PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - April 21
April 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created a Signal chat with his wife, his personal lawyer and others, and posted sensitive military information into it, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to pull an additional $1 billion of Harvard University's funding for health research.
- Deutsche Post DHLn.DE is suspending high-value shipments to the U.S., effective Monday, as it struggles with delays from customs clearances amid the new U.S. rules.
- Ukraine is under pressure to respond this week to a series of far-reaching U.S. President Donald Trump administration ideas for how to end the war in Ukraine by granting concessions to Russia, including potential U.S. recognition of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and excluding Kyiv from joining NATO.
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