The great Prince has died at age 57; he was found dead this morning at his Paisley Park estate outside Minneapolis. To read fellow artists’ shocked, heartfelt reactions to his passing, click here; to watch an entire incredible 1982 Prince concert, click here; to see all the rest of Slate’s coverage of his life and work, click here. In other news:
- Donald Trump is hiring campaign operatives and meeting with lobbyists and doing various other things he said he never would. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
- Trump made some abnormally reasonable comments on the subject of transgender individuals and bathrooms, to which Ted Cruz responded that men shouldn’t go in bathrooms alone with little girls (?).
- A Hillary Clinton aide said Clinton would consider choosing a woman as a running mate, to which many Elizabeth-Warren-o-philes in the media overreacted.
- A decade after it happened, five former New Orleans police officers pleaded guilty to charges related to a shocking shooting and coverup that took place in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
- Two NYPD officers were charged with harassing and beating a random Queens man whose only apparent crime was giving directions to a stranger who went on to kill two policemen.
- The New York Times embarrassed itself with a fawning “news” article about the queen of England.
- Stephen Curry’s ankle is getting better, but he still might not play tonight.
