Now for your choice:

“Caleboreit” California Breeze (2019)

“A cool, laid back song that always makes me think of driving through Southern California in the summer with the windows down.” — Tierra Terrell, San Diego

“California Pedigrees” by John Stewart (1969)

“I spent the summer of the Watergate hearings in Tulara, ending a long relationship. During the day I hid from the heat of the Central Valley, watching the hearings; at night I drank cheap red wine and watched trucks go by on I-95, not far from my apartment window. Stuart’s poignant hymns were a balm to my soul.” — Kirsten Lagathrie, Woodland Park, New Jersey.

“California” by the lagoons (2017)

“When I moved to San Francisco in August 2018, I played this song as I crossed the state line. This song evokes the perfect combination of joy and relaxation to calm my nerves before a solo cross country run.” — Emily Nurminen, San Francisco

“Beautiful San Diego Girl” by the Avette brothers (2007)

“It was the song of the summer in San Diego in 2007 or so. It’s about ending a relationship before it gets terrible, when you can still appreciate each other. It’s upbeat and has a free spirit, very Californian feel and message: be who you are, love fiercely while you can, and growth/change is part of life – no hard feelings.” — Sarah Machado, San Diego

“San Franciscan Nights” Eric Burdon and the Animals (1967)

“There’s something funny about a song about ‘warm’ San Franciscan nights. It’s been a few years since I lived in San Francisco, but for me, this song evokes the special nighttime energy that San Francisco has. Besides, if you were lucky enough to be in a warm San Franciscan night, you would also write a song about it.” — Sean Fisher, New Orleans

“California” by John Mayall (1969)

“Would you like to be transported in a convertible convertible while traveling on the PCH south of Big Sur? Yes? Certainly?”

Then play this nine-minute classic from John Mayall’s original Turning Point album, ditch the boring vocals, and tune in to local son Johnny Almond’s saxophone and flute. Ahhhh” – Thomas F. Cushing, Napa

The Florida Department of Health did not respond to The New York Times’ request to interview Dr. Ladapo.

Prior to the pandemic, Dr. Ladapo, 43, who immigrated from Nigeria when he was 5, was an experienced clinical researcher at UCLA with a Harvard degree in medicine and health policy. He focused on topics such as smoking cessation and cardiovascular risk for HIV patients.

In early 2020, he contacted Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, to discuss blockages, which Dr. Klausner believes are of limited benefit.

Dr. Ladapo didn’t want to take politics at face value, said Dr. Klausner: “He was the kind of guy who reads an article in the medical or scientific literature and then goes to the links, digs up those links, and then goes to those links.” links”.

In April 2020, Dr. Ladapo published essay opinion in The Wall Street Journal under the heading “Lockdowns won’t stop spread”. He argued that it is too late to completely stop the virus, so policymakers should consider the heavy toll from the shutdowns, and not just “the sole goal of reducing deaths from Covid-19.”

His national profile has grown. Other opinions followed.

A few months later, Dr. Ladapo appeared in a white medical coat on the steps of the United States Capitol with a group of people who called themselves “American foremost doctors.” Some doctors in the group made misleading claims about the virus, including that the drug hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment. The Food and Drug Administration recommends otherwise, warning that doing so could lead to irregular heart rhythm.

A video of their appearance shared by President Donald J. Trump went viral online before social media platforms could remove him for spreading misinformation. One of the founders of the group, Dr. Simone Gold, was later charged with forced entry and disorderly conduct during the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

A military contractor’s helicopter crashed while on a training mission in Hawaii on Tuesday, killing all four people on board, the US Navy said.

A 58-foot Sikorsky S-61N helicopter supported a training operation at the Pacific Missile Range on the island of Kauai. Croman Corporationan Oregon-based contractor, the Navy said.

All four people in the helicopter were Croman employees, said Brian Beatty, the company’s chief operating officer. He added that the aircraft was “conducting routine training operations under contract with the US Navy.”

Their identities were not made public by Tuesday evening.

Mr Beatty told Hawaii News Now that something went wrong when the helicopter was trying to drop an object it had lifted out of the water.

Witnesses described how the helicopter suddenly went straight down.

