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Chauvin Judge: Waters’s Comments Could Result in ‘Overturned’ Verdict on Appeal

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The judge said Maxine Waters’s statement that protesters must be “confrontational” could result in an overturned guilty verdict “down the road.”

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4/19/2021

Former Democratic vice-president and ‘84 presidential candidate Walter Mondale has died

BREAKING: Walter Mondale has died at 93.

He transformed the role of U.S. vice president while serving under Jimmy Carter and was the Democratic nominee for president in 1984. https://t.co/oR0FIxFRAq

—@axios

If Biden Walks Away in 2024, He’ll Make History

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With the arguable exception of Calvin Coolidge, past presidents who didn’t run for a second term were following a one-term pledge or ran and lost.

NYC Teachers Union Endorses Scott Stringer for Mayor

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The third-place candidate pulls in another key progressive endorsement, as he tries to consolidate the vote on the left against Andrew Yang.

All U.S. Adults Can Get the COVID Vaccine. Now What?

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By Chas Danner

The country’s vaccine rollout has hit a major milestone, but expanding access and increasing demand in the next phase won’t be easy.

Chauvin Trial Closing Arguments: ‘You Can Believe Your Eyes’

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By Nia Prater and Margaret Hartmann

Prosecutors urged jurors to trust the video evidence, while the defense said Chauvin did not “purposefully” apply “unlawful force” on George Floyd.

Medical Examiner: Clot Killed Capitol Cop Brian Sicknick, Not Rioters

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The D.C. chief examiner’s ruling contradicts government statements, which said that the he died from injuries sustained during the insurrection.

Justice Barrett Gets Big Book Deal to Tell Readers What They Don’t Want to Hear

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The justice’s book will explain that personal feelings don’t matter to judges. Her assumed personal feelings on abortion are why she’s on the Court.

What to Know About the Cuomo Investigations and Possible Impeachment

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By Chas Danner

Letitia James may reportedly expand her investigation to include a criminal inquiry into whether or not Cuomo used state resources to write his book.

How Far Along Is New York City in Its Reopening This Spring?

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Museums can return to 50 percent capacity and movie theaters can return to 33 percent capacity on April 26.

Greitens Tries the Maximum MAGA Strategy in Comeback Bid for Senate Seat

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The disgraced former governor will have Trumpy competition in the primary, which could make a Democratic upset in a key Senate race possible.

How NASA Flew a Helicopter Flight on Mars

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By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Carrying a piece of the Wright Brothers’ glider, Ingenuity achieved an interplanetary first on Monday.

4/19/2021

A majority of New Yorkers are okay with Cuomo sticking around, but aren’t interested in reelecting him

A slight majority of New Yorkers said Gov. Andrew Cuomo shouldn’t resign amid sexual-harassment allegations, but a growing number of voters view him unfavorably and don’t want him to seek re-election, a poll released Monday found.

Fifty-one percent of the 801 voters surveyed last week by the Siena College Research Institute said the Democratic governor shouldn’t resign, while 37% of the voters said he should.

… The level of support for Mr. Cuomo to stay in office was highest among Black voters and voters over 55 years old, the poll showed. A Siena poll released on March 15 showed that 35% of voters thought the governor should resign and 50% didn’t.

But 57% of voters surveyed said they would prefer to vote for someone else in next year’s gubernatorial race, compared with 33% who said they would vote to re-elect Mr. Cuomo. The governor had previously said he was planning to run for a fourth term.

Most New York Voters Say Gov. Andrew Cuomo Shouldn’t Resign, Poll Says

—Wall Street Journal

Andrew Yang Leads NYC Mayoral Race in New Poll

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By Nia Prater

Yang was the top pick of 22 percent of likely Democratic voters. Eric Adams and Scott Stringer were the only other candidates to break double digits.

4/19/2021

If you’re over the thrill of not having to think about Trump-related figures on a daily basis, the book publishing industry has you covered

William Barr, Trump’s former attorney general who resigned two days before Christmas after disagreeing publicly with Trump’s voter fraud conspiracy theories, recently sold a book about his time at the Justice Department, according to three people familiar with the deal.

