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Kabadi - My Lady (Feat. Chief Wonder) | AUDIO

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How to Get Back Into the Job Market

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<h2 class="css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40" id="link-7767d5b4">Broaden your horizons.</h2>
The transition to, and acceptance of, remote work has enabled employers to cast a wider net when they search for talent — and so should you, in looking for jobs.
“Many employers are open to hiring remote workers, but often in the same time zone,” Ms. Weitzman said. “That means if you live on the East Coast, you’ll have multiple options in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Connecticut.” Sure, this means you’re competing with a bigger pool of candidates, but it also gives you more chances to find the right fit.
This could also be a good time to make a career transition. “You might want to be more flexible and think about switching fields,” Mr. Wahlquist said. “Take those skills that you’ve developed and try to find something that is even better, or more sustainable long term.”
Meanwhile, consider taking a relevant training course, especially if you’ve been unemployed. “If you’re not working, I would 100-percent recommend to sign up for some training, because it shows initiative and a vested interest in updating and expanding your skill set,” Ms. Weitzman said. 
<h2 class="css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40" id="link-7fa288d9">Be honest about why you’re unemployed.</h2>
If you’ve been out of a job for a while, either for lack of opportunities or because you were busy shepherding children through Zoom school, that’s OK. “Everybody knows what happened this past year,” Mr. Wahlquist said. “Most people have a big free pass for a gap in their work history during the pandemic.”
Still, you should be prepared to explain — succinctly — what happened and what you’ve been doing since. “Even if your past job loss wasn’t entirely due to Covid, most employers want to start a relationship with transparency,” he said.
And, potential employers will want to check up on your references. Expect that they’ll want to talk to your former supervisors for the past five years, or past couple of jobs. “Take this time to go back to those people and be direct,” Mr. Wahlquist. “You can ask, ‘Will you be willing to give a reference, and able to give me a good reference?’” A question that your former supervisor might be asked is if he or she would rehire you. “And if the answer is no, then why?”
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Howard Students Protest Cut of Classics Department, Hub for Black Scholarship

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The decision to dissolve the department was approved last fall by the university’s board of trustees, Dr. Wutoh said. The department’s four tenured faculty members will remain within the College of Arts and Sciences, while the contracts of its four nontenured faculty members, including Dr. Prather, will not be renewed.
Dr. Prather said she hadn’t expected that her time within the classics department would go on forever. But she added that seeing the department dissolved was still disheartening at a university that had been a beacon for the study of antiquity from a Black perspective.
When approaching a course, Dr. Prather focuses on “tearing down the colonization of our minds,” she said. She takes students on a journey, starting with Black people in antiquity all the way up to the present day — a timeline that presents slavery as just a slice of the Black experience, not its dominant narrative.
The work of Frank M. Snowden Jr., who once led Howard’s classics department and produced groundbreaking work shedding light on ancient African civilizations in ancient Greece and Rome, is a staple within Dr. Prather’s classes.
“One of the things I say to my students coming in is, ‘This class is going to show you how worldwide Black people are,’” she said.
At Howard, students are exposed to how themes within classics are interlaced and rooted into the works of political activists like Huey P. Newton and Angela Davis as well as Black literary thinkers such as the author Toni Morrison. The abolitionist Frederick Douglass offers a particularly sharp argument for engaging with the classics, Dr. Prather said.
“He learned as an enslaved child through reading the speakers of Cicero and all the different dialogues and classic texts to practice rhetorical skills,” she said, “so that he could know how to exercise his mind to use logic.”
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82 dead, 110 injured in Baghdad hospital fire started by oxygen cylinder

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At least 82 people have now died from an inferno at a Baghdad hospital sparked by an exploding oxygen cylinder in a COVID-19 ward, with at least 110 others injured, Iraq officials announced Sunday.
At least 28 of the dead were coronavirus patients who had been on ventilators when the fire broke out at Ibn al-Khatib hospital Saturday, according to the country’s independent Human Rights Commission.
The Health Ministry said at least 200 people were rescued from the scene, with numerous burned bodies carried out by paramedics and witnesses who raced in to help.
“People were jumping… Doctors fell on the cars,” said Ahmed Zaki, who had been visiting a family member but ended up rescuing people from the fire that “spread like fuel” on the second floor.
“Everyone was jumping. And I kept going up from there, got people and come down again,” Zaki said.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="Aftermath of a fire at Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital, south of Baghdad." class="wp-image-18064626 lazyload" data-="" height="682" loading="lazy" width="1024"/><figcaption>The oxygen cylinder exploded in the hospital’s COVID-19 ward.</figcaption><figcaption>MURTAJA LATEEF/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock</figcaption></figure>
While many patients were transported to other hospitals, relatives of the missing were still gathering at the scene and begging for help locating their loved ones.
“Please, two of my relatives are missing. … I am going to die (without news about them),” one young woman posted on social media after a fruitless search for her family members who had been in ICU.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="Aftermath of a fire at Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital, south of Baghdad" class="wp-image-18064640 lazyload" data-="" height="682" loading="lazy" width="1024"/><figcaption>Witnesses report seeing people jumping from windows as the fire spread on the second floor.</figcaption><figcaption>MURTAJA LATEEF/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock</figcaption></figure>
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi held an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the Baghdad Operations Command, which coordinates Iraqi security forces, according to a statement on his Twitter account.
He then fired the director-general of the local Baghdad Health Department, as well as the director of the hospital and its director of engineering and maintenance.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="Iraqis transport the coffin of a relative who was killed during a fire at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital " class="wp-image-18064642 lazyload" data-="" height="682" loading="lazy" width="1024"/><figcaption>At least 28 of the deceased were coronavirus patients who had been on ventilators when the fire started.</figcaption><figcaption>AFP via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
“Negligence in such matters is not a mistake, but a crime for which all negligent parties must bear responsibility,” he said, giving authorities just 24 hours to present the results of an investigation.
UN envoy to Iraq Jeannine Hennis-Plasschaert expressed “shock and pain” over the incident in a statement and called for stronger protection measures in hospitals.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="Mourners pray near the coffins of coronavirus patients that were killed in a hospital fire." class="wp-image-18064644 lazyload" data-="" height="682" loading="lazy" width="1024"/><figcaption>Mourners pray for the lives lost in the Ibn al-Khatib hospital fire.</figcaption><figcaption>AP</figcaption></figure>
Iraq’s healthcare system, ruined by decades of sanctions, war and neglect, has been stretched during the coronavirus crisis.
The country has had more than 1 million infections with more than 15,200 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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Who Will Show Up on the Oscars Red Carpet?

