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| Happy Tuesday, Daily Briefing readers! Hope your morning coffee is fresh and your breakfast warm as you settle in for another day. It'll surely be a busy day for many. |
| President Joe Biden's administration, already dealing with several key issues at home, will begin shifting more to world affairs as they revisit negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal. The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will continue Tuesday after an intense day Monday. And in some good news (or bad for some?) the Baylor Bears are celebrating as they saw their team blow out Gonzaga on Monday night to win its first men's NCAA basketball title. |
| Steve and Fatima are here with Tuesday's news. |
| Let's get started with some news items that people are talking about this morning. |
| ⚾ Major League Baseball is expected to announce Tuesday that this year's All-Star Game will be moved to Coors Field in Denver, home of the Colorado Rockies. Officials in Colorado began lobbying MLB for the event once Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the game was being moved out of Atlanta because of the voting laws passed in Georgia that potentially can restrict voting access for people of color. |
| ⚖ In response to MLB's move and other corporations' responses to the new Georgia voting laws, some GOP lawmakers are calling for boycotts of the brands. An April 3 letter addressed to Kevin Perry, president of the Georgia Beverage Association, from members of the Georgia House Republican Caucus requested the removal of all Coca-Cola products from an office suite . Eight GOP legislators signed off on the memo. |
| ⚖ The family of Adam Toledo – the teenager who was killed March 29 after Chicago police chased him into an alley – said they still hadn't see the police body-cam video of the incident and were "concerned" by officials' "hurtful and false mischaracterization" of Adam. |
| 🏋 A website run by North Korea's sports ministry said the nation will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the nation's Olympic Committee say they are prioritizing the protection of athletes from the "world public health crisis caused by COVID-19." South Korea's Unification Ministry on Tuesday expressed regret over the North's decision. |
| 📺 Piers Morgan talked to Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Monday and presented himself as a victim of a "woke mob" that cost him his co-host job on "Good Morning Britain" (which he quit) for alleged racism after he questioned the Duchess of Sussex's truthfulness during her interview with Oprah Winfrey last month. Morgan said he still doesn't believe Meghan and Prince Harry. He's prepared to be "proven wrong." |
| 🎶 Intentional or not, the celebrities kinda stole the show from the singers during Monday's episodes of "The Voice" and "American Idol." On NBC's singing competition, country star Blake Shelton used a little tough love during the second night of the Battles on one of his singers, Emma Caroline. The 25-year-old singer ended up crying on stage . Over on ABC, "American Idol" featured a rare moment of dissent as guest performer Jewel, watching backstage, disagreed with judge Katy Perry's assessment of one contestant's demeanor on stage. |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, reporter Charisse Jones tells us about strained relationships amid the pandemic. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
| Here's what's happening today: |
Biden administration to revisit Iran nuclear deal |
| The Biden administration will participate in multilateral negotiations Tuesday over the fate of the Iran nuclear deal . American and Iranian negotiators will not hold direct talks, but both countries will have diplomats in Austria for the meetings. They will be facilitated by a top European Union official and other parties to the 2015 agreement. Under the Obama-era deal, Iran agreed to cap its nuclear enrichment, among other steps, in exchange for international sanctions relief. President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and re-imposed economic sanctions on Iran. Subsequently, Iran breached the deal's limits on nuclear enrichment. Back in the U.S., progressives seek a speedy return to the deal, arguing that any further delay is dangerous. Republicans and some hawkish Democrats want Biden to hold out for a broader deal that not only curbs Iran's nuclear program but also limits its ballistic missile program, its support for terrorist groups, and other malign activities. |
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Derek Chauvin trial resumes Tuesday |
| The Derek Chauvin murder trial, now entering its seventh day, will pick up again Tuesday. Jurors will hear from Morries Hall, the man who was in the vehicle with Floyd before his struggle with police officers. Hall has said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against testifying as a witness in the trial. Monday's proceedings saw Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo tell jurors that Chauvin's restraint of George Floyd "absolutely" violates department policy and goes against "our ethics and our values." Neck restraints are outlawed at many law enforcement departments, and they're no longer allowed in Minnesota. But at the time of Floyd's death, the Minneapolis Police Department did allow them. However, Arradondo said of Chauvin's restraint on Floyd: "I vehemently disagree that that's the appropriate use of force for that situation." |
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What else people are reading: |
| 🔵 Roger Janke, who allegedly threw rocks at an Asian woman and her 6-year-old son in the Los Angeles area was charged with a hate crime Monday, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Asian Americans. |
