2) What is next? In the coming days, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will likely ask Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment. The specific charges will be announced when he is arraigned. Perp walk nytimes.com/live/2023/03/3…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3) they will negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender. If he agrees, it will raise the prospect of a former president, with the Secret Service in tow, being photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse.
4) The prosecution’s star witness is Michael D. Cohen @MichaelCohen212 - Mr. Trump’s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels’s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
5) Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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⚠️BREAKING—CDC team falls ill while investigating the health impacts of Ohio train derailment—➡️**7** US government investigators briefly fell ill in March while studying the possible health impacts of a toxic #OhioChemicalDisaster train derailment, @CDCgov confirms to CNN. 🧵
2) The investigators’ symptoms included sore throats, headaches, coughing and nausea – consistent with what some residents experienced after the February 3 train derailment that released a cocktail of hazardous chemicals into the air, water and soil. cnn.com/2023/03/31/hea…
3) The investigators who experienced symptoms were part of a team conducting a house-to-house survey in an area near the derailment, and they immediately reported their symptoms to federal safety officers.
3) “Trump continued to paint the case as partisan and biased last night. “This is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history,” he said in a statement. He has long feared the possibility of being arrested, according to nytimes.com/2023/03/31/bri…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Kids are dying in schools. Mad respect 🫡 for @RepBowman passionately explaining kids dying to @RepThomasMassie. More guns = more school deaths. @JamaalBowmanNY as one of the only schoolteachers in Congress understands this. Massie does not.
📍The Great Salt Lake is on verge of collapse—it has lost 73% of its water & now unable to sustain some wildlife – worse, ➡️ millions will be exposed to toxic dust contained within the drying lakebed. Utah has done almost nothing.
2) “A team of 32 scientists and conservationists caution that the lake could decline beyond recognition in just five years. Their warning is especially urgent amid a historic western megadrought fueled by global heating”
3) “We really need to increase the speed of our response, and also increase our ambition for how much water we restore to the lake,” said Ben Abbott, an ecologist at Brigham Young University and one of the report’s lead authors.
3) in early 2020… “Fauci explained that in the spring, “we were not aware that 40 to 45% of people were asymptomatic, nor were we aware that a substantial proportion of people who get infected get infected from people who are without symptoms.” cnn.com/factsfirst/pol…