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<h2 class="css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40" id="link-18059efa">Are celebrities paid for what they wear?</h2>
Celebrities are paid to be “ambassadors” for a brand; to represent it to the world. Contracts specify exactly what that means; sometimes that it is appearing in ads, but almost always it is wearing clothes by the brand at select very public moments — especially awards shows like the Oscars.
Just as important, however, is that even when they are not official ambassadors, stars (and their managers, agents and stylists, all of whom have some skin in this game) often consider a red carpet appearance pretty much a virtual ad, which means in exchange for wearing a dress and the related publicity that ensues, they would like the dress for free.
Because they are often not sample-size, and because they often want clothes that have not been seen before, this means brands have to make dresses especially for the occasion — and sometimes at the last minute celebs change their minds. If you are wondering whether this all privileges giant global brands over small indie names, and that is why the big guns often seem to be the most ubiquitous red carpet choices, the answer is yes.
<h2 class="css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40" id="link-46de23d">It’s been a big week. Will there be a lot of political statements?</h2>
Ever since #TimesUp convinced attendees to wear black to the 2018 Golden Globes in protest against Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment, there have been various attempts at politicization of the red carpet fashion machine. A brief groundswell to not focus on the gowns but instead focus on the roles did not last terribly long (there’s been a sort of compromise, and now questions extend to both).
But in September 2020, Regina King wore a T-shirt honoring Breonna Taylor with her hot pink Schiaparelli pantsuit to the virtual Emmy Awards, and earlier this month Jamie Chung carried a “Stop Asian Hate” message handbag to the SAG awards. Given the emotion after the George Floyd trial verdict, the attacks on the Asian community and the drive for vaccines, we could well see statement making than goes beyond style for the Oscars. Still, it tends to be the exception, rather than the rule.
<h2 class="css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40" id="link-72e4fdb2">So we should look out for designer masks?</h2>
This will not be a case of match-the-mask-to-the-gown dressing. In fact, it will be — shock! — a maskless awards. The Oscars telecast is being treated like a TV production (well, it is a TV production), which means that on-camera talent gets to go barefaced. The producers have suggested, cryptically, that masks will still play a role of their own, but what that means is not entirely clear.
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How ICE’s Mishandling of Covid-19 Fueled Outbreaks Around the Country

