Morning Updates: Tsarnaev Jurors Get Help, Red Sox Slump, and More
Happy Star Wars Day, and May the fourth be with you. Here are the stories you need to know for today.
2016, here we come: Former Hewlett-Packard exec Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Dr. Ben Carson all announced (or are about to announce) they are running for the Republican presidential nomination. (The New York Times)
Stranger than fiction: “The Weirdest Testimony Robert Fitzpatrick Gave During the Whitey Bulger Trial … that wasn’t a lie, according to the federal government.’’ (Boston.com)
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Talk it out: “The jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — who have had to watch videos and see photos of the explosions and the resulting injuries, including blown-off limbs — will have some help dealing with the trial’s emotional aftermath. … They will have access to mental health counseling.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Red Sox in a slump: “Jacoby Ellsbury had four hits, and Adam Warren took a one-hit shutout into the sixth inning for the Yankees, who swept the Red Sox in a series of three games or more for the first time since a five-game sweep in 2006.’’ (Boston.com) It could be worse, Red Sox fans. At least you aren’t this guy.
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Sunday Night TV: Recaps for Game of Thrones (Boston.com), Mad Men, Veep, and Silicon Valley.
Time to shave: Beards are as “dirty as toilets,’’ according to germ swabs of these beards. “This is going to be hard for all of us to accept, because beards are glorious and men with beards are divine. … To put it bluntly, all beards are poop beards and we need to rid the world of them immediately.’’ (New York Magazine)
The Goodbye:
Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski attend the 141st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
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