Morning Updates: Same-Sex Marriage, Movie Star Tom Brady, and More
Here are the stories you need to know for Tuesday, April 28.
Baltimore erupts in looting: “Buildings and cars across the city were engulfed in flames. About a dozen businesses were looted or damaged. At least 15 officers were wounded, six of them seriously, the police commissioner said. All this came just hours after the funeral for Freddie Gray, who died of a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody. ‘I want y’all to get justice for my son, but don’t do it like this here,’’ Gray’s mother, Gloria Darden, pleaded Monday night.’’’ (CNN)
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Same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court: “On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear two-and-a-half hours of arguments about two questions. They’re simple and direct: 1. Does the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment require states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? 2. Does the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment require states to recognize the marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed elsewhere? It’s pretty straight-forward. And yet.’’ (BuzzFeed)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s latest: Defense attorneys emphasized the miserable solitude of life in super-max prison in a counter-intuitive move to avoid a death sentence for Tsarnaev. (Boston.com) After the marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife Katherine texted a friend saying she was OK, and then added: “Although a lot more people are killed every day in Syria + other places.’’ … “Innocent people.’’ (Boston.com)
So easy a New Yorker can do it: “Boston might be the easiest city in America to mock. … Hamilton Nolan, an editor at Gawker, wrote an article in 2013 called ‘F— Boston.’ The entire piece was just him swearing and saying things he hated about Boston. He didn’t even make a case. … ‘The fact that it got the reaction it got—well, to me, it made Boston look even worse,’ Nolan said. ‘Because there was no argument contained in the whole thing. So my amateur diagnosis is that Boston has a big inferiority complex.’’’ (Boston.com)
Taking my talents to North Beach: “Matt O’Malley, a Boston city councilor, wants a touch of Miami Beach in all 220 of Boston’s parks and playgrounds. In a proposal filed for Wednesday’s City Council meeting, O’Malley calls for the city to consider installing sunscreen dispensers. … ‘This is a way that Boston can really lead. It’s the most prevalent type of cancer. Most people know someone who has suffered from skin cancer or has had a scare.’’’ (The Boston Globe)
“Watch Mark Wahlberg Try To Steal Tom Brady’s Sperm in a Very NSFW New ‘Ted 2’ Trailer.’’ Ok then. (Boston.com)
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