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[music playing] “Family and friends are in mourning tonight over the death of the first undocumented immigrant to die of Covid-19 while in ICE custody.” “The second immigrant has died of Covid-19 after being in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” “And now the health crisis is colliding with the immigration crisis at the southern border.” Since the start of the pandemic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reported over 12,000 cases of Covid-19 in detention. But our investigation found that this number doesn’t tell the full story and that the agency also played a role in spreading the virus. “There were many things that ICE did wrong and many things that they actually did that made the problem much worse.” [emergency sirens] As Covid-19 cases were soaring over the summer of 2020, ICE had an infection rate 20 times that of the general population and five times that of prisons. To understand the consequences, we traveled across the country and talked to data scientists, local leaders, lawyers, former detainees and the family members of a nurse who used to work inside a detention center. We found a pattern of neglect and secrecy, and we found evidence that outbreaks inside ICE detention centers fueled outbreaks outside, in the communities that surround them. “Every time I think about those almost seven months I was there, I was so scared. I don’t want to die here.” “She was working 12-hour shifts, three days a week. For someone to tell us that she didn’t get sick from work, I mean, it’s — I don’t understand.” “We know how Covid spreads. You’re going to be in close contact in that detention center. After enough time, someone’s going to get it.” [rustling] “Here. This is the first paper they gave me on Sept. 15. It said I asked for protection. And I was mad because I said, I never asked for protection. I don’t feel like I need a protection. I need clinic. I need a hospital. I need a doctor.” Sandra has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years and has raised her seven children here. She’s a Mexican immigrant and is undocumented. She was detained in April 2020 and held for just shy of seven months in this detention center in El Paso, Texas. “When I got there, they were not keeping distance. They were not using masks. Most of the time, there were like 40 to 50 people in the same barrack.” “We started hearing about people who were vulnerable to serious illness and death from Covid-19 and saying that they couldn’t get masks. They couldn’t get soap. The guards would turn off the television when news about Covid-19 would come on. And so it was really a very scary time.” In April, just days before Sandra was detained, a federal court said that ICE exhibited callous indifference to the safety and well-being of its detainees, and ordered the agency to start releasing people who are at a greater risk of dying from Covid-19. “And we just weren’t seeing that. People who had medical vulnerabilities were being denied release consistently, and that happened to Sandra. I knew she was going to get it. I just didn’t know if I could get her out before she got it.” “When I started having symptoms, I was in the dorm with the other girls. I told the guard, ‘I don’t feel good. Last night, I had a fever.’ She said, ‘OK, go to the clinic.’ The nurse — I told her, ‘I think I have the Covid.’ And then she said, ‘No, you don’t have the Covid. Don’t say that. If you say you have the Covid, then you’re going to be sick. Don’t say that.’ And I went back to the barrack.” [typing] “What is the information about ICE’s protocols for determining when an individual in custody is tested?” “Individuals are generally tested when they’re showing symptoms of Covid-19.” “Not till then? Not till then?” “Generally, that’s true.” But this wasn’t true for Sandra. She left the clinic that day without a test, and she wasn’t tested for Covid-19 until five days later. “Everybody got infected. It was like more than 25 girls.” While Sandra waited for her result, she was placed into solitary confinement. And because her paperwork said she was there for protective custody, not for medical observation, guards didn’t know that she was possibly contagious. “I had to explain, like on three or four guards, that I was there because of a Covid test. As soon as I said that, they put the gloves and put the mask. The whole facility was doing a really bad job.” Sandra tested positive for the virus on Sept. 17, and was released on bail in November. People end up in ICE custody for a variety of reasons. And as an agency, ICE has wide discretion over who it detains and releases. “Police! Come to the door!” Most people in ICE custody don’t have a single criminal conviction. They just don’t have legal status in the U.S. In a statement, ICE told us it has worked to reduce the number of people in custody and said the agency has taken extensive steps to safeguard detainees, staff and contractors. But the virus kept spreading. “ICE acts as if the detention center is this isolated spot in the middle of a city, but it’s really not. Tons of guards are going in and out. Tons of contract workers are going in and out. And then they’re going home to their families. We don’t really think about that.” [music playing] “I got to get this. Hello? What happened?” This is Jose Asuncion. He’s a commissioner in Frio County, Texas, a small county just south of San Antonio with a population of only 20,000 people. “You have a wonderful day today.” What makes this county unique is that it’s home to two ICE detention facilities. “The majority of people here depend on incarceration jobs for their paycheck. And because of that, I think the community is largely supportive of them. Any time a private prison comes into a community, it’s the same promise: You’ll have jobs. You’ll have tax revenue. And you’ll have utility revenue. Sounds like a great deal. [Sighs.]” “Number of positive tests for Covid-19 in the South Texas community of Pearsall has some Frio County leaders concerned tonight.” “Early on in the pandemic, it really seemed like it wasn’t going to spread down to these rural areas of Texas. It seemed like a New York problem — and maybe a few other cities. But then the cases started coming in only at the detention center.” On May 5, 2020, there were 10 known cases of Covid-19 in Frio County, all of them linked to the South Texas ICE processing center. Three days later, the number had tripled. “It was clear the eye of the storm was the detention center, and it was inevitable that it was going to spread to the community.” ICE outsources the day-to-day operations of this facility to a company called GEO, the second-largest private prison company in the country. [music playing] “The first thing we wanted was just information, and we were not getting any answers. The only resort we had was public pressure.” So Jose and eight other local officials sent an open letter to the GEO Group that included a list of 20 questions about testing, P.P.E., and employee safety protocols. And they asked GEO’S management to address them at the next County Commissioner meeting. “And now we go to item No. 2. Jose?” “Is anyone from GEO here today?” “No.” No one from GEO attended the meeting, and the company instead sent a brief letter. They confirmed that five employees did test positive for Covid-19, but they didn’t provide any other numbers. “I think we probably need to put more pressure on them.” ICE detention is a $3.1 billion industry, funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers. But the vast majority of detainees are held in facilities run by private prison companies, which aren’t required to share information with the public. In a statement to The New York Times, GEO said that they strongly reject the baseless allegations about the South Texas ICE processing center and said they disclosed all Covid-19 related information to local health officials and to ICE. “Even though they present themselves as a community partner, they ain’t sharing any information with us.” Jose and his colleagues sent the open letter in May, but by July, Frio County was among the worst counties in the country for Covid-19. Today, one in seven residents have been infected. “There are a lot of people who see the problem that these private prisons pose, but who wants to jeopardize what other people see as an opportunity? Who wants to jeopardize their own job?” The thing is, these problems aren’t unique to Frio County. “ICE has always been known not to be the most transparent agency.” Which has led a team of researchers to take on the problem of extremely limited data themselves. “So when we look at this map, what we’re seeing here is all the locations that ICE is reporting Covid infection data for. The higher the peak here, the higher number of cases that have occurred in that facility.” Every day, ICE posts new data to its website that shows confirmed cases, detainee deaths and total confirmed cases per facility. But notably absent is any data on staff members. “I could see how someone could put this information and think that they are doing their due diligence, but if we’re interested in community spread, without those staff members, it’s extremely difficult to say what is the greater community risk that’s happening.” ICE detainees are held in at least 163 facilities throughout the country, with larger outbreaks mostly concentrated at detention centers in southern border states. Neal and their team at U.C.L.A. have taken the research a step further, and their early analysis reveals a pattern consistent with community spread. Take Frio County, for example. Since the start of the pandemic, outbreaks inside their ICE detention center were generally followed by outbreaks in the community, and they’ve seen this not just in Frio, but across the country. The team looked at 10 ICE facilities with the worst outbreaks — in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas — and they found similar patterns suggesting community spread in all 10. “It’s not just about the risk of spread in ICE detention centers. It’s about the risk of spread that occurs at ICE detention centers and then who comes into contact with them and where are they going. What does the exchange look like?” [music playing] [rustling] “I never imagined that this would happen, that I would lose my mom to this. You can’t imagine.” For 20 years, Nataly Garcia’s mother, Blanca Garcia, worked as a nurse inside of the Webb County Detention Center in Laredo, Texas, an ICE facility run by the private contractor CoreCivic. “She was, I would say, like the head of the house [laughs]. She liked to tend to her plants and doing her sewing. She was my best friend, and I would talk to her about everything. I’m a mama’s girl. She was working 12-hour shifts throughout the pandemic, and I think about that every day, knowing that maybe if I had insisted a little bit more, she would be here. If I had annoyed her enough, she wouldn’t have gone to work.” Nataly’s mother became sick with Covid-19 in August, shortly after the detention center was placed under a mandatory quarantine order due to an outbreak among detainees. But by then, it was too late for Blanca. She died a few weeks later. “I haven’t gone through any of this or her things that were in her locker. There’s a mask that she was making. She probably wore them. So I don’t know what protocols that they had.” After her mom died, Nataly reached out to CoreCivic to file a worker’s compensation claim, which would pay a lifetime benefit to her father. The company referred her to its insurance carrier, who eventually sent a letter denying the claim, concluding that there was not a causal relation between Blanca’s diagnosis of Covid-19 and her employment at CoreCivic. “I mean, obviously, it was a shocker. Like, how can they say that? She would just go to work, come back, and I would just have school online. And my father, I mean, he wasn’t working. It’s like a slap in the face to the years my mom dedicated to them.” “Did you hear a word from them since your mom passed away?” “No.” CoreCivic declined to comment on the specific circumstances of Blanca’s death but said they found no indication that she contracted the virus at work. The company is facing at least three separate lawsuits from former employees who claim CoreCivic put them at risk by failing to follow basic Covid-19 protocols. CoreCivic denies the claims. It says it has rigorously followed C.D.C. and ICE guidelines and it has always provided appropriate P.P.E. for its employees. “The health and safety of ICE detainees are the agency’s highest priorities. Transparency remains critically important in our response to this pandemic as we continue to debunk myths and correct misinformation.” [music playing] 2020 was the deadliest year for people in ICE custody since 2006. To date, at least 10 people have died of Covid-19 after spending time in ICE custody. The number of staff deaths has not been disclosed. “And the failure to control Covid outbreaks in detention, jails and prisons is critically impairing our efforts to contain the spread of the virus in our communities. This is because jails and prisons and detention facilities are not islands. In fact, they’re more like bus terminals with people constantly coming and going.” [music playing]
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Buhari restores ownership of OML 123, others to NNPC

