3.30 Manhattan grand jury indicts Trump on 33 counts of business fraud. Marc Fisher in the Washington Post: “For a half-century, Donald Trump has portrayed himself as the consummate dealmaker — and the ultimate escape artist, a serial entrepreneur turned politician who managed to avoid major consequences despite having been investigated in every decade of …
2.27 Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several of his hosts promoted the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, and that he could have stopped them but didn’t. 2.27 MSNBC: According to the Public Religion Research Institute poll, …
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1.31 SI: 44 current or former NFL players aged 50 or younger have died since the start of 2021, according to Pro Football Reference. 1.30 Bobby Hull dies at 84. 1.29 The Chiefs beat the Bengals 23-20. Earlier in the week, Aftab Pureval, the mayor of Cincinnati, referred to Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium as “Burrowhead …
12.30 Ginny and I catch the Bond in Motion exhibit at the Saratoga Auto Museum. 12.30 Barbara Walters dies at 93. 12.29 Pele dies at 86. 12.27 In Dallas, Luka Dončić scored 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists in 47 minutes, leading the Mavs to a 126–121 overtime win. He’s the first player in league …
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11.30 Christine McVie dies at 79. 11.29 A federal jury in Washington found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. A second defendant was also convicted of seditious conspiracy. Rhodes and four other defendants were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding …
10.31 At least 133 people were killed in Morbi, India, after a 140 year pedestrian bridge built under British rule collapsed. 10.29 At least 120 people were killed and another 100 injured after they were crushed in a large Halloween crowd in Seoul. 10.28 Intruder yelling “Where’s Nancy?” breaks into home of Nancy Pelosi, attacks …
9.30 According to Molly Gill of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, quoted in The Washington Post, more than 11,000 prisoners were temporarily released to home confinement to avoid spreading covid-19 in prison facilities. Of those, according to the Bureau of Prisons, only 17 committed new crimes. 9.29 Dan Gartland on si.com: “It’s absurd he is hitting …
8.31 US life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year. In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II. Life expectancy 78 …
7.27 Fort Ticonderoga 7.9 Axios: “What comes after neoliberalism? The answer, according to Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, is “productivism” — a new consensus, seen across the political spectrum, that ditches globalism and laissez-faire capitalism for something more local and state-directed. Why it matters: Productivism is a broad enough church to cover both Donald Trump and Joe Biden — …
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5.30 In the seventh game of their series, the Rangers beat Carolina 6-2, and advance to the conference finals. 5.28 Cathy and Tim, Shawn and Molly, Cara, Connor and Ivy, and Ginny and I endure an awful restaurant experience at Saratoga Lake. But we had fun nonetheless. 5.24 The Cushing Tour resumes at the New …
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