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(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. Credit...Patrick McDermott/Getty Images 1. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the N.C.A.A. cannot ban relatively modest payments to student-athletes. The N.C.A.A. has long advanced the notion that students should play sports in exchange for no more than a scholarship, books, room and board, and, more recently, the estimated cost of attending college.

(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. Credit...Calla Kessler for The New York Times 1. A “return to life as we know it.” With 70 percent of adults in New York having received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted nearly all restrictions on businesses and social gatherings. That includes ending capacity limits, social distance requirements, disinfection protocols and health screenings.

In 2013, when I was laid off from the small New Hampshire newspaper where I worked, I did what any other functional unemployed person would do: I decided I should move — to a city I couldn’t afford, without any savings! We’ve all heard that famous New York City motto — you know, “The city so nice they named it twice” — but allow me to propose an updated version: They named it twice because everything here costs double.