President Biden held his first address to Congress, which included the first time the President was flanked by two women (Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi), limited attendees to 200 and featured Senator Ted Cruz sleeping. The office and apartment of Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, were raided by federal agents as part of an ongoing investigation into his activities in Ukraine. Claims emerged that John Kerry reveal sensitive information to Iran about Israeli bombing of Syria during the Obama administration. Fox News corrected their erroneous claim that Biden's climate plan would limit Americans' red-meat consumption, but only after the false report had spread in right-wing media. Medina Spirt won the Kentucky Derby. Olympia Dukakis died.
The world reached 152.8 million COVID cases and 3.2 million deaths this week, of which the US accounted for 33.1 million cases and 591,000 deaths. India set a global record for the most new cases of COVID-19, at more than 300,000 per day for over a week. In response, the Biden administration has agreed to send therapeutic drugs and machinery to India to help with vaccine manufacturing and eventually, surplus vaccines. Meanwhile, 44 percent of the US population has received at least one dose of the vaccine with 31 percent fully vaccinated. In response, the CDC has begun lifting outdoor mask guidance for vaccinated people.
And so we spent a fair amount of time outside (albeit generally masked) this week. Allen and Owen made it to another Nats game where they ran into Molly and Adam and actually got to see the Nationals win. Nora continued outdoor DCYOP rehearsals, and is no longer the only viola as Maeve rejoined this week. But mostly, we got to enjoy Katherine's azaleas and the Kentucky Derby (Allen won!) on a lovely, May night.
(To see all of this week's pictures, click here.)
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