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Biden shines a light on safety and equality for LGBTQ+ community at start of Pride Month
“During Pride Month, we celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) community,” the proclamation reads. “We reflect on the progress we have made so far in pursuit of equality, justice, and inclusion. We recommit ourselves to do more to support LGBTQI+ rights at home and around the world.”
Salon
Puerto Rico’s 2 biggest parties hold primaries as governor seeks 2nd term and voters demand change
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, was seeking a second term, running against Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress, Jenniffer González. The two ran on the same ticket four years ago, but González announced her plan to challenge Pierluisi in early December. Public jabs between the two turned acrimonious.
AP News
Sanders reups vow to boycott ‘war criminal’ Netanyahu’s address to Congress
“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal,” Sanders said in a statement released on Saturday. “He should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress. I certainly will not attend.”
The Hill
Historic erotica gets a permanent home
Mizer’s magazines not only pack a wallop of personal nostalgia for Dunphy and other gay men of his generation. They also serve as a cultural time capsule: The photography in their pages had a powerful influence, molding notions of masculine gay identity alongside the rise of the modern American gay rights movement. Harry Hay’s Mattachine Society, also based in Los Angeles, issued its original Statement of Purpose in 1951.
Gay Cities
Abortion, guns and more: These are the Supreme Court’s remaining cases
The Supreme Court is turning toward the final, frenzied weeks of its term, readying potential blockbuster decisions on abortion, guns and former President Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity.
CNN
A supreme court case about fishermen could throw government into chaos
The US supreme court is poised to decide the fate of a decades-old legal framework that has helped determine how the federal government regulates everything from pollution to financial markets.
The Guardian
Thurgood Marshall Was My Mentor. He’d Be Furious with the Court Today.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The Supreme Court justice’s vision is betrayed daily in an America in which schools remain separate and unequal.
Politico
On This Day: Indian Citizenship Act becomes law
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, extending citizenship to all Native Americans born within the United States and its territories.
UPI
Donald Trump has become the first U.S. President to be a convicted felon: what happens now?
Donald Trump was found guilty in 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by a New York jury. Here’s what else you should know about the historic verdict
The Latin Times
Donald Trump Is Banned from 37 Countries as Convicted Felon, Including Major Allies Like Canada and U.K.
Countries that turn felons away include several of the United States’ strongest allies, like the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada — the final of which will host the G7 summit of world leaders in 2025. The list also includes a number of nations at the center of pressing foreign policy issues, such as China, Israel and Mexico.
People
Republicans make Biden’s EV push an election-year issue as Democrats take a more nuanced approach
Donald Trump says the Biden administration’s policy to promote electric vehicles is a “radical plan” that would kill the economy in automaking states. Republican allies in the petroleum industry have spent millions on ads that say President Joe Biden’s tax credit for EV buyers will cost Americans their freedom.
AP News
Fauci set for fiery hearing with House GOP
Anthony Fauci, the public face of the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will offer his first congressional testimony in nearly two years Monday by a GOP-led committee likely to grill him over alleged misconduct that occurred under his leadership of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The Hill
California has underestimated the epic potential of future flooding, research shows
“We look back at our history, and these massive events come along, and they’re gonna keep coming along,” said Josh Willis, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, who was not involved in the research. “But global warming is almost always gonna make them worse. So, the wild ride is gonna get wilder.”
Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court case that could impact the homeless coast-to-coast
In 2009 in federal court, Belodoff filed a lawsuit that came to be known as Martin v. Boise, arguing that the city of Boise had violated the 8th Amendment of the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments, by leaving those without homes nowhere to legally sleep.
CBS News
Republicans join effort to change confederate statues representing MS in Washington
Several Republican Mississippi lawmakers are now seeking to replace confederate statues representing the state in Washington, D.C. just weeks after Arkansas installed a statue of a civil rights activist next to Mississippi’s Jefferson Davis.
Clarion Ledger
The Woooorld
Taiwan separatists will be ‘crushed to pieces’, warns China
Admiral Dong Jun says ‘indestructible’ army will act forcefully to curb the independence of democracy
The Telegraph
What to know about Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s likely next president
Her predecessor’s legacy looms large over Mexican politics. She’ll have to chart her own way.
Vox
Israeli government in danger as Ben-Gvir, Smotrich refuse Gaza ceasefire deal
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir both said on Saturday night that they would not agree to US President Joe Biden’s proposal and threatened to leave the government if his plan was accepted.
Jerusalem Post
South Africans slash support for Nelson Mandela’s party, ending decades of dominance
South Africans angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed support for the African National Congress to 40% in this week’s election, ending three decades of dominance by the party that freed the country from apartheid.
USA Today
Israeli leader Netanyahu faces growing pressure at home after Biden’s Gaza proposal
Prime minister called a permanent cease-fire a “nonstarter” until longstanding conditions for ending the war are met.
Politico
This year will likely be the last major D-Day anniversary with living veterans in attendance. Organizers are going all-out
At 99 years old, Jack Foy is considered the youngster among his group of friends that fought in World War II.
CNN
Mexican election could upend Biden’s border strategy
If elected, Sheinbaum would have the legal authority to undo an April agreement that Lopez Obrador entered into with President Joe Biden that the White House touted this week as having a positive effect in reducing illegal immigrant arrests at the U.S. southern border, according to the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan global affairs think tank in Washington, D.C.
Washington Examiner
‘Biden is our only hope’: Thousands of Israelis urge hostage deal
Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday to demand acceptance of a ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden, with many fearing the premier would disown the proposal.
Al-Monitor
Will using Western weapons on Russia help Ukraine change the war?
Ukraine is now allowed to use Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia. What will this decision change and how will it affect the front line in Ukraine?
BBC
Germany’s trial of the century: the plot to topple Scholz
Elderly aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss makes an incongruous terrorist, but prosecutors will argue Reichsbürger coup plan was deadly serious
The Week
EU nations fume over Hungary’s vetoes of Ukraine weapons aid
Budapest’s intransigence is prompting discussions among diplomats about how the EU fund could be shielded from Hungary’s veto when it soon receives another influx of cash from the profits of immobilized Russian assets.
American Military News
Iran’s ex-president Ahmadinejad, disqualified Larijani sign up for election
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and others see an opportunity, but it remains unclear who will be qualified to run by the Guardian Council.
AlJazeera
Modi eyes ‘super majority’ amid fears he will change India’s constitution
India’s Narendra Modi is on course to win a “super majority”, early exit polls showed, stoking fears he will use sweeping powers to change the constitution amid a rising tide of nationalism.
The Telegraph
Israeli doctors threaten to leave country if haredi draft exemption is approved
The inequality caused by haredim not serving in the IDF and proposed lengthening of reservist service is causing doctors to begin leaving Israel.
Jerusalem Post
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam in critical condition after Russian strikes, authorities say
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say.
CNN
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