Weekend Papers Summary
NEW YORK TIMES
-No Radio, Old Tactics: How the Police Response in Uvalde Broke Down The commander at the scene arrived without a police radio, and decided in the first minutes on an approach that would delay a confrontation. The NYT review the response found that communication mishaps and tactical decisions may have contributed to deaths, and certainly delayed medical help.
-NY Republican Representative Chris Jacobs, whose district includes Buffalo suburbs, abandoned his campaign after support for an assault weapons ban caused a GOP backlash.-With a recount still underway, David McCormick stepped aside to Dr. Mehmet Oz in one of this year’s pivotal midterm races.
-The Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, who suffered a stroke last month, didn’t say when he would resume campaigning.
-On Jan 5., 2021, Vice President Pence’s chief of staff flagged a security concern after learning that President Trump was going to turn publicly against Mr. Pence.
-The House had recommended charges against the former Trump aides Peter Navarro, Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino over their stonewalling of its Jan. 6 inquiry.
-The Labor Department reported 390,000 new jobs in May, as policymakers try to ease inflation without inducing a recession.
-The conflict in Ukraine has rocked the global order, wrought destruction that “defies comprehension” and shows little sign of ending. Here’s the latest.
-Gina Haspel Observed Waterboarding at CIA Black Site, Psychologist Testifies The testimony emerged in pretrial hearings in the Cole bombing case at Guantánamo Bay, where the war court is wrestling with the legacy of torture after 9/11.
-Health experts, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recommend that pregnant women get vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as possible, to protect both maternal and fetal health.
-Sheryl Sandberg’s exit reveals about women’s progress in tech. Silicon Valley is losing one of its most visible, outspoken and powerful women. Any gains for female tech leaders have been incremental at best.
-Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, attended a service to celebrate the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who skipped Friday’s event. Catch up on highlights.
-Tesla to Cut 10% of Salaried Staff, Musk Tells EmployeesThe electric carmaker has been growing fast in recent years, but Elon Musk, its chief executive, appears to be concerned about a weakening economy.
-The Depp-Heard trial has exposed risks to media in airing #MeToo accusations. Both the women making accusations, and the press when it publishes them, assume the considerable risk that comes with antagonizing the rich, powerful and litigious.
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
-The US economy registered another month of solid jobs growth in May, despite employers grappling with a historically tight labor market and policymakers’ efforts to cool demand.
-Estonia’s government collapsed after the Baltic country’s prime minister launched a blistering attack on her coalition partners, accusing them of working against the nation’s values and failing to protect its independence in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the request of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, the president, Alar Karis, on Friday dismissed all seven ministers from the Centre party, which used to have formal ties with Russian president Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.
-The German parliament has voted to approve a €100B fund to modernize the country’s armed forces, reflecting the fundamental shift in Berlin’s defense and security policy triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ahead of the vote, Christine Lambrecht, defense minister, told the Bundestag that “security has its price”, and Germany “must be able to defend its values by military means”.
-Tesla shares closed more than 9% lower on Friday after chief executive Elon Musk was reported to have said the electric vehicle maker would cut 10 per cent of salaried staff and freeze hiring.
-Commemorations in Hong Kong of the Tiananmen Square massacre have largely been snuffed out, as authorities have sought to crush observance of the crackdown on student protesters in a city that has typically held the biggest annual vigil on Chinese soil.
-Peter Navarro, who served as the top White House trade adviser to Donald Trump, has been indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress after failing to comply with a subpoena from the committee probing the January 6 2021 assault on the US Capitol.
-When Joe Biden took over the White House from Donald Trump last year, there was no country whose relationship with the US changed more suddenly and more drastically than Saudi Arabia. As a candidate, Biden had vowed to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” amid mounting evidence Saudi officials were behind the 2018 murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi; within a month in office, Biden had declassified US intelligence pointing to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, as having been behind the killing.
-Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s secretive project to build huge electric airships is scaling up rapidly, as Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research prepares its first major test flights later this year. The tech billionaire is hiring hundreds of aerospace engineers in Silicon Valley and Akron, Ohio, at a site made famous by the Goodyear blimp, to build airships intended to run humanitarian missions to remote areas or disaster zones.-Global investors are returning to China’s stock markets after a widespread sell-off earlier this year triggered by draconian Covid-19 restrictions, the geopolitical implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of regulatory crackdowns.
THE NEW YORK POST
-President Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for economic woes as US gas and diesel prices hit records per gallon — and as high inflation, rising interest rates and fear of a recession weigh on Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections.
-Los Angeles motorists bemoaned surging prices at one local gas station that charged more than $8/Gal. of regular this week – a sign of the brutal sticker shock that Californians and others around the country currently face while filling up their tanks.
-Apple is rolling out improvements to its retail scheduling policies in an attempt to placate dissatisfied workers amid a unionization push, Bloomberg reported. Apple will up the amount of time between retail workers’ scheduled shifts to 12 hours from 10 and will allow them to choose a dedicated weekend day off every six months, according to the outlet.