Chris Turner, who owns a boat tour business, said The Honolulu Star-Advertiser that the helicopter was at the north end of the runway, dropping objects, when it made a sudden erratic turn to the right and then quickly nosed into the runway.

“They just fell,” Mr. Turner told The Star-Advertiser. “It was full speed. It was crazy.”

This is stated in the message of the National Transportation Safety Board. social media post that the agency is investigating the crash.

The military conducts missile testing and training at a 2,385-acre base on the west coast of Kauai, the northernmost of the main Hawaiian islands. The naval base has more than 1,000 square miles of underwater range for submarine and surface warfare exercises, as well as 42,000 square miles of airspace.

Death due to air crashes and helicopters is not uncommon in Hawaii. In December 2019 seven people on board tourist helicopter died when the plane crashed on the south side of Kauai. In the same year, more than a dozen people died in Hawaii in other air crashes.

Tuesday’s crash on Kauai was one of several military disasters that took place on Tuesday morning. In Utah, two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters crashed near the Snowbird resort during an exercise. This was reported by the Utah National Guard.. There were no injuries.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota. The prosecution said three Minneapolis police officers only watched callously as their colleague Derek Chauvin slowly killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. According to defense lawyers, the officers trusted Mr. Chauvin, an experienced officer who was present at the scene, to do his duty and should be acquitted.

Dueling positions unveiled on Tuesday ended wrangling in a federal trial over Mr. Floyd’s death, and on Wednesday the jury will begin debating which of the three officers – Tou Tao, 36; J. Alexander Kueng, 28; and Thomas Lane, 38, are guilty of violating Mr Floyd’s civil rights.

The jury heard from doctors, police and other witnesses after the trial started almost a month ago, and now they have to decide if any of the actions of the officers on May 25, 2020, for which they were quickly fired, fell to the level of a crime. Mr. Kueng and Mr. Lane, who were full officers in their first week on the job, helped restrain Mr. Floyd, while Mr. Tao held back a group of concerned bystanders. All three officers are accused of not providing medical attention to Mr. Floyd, and Mr. Kueng and Mr. Tao are also accused of not intervening to stop Mr. Chauvin.

The lawsuit mainly focused on the training of Minneapolis police officers and their duties to assist or prevent a fellow officer from using excessive force. The verdict may signal whether jurors are treating police work with more consideration — even when evaluating the actions of officers who were not primarily responsible for a person’s death.

Chauvin, 45, has been in detention since April, when he convicted of murder Mr Floyd. He pleaded guilty to federal charges Mr. Floyd’s civil rights violations in December. The other three officers also face state charges of aiding and abetting murder, and that trial is set for later this year.

In her closing remarks on Tuesday, Manda Sertich, the Minnesota federal prosecutor, tried to highlight how long Mr. Floyd suffered while three police officers failed to provide assistance. She also alleged that the officers deliberately stripped Mr. Floyd of his rights, implying that they knew what Mr. Chauvin was doing wrong. The jury must establish that the defendants’ actions were intentional in order to convict them.

By the time Mr Floyd made his last plea for air, all three officers had been unable to come to his aid for several minutes, Ms Sertich said.

According to Ms Surtich, Mr Tao “did nothing” for 4 minutes and 40 seconds while Mr Floyd called for help. At the same time, she said, Mr Kueng ignored Mr Floyd’s pleas as he crouched “shoulder to shoulder” with Mr Chauvin, never urging him to give up. And Mr. Lane, who was holding Mr. Floyd by the legs, decided “not to stop the horror unfolding right under his nose”, only once suggesting that Mr. Chauvin turn Mr. Floyd on his side, but “doing nothing for to George Floyd the medical care he knew he so desperately needed,” the prosecutor said.

Even when Mr Floyd said he couldn’t breathe for the 27th time, Ms Sertich said, the officers “were only halfway through their crime.”

The officers are being tried together, but each has their own lawyer, and the three lawyers made separate closing arguments for several hours Tuesday afternoon.

