Good morning from the Daily Beast. I'm Barbie Nato in for Brook Howard. It's Tuesday, April 27th, and here are the top six stories that cheat sheet team is watching right now. Thousands of mostly maskless concertgoers crowded together for a hardcore show in Manhattan's Topkin Square Park over the weekend.
After the event's organizer allegedly told City officials he was hosting a political rally with just 100 people. Instead, more than 2,000 people showed out packing a park in clear violation of the city's coronavirus guidelines. Before the show, one performer was boasting about it being a quote, super spreader bowl of hardcore. The city is now investigating the concert.
A Montreal mansion belonging to Pornhub, Co-owner Ferris, and Toon burned down Sunday night in what authorities say appears to be arson. The $16 million mansion was destroyed, but no one was hurt. And Toon is under pressure after a New York Times column accused the company of harboring abusive, racist, misogynistic, and often illegal content. U.S.
Capitol Police arrested a 22-year-old man for unlawful entry after he climbed the fence around the Capitol building on Monday. Officials say he parked his car outside the Lincoln Memorial before scaling the barrier erected in the wake of the Capitol riot earlier this year. The potential breach comes just days before President Biden's Wednesday address, which has drawn heightened security. A petition submitted Monday asking Simon & Schuster to stop publishing books with former Trump administration officials gathered 216 signatures from the company's employees, as well as several thousand from outside supporters.
The petition asked the publisher not to treat the Trump administration as a quote, normal chapter in American history. The publishing house said they won't back down and that they quote, come to work each day to publish, not to cancel. A Danish Lutheran minister has been charged with murdering his still missing wife after investigators found suspicious internet searches for words like disappeared, seed-depth, and oil barrels on a computer belonging to the couple. Thomas Goddard, who maintains his innocence, told authorities that his wife was suffering from depression.
He's currently in police custody. A New York City correction department captain has been charged with criminally negligent homicide after an inmate hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell after she refused to give him immediate help, instead telling others he was quote, faking it. Captain Rebecca Hillman, who says she is innocent, is also accused of lying on official documents about the suicide. That's all for today.
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