Catching you up on what you need to know on May 4, 2022, with the results of the Ohio and Indiana GOP primaries, President Biden pushing for more money in the aid package for Ukraine, Elon Musk saying that Twitter will go public again after three years of being private after his purchase, and more.

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Need2Know: Ohio, Indiana Primaries, Ukraine Aid & Elon on Twitter's Future

now let's get to some other stories you need to know this morning. Author J. D. Vance is projected to win. Ohio's Republican Senate primary. The trump backed candidate will move forward with his party's nomination. He will face Democratic congressman Tim Ryan in the general election. The Ohio primary is the first Senate contest of the year to test the power of former president trump's endorsement. Indiana's primary went as expected with Air Force veteran General jennifer Ruth Green projected to take the GOP nominee, the state's first district and state senator Orrin Hatch in securing the party's nomination for the ninth district. The midterm elections will likely determine whether President biden can advance any part of his agenda after this year. Also in Ohio. On Tuesday, governor Mike dewine won the GOP gubernatorial primary To run in the general election for a second term. Meanwhile, President Biden's pushing Congress down to pass the $33 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine. As I said from the beginning, this fight is not going to be cheap, but caving to aggression would even be more costly. We either back the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and we stand by as Russia continues its atrocities and aggression. The president visited a Lockheed martin facility that makes javelin missiles yesterday and he thanked workers there for their efforts in making weapons to send to Ukraine and several other allies like Israel and the UK also renewed their own commitments to the region and the great resignation still in full effect according to new data from the Labor Department to stats hit record highs in March was the number of job openings and the number of people who quit turnover remains historically high as 4.5 million people quit their jobs in March up 2.9% from february now at the same time, March saw 11.5 million jobs open and waiting also up from the month before. But the rate of hiring has a budge sitting at 4.5%. A senior labor economist at EMC burning glass wrote on linkedin quote things will get better, but Q 1 22 will go down as the pit of despair for employers. 22 of course, referring to 2020. That's interesting there. Meanwhile, let's turn to the highest profile case in Hollywood that's going on right now. Johnny Depp's attorneys now have rested their case in the actor's definition trial against his ex wife. Actress Amber heard Depth claims herds 2018 op ed in the Washington Post caused him to lose work in Hollywood. His lawyers also calling more than two dozen witnesses over 13 days. Many of those testified that the couple had explosive fights. Now heard's team began their case with a psychologist who testified that she diagnosed her with post traumatic stress disorder all caused by intimate partner violence that contradicts the testimony of a psychologist that was called by johnny Depp's team and an update for you on the twitter. Ellen saga. Elon musk will be taking twitter private after his near $44 billion deal is complete but it may not be for long musk telling potential investors that he plans on taking the social media giant public in as little as three years. According to sources familiar with the matter. Twitter is expected to go private later this year once musk's deal officially closes. So far, musk has not provided many details regarding his plans for twitter only committing to the platform being less critical in content moderation. Still many questions have yet to be answered regarding shares of twitter, particularly for company employees who are still reportedly in the dark right now. Meanwhile, the first apple store union vote is set to take place on june the second in Atlanta Georgia, employees at the Cumberland mall store filed for a union drive back in april And they'll need more than 50% to the stores near 100 employees to vote in favor of that union in order to be certified here. Now, organizers have previously said about 70% of those employees have expressed interest in unionization. The Atlanta Apple story is one of a handful that are moving towards unionizing as other locations in new york city and near Baltimore also working towards unionizing as employees are seeking better pay and better benefits and over to the latest on Covid 19 top FDA officials say the U. S. May need to update Covid 19 vaccines each year and become an annual shot similar to the flu shot in a report published on monday in the journal Java. The officials said that the widespread global presence of the virus that causes Covid 19 is quote the new normal. The researchers also said getting a new updated Covid booster every fall could save lives and help minimize societal disruptions. This comes a week after the FDA announced its plans to convene its vaccine and related biological products advisory to discuss the composition of vaccines and whether or not modifications will need to be made for the upcoming fall season. So these are the stories that you need to know for Wednesday May 4th for easy access and the latest details on these and many others scan that QR code on your screen right here and sign up for 10 hours daily. Need to know newsletter. Need to know brings you the day's top news stories with a little bit of sass yeah, every weekday morning we'll send you those details to keep you informed and also start your day in the No. As well.