This will be Barr’s first book and he started writing it within the last two months, according to one of the people.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s last pick for the Supreme Court, has also sold a book — garnering a $2 million advance for a tome about how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule, according to three publishing industry sources. The figure was “an eye-raising amount” for a Supreme Court justice and likely the most since book deals won by Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O’Connor, one of the people added.

… Geoffrey Berman, who tangled with Barr and whom Trump ousted as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, also has sold a book — for what one industry source described as “a lot of money” — about his time in office. The person described the book as “part Paul Giamatti and ‘Billions,’ and then sort of the Trump show in the Southern District.”

… Outside of the legal world, Scott Atlas, the health policy scholar from the Hoover Institution who was a coronavirus adviser to Trump and noted skeptic of sharp coronavirus restrictions, recently sold a book to Post Hill Press’s Bombardier Books.

William Barr, Amy Coney Barrett land book deals

—Politico

‘There’s a Very Human Cost to Convenience’

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As told to Sarah Jones

An Amazon driver on delivering your packages, being tracked by his bosses, and having to pee in bottles.

4/19/2021

A giant leap for drones

NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter made history early Monday when the small but intrepid drone became the first powered craft to fly on another world, space agency officials announced.

Overcoming extreme cold, dangerously thin air and flawed flight software, the $85 million autonomous copter spun its twin carbon fiber rotor blades to rise about 10 feet into the thin Martian air. It hovered briefly in the breeze before safely landing at about 3:30 a.m. ET Monday back on Earth, NASA officials said. The flight was the first of five planned for the next 30 days.

As flight data streamed from Ingenuity to Earth Monday, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California cheered and clapped.

“It’s real; it’s real,” said Ingenuity project manager MiMi Aung, slapping the table in front of her with glee and showing a thumbs-up. “We can now say human beings have flown a drone on another planet.”

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Makes Historic First Flight on Mars

—Wall Street Journal

The People Who Plan on Wearing Masks Forever

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By Eve Peyser

For a select few, covering up has become a way of life. What is the cost?

Fauci: Johnson & Johnson Shot Could Return on Friday With Warning Label

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The public-health official anticipated that the single-dose vaccine would return with either a warning or a restriction on what ages could receive it.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Caucus Promoting ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Values Didn’t Last Long

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The GOP representative walked back a proposal to form an America First caucus after Republican leaders pushed back against her nativist language.

4/18/2021

Welcome to the halfway point, America

Half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot, the government announced Sunday, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign but leaving more work to do to convince skeptical Americans to roll up their sleeves. Almost 130 million people 18 or older have received at least one dose of a vaccine, or 50.4% of the total adult population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Almost 84 million adults, or about 32.5% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.

The U.S. cleared the 50% mark just a day after the reported global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million, according to totals compiled by Johns Hopkins University, though the actual number is believed to be significantly higher. The country’s vaccination rate, at 61.6 doses administered per 100 people, currently falls behind Israel, which leads among countries with at least 5 million people with a rate of 119.2. The U.S. also trails the United Arab Emirates, Chile and the United Kingdom, which is vaccinating at a rate of 62 doses per 100 people, according to Our World in Data, an online research site.

Half of US adults have received at least one COVID-19 shot

—The Associated Press

How to Sign Up for a COVID Vaccine in New York

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All New Yorkers over the age of 16 are now eligible to sign up for a shot.

Should Democrats Resurrect the 50-State Strategy?

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Long-shot lower-level candidates may help turn out the vote for up-ticket races, but the value of that remains limited.

4/18/2021

Disowning OAN

NEW: Staffers at One America News, the misinformation-peddling outlet favored by Trump, don’t think their own stories are true, & are cheering on lawsuits against the owners. One producer, re the Capitol riot: “That’s what happens when people listen to us” https://t.co/2ZL234P4aP

—@RachelAbramsNY