Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died at 99. The Washington Post and the Guardian look back at his life. Today concludes the second week of testimony in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. NBC spoke to Floyd’s nephew about the experience of rewatching his uncle’s death during the trial. And Vox explains why the trial is retraumatizing Black Americans. Brazil and India are making headlines as COVID-19 cases and deaths there grow. The Washington Post looks at what is fueling Brazil’s surge. And Bloomberg reports that it’s difficult to know if new variants are behind India’s case increase because the country is not doing thorough genetic-sequencing. When a group of Navy SEALs accused their chief, Eddie Gallagher, of murder, it shined a spotlight on the secretive force. A new investigative podcast by Apple, The Line, explores the accusations against Gallagher, the subsequent trial, and what the story says about problems in SEAL culture. A subatomic particle is challenging one of the most watertight theories in science. National Geographic has details about an experiment that could transform our understanding of how the universe works.

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