Amsterdam was flooded with tourists in 2023, so it won’t allow any more hotels Twenty-six hotels that already have permits can move forward, but after that a hotel can only be built if one shuts down. Tourists spent about 20.7 million nights in Amsterdam hotels last year. Read more on NPR

Israel strikes Iran, U.S. official says; Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ is here Israel has launched a strike against Iran, a U.S. official tells NPR. Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated “Tortured Poets Department” is here. Read more on NPR

Google worker says the company is ‘silencing our voices’ after mass firings The tech giant fired 28 employees who took part in a protest over the company’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government. One fired worker tells her story. Read more on NPR

Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, draws friends close and critics closer Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s District Attorney, has great friends and determined critics Read more on NPR

What’s going to explode in space? Find out in the quiz In other news, the WNBA draft was haute, a star system is hot and a Nike uniform was deemed neither haute nor hot. Read more on NPR

Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ is written in blood With The Tortured Poets Department, the defining pop star of her era has made an album as messy and confrontational as any good girl’s work can get. Read more on NPR

Where gun violence is common, some students say physical safety is a top concern The federal government is investing billions to bolster school safety and mental health resources to combat gun violence. But some sense a disconnect between those programs and what students need. Read more on NPR

Fake Botox has sickened patients nationwide. Here’s what to know — and what to avoid Public health authorities are investigating reports of counterfeit injections sickening 19 people across nine states. Experts say getting bona fide Botox starts with finding a trustworthy provider. Read more on NPR