They submitted that their clients had succumbed to the judgment of Mr. Chauvin, the senior officer present at the scene; that their attention was occasionally diverted from Mr. Floyd’s deteriorating condition; and that keeping Mr Floyd was necessary because he took fentanyl and refused to get into the back seat of a police car after being accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill. The lawyers also criticized the prosecutors, with one stating that the prosecutors presented misleading arguments, while another suggested that they filed the case due to political pressure.

“Just because something has a tragic end doesn’t mean it’s a crime,” Robert Paul, Mr Tao’s lawyer, told jurors.

Earl Grey, Mr Lane’s lawyer, noted that his client asked Mr Chauvin if the police should turn Mr Floyd on his side and that he was not charged with non-intervention as a result. Mr Gray also said Mr Lane was quick to tell the paramedics that Mr Floyd was not responding after they arrived at the scene and that he was traveling with Mr Floyd in an ambulance.

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Police culture on trial. That federal civil rights litigation three former officers for their role in murder of George Floyd focuses on a key issue in the American police force: the duty of officers to intervene in the affairs of their colleagues when they witness misconduct.

New focus. Since the murder of Mr Floyd nearly two years ago, all eyes have been on the officer who killed him. Derek Chauvin. While Mr. Chauvin was convicted of murder last spring at the state court, he was not the only officer present that day.

Who are the officers under investigation? Three officers are accused of willfully refusing to intervene against Mr. Chauvin and help Mr. Floyd. To Tao, a veteran officer who was Mr. Chauvin’s partner, held back a group of passers-by. J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, both rookies, helped capture Mr. Floyd.

What are the charges? The allegations concern whether the defendants were stripped Mr Floyd of his civil rights. All three officers are accused of failing to provide medical attention to Mr. Floyd, while Mr. Kueng and Mr. Tao are also accused of failing to intervene in Mr. Chauvin’s use of force.

“How can our government, the wonderful United States of America—freedom and all—blame someone who does this?” Mr Gray said, adding that it was “a little scary”.

Thomas Plunkett, Mr Kuang’s lawyer, said the crowd of bystanders had created an unusual and hostile situation, and he said the jury was the officers’ last defense against the “mob mentality” he believed was driving their prosecution.

The police responded to an emergency call. store clerk in South Minneapolis a report that Mr. Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes.

As officers handcuffed Mr Floyd to his stomach on the street, the teenager recorded a video of Mr Floyd, a black security guard who lost his job due to the coronavirus pandemic, begging for air under Mr Chauvin’s ruthless knee. The video prompted the Minneapolis police chief to quickly fire all four officers and sparked racial justice protests that led to millions of people on the streets and sidewalks of America. Mr Chauvin and Mr Lane are white Mr Tao – Hmong as well as Mr Kueng black.

Majority 18 jurors chosen to try the case “The 12 main jurors and six reserve jurors, who replaced the main jurors when necessary, were white, in part because jurors were drawn from all over Minnesota and not from the more diverse Twin Cities region.

Tim Arango and Jay Senter provided coverage from Saint Paul.

Polls in recent years showed that Republican voters much less likely than Democrats to support an active U.S. leadership role in world affairs, and Trump pollsters argue that the base not interested in protecting other countries. At the same time, Establishment Republicans respect the Cold War party’s “peace through force” stance, a stance best articulated by Ronald Reagan.

“I think Ohio Republicans have the same two mindsets as national Republicans when it comes to how aggressive they should be in defense of Ukraine,” said Mark R. Weaver, a Columbus Republican strategist.

Ohio has large and politically active Eastern European communities, including about 80,000 Ukrainian Americans. But the state also has a history of supporting isolationism, dating back to the days of Robert Taft, Jr., a senator who opposed US involvement in World War II.

The question in the Ohio Senate primary is: Which faction is bigger?

“Vance clearly suggests that with his America First isolationism, he is drawing in more voters than he is turning off,” said Jeff Sadoski, a former adviser to Senator Rob Portman of Ohio. Sadoski is currently neutral in the race.

Portman, a Republican retiring this year, made his bet: Last week he endorsed Timken, followed by three more senators. Portman, who leads the Ukraine caucus in the Senate, remains popular in Ohio, and his endorsement is likely to carry weight in the eyes of Republican donors.

Vance made a different calculation.