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the restoration of the leases on OMLs 123, 124, 126, and 137 to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which is in production sharing contract with Addax Petroleum, a company wholly owned by the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the blocks.
The leases belonging to the Federation were revoked on March 30, 2021.
While directing the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to retract the letter of revocation of the leases, the President also directed the NNPC to utilize contractual provisions to resolve issues in line with the extant provisions of the production sharing contract arrangement between NNPC and Addax.
The restoration of the blocks to the NNPC will boost the organisation’s portfolio, thereby making the Corporation, in the long run, boost its crude oil production and in turn increase the revenue it generates to the federation account.
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Publish names of politicians sponsoring banditry, Uzodinma tasks security agencies

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Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has charged the nation’s security and intelligence agencies to expose the politicians allegedly sponsoring the current gale of banditry across the country by publishing their names.
Governor Uzodinma, who spoke to State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, alleged that the violent criminal activities sweeping through the country were being sponsored by opposition elements, with the intent to discredit the incumbent administration.
He also disclosed that about 50 suspects had been arrested in connection with the recent attacks on police and correctional facilities in the state, maintaining that the attacks were carried out by a mix of persons from within the state, other Southeast states, and non-Igbo.
According to him, those he alleged were sponsoring the criminal activities were using them to distract a focused government, accusing the sponsors of engaging in a diabolic version of politicking, which he described as anti-people.
He pointed out that the sort of issues that ought to have been the concern of the people, which he said are all about the provision of infrastructural and social amenities, was already being provided.
He, however, urged Nigerians not to allow the said opposition elements to destroy the unity and diversity of the country, which he described as a blessing from God and the nation’s unit strength.
He, however, charged all Nigerians to support the government and the security forces in the fight against banditry, explaining that the work of securing society is not restricted, but required all citizens and leadership at all levels.
The Governor said he was in at the Villa to brief the President on the issue of security in Imo State and to request federal assistance in the welfare and equipment of security agencies in the state.
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Bandits kill 15 Persons in Shiroro LGA of Niger State

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Police to Ebonyi govt.: Place ban on funeral wake

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Police in Ebonyi State, southeast Nigeria, want the state government to place a ban on every funeral wake in the state.
Common in that part of the region, a funeral wake is an all-night get-together before the actual funeral takes place, which allows family and friends to share their memories of the deceased.
But according to the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah, funeral wake events are no longer safe in the state.
On the 15th of April 2021, tragedy befell a family as their 29-year-old son, Chukwudi Chukwu, was reportedly shot dead by a self-acclaimed vigilante.
The deceased was said to be attending a wake with his friend at Mebiokpa village in Okposi community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, when a gun-wielding man identified as Hosanna Aju allegedly opened fire on him.
Sadly, the deceased was set to get married within two weeks before the tragic incident.
Confirming the incident to reporters, the Police Public Relations Officer said that the culprit is already cooling off in their custody and would be charged to court on Monday on various counts including homicide and illegal possession of arms.
The police image maker, however, regretted that a lot of unnecessary deaths have occurred in the recent past, as a result of the funeral wake.
With the events that led to the death of Chukwudi, residents have expressed concern about the rate of illegal arms in circulation across the state and country in general.
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Imo Governor's house set ablaze in his hometown

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The residence of Governor Hope Uzodimma in his hometown Omuma in Imo State has been set ablaze
At about 9 am today, Saturday, April 24, a group of hoodlums numbering about 15 driving in a motorcade of three vehicles accompanied by a tipper loaded with used tyres, stormed the country home of the Governor in Omuma, Oru East LGA, and attempted to burn down the house.
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However, vigilant security operatives attached to the Governor’s house successfully repelled the attack and consequently minimised the damage they had planned to unleash.
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In the crossfire that ensued, a few casualties were recorded. Preliminary investigation suggested that the foiled attack may have been politically sponsored.
The government has directed the relevant security agencies to expedite investigation on the incident and promptly apprehend the sponsors and their agents and bring them to justice.
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Buhari Denounces Killing of Kaduna Students As Barbaric Terror Attack

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President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that banditry, kidnapping, and the politics of murders will be fought with all the resources available in the country.
The President said this while condemning the killing of three of the students kidnapped at Greenfield University, Kaduna State.
The President in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, described the students as bright youngsters who were cut down by evil people in their prime.
“My thoughts are with their families in this time of grief. May their souls rest in peace,” said the President.
On the recurring incidents of kidnappings and killings in Kaduna State, in particular, the President condemned them as “barbaric terror attacks,” and described as “unfortunate the tenor of some political and religious leaders that seem to further incite and stoke the pain and anguish of mourning families who are forced to confront these atrocities.
The President said “Addressing this scourge, requires a great show of empathy and coming together as a society to squarely confront these elements and the danger it poses to our democracy and peaceful life in the country.”
President Buhari, therefore, gave strong assurances that those that think profits can be made, either from money paid as ransom or in politics, “will realise sooner than later that they are bound by the same fate as their victims.
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Bauchi Governor reiterates collaboration with security apparatus

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Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has reiterated his administration’s readiness to collaborate with the security apparatus, to strengthen the architecture of the state.
Mohammed said this at the official handover of 50 security vehicles to security agencies in the state.
Though the state is relatively peaceful, Governor Mohammed said the handover of the vehicles is a clear testimony that his government is highly committed to ensuring a crime-free society.
The Inspector-General of Police represented by the Assistant Inspector General, AIG, in charge of Federal Operations, Johnson Babatunde, commended the Bauchi State Governor over the logistic support, saying it will serve as a morale booster to security operatives, in the discharge of their responsibilities.
The operational vehicles are well equipped with modern Information Communication Technology, ICT gadgets to enhance quick response to any security situation.
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Niger Governor tells emergency agency to make food items available to IDPs

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Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State has directed the State Emergency Management Agency to make food items and other basic necessities, available to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, at their Camp in Gwada, in Shiroro Local Government Area.
The directive by the Governor is part of efforts to meet the immediate basic needs of the displaced persons from Chiri and Guni in both Shiroro and Munya Local Government Areas of the State.
Governor Bello in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mary Berje, said the agency should extend similar gestures to other camps across the state.
The statement hinted that the state government is taking necessary security measures to ensure normalcy is restored to the villages affected by the banditry attacks.
The Governor assured the IDPs that returning them to their families to continue with their normal life remains the government’s concern.
He described the situation as worrisome because thousands of farmers have already lost their source of livelihood.
He urged the people to cooperate with the Joint Military Taskforce, while carrying out their operations, to achieve the desired results.
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Edo School of Nursing and Midwifery to open before December 31, 2021 - Obaseki

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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has assured that the State School of Nursing and Midwifery currently being reconstructed by his administration will offer world-class training programmes for nurses and midwives when completed.
The Governor gave the assurance when he embarked on an on-the-spot assessment of the level of work being done at the school located in Benin City, the state capital.
The Edo State School of Nursing and Midwifery has been abandoned over the years and is now being reconstructed to offer training programmes to nurses and midwives.
Governor Obaseki was at the site to check the level of work done and said that the decision to revamp the facility stemmed from the need to build manpower to provide quality healthcare services.
He said that the school is expected to open before the end of 2021. It is being rebuilt with specifications from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
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Enugu/Onitsha expressway: How Far?

