Who can get refunds on plane tickets after delays, cancellations

The refunds, which airlines have to implement over the next six months, must be automatic and prompt.

Business Insider

Sen. Kaine says sending National Guard to college campus protests would be ‘very, very bad idea’

“I think calling in the National Guard to college campuses for so many people would recall what happened when that was done during the Vietnam War, and it didn’t end well. The National Guard going to college campuses, Kent State and elsewhere, did not end well,” Kaine said Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

The Hill

Mitch McConnell says he doesn’t currently see a path forward for national abortion ban

“I don’t think we’ll get 60 votes in the Senate for any kind of national legislation,” McConnell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked whether he would back a federal abortion ban if it came to a vote.

“It’s going to be sorted out at the state level,” McConnell, 82, said.

Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer

Biden jokes about his past stumbles and digs at Trump during annual correspondents’ dinner

“Of course, the 2024 election is in full swing and, yes, age is an issue. I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old,” Biden quipped. “Well, I feel great. I really feel great.”

ABC News

McConnell says he stands by past statement that ex-presidents are “not immune” from prosecution

“Let’s put it this way. I addressed that issue on February the 13th” of 2021, McConnell said. “… And January the 6th of 2021. I stand by everything I said then. Obviously, it’ll be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether I was correct.”

CBS News

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden. But he keeps bringing up another Democrat: Jimmy Carter

“Biden is the worst president in the history of our country, worse than Jimmy Carter by a long shot,” Trump said in a variation of a quip he has used throughout the 2024 campaign, including as former first lady Rosalynn Carter was on her deathbed. “Jimmy Carter is happy,” Trump continued about the two Democrats, “because he had a brilliant presidency compared to Biden.”

AP News

The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population

Behind the scenes at the first Natal Conference, where a motley alliance is throwing out the idea of winning converts to their cause and trying to make their own instead.

Politico

Cash-Strapped Election Offices Have Fewer Resources After Bans On Private Grants

Pushed by conservative activists, 28 states have banned outside funding in elections over the past four years.

Stateline

Abortion in Arizona: women race against the clock of an archaic law

“It creates a really hostile, inhospitable environment for women where we don’t have any assurance that we’re going to be able to get the care that we need if something goes wrong,” she told AFP.

AFP

Machine politics may be on their way out in this long-time stronghold

Democratic primary ballots in New Jersey will look quite different this June thanks to a lawsuit from Rep. Andy Kim.

Business Insider

Here’s how new Title IX regulations could affect LGBTQ+ students

Civil rights advocates at the Southern Poverty Law Center praised the revisions as “bolstering protections for LGBTQ+ students.” Meanwhile, one sexual violence researcher said the new regulations “abandoned” trans athletes. And Riley Gaines, an athlete who opposes transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports, said the changes “officially abolished Title IX as we knew it.”Some states, including Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina, have directed schools to ignore the policy’s directives. “We will not comply,” Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis said April 25.

Austin American Statesman

Churches don’t have to be accessible. That’s a voting rights problem.

In 2024, millions of people will vote at religious sites. What if you’re disabled?

LGBTQ Nation

Do Florida Hispanics support abortion, marijuana amendments?

Democrats are hoping that an explosive debate in Florida over abortion rights will drive fired-up voters to the polls this November, amid a wave of new restrictions that are limiting access to the procedure in the state and across the U.S.

But for Florida’s vast and influential Hispanic electorate, it’s not clear if abortion access is going to be the winning issue that Democrats and activists hope it will be. While polls show that many Hispanic Floridians support a measure to protect abortion rights, they are less likely to embrace it than state voters as a whole.

Tampa Bay Times

Social Media Reveals How Freeways Damage Social Ties

The act had huge economic and social consequences. It helped boost the economy and create an automobile-centered society. But the new freeways also divided communities, disrupted pedestrian movement and broke social ties. In some notorious cases, freeway building was used to clear working-class Black communities and segregate cities along racial lines.

There have been numerous studies and anecdotal accounts of how the freeways destroyed thriving communities. The effects are still apparent today.

Discover Magazine

U.S. panic over national debt might mark a culture shift—are Americans becoming more ‘European’ about money?

As U.S. citizens swiped their credit cards, took on bumper loans, and applied for mega-mortgages during the pandemic, the U.S. government did the same with COVID-19 stimuli; the potential repercussions of that pileup were far from top of mind. 

But a recent outcry over public debt suggests the U.S. could be turning a bit more frugal, and, possibly, a bit more European.

Fortune

Burkina Faso rejects ‘baseless accusations’ that soldiers massacred 223 villagers

Burkina Faso has rejected “baseless accusations” that soldiers massacred 223 people in attacks in February.

BBC

Israeli minister will bring down Netanyahu if Rafah is not invaded

Hardline Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warned on Sunday that he would bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if a planned military ground assault on Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip is called off.

dpa International

Ukraine army chief warns of front line pressure as US aid lags

Ukraine’s army chief has warned of a worsening situation as his forces wait for much-needed arms from a huge US aid package to reach the front lines.

EuroNews

Hamas has ‘no major issue’ with Israel’s Gaza truce counter-proposal

“The atmosphere is positive unless there are new Israeli obstacles. There are no major issues in the observations and inquiries submitted by Hamas regarding the contents” of the proposal, said a Hamas official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The New Arab

Spain’s Socialist prime minister to decide whether to resign

Spain’s Socialist prime minister will reveal whether he intends to resign or stay in power and face down accusations of corruption against his wife, on Monday.

The Telegraph

Palestinian President Abbas says only US can halt Israel’s attack on Rafah

More than a million Palestinians are sheltering in the southern Gaza city after being displaced by Israeli attacks.

AlJazeera

British Empire Exhibition: The forgotten event that took the world to Wembley

On St George’s Day one hundred years ago, King George V stepped on to the turf of the newly created Wembley Stadium to open the British Empire Exhibition – and in doing so became the first UK royal to make a live radio broadcast.

BBC

German opposition leader urges response to Macron’s Europe speech

The German government needs to respond to a recent speech on Europe’s future given by French President Emmanuel Macron, the head of the largest opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said on Sunday.

dpa International