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Donald Trump Jr. is on the search for a "fighter" to run alongside his father, former President Donald Trump , in the 2024 race for the White House. Highlighting the importance of the vice presidential role, Trump Jr., who is lobbying his father to choose a running mate who is willing to take on distinct challenges, told the New York Post that the position needs someone who can take the political attacks — and hit back. "What I want in that role is, I want a fighter," said Trump Jr., 46. "I understand what they are going to throw at us." "In 2016 you needed someone to balance out [the ticket] — that’s where Mike Pence made sense, sort of the yin and yang, but [given] the vicious nature of the swamp and the insanity we see on a daily basis, you need someone who can take those hits," said Trump Jr., the former president's eldest child. BILL MAHER PANICS OVER TRUMP'S GAIN WITH YOUNG VOTERS: BIDEN MIGHT LOSE 'BECAUSE HOT DOGS COST MO...

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Saturday where she will tout a Biden administration effort to provide "training and technical assistance" to individuals "responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others." The new program drew immediate backlash from some Republicans who called the effort a "massive Red Flag Operation." The National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center, according to a Saturday Department of Justice press release , will specifically provide assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations and behavioral health professionals. "ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups...

Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company : Q&A with ex-CEO of CrowdTangle Brandon Silverman about the founding principle of the research tool, Meta's decision to close it in an election year, and more   —  Meta announced this month that in August it will be closing CrowdTangle, the platform monitoring tool the company bought in 2016.

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : Google is testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results with some users, even if they do not opt in to the Search Generative Experience labs feature   —  Some users who do not opt in to the Google Search labs SGE feature may see AI overview answers in the search results.  —  Chat with SearchBot

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of the House select committee on China, announced he's leaving Congress on April 19, which will temporarily leave House Republicans with just a one-seat majority. Gallagher revealed in February that he would not be running for a fifth term in the House, a shocking announcement for someone long considered a rising star within the Republican Party.  His early departure will mean that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can only afford to lose one GOP lawmaker on any vote that falls along party lines. That will likely remain the case until June, when there's a special election to replace ex-Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio. HOUSE PASSES $460 BILLION GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL BLASTED BY GOP HARDLINERS A special election to replace ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. , is set to take place in May. McCarthy's former seat in California's 20th Congressional District is a safe red seat, so it's likely going to give Johnson a GOP win. Before that, ...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is adding live scores for NBA games, and plans to add support for additional leagues in the future   —  Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is adding live scores for sports games.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that Threads …

Jason Snell / Six Colors : A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+   —  The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.