9:30 AM EDT
2024 Remembrance Ceremony
Oklahoma City National Memorial, Oklahoma
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=DCB288BD-C2A3-57E6-E79E92774CC6BFC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ_1n3k_bRQ
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OK - #TrumpTrial Day 4 - and last? - of jury selection, amid issues of what can or should be reported: not jurors' place of employment, but political links? Inner City Press wrote the book on Carroll v Trump [] & will live tweet, thread below
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1781315009961689340
Two Florida Steel Traders Sentenced for Money Laundering and Russia-Ukraine Sanctions Violations
Friday, April 19, 2024
President of Metalhouse LLC Sentenced to Six Years in Prison and $160 Million Forfeiture
Co-Conspirator Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison and $4.7 Million Forfeiture
John Can Unsalan, aka Hurrem Can Unsalan, the president of Orlando, Florida-based steel trading firm Metalhouse LLC, was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering to promote violations of U.S. sanctions against Sergey Kurchenko, a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch. Unsalan’s former business associate, Sergey Karpushkin, a Belarusian national residing in Miami, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for his role in the scheme. Unsalan pleaded guilty and was ordered to forfeit $160 million in proceeds from the offense. Karpushkin pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and to commit international promotional money laundering and was ordered to forfeit $4.7 million in criminal proceeds.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-florida-steel-traders-sentenced-money-laundering-and-russia-ukraine-sanctions-violations
April 17, 2024 - April 20, 2024
PAA Annual Meeting
Population Association of America
https://events.rdmobile.com/Events/Details/17570
https://www.populationassociation.org/paa2024/home
11:00 AM EDT
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and others will brief the media on NASA’s climate science and early data from the agency’s ocean-watching PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, as well as reveal upcoming Earth airborne missions. Stream on NASA+
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-invites-media-for-climate-update-new-earth-missions/
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/nasa-tv-schedule-for-web-week-of-4-15-2024.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGCWjdFvPAY
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NASA Holds News Conference on Climate Science
Ahead of Earth Day, NASA holds a news conference on climate science, airborne emissions, and their new satellite PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem) that evaluates Earth’s oceans and atmosphere in changing climates.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535043-1/nasa-holds-news-conference-climate-science
11:00 AM EDT
U.S. Senate: Senate Session
The Senate will continue work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance authority to 2026. Current authority expires tonight (Friday) at midnight.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535049-1/senate-session
Chair From The Prince Hall Grand Lodge Of Massachusetts
In 1775, Prince Hall and 14 other men of colour were made masons in Lodge #441 of the Irish Registry attached to the 38th British Foot Infantry at Castle William Island in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. It marked the first time that Black men were made masons in America. A high backed wooden chair used at the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge of Massachusetts. The legs of the chair are rounded columns with decorative capitals and bases. The seat is a box design with small block supports on the underside. The high back of the chair has a decorative column on either side, the PR column is topped with a finial which seems to be missing from the PL side. The wood of the back itself has two identical decorative cutouts, pointed at each end. The very top of the chair is high and rounded with a significant protrusion at the peak. It is stained dark brown all over. Artist Unknown. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/in-1775-prince-hall-and-14-other-men-of-colour-were-made-news-photo/1326286082?adppopup=true
12:00 PM EDT
The President delivers remarks at the IBEW Construction and Maintenance Conference
In-Town Travel Pool
https://www.ibew.org/media-center
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SqLT_0HwWXA
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President Biden Delivers Remarks at Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Conf.
President Biden delivers remarks at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) construction and maintenance conference in Washington, DC.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535051-1/president-biden-delivers-remarks-intl-brotherhood-electrical-workers-conf
APRIL 19, 2024
Campaign 2024: Former President Trump at Hush Money Trial, Day 4
Former President Trump spoke to reporters outside the courtroom on the fourth day of the hush money trial in New York City, decrying the gag order imposed on him by Judge Merchan and saying he should be released from it.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535052-1/president-trump-hush-money-trial-day-4