Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The latest derailment: “No hazardous materials were on board the 28 cars of a Norfolk Southern train that derailed Saturday evening in Springfield, Ohio, officials said at a news briefing. It was the second derailment of the company’s trains in Ohio in a matter of weeks after a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3.”
* In Israel: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a call from a prominent Cabinet member for a Palestinian village to be erased was “inappropriate,” days after it prompted an international outcry.”
* Jan. 6 guilty plea: “A Colorado man prosecutors say was affiliated with the right-wing, anti-government Three Percenters movement pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, admitting that he marched with the Proud Boys, a different far-right group, for several hours before attacking officers.”
* Manafort opens his checkbook: “Paul J. Manafort, a longtime fixture in Republican politics who briefly managed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case brought by the Justice Department last year over foreign bank accounts that he did not declare to United States officials, according to his lawyer and court documents.”
* In Selma: “President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supreme Court has undermined a landmark voting law.”
* Systemic problems on Twitter seem to have become more common since a certain someone bought it: “Multiple features on Twitter experienced temporary issues Monday, as users reported problems with broken links, images and at least one third-party app. The impacted features appeared to rebound back to normal about an hour after the outages were first reported.”
* Security footage: “A federal judge on Friday denied a Jan. 6 defendant’s request to delay her imminent trial in order to review thousands of hours of security footage recently made available by Speaker Kevin McCarthy.”
* The latest executive privilege fight: “Former President Donald J. Trump has filed a motion asking a federal judge to prevent his former vice president, Mike Pence, from testifying to a grand jury about specific issues that Mr. Trump is claiming are protected by executive privilege, a person briefed on the matter said.”
* An important evaluation: “Two Ukrainian pilots are in the U.S. undergoing an assessment to determine how long it could take to train them to fly attack aircraft, including F-16 fighter jets, according to two congressional officials and a senior U.S. official.”
* The passing of a pioneer: “Judy Heumann, a renowned activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, has died at age 75. … She spent the rest of her life fighting, first to get access for herself and then for others, her brother recalled.”
See you tomorrow.
