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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1. “Everyone will soon be able to read it.”
That was Attorney General William Barr, who said he planned to publicly release a redacted version of the 400-page Mueller report by mid-April, if not sooner. In his letter to the chairmen of the congressional judiciary committees, above, Mr. Barr added that the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress.
He plans to testify on Capitol Hill in early May, shortly after the report is released, to discuss it with lawmakers.
2. Brexit is in ruins: Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan for a third time, just two weeks before the April 12 date to leave the E.U.
The vote effectively sets the process back to square one almost three years after Britons voted to leave. On Monday, Parliament will try to muster a majority for an alternative path to leaving the bloc, and then challenge Mrs. May to make it work.
If that fails, the country faces the very real possibility of leaving the E.U. without a deal, which many fear will have grave economic implications, or requesting another extension from the bloc’s leaders.
3. Venezuela agreed to let the Red Cross deliver aid. It’s the first tacit admission by President Nicolás Maduro of a humanitarian crisis.
Access to and the distribution of basic supplies have become a main battleground between Mr. Maduro and the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, who have both attempted to control supplies of aid for political advantage. The Red Cross, pictured above in Caracas, said it would begin delivery of medical supplies as soon as mid-April.
In other international news, we visited a camp in Syria where women and children who fled ISIS territory are stuck in limbo after the group’s collapse.
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3. Lyft began trading at $87 a share, soaring above its public offering price and reflecting investor demand for fast-growing tech companies.
Some of the gains faded soon after the debut, but at the I.P.O. price, Lyft had a market value of over $24 billion, making it one of the most valuable American companies to go public in the last decade.
5. A measles outbreak among ultra-Orthodox Jews is spreading fear and stoking tensions with secular neighbors in a New York suburb.
The authorities in Rockland County declared a state of emergency over the outbreak and have traced the spread of measles to ultra-Orthodox families whose children have not been vaccinated. Above, a father and child in Monsey, N.Y.
Some residents are now wiping public bus seats and crossing the street when they see ultra-Orthdox Jews. Hasidic leaders in the area are concerned about a rise in anti-Semitism and public health authorities stepping into their cloistered community.
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6. Prison transport companies have been involved in more than 50 crashes, 60 escapes and 19 deaths since 2000. But no one holds them accountable — even when people die.
Federal agencies that are supposed to oversee the industry almost never act, and because the vans, like the one pictured above, cross state and county lines, local officials can say they don’t have jurisdiction.
In conjunction with The Marshall Project, we took a look at how one company has dodged responsibility for one inmate, Johnny Smith, who was charged with possession of a single oxycodone pill. He died in the back of a prison van in 2011. The for-profit company owes his family $650,000, and it still hasn’t paid.
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8. Billie Eilish has already had a billion plays of her songs, appeared with Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon and performed to large sold-out crowds. Ms. Eilish, 17, is just getting started.
Her striking aesthetic is what our music critic calls a “collective middle finger to the strictures of teen-pop sex appeal,” with the musicality of an “edgy, genre-agnostic (but playlist-friendly) fusion that sounds like pop and streams like hip-hop.” She may very well become a household name.
In other debuts, Salman Rushdie reviews a sweeping new novel about the roots of modern Zambia. And what’s old is new again: On Monday, a new generation of viewers will get its own version of “The Twilight Zone” with Jordan Peele’s revival. Here’s why we still care about the series.
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9. Moving on to the lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments, and one of our most read stories today:
In a news analysis in this weekend’s Sunday Review, our science columnist Carl Zimmer takes a look at the significance of Biosphere 2, which opened in 1991 in Arizona. Its geodesic domes and pyramids contained a miniature rain forest, a mangrove, a desert, a coral reef — and eight people, sealed inside to see if they could survive. Above, candidates for the Biosphere 2 with test modules in 1988.
“The project would later be dismissed as a folly and a waste of effort,” he writes. “And yet, 25 years on, it’s an experiment worth rediscovering. Biosphere 2 might have some lessons to offer about managing Biosphere 1 — our planet.”
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10. Finally, a grumpy cat mystery is solved.
For three decades, bright orange novelty phones shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield kept washing up on the shoreline of Brittany, in western France. Nobody knew where they came from, until now.
Volunteers cleaning the beaches last week discovered a long-lost shipping container in a craggy nook. Because of rising tides, the sea cave is accessible only a few days each year. Once advertised by Tyco as “real phones for real fun,” they are now mostly a real nuisance along the Brittany coast.
Have a lazy weekend.
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