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The plan by the Federal Government to reconstruct the dilapidated Enugu – Onitsha dual carriageway, a major gateway of the Eastern region of Nigeria has remained a failed promise by previous administrations
Though in 2015, the President Muhammed Buhari government commenced some work towards fixing the road, six years on, there is little to cheer.
President Buhari in 2019 promised that one lane of the Onitsha Awka axis of the Enugu Onitsha expressway will be completed and ready for use by June 2020.
Two years on, that promise is yet to be met as work is still ongoing on a section of the road.
While commending the government for the completion of the Umunya Axis and some other sections of the road, the people also want the contractors handling the road project to speed up and save the public from avoidable accidents and agonies as a result of bad road.
The people are asking the contractors to quickly give priority attention to the completely failed sections of the Ugwu Onyeama – Abakpa junction end of the road as well as the Oji River – Ugwuoba section, which have become death traps.
It is expected that the Federal Government will mobilize the contractors handling this strategic road network in the South East region of Nigeria to deploy more resources and equipment in order to complete the project and end the long-suffering of the people from this part of the country.
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Jerusalem tension triggers Gaza-Israel fire exchange as Netanyahu asks for calm

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JERUSALEM — Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip toward Israel resumed Saturday evening after a day-long pause despite calls for calm from the United Nations and threats by Israeli leaders to retaliate fiercely. Tensions in Jerusalem as Palestinians clashed with Israeli police and far-right Jewish groups prompted the heaviest cross-border violence in months between Israel and Gaza.
Militants fired a rocket toward Sderot town in southern Israel and it was intercepted by air defenses, the military said.
Early Saturday, militants in the Gaza Strip fired some three dozen rockets into Israel, while the Israeli military struck back at targets operated by the ruling Hamas group.
The barrage of rocket fire came as hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in east Jerusalem. The clashes, in which at least four police and six protesters were injured, have become a nightly occurrence throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and show no signs of stopping.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he held talks with top security officials about Gaza and Jerusalem. He said he instructed officials to be ready for ‘every scenario’ in Gaza. In Jerusalem, he said Israel would guarantee ‘freedom of worship’ for everyone, and he appealed for calm. “We ask now for people to obey the law and I call for a calming of tempers on all sides.”
The U.N. envoy to the region, Tor Wennesland, condemned the violence and said the United Nations was working with all sides to restore calm.
“The provocative acts across Jerusalem must cease. The indiscriminate launching of rockets towards Israeli population centers violates international law and must stop immediately,” he said. “I reiterate my call upon all sides to exercise maximum restraint and avoid further escalation, particularly during the Holy month of Ramadan and this politically charged time for all.”
Meanwhile, Israeli chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, is weighing “a series of steps for possible responses,” and preparations if the situation continued to escalate, the military said in a statement. He also postponed a trip to the United States that was scheduled for Sunday.
The U.S. also appealed for calm, while neighboring Jordan, which serves as the custodian for Jerusalem’s Muslim holy sites, condemned Israel’s actions.
Jerusalem, home to holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, has long been a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2014, similar tensions erupted into a 50-day war between Israel and Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group.
The Israeli military said a total of 36 rockets were fired into Israel throughout the night. It said six rockets were intercepted, while most of the others landed in open areas. There were no reports of injuries or serious damage, but the incoming rocket fire set off air-raid sirens throughout southern Israel.
In response, the army said fighter jets and helicopters struck a number of Hamas targets in Gaza, including an underground facility and rocket launchers. Hamas did not claim responsibility for the rocket fire, but Israel considers the group responsible for all fire emanating from the territory.
The military imposed limits on outdoor gatherings in southern Israel early Saturday but lifted the restrictions several hours later and allowed people to resume their normal routines.
Israel and Hamas, an Islamic group sworn to Israel’s destruction, are bitter enemies that have fought three wars and numerous skirmishes since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
Although neither side appears to have an interest in escalating tensions, Hamas sees itself as the defender of Jerusalem and may feel obligated to act, or at least tacitly encourage rocket attacks by other groups, ahead of upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections. Hamas’ armed wing has warned Israel “not to test” its patience.
At dawn, hundreds of people in Gaza challenged nightly curfews imposed by Hamas to curb the coronavirus outbreak and took to the streets in an act of solidarity with fellow Palestinians in Jerusalem, burning tires.
The Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state. Its fate has been one of the most divisive issues in the peace process, which ground to a halt more than a decade ago.
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police on a nightly basis since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nearly two weeks ago.
The tensions began when police placed barricades outside the Old City’s Damascus Gate, where Muslims traditionally gather to enjoy the evening after the daytime fast.
The clashes intensified Thursday evening when hundreds of Palestinians hurled stones and bottles at police, who fired a water cannon and stun grenades to disperse them. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded in the melee.
At the same time, a far-right Jewish group known as Lahava led a march of hundreds of protesters chanting “Arabs get out!” toward the Damascus Gate. The group, led by a disciple of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane, is allied with elements of a far-right party elected to Israel’s parliament last month.
The show of force came in response to videos circulated on TikTok showing Palestinians slapping religious Jews at random. Other videos made in response to them appear to show Jews assaulting Arabs. After keeping them a few hundred yards (meters) away from Damascus Gate, police used water cannon, stun grenades and mounted police to push far-right protesters back toward mostly Jewish west Jerusalem.
In all, police said 44 people were arrested and 20 officers were injured.
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Half a Year After Trump’s Defeat, Arizona Republicans Are Recounting the Vote

