Good morning from the Daily Beast. I'm Barbie Nadeau in for Brooke Howard. It's Thursday, April 29th, and here are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now. For the first time in history, two women flanked the President of the United States as Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening.
When asked what it felt like ahead of the 100-day speech, Vice President Kamala Harris said simply, quote, normal. The co-founder of a Miami private school that has all but banned teachers from getting vaccinated against COVID-19 told employees in a meeting that she was, quote, not okay with them being inoculated. The school sparked outrage by not allowing vaccinated teachers anywhere near the students and embracing the worst of the anti-vax conspiracy theories. A man in India has been arrested and accused of rumor mongering for tweeting that his dying grandfather needed oxygen in the cruel illustration of the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic in the South Asian nation as local government officials clamped down on anyone criticizing the devastated health care system.
The Department of Justice planned to arrest former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at the Courthouse on Civil Rights Crimes if he had not been found guilty of murdering George Floyd last week. He was convicted, but the DOJ is continuing to build his case against him and the three other officers involved in Floyd's death. W.W. Norton has pulled a best-selling biography of Philip Roth from its shelves after multiple women accused its author, acclaimed writer Blake Bailey, of rape.
Bailey denies the accusations, but the publisher says it would donate the amount Bailey received as an advance to organizations dedicated to victims of sexual assault. Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, celebrated their 10th anniversary Wednesday with two portraits smiling together on palace grounds. The photos come on the heels of the death of Prince Philip at 99 and historic tensions between William's younger brother, Prince Harry, and his royal relatives. That's all for today.
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