again
NY Post
If you were looking forward to Google’s April Fools’ Day landing page, the joke’s on you.
The search engine has confirmed that they are definitely not participating in an April Fools’ Day prank — for the second year in a row. In a leaked internal memo, Google’s Marvin Chow, vice president of global marketing, told employees in March that they would “pause the jokes” out of respect for those who have suffered through the COVID-19 pandemic during this past year.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.