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The second firm hired to analyze the audit results, Cyber Ninjas, says it is an industry leader. But The Arizona Republic soon reported that the company’s chief executive, Doug Logan, had posted a litany of stolen-election conspiracy theories on a Twitter account that he had deleted in January.
Among them was a retweeted post suggesting that Dominion Voting Systems, a favorite target of the right, had robbed Mr. Trump of 200,000 votes in Arizona. Dominion says Cyber Ninjas is <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1377432188308758529" title="">“led by conspiracy theorists</a> and QAnon supporters who have helped spread the “Big Lie” of a rigged election.
Mr. Logan, at a news conference last week said the company was committed to a fair, transparent process. “It’s really, really important to us that we have integrity in the way we do this count and in the results that come out of it,” he told reporters. 
Ms. Fann has said that the firm and others it will oversee are “well qualified and well experienced.”
But unease about the audit has continued to mushroom. Ms. Hobbs, the secretary of state, asked the state attorney general, Mark Brnovich, a Republican, to investigate the Senate’s handling of the procedure, citing a lack of transparency about security of ballots. She noted that some of the Legislature’s furthest-right firebrands have had free access to the coliseum even as it remained unclear whether reporters and impartial election experts would be allowed to observe the proceedings.
He declined.
Greg Burton, the executive editor of The Arizona Republic, said in a statement on Friday that “Senate leaders have throttled legitimate press access and handed Arizona’s votes to conspiracy theorists.”
Amid the growing uproar, the Republican senators who have approved and stood behind the audit since its beginning have largely been silent about concerns over its integrity.
Alain Delaquérière and Susan Beachy contributed research.
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Hall of Famer Isaac Bruce: Size won't stop 166-pound DeVonta Smith from achieving NFL greatness