| 🔵 Walgreens has been administering the second dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine a week after federal guidelines say it is ideally delivered, but the chain will change its policy to come into line with the government's recommendations. Federal guidance is three weeks. |
| 🔵 ESPN has parted ways with NBA analyst Paul Pierce after he posted a video on Instagram that showed near-naked women and Pierce smoking and drinking, two people with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports. |
| 🔵 Two-day "Jeopardy!" champion Scott Shewfeld was in a distant second place to challenger Brandon Deutsch going into Final Jeopardy during Monday's episode. Unable to catch the leader, Shewfeld went for a laugh by writing a fun question at the expense of guest host Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who is coming off an NFC championship game loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. |
Baylor celebrates after stifling Gonzaga to capture NCAA men's basketball title |
| College sports fans are lauding Baylor on Tuesday morning – instead of previously undefeated Gonzaga – after the Bears claimed their first men's basketball national title by beating the Bulldogs, 86-70 , on Monday night in Indianapolis. Baylor (28-2) jumped out to an early 9-0 lead and, behind a suffocating defensive effort that saw Gonzaga held to a season-low in points scored, never looked back. The Bears were led by guards Jared Butler, MaCio Teague and Davion Mitchell, who combined to score 56 of the team's 86 points. Gonzaga (31-1) was coming off a thrilling overtime win over UCLA in the national semifinal Saturday. But the Bulldogs looked flat from the start and never even held the lead in the title game. Gonzaga joins a group of teams that came close to matching Indiana's historic 32-0 season during the 1975-76 season, but ultimately fell short. |
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Also new this morning |
| 🔴 America's policies toward migrants at the southern border kept shifting over the past four years as the U.S. pivoted from former President Donald Trump's rigid immigration views to President Joe Biden's less-restrictive positions. Reporter Rebecca Morin has an examination on how policies on immigration have changed from the last administration to now. |
| 🔴 At the top of today's COVID-19 blog: New York and Maryland will open vaccine eligibility to those who are 16 years or older today, the day after 12 states did the same as the nation continues its race against more mutated forms of coronavirus spreading. |
Florida crews keep pumping wastewater to avoid reservoir disaster |
| Workers continue to pump millions of gallons of wastewater from the Piney Point reservoir into the Tampa Bay ecosystem , a move that could avoid disaster at the reservoir but could have harmful effects like red tide and fish kills in nearby waters. The pumping continues as a drone equipped with thermal imaging equipment identified a possible "second breach" in the containment pond Monday. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection later said that news reports of a possible second breach – which were based on the comments of two Manatee County officials – were "unsubstantiated." As of Monday afternoon, the worst-case scenario – a total collapse of the earthen berm that would cause floodwater to inundate nearby properties – had been avoided, but the possible identification of additional weakness in the wall could be a concern. Still, more than 300 homes and multiple businesses in the area have been evacuated. |
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Newsmakers in their own words: Matt Gaetz speaks out |
| "I want to be clear about something as we process the leaks and lies from the past week. To this point, there are exactly zero credible (or even non-credible) accusers willing to come forward by name and state on the public record that I behaved improperly toward them, in the manner by which Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has 10 accusers." |
| – Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz in a new op-ed published in the Washington Examiner |
| Almost a week after national news outlets reported he was under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and for paying for sex with other women, Gaetz also declared in the op-ed that he would "absolutely not" resign from his seat in Congress. Gaetz went on to characterize the accusations against him as a political attack. |
Hunter Biden's candid memoir 'Beautiful Things' is due out Tuesday |
| "Beautiful Things" (Gallery Books, 255 pp.), the memoir written by Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, was released Tuesday. As our David Oliver explained, Hunter Biden has seen some ugly things. His alcohol and drug addiction sent him spiraling for years and led him to cook his own crack cocaine. In the book, he admitted that he "was smoking crack every 15 minutes." His candid chronicle of his binges and relationship with his brother Beau's widow, Hallie Biden, will likely shock and rattle readers. But Hunter Biden also outlined some of the beautiful things in his life, including the love he shares with his father and brother Beau, who died of glioblastoma in 2015. Hunter Biden also found love again with new wife Melissa, whom he credits for getting him back on the path to sobriety. "Where's Hunter?" was a rallying cry from former President Donald Trump to try to smear Joe Biden. "I'm not going anywhere," Hunter Biden writes. |
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ICYMI: Some of our other top stories published Monday |
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