"The kid to give you the shirt off of his back”
 THE BIG STORY
Daunte Wright was the friend you could always count on, his loved ones said
Daunte Wright died just a few miles away from where George Floyd was killed last summer. Wright, 20, became the latest Black man killed in an encounter with law enforcement.
His family and friends told us he was the kind of person they could always count on. He was funny and had big dreams for his future. He loved his family and his baby boy. Those who knew him described Wright as "the life of the party." His brother described Wright as "the kid to give you the shirt off of his back."
The cop who shot Wright, Kim Potter, is a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police department. She was charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death.
Minneapolis residents, who have been out protesting for a third night, are tired of living through this pain again. And it makes sense: In 2015, it was Jamar Clark. A year later, Philando Castile. In 2020, George Floyd. And on Sunday, Daunte Wright.
Over and over again, Minneapolis residents have had to relive the trauma of watching a police officer kill a Black man — and they're exhausted. Read this report from Caroline Haskins on the community's response.
We collected photos from the three nights of protest in Minnesota. Here's one:  Demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Daunte Wright face off with police near the Brooklyn Center police station on April 13, 2021. Scott Olson / Getty Images STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
The J&J vaccine is still on pause after a CDC panel put off a vote
On Tuesday, federal health officials recommended, "out of an abundance of caution," that states pause their administrations of the Johnson & Johnson shots after reports of six patients who developed blood clots after getting vaccinated.
A new development on this: on Wednesday, an independent CDC expert panel put off a vote on whether the pause of the vaccine should continue, citing a need for data expected to come in the next two weeks on the shot's links to an extremely rare and dangerous blood-clotting illness.
By the way: there have been a few viral Twitter threads comparing the rare vaccine blood clots to the risk of blood clots associated with birth control. But in fact, the two can't be compared. SNAPSHOTS
Despite admitting he had no evidence, Derek Chauvin's witness blamed carbon monoxide poisoning in George Floyd's death. A retired medical examiner, testifying as a witness for Derek Chauvin's defense, blamed carbon monoxide from the tailpipe of a police car as one of the factors contributing to George Floyd's death. He conceded he had no evidence.
The Oath Keepers were ready to "ferry" a stash of firearms to the Capitol on Jan. 6, prosecutors said. The government's long-standing theory is that the extremist group came prepared for violence on Jan. 6 and stashed firearms just outside of Washington, DC. A court hearing featured the government's most comprehensive presentation to date that such a plan was at least partially put into action.
The officer who shot and killed a woman during the Capitol riots won't be charged. Federal prosecutors will not charge the unnamed officer who shot and killed a woman attempting to climb into the Speaker's Lobby during the insurrection at the Capitol in January. The shooting of Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran from California, was captured in a graphic video.
A new study suggests empty middle seats on planes could reduce COVID exposure by a third. Airlines have returned to filling middle seats, which a new CDC study suggests increases the risk of coronavirus exposure.  Remember middle seats? Julio Cortez / AP A BIT BEHIND
A lawmaker wants to label foreign white supremacist groups as "terrorists," but some of them no longer exist
Last week, Rep. Elissa Slotkin sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to take the unprecedented step of designating 13 extremist movements as foreign terrorist organizations.
She argued that such a move "will help apply more stress to curtail these violent organizations' and their leaders' ability to operate their groups."
But here's the thing — of the 13 groups listed, at least four are defunct, one is an American club founded in California that has splintered and rebranded, and another changed the name six years ago when it became part of an allied nation's national guard.
Experts told us while the move indicates a willingness to act, it serves as an excellent example of how the US government has been slow to recognize the threat posed by far-right violent extremists at home and abroad. A BIG DEAL Here are the 2021 winners of the Whiting Awards
The Whiting Award is a big deal. Every year since 1985, the Whiting Foundation has awarded 10 emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama with $50,000 each.
Previous winners of the awards are names you recognize — past recipients of a Whiting Award include Colson Whitehead (2000), Alexander Chee (2003), Terese Marie Mailhot (2019), and Jia Tolentino (2020).
Now, this list of this year's winners has been released — it includes a playwright and showrunner, a professor of planetary science, and one of most promising African writers under 40. Here are the winners. Be fiercely protective of your hard-won boundaries, Elamin 📝 This letter was edited and brought to you by Elamin Abdelmahmoud and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here.
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