The NYPD is on alert today in response to Trump's call for protests ahead of his possible indictment, with a source telling CNN all officers are expected to be in uniform, ready to deploy. Plus, a massive strike shuts down Los Angeles public schools as 3,000 school workers walk off the job for at least three days. And, Russia's President Putin and China's President Xi Jinping are set to continue their formal talks about the invasion of Ukraine, in what the US Secretary of State is calling diplomatic cover for Russian war crimes.

Also this morning: FOX News and Dominion Voting Systems are back in court for arguments in Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, President Biden is set to award Bruce Springsteen the National Medal of Arts, a Colorado dentist is accused of fatally poisoning his wife, Miami Beach rejects a weekend curfew but makes liquor stores close early in response to its spring break chaos, and, will the Fed raise interest rates during the banking crisis?

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