JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news:
The former police officer who fatally shot

Daunte Wright outside Minneapolis was
charged with second-degree manslaughter.

Kim Potter resigned yesterday
and was arrested this morning.

The Wright family's attorney
reacted in New York.

BENJAMIN CRUMP, Attorney For Family
of Daunte Wright: In less than a week,

the district attorney made the
decision that we will charge
this officer, and the family

of Daunte Wright will get to
have their day in court. So, we
say justice for Daunte Wright.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Potter's former boss has
said she grabbed her gun by mistake.

And the charge against her
involves negligence, not intent.
She could get 10 years in prison.

Meanwhile, the trial of former Minneapolis
officer Derek Chauvin continues

in the murder of George Floyd. We will
have that story later in the program.

The U.S. Capitol Police officer
who shot and killed a woman
during the January assault

on the Capitol will not be
charged. Federal prosecutors cited
insufficient evidence today.

The woman, Ashli Babbitt of San
Diego, was part of a pro-Trump mob.

A scathing new report blames
the leadership of Capitol
Police for a raft of failures

before January 6. In widely
reported findings, the force's
inspector general cites equipment

shortages and expired weapons,
riot shields that shattered upon
impact as police battled hundreds

of rioters, and a lack of
intelligence tracking and training
that left officers unprepared.

An advisory panel to the CDC made
no decision today on resuming the

use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID
vaccine. The group asked for
more data on rare blood clots

and will reconvene in a week
or 10 days. At the same time,

public health leaders insisted there's
plenty of other vaccine to go around.

JEFF ZIENTS, White House COVID-19 Response
Coordinator: We have more than enough

supply of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to
continue the current pace of vaccinations,

meet the president's goal of 200 million
shots by his 100th day in office,

and continue to reach every adult who
wants to be vaccinated by the end of May.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Also today,
new federal data showed drug
overdose deaths began rising

again before the pandemic, and accelerated
once it hit. The CDC said that more than

87,000 Americans died in the
year ending in September 2020,

mostly from opioids and methamphetamine.
That's up 30 percent from a year earlier.

The Biden administration has
proposed ending a Trump era ban

on federally funded clinics
referring women for abortions.

Planned Parenthood and others argued that
the ban obstructs access to birth control

for low-income women. The Trump
rule stays in effect until the
new regulation is finalized.

Texas Republican Congressman Kevin Brady
announced today he's retiring after next

year. He's served 25 years and
once chaired the House Ways
and Means Committee. So far,

four House Republicans and two
Democrats are not seeking reelection.

The U.S. Senate today confirmed
Gary Gensler to chair the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.

He's expected to push tougher
regulations for Wall Street.

And most Republicans
opposed his nomination.

On Wall Street today, the Dow
Jones industrial average gained
53 points to close near 33731.

But the Nasdaq fell 138 points,
and the S&P 500 lost 17.

The digital currency exchange Coinbase

made its trading debut. It closed with
a market valuation of $86 billion.

And Bernie Madoff, who organized
the largest fraud in Wall Street's
history, died early today.

Stephanie Sy has our report.

STEPHANIE SY: The scope of
the scam shocked the world.

WOMAN: This is one of the
biggest fraud schemes ever.

STEPHANIE SY: The victims numbered
in the tens of thousands. Their
losses were recently estimated

at between $17 billion and $20
billion. The man behind the
con, financier Bernie Madoff.

He rose through the ranks of
Wall Street riding the image
of a self-made financial guru,

eventually becoming the chairman
of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

The ruse was in full swing in
the 1990s, made off fabricated
profits, attracting new investors,

while paying bigger returns to old
ones, the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.

He swindled major charities,

universities, and celebrities. As of last
year, about three-quarters of the cash,

some $14 billion, had been
recovered by a court-appointed
trustee and returned to victims.

Journalist Diana Henriques,
author of "Wizard of Lies," told
"NewsHour"'s Jeffrey Brown in 2011

how Madoff pulled off such massive deceit.

DIANA HENRIQUES, Author, "The
Wizard of Lies": So you would
never doubt your judgment

about trusting Madoff, because Madoff
made you feel like you were a genius,

too. He had that magic.
It really is amazing.

STEPHANIE SY: But in 2008, his magic
was revealed for what it really was,

one big lie. His own sons turned him in.

QUESTION: What do you
have to say to the public?

STEPHANIE SY: In March 2009,
he pleaded guilty to securities
fraud and other charges

and was sentenced to 150 years
in prison. Bernie Madoff died
today in prison in Butner,

North Carolina. He'd been battling
the final stages of kidney disease.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Stephanie Sy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Bernie
Madoff was 82 years old.

Still to come on the "NewsHour": the
Biden administration announces an

unconditional withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Afghanistan;
Secretary of Education Miguel

Cardona discusses the nationwide
return to in person classes;
we talk about Republican

resistance to the jobs and
infrastructure bill with Senator
Shelley Moore Capito; plus much more.