It’s election day in New York and, appropriately, everyone is mad, from Bernie supporters who are just realizing the state’s closed-primary system stacks the deck against them to the tens of thousands of Brooklyn residents who’ve inexplicably been removed from voter rolls. In other news:
- Dozens of people were killed in what appears to have been a coordinated Taliban attack on a government facility in Kabul.
- The White House is suggesting Obama will veto a bill with bipartisan support that would change U.S. law to allow Saudi Arabia to be sued over 9/11.
- The ex-NYPD officer who accidentally killed Akai Gurley was sentenced for criminally negligent homicide—but given probation, not prison time.
- Southwest Airlines says the passenger who controversially became alarmed that a UC-Berkeley student was speaking Arabic on a flight to Oakland also speaks Arabic.
- And Britain’s buzzkill science minister says the country’s new polar research vessel will probably not be named “Boaty McBoatface” even though that’s the name that won an online poll. Boo!