For several weeks now, he has been bombarding his Twitter feed with comments about Ukraine, touching on several topics at once. First, that the fate of Ukraine does not excite America. Secondly, he is more concerned about illegal immigration. And third, the corrupt elites conspired to drag the Americans into senseless wars.

“It’s worth repeating: our leaders care more about Ukraine’s border than our own,” Vance wrote. on twitter.

In the bag, the officers found a stress ball, which they cut open, checked for drugs and said they found cocaine inside, the lawsuit says.

Ms. Goldring believed “they were joking,” the lawsuit says, but that was not the case.

Officers Henry and Restrepo took Ms. Goldring to the Fulton County Jail. There, she saw officers doing drug tests on the substance inside the stress ball and heard one officer say to Officer Henry, “Drop it, buddy,” after multiple tests came back negative, the lawsuit says.

The officers then told Ms. Goldring that she would have to wait in jail until the test results came back from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, her lawyers said. Her alternative was to pay a $25,500 bail, which she could not afford.

While in prison, Ms Goldring was placed in a hostel for people who identify as transgender women, but she was still sexually harassed, according to her lawyers.

Ms Goldring remained there for five months and 12 days until March 22, 2016, the day after the charges were dropped against her. On November 17, 2015, the GBI determined that the contents of the stress ball were not cocaine or any other drug, the lawsuit says.

In his ruling, Judge Wray said there were “two apparent injustices” at the trial. The first came when Atlanta cops testified that they were arresting people for crossing the wrong road — a disturbing practice, according to Judge Ray, because such minor offenses can “seriously disrupt a person’s life,” leading to discrimination. He said the energy of the officers “could be better directed to more pressing matters, such as investigating violent crime.”

The judge’s second concern came when Atlanta Police Department Deputy Chief Darin Schierbaum testified that officers operate a system that rewards them with points for traffic violations, arrests or other actions.

WASHINGTON. President Biden has interviewed at least three candidates for the Supreme Court nomination, indicating that he intends to fulfill his promise to select a nominee by the end of the month.

But less than a week is left until the end of the month. The interviews began late last week, according to several people familiar with the trial, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to its political sensitivities. Mr. Biden is now under pressure to announce his choice of what he promised to be a black woman, a cross between a booming diplomatic effort to curb Russian aggression against Ukraine and plans to make his first address to Congress. scheduled for next Tuesday.

The White House stressed on Tuesday that Mr. Biden has not yet made a decision, but intends to make one before the end of the month.

According to a person familiar with the process, Mr. Biden interviewed three candidates long on his shortlist: he spoke with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, which won the support of three Republican senators when Mr. Biden elevated it to the level of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He also interviewed Leondra R. Krueger of the California Supreme Court, a former Supreme Court clerk whose Yale law ancestry is shared by four current justices.

He also spoke to J. Michelle Childsa federal district court judge in South Carolina, a state whose black voters Biden says helped him win the presidential election.

At least one of the interviews was personal.

The White House, aware that the Supreme Court nomination is one of the most tightly controlled and politically volatile of all presidential duties, has said so little about the replacement process. outgoing Judge Steven G. Breyer that the lack of details has turned into a running joke: “The long national trial is about to end,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said wryly when a reporter asked if Mr. Biden had finished the interview.

Washington Post as well as CNN each has reported some interviews previously. Several of Mr. Biden’s advisers said he may have more interviews and stressed that he intended to be thoughtful as he entered the final evaluation phase. Several others also indicated that Mr. Biden interest in a lengthy, detailed process may threaten his own deadline.

“He’s not someone who lets outside forces dictate his time,” said Jeff Peck, a lobbyist who served as general counsel and director of personnel on the Senate Judiciary Committee when Mr. Biden was its chairman. “He’ll do it when he’s ready and when he makes a decision, but I do think there’s an outside crutch here, partly because of the state of the country.”

In the past few weeks, Mr. Biden has been reading court decisions late into the night. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Biden presided over hearings of several Supreme Court candidates. He said one of his proudest moments in the role was helping to thwart the candidacy of Robert H. Bork due to what he saw as Mr. Bork’s restrictive views on civil rights, women’s rights, and the Constitution.

