QUICK HITS

1 Stock market has best week in 6 months:

Alphabet and Microsoft led the U.S. stock market to its first winning week in the past four and its biggest weekly gain since November. The S&P 500 rose 1% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 2%. Google’s parent company jumped after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit and announcing its first dividend. Microsoft climbed after also topping forecasts. They helped offset a slide for Intel after it gave a forecast for profit that fell short of analysts’ expectations.

2 Bill will penalize adults who help minors receive genderaffirming care:

Tennessee’s GOPcontrolled Statehouse has given its final approval on legislation penalizing adults who help minors receive genderaffirming care without parental consent. The action clears the way for the first-inthe-nation proposal to be sent to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his signature. The bill mirrors almost the same language from a so-called “anti-abortion trafficking” proposal Tennessee Republican lawmakers approved Wednesday.

3 17 states challenge federal rules entitling workers to accommodations for abortion:

Seventeen states — including Georgia — are challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions. Arkansas and Tennessee filed the lawsuit in federal court Thursday and called the new rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law. The lawsuit comes after finalized federal regulations were published last week on how to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

4 Flight attendant indicted after attempting to record teen girl in airplane bathroom:

An American Airlines flight attendant has been indicted after authorities said he tried to secretly record video of a 14-yearold girl using an airplane bathroom last September. Police also have alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other girls using lavatories on an aircraft where he worked.