Rachel Maddow steps back.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE SAYS CAPITOL RIOT WAS JUST 'ONE TIME' Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has a new defense of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot: It happened only once. "The American people are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time," Greene told NBC News. [HuffPost] UNIVERSITIES, PHILADELPHIA RESTORE INDOOR MASK MANDATES Some U.S. universities will reinstate indoor mask mandates amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases driven in part by the omicron BA.2 subvariant. Those colleges include Columbia, Georgetown and Rice. The city of Philadelphia announced it will restore a similar mandate, the first large city to do so. Dr. Anthony Fauci said Americans will now have to weigh their individual COVID-19 risks. [HuffPost] MARIUPOL CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL TOPS 10,000, MAYOR SAYS Vadym Boychenko, mayor of the port city of Mariupol, said Russian forces have killed over 10,000 civilians there over the past six weeks and are blocking humanitarian convoys. The Kremlin is now reportedly shifting its attention to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-allied separatists have claimed independence, pulling troops out of Belarus to support the operation. [AP] TUCKER CARLSON SAYS HE'S UNVACCINATED Fox News star Tucker Carlson revealed he has not received a single COVID-19 vaccine shot. Carlson, a prominent anti-vaccine voice on Fox News, argued at a recent megachurch event in San Diego that he's not a vaccine skeptic, but takes issue with COVID shots. He previously dodged questions around his vaccination status. [HuffPost] MADDOW GOES WEEKLY Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's top-rated host, will anchor her namesake show only on Mondays starting in May. On other nights of the week, alternate hosts will lead the program, with no permanent replacement. Audience figures during Maddow's prime time slot dipped while she was on a previous hiatus pursuing other projects, including a podcast and a movie. [HuffPost] |
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EX-OFFICER CONVICTED IN JAN. 6 RIOT Former police officer Thomas Robertson was convicted by a federal jury for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop the certification of the 2020 election result. Robertson, who didn't testify at his own trial, was convicted on all six charges he faced, including that he interfered with police at the Capitol and that he entered a restricted area with a dangerous weapon. [AP] TRIAL STARTS IN FLORIDA OPIOID LAWSUIT AGAINST WALGREENS Florida is accusing the Walgreens pharmacy chain of putting profit over health for improperly handing out millions of powerful painkillers that caused tens of thousands of deaths, in a trial that began Monday. CVS, which was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, already settled the case for an estimated $870 million. [AP] 'SOHO KAREN' PLEADS GUILTY TO HATE CRIME FOR TACKLING BLACK TEEN Miya Ponsetto, also known as "Soho Karen," pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree as a hate crime for falsely accusing a 14-year-old Black teenager of stealing her phone, which was later found in an Uber. Ponsetto was caught on camera grabbing the teenager as he was exiting the Manhattan hotel where the incident took place. [HuffPost] 'IT'S OKAY TO BE A UNICORN' UNDER FIRE IN OHIO SCHOOL DISTRICT Jason Tharp, author of "It's Okay to Be a Unicorn," said a school principal told him he could no longer read the book at a school event as scheduled. Parents in the Buckeye Valley School District reportedly mobilized last week to ban the book, which features colorful unicorns (and a rainbow) and lets kids know it's OK to be themselves. [HuffPost] |
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