Good morning and happy Cinco de Mayo. It's getting hot in here! El Niño is coming, and with it will come warmer sea temps and new weather extremes. Here's what else we're following today.
Protesters are calling for justice for the death of Jordan Neely. The 30-year-old, homeless Black man died Monday in a New York subway train after a 24-year-old white man put him in a chokehold. The city's medical examiner ruled Neely's death a homicide, but no arrests have been made.
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🎧 Neely's friends told WNYC that he was deeply troubled, and one subway witness told media outlets Neely was shouting about needing food and being willing to die. NPR's Briann Mann says that many people are still worried about homeless or mentally ill people on the streets, despite the city being very safe. "The wider question is how does the city help people who are struggling before incidents like this occur," Mann tells the Up First podcast this morning.
➡️ NYC Mayor Eric Adams has refused to criticize the killing, saying it highlights the need to remove people with mental illnesses from the public transit system. (via Gothamist)
A jury convicted former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and three others on charges of seditious conspiracy related to their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Dominic Pezzola, who took a shield from a police officer to break a window at the Capitol, was found not guilty. Attorney General Merrick Garland celebrated the conviction in the department's ongoing probe of the insurrection.
🎧 But Andy Campbell, senior editor at the Huffington Post, says the insurrection is only one incident, "our far-right extremist crisis is sweeping," and "to stop it, we need a full culture shift that extends beyond prosecutions." Campbell tells Up First that the Jan 6. trial hasn't had a chilling effect on the group's mobilization so far.
King Charles III's coronation takes place tomorrow. While many have gathered at Buckingham Palace days in advance in anticipation of the pomp and circumstance, plenty will be protesting the whopping $125 million price tag for U.K. taxpayers during a cost-of-living crisis.
🎧 NPR's Lauren Frayer joined people outside the palace, where one woman said she was excited to hear the music, which is a closely guarded secret. On Up First, she covers some of the changes the monarchy is making to the 1000-year-old coronation script, including having official roles for representatives of religions other than the Church of England.
➡️ One glittering jewel will be conspicuously absent from the ceremony: the 105-carat Koh-i-noor diamond.
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Check out what our critics are watching, reading and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Movies: Marvel's latest Phase 5 offering is out. But be prepared: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 is darker than audiences might expect from a wacky space yarn.
📺 TV: What's funnier than the Watergate break-in? In White House Plumbers, writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck tell the Watergate scandal story humorously and unexpectedly.
📚 Books: Grab this read for AAPI Heritage Month. Deb J.J. Lee's debut YA graphic memoir, In Limbo, focuses on the author's struggles with mental health and their relationships with their family and friends during their childhood and teenage years.
🎵 Music: Metallica is still making hits 40 years after the band formed. They talk to NPR's Ailsa Chang about their latest album, 72 Seasons, and how they keep the creativity flowing.
🎭 Theater: It took 280 years for Jean-Philippe Rameau's Io to make it to the stage. It was left unfinished when Rameau died and recently completed by a musicologist.
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Are we fated to be eaten by the sun? Astronomers have spotted what appears to be a sun-like star engulfing an orbiting planet, and Earth could one day share the same fate.
Giant blobs of sargassum seaweed are leaving stinky brown carpets over what was once prime tourist sand from Montego Bay to Miami.
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