Few Americans Who Identify As Independent Are Actually Independent. That’s Really Bad For Politics
Geoffrey Skelley, FiveThirtyEight
If you’ve ever been in a conversation about politics, you’ve probably heard someone say, “I don’t like either party” or “Politics is just so ugly these days.” That person also may have claimed not to identify as a Democrat or a Republican but as an independent instead.
U.S. could have 300 million extra vaccine doses by end of July, raising concerns over hoarding
Adam Taylor, The Washington Post
The United States is on track to have gathered an oversupply of hundreds of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses by as soon as July, even while many countries in the developing world will have to wait years to vaccinate a majority of their population, according to a report released Thursday by the Duke Global Health Innovation Center.
Iran’s Top Leader Signals Nuclear Talks to Resume Despite Natanz Sabotage
Farnaz Fassihi and Megan Specia, The New York Times
Iran’s top leader said Wednesday that his country would keep negotiating with world powers over how to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, quashing speculation that Iran’s delegation would boycott or quit participating in protest of the apparent Israeli sabotage of a major uranium enrichment site.
Officer arrested, charged with second-degree manslaughter in killing of Daunte Wright
Matt McKinney, Star Tribune
Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly A. Potter was arrested late Wednesday morning at the offices of the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the agency said in a statement.
Prosecutors: No charges for officer in Capitol riot shooting
Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press
Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors Disclosed New Evidence That The Oath Keepers Were Ready To Bring A Stash Of Firearms To The Capitol
Zoe Tillman, BuzzFeed News
The day after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, surveillance video from a hotel in Virginia showed participants in the alleged Oath Keepers conspiracy carrying what appeared to be rifle cases and an object under a sheet that had the “outlines” of a rifle, a federal prosecutor told a judge on Wednesday.
Matt Gaetz’s Wingman Paid Dozens of Young Women—and a 17-Year-Old
Jose Pagliery and Roger Sollenberger, The Daily Beast
As new details emerge about Rep. Matt Gaetz’s role in an alleged sex ring, The Daily Beast has obtained several documents showing that the suspected ringleader of the group, Joel Greenberg, made more than 150 Venmo payments to dozens of young women, and to a girl who was 17 at the time.