Today’s Briefing: 

A London court convicted former University student Paulo Kretteis of two counts of rape and threatening to kill. Kretteis was expelled from Princeton last year after raping a classmate, according to a Title IX investigation. He went on to play professional rugby in the UK. On the night of the attack, footage showed Kretteis wearing a Princeton University jersey.

Readers should note that this story includes descriptions of sexual assault.

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In 2020, a quarter of Americans believed that COVID-19 was a planned conspiracy, and similar misinformation spread via social media or presidential press conferences. Opinion writer Maisie McPherson ’23 says that 2021 should be the year of science. Mending the nation requires returning to the facts, McPherson writes, and a COVID-19 vaccine could be the light at the end of the tunnel.

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