As sexual assault cases proliferate, judges must weigh accusers’ requests for anonymity against the tradition of open courts and fairness toward defendants.

By Graham Bowley @ NYTimes.com, May 14

The man said he was 14 years old when he was sexually assaulted by the actor Kevin Spacey in the early 1980s. Last year he filed a lawsuit against Mr. Spacey in which he sought to maintain anonymity, identifying himself in court papers only as “C.D.”

From NYT

House Democrats are pressing forward with a bipartisan proposal to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, after reaching agreement with a key Republican to drop his party’s demand that such an inquiry look into left-wing violence at racial justice protests.

The deal announced on Friday between Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and Representative John Katko of New York, the panel’s senior Republican, could break a partisan logjam that has persisted for months around the commission.

A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about US empire – then refused to let me say it. By Mathew Alford.

"If you are fully vaccinated, you are protected, and you can start doing the things that you stopped doing because of the pandemic,” the C.D.C. said  ... Fauci: “We’ve got to liberalize the restrictions so people can feel like they’re getting back to some normalcy,” “You can’t inhibit people from doing the things they want to do, which is one of the reasons they wanted to get vaccinated in the first place, because other people are not getting vaccinated,” he added... " ... The move could raise alarms among more cautious Americans, who may be more reluctant to engage in public activities when more people are unmasked. There is no way to know who is vaccinated and who is not, and the majority of the population is not yet fully vaccinated. ...

Demarcus Adams, 21, Jarius Brunson, 22, and Brandon Miller, 22, all enlisted members of the U.S. Army and stationed at Fort Campbell, were arrested Tuesday.

@ WSMV TV, Updated: 4:43 PM EDT May 11, 2021

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Three Fort Campbell soldiers were charged with conspiracy and offenses relating to the illegal purchase and transfer of dozens of firearms to Chicago, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office.