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Where will DeVonta Smith play next?
It’s one of the more intriguing questions awaiting an answer as the 2021 NFL draft draws closer. The Heisman Trophy-winning Alabama star’s Q-Rating seemed to peak as he was blistering Ohio State’s defense in January during a record-setting performance (12 catches) in the College Football Playoff title game – some draft observers even suggesting the New York Jets should consider him with the No. 2 overall selection.
Since then, Smith’s stock has cooled, if only relative to the Jets’ pick, primarily due to questions about his frame – officially 6 feet and 166 pounds during the NFL’s recent medical re-check, according to Sports Illustrated.
But is the concern overblown?
“I think initially when you look at him, you just see his size. And if you’re the one with the responsibility of stopping him, you would underestimate him just from looking at him in warm-ups,” Hall of Fame receiver Isaac Bruce told USA TODAY Sports. (Smith has frequently drawn lofty comparisons to Bruce and fellow Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison.)
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“But if you go to the film, you definitely see a lot of attributes that were very similar to Marvin Harrison as far as being able to get open, the separation he has, his ability to catch the ball in a crowd,” Bruce continued.
“I carried some of those same traits as well, just being able to separate and just being wide open instead of just open. So that’s DeVonta Smith, that was Marvin Harrison, and I was that way from some standpoints as well.”
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Those abilities were certainly apparent in 2020, when Smith set Southeastern Conference career (3,965 receiving yards) and single-season records (1,856 receiving yards, 23 TDs). He typically spent Saturdays gliding through opposing defenses for huge chunks of yardage and is a surefire first-rounder almost certain to hear his named called in the top 15 on Thursday night.
Still, what happens when Smith encounters physical NFL corners like Jalen Ramsey after he leveraged the free releases the Buckeyes gave him into 215 receiving yards and three touchdowns in a performance curtailed after halftime by a finger injury?
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“As far as being jammed at the line of scrimmage,” said Bruce, “he probably went against (Alabama corner) Patrick Surtain II in practice every day, and I’m sure he won his share of battles with him. But other NFL-quality cornerbacks that were in the SEC that played against him – when you look at him in pre-game, you’re probably thinking, ‘I’m just gonna get up and jam this guy and not let him off the line of scrimmage.’
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“But I didn’t see that much happening when he played against Auburn, when he played against Georgia. These guys would back off him for a reason, because they probably tried to jam him and couldn’t jam him. My advice to (Smith) is to just be who he is, and that’s being elusive at the line of scrimmage, always have a plan, and once you make guys miss maybe two or three times and run by them for a touchdown – that jamming, it’s over with.
“You can’t afford to miss a guy like that at the line of scrimmage, especially on this (NFL) level.”
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Bruce, of course, knows something about that. He used a clean release in Super Bowl 34 to haul in the game-winning 73-yard touchdown from Kurt Warner with fewer than two minutes on the clock as the St. Louis Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans 23-16 for what remains the franchise’s only Lombardi Trophy.
Former Kansas City Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli further suggests that Smith’s next offensive coordinator can lend a helping hand by using pre-snap motion to help him avoid press coverage and contact at the line.
“He’s a dynamic athlete, he’s a tremendous player with rare tools: good route running, incredible ball skills and incredible tracking ability,” added Pioli, now an NFL Network analyst.
Alabama listed Smith at 175 pounds. Bruce said he’d often report to training camps during his 16-year NFL career at a muscled-up 190 pounds but was typically down to 175 by season’s end “just from all the running.” But in his experience, defensive backs also wear down over the course of a grueling NFL campaign and start to save their shoulders from the rigors of tackling around midseason.
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“Now you can just play a free-flowing game after that,” said Bruce, who finished with 1,024 catches for 15,208 yards and 91 touchdowns and is beginning the next phase of his post-playing career by tutoring wideouts at all levels in an effort to pass on hard-earned wisdom.
Even if defenders avoid getting physical with Smith at the snap, Bruce believes they might try hitting and tackling him with extra fervor to see if that breaks him down – not that he believes it will make much difference.
“He’ll be fine,” Bruce added. “He’s played against NFL competition already in college. He’ll be seeing the same guys from a safety standpoint and a cornerback standpoint, and he’s dominating.”
Bruce even doubled down on that notion, believing Smith – whether at 166 pounds or 186 – has the capability to be an offensive focal point, not merely one cog of a pro passing machine.
“Once his development (occurs), he’s gonna be a guy who’s gonna have to be double-teamed,” said Bruce. “He’s just that good. … You just see his maturation from college, making huge plays his freshman season all the way up to being the guy last year, and he just showed up every single week.
“He’ll definitely be a No. 1 receiver, not very long from now.”
Smith accounted for nearly 40% of the Crimson Tide’s yards through the air last season, Bruce noting how heavily offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian came to rely on him. 
“I love his game, his approach to it. He’s very confident,” said Bruce. “I think he’s gonna help a team tremendously in his first season.”
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The world learned a number of details about the 12 jurors who recently pronounced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd.
They were a racially diverse group — six white Americans, four Black Americans and two mixed-race Americans — that include a dog lover, sports fan, single parent, insurance agent, nurse and retiree. But one thing remains a mystery: their names.
Anonymous juries continue to be rare, accounting for only around a dozen a year out of more than 100,000 jury trials nationally. But with the rise of social media and the ease of Internet searches, concerns over juror safety could lead to more anonymous juries, a shift that some legal scholars said could jeopardize the transparent nature of the legal system.
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“It’s been a slow and constant march toward this, and if in the end no one knows who’s on the jury people can lose faith in the system and see it as a faceless machine,” said Gregg Leslie, executive director of the First Amendment Clinic at Arizona State University’s law school in Phoenix. “Protecting privacy on a blanket basis will undermine the idea of an open and accountable society.”
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In all court cases, juror information is presumed public unless the government can make a case otherwise. Typically, judges keep jurors anonymous if they might be subject to physical harm, intimidation or undue media attention. Recent decisions to impanel anonymous juries include the upcoming racketeering and sex trafficking trial of singer R. Kelly, as well as the 2019 trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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Chauvin’s trial came nearly a year after Floyd’s death, the result of Chauvin kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes during an encounter sparked by an allegedly counterfeit $20 bill. The event sparked nationwide protests and a social justice movement that continues to press for police reform and racial equality.
Given the blazing spotlight on the trial, Judge Peter Cahill decided it was best to keep the names of the potential jurors unknown.
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“Strong reasons exist to believe that threats to jurors’ safety and impartiality exist,” Cahill wrote in his decision last fall. 
Instead, he revealed the race and age by decade of the jurors and three alternates. Live TV coverage of the trial ensured both the media and the public had streaming access to voir dire, the revelatory process in which attorneys on both sides question potential jurors to determine their suitability to judge the case fairly. 
So far, none of the main Chauvin jurors have come forward to discuss the case publicly, and Cahill has said he will keep their names secret at least through the trial this summer of the three other officers who were present when Floyd was killed. On Tuesday, the jury found Chauvin guilty on all three counts — second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. 
<h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2">More trials involve unnamed jurors</h2>
Leslie, of ASU, said cutbacks in journalism have meant fewer reporters are available to cover trials and potentially file protests about an unnamed jury. He also added that the presence of bloggers and others not affiliated with mainstream media outlets increases the chances that juror names “can be published by those with no ethical standards.”
Another issue of broad concern for the judicial system is the need for more people of color on juries, which a cloak of anonymity could work against promoting, said James Coleman, director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility at Duke University Law School in Durham, North Carolina. While the judge in the Chauvin trial agreed to provide details on the jurors’ race, that isn’t always the case.
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“It’s important for jurors to be identified because the community needs to know who participated in jury deliberations,” said Coleman. “We need to know the experiences of the jurors and whether certain experiences are being excluded.”
Coleman added that in cases where police officer conduct is involved, “you often find some lawyers will either keep Black people off the jury or limit them to one or two people so they are passive when compared to the 10 white jurors.”
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Notably, the Chauvin jury was more racially diverse than both Hennepin County and Minneapolis. A visibly mixed-race jury can send a signal to communities of color that they should not shy away from participating as jurors, Coleman said.
“To have confidence the trial will be fair, you have to know that the jurors include different kinds of people,” he said.
But does that mean they have to be named? Some experts argue that the safety provided by anonymity helps to ensure a fair trial, freeing jurors from being fearful that a decision will come back to haunt them.
In a 1998 paper called “The Effects of Juror Anonymity on Jury Verdicts,” psychologists Lynn Hazelwood and John Brigham created an experiment with students that found a higher rate of conviction (70%) with anonymous juries when compared to named juries (40%). Anonymous juries in the experiment also “imposed the harshest punishment (expulsion) significantly more often than non-anonymous juries.”
In a 2018 paper titled “A Jury of Your (Redacted): The Rise and Implications of Anonymous Juries,” Cornell Law School student Leonardo Mangat argues that while “not without its benefits, anonymous juries raise questions regarding a defendant’s presumption of innocence” and the public’s right to an open trial. Mangat is now a clerk with the California Supreme Court. 
