It's been a week since the condominium collapse in Surfside. As recently as last month, officials were ordering changes at Champlain Towers South. But the demands never focused on the building's fundamental soundness.

 

View this email online by Jill Hudson First Up Spencer Platt/Getty Images Here's what we're following today. After a three-year investigation, the Manhattan District Attorney is expected to charge the Trump Organization today. The company's chief financial officer surrendered himself to authorities in New York this morning. Donald Rumsfeld, who served twice as U.S. secretary of defense and who was an architect of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, died Tuesday at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 88. Comedian Bill Cosby was released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the indecent assault conviction against him. Here are more details.  A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has signed an order denying Britney Spears' request to have her father removed from the financial aspects of her conservatorship. Read more here.  It's been a week since the condominium collapse in Surfside. As recently as last month, officials were ordering changes at Champlain Towers South. But the demands never focused on the building's fundamental soundness. For more breaking news, follow our Morning Edition live blog. Newsletter continues after sponsor message Today's Listens  Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images We know that President Biden won the 2020 election (regardless of what former President Donald Trump and his allies say). We just haven't had a great picture of how Biden won. That is until Wednesday, when we got the clearest data yet on how different groups voted, and crucially, how those votes shifted from 2016. Listen to the story or read it.  The Picture Show Krista Rossow for NPR The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to help people who have lost property, maybe even their homes, in a natural disaster. Internal FEMA documents obtained in a joint investigation by NPR, Jefferson Public Radio and the California Newsroom reveal that FEMA routinely denies the vast majority of wildfire claims. Listen here or read the story. Before You Go Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Peabody Awards The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved tenure for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Wednesday. The decision not to offer tenure initially to Hannah-Jones inspired a bruising national debate over race, journalism and academic freedom. Telenovela pioneer Delia Fiallo died Tuesday at her home in Miami at age 96. Fiallo scripted hugely popular dramas such as Cristal, Lenoela, and Rafaela during the 1970s and 1980s, which were broadcast throughout Latin America. Listen to your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to hear live radio from Illinois Public Media - WILL (edit station). Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here. Looking for more great content? Check out all of our newsletter offerings — including Music, Politics, Health and more!