PE HUB First Read

Senate intelligence chief plans bill to criminalize firms that don’t decipher encrypted messages.

Hillary Clinton’s lead shrinks as more women shift to Bernie Sanders, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.

Amazon buys Woody Allen’s next movie.

IBM deploys blockchain-as-a-service.

How high-flying Zenefits fell to earth.

The percentage of venture rounds containing convertible loans has doubled since 2012.

U.S. spurns Turkey’s demand to cut Kurdish ties after bombing.

Buzzfeed digs way back, and finds a comment Donald Trump made on the Howard Stern show in 2002 supporting the invasion of Iraq.

Airbnb faces a major threat in Japan, its fastest-growing market.

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