Valerie Hans, professor of law at Cornell in Ithaca, New York, and Mangat’s former teacher, said there is another potential bias implicit in granting juror anonymity.
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“You don’t necessarily always want to convey to a jury that the defendant is so dangerous that you need protection,” she said.
Hans said other tools can be used to provide jurors a sense of security, including televising the proceedings, as was the case in the Chauvin trial.
“When it’s on TV like that, it feels more accessible and you the public are watching and hearing the same things the jury is, which can defuse negative attitudes toward jurors,” she said. “But having said that, there are certainly cases that warrant juror security.”
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By most accounts, the first trial in which a judge ruled to keep jurors anonymous was the 1977 New York drug and organized crime case centered around Leroy “Nicky” Barnes, who was played by Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the 2007 film “American Gangster.”
After Barnes and others were convicted, the case was appealed in 1979 on grounds that the judge’s jury decision was unconstitutional. But an appeals court disagreed, citing the “sordid history of attempts at influencing witnesses and jurors in cases such as these.”
In a dissenting opinion, Judge James Oakes wrote the decision created “an entirely new rule of law” and predicted that judges would soon follow that precedent just as “a flock of seagulls follows a lobster boat.”
Some soon did. The 1991 trial of mob boss John Gotti involved an anonymous jury, as did the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. In some instances, safety concerns on the part of jurors post-verdict seemed appropriate.
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In the 1992 trial of the four police officers who beat Rodney King in Los Angeles, the decision to acquit by an all-white jury led to threats as part of the city erupted in riots and uprisings. Some jurors, who were later identified in some media accounts, moved away from Los Angeles. 
After a Florida jury voted to find Casey Anthony not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2011, stores in Orlando posted signs saying jurors, whose names were sealed by the court, were not welcome. One juror fled the state.
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While the instances in which a judge decides to keep jurors anonymous have increased compared to decades ago, “it’s still pretty difficult to have that granted because most judges are thoughtful about the interests they’re trying to protect, said Paula Hannaford-Agor, director of the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“The tension in this whole debate comes down to First Amendment rights and system transparency and the right for a defendant to have a fair trial with a jury that doesn’t feel pressured in any one way,” said Hannaford-Agor, who said some states have judges that are more predisposed to juror anonymity than others.
Attorney John Burris, who was part of King’s legal team during his successful civil suit against the city of Los Angeles, said he is “not troubled” by the notion of an anonymous jury “because that often can allow jurors to make a decision that they feel is appropriate, it gives them a sense of integrity and peace of mind that is important.”
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Burris, who still practices in Oakland, California, said in the days of the King trial, there were no juror questionnaires and attorneys had to glean all the information they could during courtroom interviews with the jury pool members.
Given that sometimes a judge can shield the name of jurors even from attorneys on both sides, Burris said the rise of multi-question forms for jurors removes the previously critical need to know a juror’s name in order for legal teams to research their biases.
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“We try in those questionnaires to ask anything we can, what shows they watch, their thoughts on guns, drugs and mental illness, to see how they process that information,” he said. “So, is there a conflict there, when sometimes I will know the juror’s name but the general public does not? I think it’s OK. We don’t want to invade people’s privacy in a way that hinders the judicial process.”
Burris said the biggest flaw in the legal system at present is juries that do not represent a cross-section of the population at large. While everyone summoned for jury duty must comply under penalty of law, those disinterested in servicing often find ways to convince attorneys they would not be worth selecting. Burris said granting anonymitywhen appropriate may particularly encourage jurors of color who might be concerned about public reaction to an inflammatory verdict.
“Let’s be real, this issue can be a concern for a juror,” he said. “The King verdict tore up L.A. So it depends on how things turn out.”
Despite expressed concerns over the safety of jurors in high-profile trials, instances in which jurors are seriously harmed post-trial by the public or associates of defendants remain rare. Given that, said Arizona State University legal expert Leslie, the burden of proof for empaneling an anonymous jury should remain extraordinarily high. 
“To say that today we can identify people more easily, therefore juries need to be secret, sends absolutely the wrong signal about our system of justice, which must remain open and trusted,” he said. “And in those rare cases when it is justified, the court has the obligation to release as much information about jurors as possible so the public will have confidence this is a jury of peers.”
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will cross the 100-day mark of his presidency on Friday, an arbitrary date on the calendar, but a decades-old standard used to judge presidents.  
The spotlight has been on the president’s first 100 days since he was sworn in and vowed to use that time to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and reverse many policies of former President Donald Trump.
Biden set a slew of goals to achieve within his first months in office, and while there is nothing in U.S. law stipulating what he must get done in that time, historically, presidents, Congress and the media have looked at the first 100 days of an administration as a benchmark of progress, to set the tone of the administration’s priorities and to judge its success so far. 
“Presidents feel compelled to stack up some points on the first 100-day scoreboard to show that they’re leaders of action, to set the agenda and what kind of leader they’re going to be,” said Terri Bimes, associate teaching professor of political science at University of California–Berkeley.
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Scholars trace the importance of the first 100 days back to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose swift action in the first months of his term to combat the Great Depression made his administration a standard by which presidents have since been held.
He passed 76 laws, according to FiveThirtyEight, rapidly pushed through legislation that gave the government the power to regulate the stock market, set the minimum wage and close American banks for a bank holiday. In a radio address after his first 100 days passed, Roosevelt used the phrase “first 100 days.”
Since then, administrations, political commentators and the media have looked at the amount of legislation a president has passed, the effectiveness of actions taken and public perception and compared it to the standard set by Roosevelt. 
Anthony Badger, a historian of American politics and presidencies, writes in his 2009 book “FDR: The First Hundred Days” that even if the measure is arbitrary, presidents have still felt the need to hold themselves to it.
“Presidents have been expected to follow FDR’s lead,” Badger said. 
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Biden’s term began as the Senate was conducting its second impeachment trial of Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Congress then spent weeks negotiating and passing Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus bill, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. He also introduced his $2.25 trillion jobs and infrastructure proposal, which is expected to be brought up in Congress in the coming weeks.
The president signed a slew of executive actions right out of the gate, including reversals of some of Trump’s hardline immigration policies and orders aimed at expanding resources to combat the pandemic. Biden’s stated goal of administering 200 million COVID-19 vaccines in his first 100 days was met early, the administration said. 
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Still, Biden’s administration faced early challenges with the situation at the southern border, where a surge in migrants, including unaccompanied minors, forced Biden to tell potential migrants not to come to the U.S. as the administration prepared its strategy.
Biden plans to travel to Georgia to mark his 100th day in office in the state that swung his way in the presidential election and elected two Democratic senators. 
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Apart from being a date by which to judge the president, research suggests a president’s first 100 days are also heavy in legislative action and executive actions. 
According to GovTrack, seven laws have been enacted in the current Congress, which is low compared to the number of laws passed in past presidencies. According to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, Barack Obama signed 14 laws, George W. Bush signed seven and Bill Clinton signed 22 in their first 100 days. That compares to 76 for Roosevelt and 53 for Harry Truman.
Bimes’ research with Casey Dominguez and Dan Grushkevich shows that Biden has signed more reversals of a previous administration’s actions in the first 100 days than any president in history, she said. He has also signed the largest number of executive actions, which don’t require passage through Congress, but are tenuous because they can be withdrawn by a future president. 
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Trump also boasted about signing the most executive orders in his first 100 days, Bimes noted. 
“You get the sense that they’re trying to outdo one another,” she said.
A study by professor Casey Dominguez, political science and international relations professor at the University of San Diego, found that presidents are more successful at passing legislation through Congress within their first 100 days in office compared to other times in their administrations, particularly if they are functioning in a politically divided government. 
But research by John Frendreis, Raymond Tatalovich and Jon Schaffhas of Loyola University Chicago has shown that legislative pushes have been less fruitful in modern administrations than they were in Roosevelt’s time. The authors attribute the discrepancy to changes in how a modern Congress works, including a longer process to push through legislation.
Bimes looks at a combination of laws passed, Cabinet confirmations, executive orders, reversals and other factors to determine what a president has accomplished in the first 100 days. 
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Biden can’t be expected to achieve the same amount of legislative success as Roosevelt, Bimes said, given the narrowly divided Congress he faces.
“It’s an arbitrary measure, yes,” Bimes said, but “there’s so much media fanfare around the first 100 days and presidents feel compelled to rack up the points.”
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