Start your Monday smart: More Mueller report, Earth Day, census, 'Endgame,' NFL draft

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• Happy Easter and a joyous Passover! We wish blessed holidays to all who celebrate. However you worship, we send you hopeful tidings now and for many seasons to come.

• Egyptians head to the polls. Voters cast ballots through Monday for some controversial constitutional amendments, including one that would allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to stay in power until 2034 and another that would expand the military's power.

• Look up! It's the Lyrids! The meteor shower lights up the skies, especially in the western United States. The Lyrids appear every year from about April 16 to 25. They've been seen for more than 2,700 years, NASA says, making them one of the oldest known showers.

• Hill leaders can skim a less-redacted Mueller report. The Justice Department is due to start providing a secure reading room for select lawmakers to review more of the special counsel's report than was released last week.

• Protect the mothership this Earth Day. Join your fellow earthlings for our planet's largest civic-focused day of action. You can help imperiled species, join a US cleanup event or teach kids about changing their habits to conserve resources.

• CNN hosts back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back town halls. Five -- count them, five -- town hall events featuring top Democratic presidential candidates will be broadcast internationally in the evening from New Hampshire. They'll feature: US Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 7 ET; US Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 8 ET; US Sen. Bernie Sanders at 9 ET; US Sen. Kamala Harris at 10 ET; and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 11 ET.

• SCOTUS ponders a key census question. In one of the term's most significant cases, justices are set to review lower court opinions that held that the Trump administration violated the Constitution and federal law when it decided to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census.

• If your colleagues feel like family ... Be sure not to overlook Administrative Professionals Day.

• If you'd like your family to be colleagues ... Pack a double lunch (with dessert) for National Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day.

• What to do with that first-round pick. How will your team handle its options? Here's how to watch every twist and turn of the three-day NFL Draft.

• The 50th Jazz Fest opens in New Orleans. And it wouldn't be real without Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, a native son who traces his musical rise to the moment he was called up as a kid to the festival stage. (Click here to feel the funk.)

• Maria Butina gets sentenced. The Russian woman who pleaded guilty in connection with conspiring to help Russia gain political influence in the United States is due to learn her fate. She's been jailed for more than eight months -- two months longer than the sentence both sides agreed on -- so the resolution may be her deportation.

• Lawyers debate Robert Kraft's spa video. The New England Patriots owner's attorneys are set are argue that law enforcement used false information to get a warrant for the prostitution sting that nabbed Kraft, so the state's video evidence should be banned at trial. Kraft has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution.

• 'Avengers: Endgame' lands in theaters. Find out who lives, who dies and who's back after more than 21 installments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (but don't spoil it for others). The much-anticipated movie opens in the US, two days after its international release.

• All athletes face off at the Arafura Games. The atypical event, in Australia's Northern Territory, welcomes disabled athletes to compete alongside their able-bodied peers in nine days of track-and-field events, swimming, tennis and table tennis.

• White House Correspondents' Association gets dolled up. Breaking from its tradition of having a comedian roast the President and the press corps, the fundraiser will feature US presidential biographer Ron Chernow. Meantime, Trump is skipping the event for the third straight year. Coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET on CNN.

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