In 1991, he presided over explosive hearings confirmed by Judge Clarence Thomas. Allegations of sexual harassment were leveled at those hearings, leading some to accuse Mr. Biden and his all-white, all-male committee of mistreating Anita Hill, who accused Judge Thomas of sexual harassment. Mr. Biden has since expressed regret to Miss Hill.

As a senator, Mr. Biden would often forcefully or emotionally question candidates on issues such as civil rights and the right to privacy.

“Just talk to me like a father.” he asked John G. Roberts Jr. during Senate confirmation hearings in 2005, trying to understand how Mr. Roberts felt about end-of-life planning. “Just tell me, purely philosophically, what do you think?” (Mr. Roberts, now Chief Justice, declined to answer the question under such conditions.)

Mr. Peck said Mr. Biden most likely used the same method during the interview, listening to what senators would like to hear during confirmation hearings.

“I’m sure the conversations include discussions that allow him to get some idea of ​​the potential candidate’s value system,” he said. “He’s going to need someone who can build consensus, who can write a strong majority opinion, and who can also express a dissenting opinion in a clear, understandable way for people.”

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Leondra R. Krueger. The California Supreme Court justice has many of the qualities typical of U.S. Supreme Court candidates, but she is anomalous in at least one respect: FROMhe serves in the state court. The moderation of Judge Kruger might have made her mediation force in Washington.

At the White House, Mr. Biden is surrounded by people who understand the workings of the court, including his chief of staff, Ron Klein. He was an adviser to Mr. Biden on the Judiciary Committee during the 1991 squabble over the nomination of Judge Thomas, and was chief judicial adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Dana Remus, White House Counsel, was previously a clerk for Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., a member of the court’s conservative wing.

His other advisers on the matter include Cedric Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Affairs, and Kamala Harris, vice president, although she was out of the country when the interviews began.

Mr Biden and his advisers rely on Doug Jones, a former senator from Alabama who will help a possible candidate get into the Senate. Last week, Mr. Jones began calling lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, was one of the first to receive calls from former colleagues, who a senior White House official said was a “call list” to get their opinion and advice.

In that discussion, according to a person who was briefed on the matter, Mr. Grassley told Mr. Jones that he was concerned that the White House could only offer meetings with the candidate via Zoom and wanted to make sure that any senator who wants a personal interview with a candidate can have one.

In numerous daily phone calls, Mr. Jones conveyed lawmakers’ concerns to Louise Terrell, director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, or Rima B. Dodin, deputy director of the office, according to a senior administration official.

Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a former Special Counsel to the Judiciary Committee, praised the team around the president but said Mr. Biden was risking “political costs” by slowly choosing someone as the situation in Ukraine unfolded. .

“He is literally facing two of the most likely issues that will attract attention and hopefully support, but also likely to generate resistance,” Mr. Gerhardt said. “There is no margin for error.”

As they were working, she said, a man approached them and yelled that they were “violent terrorists,” repeatedly calling them misogynistic vulgarities and accusing them of being responsible for the violence in the city. The women were about a block from the house where Mr. Smith lives.

She said he threatened them, saying, “If I see you pass by my house, I will shoot you.”

Ms Beck said that Ms Knightley approached the man and said, “You won’t scare us. You can’t intimidate us.”

The shooter then shot Ms. Knightley in the face, Ms. Beck said.

Ms Beck said she was shot twice and that she saw two of her friends, including Ms Knightley, lying on the ground covered in blood.

Police declined to give a motive for the attack, saying they were still investigating.

According to his roommate, Kristin Christenson, 33, who lived with him for seven years, a search warrant was executed at Mr Smith’s apartment over the weekend.

Mr Smith, a machinist, has become more and more radical in recent years, Ms Christensen said.

“He talked all the time about wanting to shoot people, how much he hates Antifa, Black Lives Matter and ‘those damn commies,’” she said.

Ms. Christensen said Mr. Smith wore a shirt that said “Kyle Rittenhouse, True Patriot,” meaning a man from Illinois who was acquitted in a criminal case after he fatally shot two men and wounded another during protests against police behavior in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020.