There were fears going into this that we would see something like another January 6th riot. That didn't happen. After the arraignment Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney gave a short news conference. These are felony crimes in New York state, no matter who you are. We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.
Perhaps the only surprising thing about the former president’s arraignment was that it was not followed by big demonstrations—but he did take to the airwaves to seethe. A global rice crisis is brewing; the world’s most important crop is fuelling both climate change and diabetes. And what connects leased pandas in America and Chinese nationalists’ anger.
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