This Is What Cats Are Doing While Dogs Are Helping the Blind and Finding People in Rubble

A big night for co-signs from Empire State institutions.

Matt Gaetz’s Wingman Is Cooperating With the Feds: Report

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Joel Greenberg reportedly told DOJ investigators that he and the Florida congressman gave women cash and gifts in exchange for sex.

Capitol Police Were Told to Hold Back Against Insurrectionists: Report

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An inspector general found that leaders didn’t heed their own intelligence and officers were told not to use their most serious crowd-control tactics.

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A Former FDA Chief on What It’s Like to Pause a Vaccine

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By James D. Walsh

Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the former head of the FDA, on the controversial decision to stop giving out the Johnson & Johnson shot.

Police Chief and Cop Resign After Daunte Wright Killing

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By Benjamin Hart and Nia Prater

The local prosecutor leading the investigation expects to announce a charging decision as early as Wednesday.

Biden: All U.S. Troops Will Leave Afghanistan by September 11

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By Eric Levitz

The White House vows to end the longest war in U.S. history this year, no matter how conditions on the ground evolve.

Defense’s Use-of-Force Expert: Chauvin’s Actions Were ‘Justified’

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By Nia Prater and Margaret Hartmann

Barry Brodd testified that Derek Chauvin was “acting with objective reasonableness” and following police standards during George Floyd’s arrest.

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.

Daunte Wright’s death and Derek Chauvin’s trial highlight an intractable problem with policing.

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This Will Keep Happening

By Zak Cheney-Rice

Why Molecules Are the New Microchips

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By Intelligencer Staff

Walter Isaacson on the tremendous upsides (and potential tremendous downsides) of the gene-editing revolution.

What to Know About the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause

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By Benjamin Hart and Paola Rosa-Aquino

The FDA and CDC recommended a temporary pause in use of the vaccine while they probe several cases of recipients experiencing severe blood clots.

Did Trump Ruin Polling, Too?

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By Ed Kilgore

Pollsters are beginning to wonder if Trump succeeded in discouraging response to polls just as he discouraged voting by mail.

The Crazy New Republican Argument That the Filibuster Helped Civil Rights

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By Jonathan Chait

Somehow, delaying civil-rights laws for 50 years was helpful.

The Tech Elite’s Favorite Pop Intellectual

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By Benjamin Wallace

Julia Galef on bringing the rationalist movement to the mainstream.

The Knicks’ Revolutionary Competence

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By Will Leitch

In what feels like a miracle, the perpetually embarrassing squad is showing signs of life.

Richard Carranza’s Last Stand As NYC Schools Chancellor

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By Clare Malone

Mayor de Blasio hired an “equity warrior.” How parental politics — and the pandemic — left him defeated.

4/13/2021

Your plan to go “one and done” just got more complicated

Federal health agencies on Tuesday will call for an immediate pause in use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine after six recipients in the United States developed a rare disorder involving blood clots within about two weeks of vaccination, officials briefed on the decision said.

All six recipients were women between the ages of 18 and 48. One woman died and a second woman in Nebraska has been hospitalized in critical condition, the officials said.

Nearly seven million people in the United States have received Johnson & Johnson shots so far, and roughly nine million more doses have been shipped out to the states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While the move is framed as a recommendation to health practitioners in the states, the federal government is expected to pause administration of the vaccine at all federally run vaccination sites. Federal officials expect that state health officials will take that as a strong signal to do the same.

Scientists with the Food and Drug Administration and C.D.C. will jointly examine possible links between the vaccine and the disorder and determine whether the F.D.A. should continue to authorize use of the vaccine for all adults or limit the authorization. An emergency meeting of the C.D.C.’s outside advisory committee has been scheduled for Wednesday, officials said.

U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases

—New York Times

America’s Failure Is Amazon’s Success

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By Sarah Jones

Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment is a portrait of trickle-down inequality.

Andrew Yang ‘Regrets’ Tweet About Cracking Down on Unlicensed Street Vendors

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After Yang said he intended to enforce laws restricting illegal food carts in the city, he described his comment as “a product of” Twitter.

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Nikki Haley Says She’ll Back Trump If He Runs in 2024

By Ed Kilgore

The GOP’s shrewdest presidential hopeful has quickly abandoned her earlier criticism of Trump and gotten back in line.

Sorry, You Actually Haven’t Been Accepted to the University of Kentucky

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By Nia Prater

The school mistakenly emailed 500,000 acceptance letters for a program that takes fewer than 50 students each year.

Major Biden Being Sent Away for ‘Off-Site Private Training’

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By Chas Danner

The extra professional help, which follows a pair of biting incidents at the White House, will apparently last a few weeks.

Minnesota’s Pro Sports Teams Suspend Games After Police Killing of Daunte Wright

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The Twins, Timberwolves, and Wild postponed Monday’s home games after an officer shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb.

4/12/2021

A fatal shooting at a school in Tennessee

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities: One person dead, officer wounded in shooting confrontation at a Tennessee high school.

—@JonLemire

4/12/2021

Fallout from the killing of Daunte Wright hits the sports world

ESPN reporting with @wojespn: In the aftermath of a police shooting that’s caused unrest in Minneapolis, conversations are ongoing about the possible postponement of the Nets-Timberwolves game tonight. The Twins-Red Sox game has been postponed. Decision expected this afternoon.

—@malika_andrews