The split screen of the '24 presidential campaign was on full display yesterday, Axios' Hans Nichols writes:

• There was President Biden, sitting for a friendly interview with Howard Stern after another week of campaigning and raising money in some of America's wealthiest ZIP codes.
• A few miles from Stern's Manhattan studio, there was a grim Donald Trump — sitting in what he calls a "cold" courtroom as a former tabloid editor testified at the former president's criminal trial.

🎯 Why it matters: Money and time on the trail are the two vital variables of a presidential campaign. Right now, Biden has more of both.

• Trump is crying foul, complaining that his trial is keeping him off the campaign trail — though when he had a day off from court on Wednesday, he played golf, according to CNN.

Zoom in: Biden's stop by Stern's show seemed to be a jab at Trump. Stern was Trump's go-to host for crude talk in the 1990s and early 2000s.

• Biden, responding to taunts from Trump about debating, said: "I am, somewhere. ... I don't know when, but I am happy to debate him."

Zoom out: While Trump sits through what's expected to be several more weeks of his felony trial in the hush-money case, Biden is using Air Force One to visit states he'll need to win in November.

• Trump hasn't held a campaign rally since his trial began two weeks ago. Bad weather canceled a planned event in North Carolina last weekend. A rally is scheduled in Michigan (Freeland, in Saginaw County) on Wednesday.

🥊 Reality check: Despite Trump's troubles, he has led Biden in most national and swing-state polls. Biden's numbers have been ticking up, to a small lead in some recent surveys.

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About 600 people have been arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on at least 15 college campuses across the U.S. in just over a week, according to an analysis by Axios journalists.

• Why it matters: University administrations have cracked down on student demonstrators in unprecedented ways as protests grow in size and intensity.

🔎 State of play: Students are demanding that their universities divest from businesses that have financial ties to Israel and those that are supporting the war in Gaza.

• Most arrests have been on the grounds of trespassing.

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It was a huge week for U.S. workers, who notched some big wins that could lead to higher wages for millions.

• The big picture: New rules from federal agencies intent on implementing the White House's pro worker agenda plus a big union victory in the South are keeping the deck stacked in labor's favor — for now, Axios' Emily Peck writes.

⚡ State of play: The Labor Department this week expanded its rule on when employees are owed overtime.

• Also this week, the Federal Trade Commission took the radical step of releasing a rule that bans nearly all noncompete agreements.
• The FTC estimates that 30 million Americans are subject to these agreements and that its ban will lead to $524 in increased wages per year, per worker, on average.

Outside of Washington, auto workers in the South scored a breakthrough victory last week when employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.

• The vote gives unions a major inroad into organizing the South, historically hostile to organizing.

Another worker win: Late last night, Daimler truck workers in North Carolina reached a deal that gives them 25% raises and avoids a strike that would have started today, The New York Times reports.

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Breaking up with your smartphone is hard, but a growing "dumbphone" market is providing alternatives, Axios' April Rubin reports.

• Why it matters: The well-known negative effects of screens — loneliness, addiction, anxiety and depression — has left many eager to disconnect.

A dumbphone is a basic, 90's-inspired cell phone without the vortex of apps that contribute to high screen times.

• Influencers and brands are in on it, with YouTube content creators sharing their experiences and recommendations.
• Heineken recently released The Boring Phone.

👀 Zoom in: DumbWireless, founded in 2022, offers phones ranging from $50 to upwards of $300 from companies including Light, Punkt and Nokia, as well as a T-Mobile service plan.

• LA-based couple Will Stults and Daisy Krigbaum founded the platform after struggling to unplug.

DumbWireless sold about $68,000 worth of phones last month, up from $5,000 in March 2023.

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More parents in America are using in vitro fertilization to grow their families, Axios' Carly Mallenbaum writes from new Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology data.

• The big picture: IVF has gained popularity as hopeful parents get better access to infertility treatments and choose to have kids later in life.

🧮 By the numbers: In 2022, 2.5% of all U.S. births were a result of IVF.

• The number of babies born from IVF ticked up from 89,208 in 2021 to 91,771 in 2022.

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Audiences no longer go to theaters just to watch a movie, they go for an experience, Axios' Tim Baysinger writes.

• The big picture: Theaters are resorting to using screens for non-traditional releases to help fill seats.

🎞️ Zoom in: Cinema owners and film execs gathered in Las Vegas to discuss the future of the industry at the annual CinemaCon convention, and one of the key themes that emerged was movie theaters trying to transform into event hubs.

• The 100-year-old theater business increasingly needs to broaden the reasons customers might choose to visit.
• Those have included concert films from Taylor Swift and Beyonce, special anniversary screenings for old movies, and TV events, such as this summer's Olympics.

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Kelly O'Donnell — who as president of the White House Correspondents' Association will wield the gavel at tonight's dinner, with both President Biden and Vice President Harris at the head table — by coincidence marks 30 years at NBC News this week.

• Kelly O' — as the senior White House correspondent is known — was saluted at a pre-Dinner dinner at Café Milano on Thursday night. Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, said: "The fact that you are the first sitting NBC News journalist to be president of the White House Correspondents Association, we are very, very excited for this."

Just the facts: O'Donnell's reporting has taken her to 50 states, 58 countries and four Olympics. She has covered seven presidential campaigns, and embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq.

• Fun facts: Kelly O' had a cameo on "House of Cards," competed on "Jeopardy!" and was portrayed on "Saturday Night Live."

🎥 "Madam President" said last evening at a reception held by Comcast NBCUniversal and the Motion Picture Association: "My life is like a movie … We pause for one weekend a year where we all get dressed up and we have parties. But throughout the year, there's important work to do — to celebrate the First Amendment, to support a free press, to know the connection between that work and the democracy that we value. That's why we're here."

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If a trip to Disney World in Florida is in your future, Axios editor Ashley May has a few tips and tricks to help your vacation dreams come true.

• I'm a periodic parkgoer but not a Disney diehard. I traveled with a group of nine, ages 4 to 80. We visited a park each day, Ashley writes.

🧳 Best item packed: Brita Filtered Water Bottles from Walmart.

🧒 Best kid experiences: Cinderella's Royal Table (lots of princess meet-and-greets) and Savi's Workshop's lightsaber experience (yes, we lugged a lightsaber back through TSA).

📝 Best plans: We secured meal reservations and experiences 60 days in advance — the minute options opened.

• Go deeper: What to hit — and skip — at each park.