Episode 37: May 16-22, 2021

The 25th Hour

Here's your recap in the news for May 16-22, 2021, with THE 25TH HOUR, helping you remember past the 24/7 news cycle:
* New York City & State are enjoying the fruits of shedding indoor masks now that the CDC released guidance letting fully vaccinated people go maskless in most settings. One of those settings? The trains. But what will you see more of in the trains? Police, as de Blasio announced a 250-officer increase in the trains and platforms to head off increased crime.
* Cuomo tried to one-up the Ohio Governor by introducing a lottery letting people getting their first shots next week qualify for a $5 million lottery. In the background, however, the Governor released tax returns that showed he's set to receive more than $5 million of his own for his COVID leadership book, that he may have written using state resources.
* Biden finally wiped the sweat off his brow as Israel and Hamas announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, celebrated the marking of 60% of Americans receiving at least one dose of the vaccine, pledging to send millions of vaccines to needy countries, and pitching a counteroffer to Republicans for his infrastructure proposal, which now has a $1.7 trillion price tag as opposed to $2.3 trillion.
* Not a good week for a certain someone named Trump, as New York Attorney General Letitia James said her civil investigation into the Trump Organization has now turned into a criminal one, reports showed Trump charging his Secret Service detail $400/night to stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and it was revealed Trump used the Dept of Justice during his tenure to get the personal phone and email records of journalists reporting on him.
* However, Republicans are going to bat for Trump, as they threw each under the bus to oppose the passage of a January 6th Commission to study the insurrection incited by Trump that day, as well as funding for increased security around the Capitol building.
* The Supreme Court sent shockwaves as it announced it'll hear a case revolving around a Mississippi abortion ban prohibiting the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with pro-choice activists biting their nails wondering if this is the *one* that conservatives hope would overturn Roe v. Wade.
A reminder that we are taking off for the Memorial Day holiday next week.
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