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covid-19
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THE FEED
derek chauvin trial
Chauvin Judge: Waters’s Comments Could Result in ‘Overturned’ Verdict on Appeal
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
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
joe biden
If Biden Walks Away in 2024, He’ll Make History
nyc mayoral race
NYC Teachers Union Endorses Scott Stringer for Mayor
roundup
All U.S. Adults Can Get the COVID Vaccine. Now What?
crime
Chauvin Trial Closing Arguments: ‘You Can Believe Your Eyes’
capitol riot
Medical Examiner: Clot Killed Capitol Cop Brian Sicknick, Not Rioters
supreme court
Justice Barrett Gets Big Book Deal to Tell Readers What They Don’t Want to Hear
explainer
What to Know About the Cuomo Investigations and Possible Impeachment
covid-19
How Far Along Is New York City in Its Reopening This Spring?
2022 midterms
Greitens Tries the Maximum MAGA Strategy in Comeback Bid for Senate Seat
space
How NASA Flew a Helicopter Flight on Mars
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.
politics
Andrew Yang Leads NYC Mayoral Race in New Poll
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.
business
‘There’s a Very Human Cost to Convenience’
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.”
covid-19
The People Who Plan on Wearing Masks Forever
johnson & johnson
Fauci: Johnson & Johnson Shot Could Return on Friday With Warning Label
gop
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Caucus Promoting ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Values Didn’t Last Long
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.
coronavirus vaccine
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political strategy
Should Democrats Resurrect the 50-State Strategy?
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
high times
The Complete Guide to Legal Weed in New York
cryptocurrencies
Why Dogecoin, the Joke Crypto, Is Forcing People to Take It Seriously
business
Philanthropic Monsters
voting rights
Jim Crow’s Ominous Lessons on Voter Suppression
DOJ isn’t done with Roger Stone
The Justice Department on Friday sued Roger Stone, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, accusing Stone and his wife of owing nearly $2 million in unpaid income taxes. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011. It further says Stone did not pay his full tax bill in 2018, coming up $407,036 short.
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