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News Roundup: Supreme Court again threatens abortion rights; new program for parents begins in July

In the news today: The Supreme Court takes up a case that it may use to sharply curtail abortion rights. The Biden administration announces monthly relief checks to American parents will begin in July. After losing the November election, Trump lashed out by demanding large-scale withdrawals of U.S. troops abroad.

Here’s some of what you may have missed:

• Supreme Court takes up Mississippi abortion law, setting the stage to overturn Roe v. Wade

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LGBTQ students harassed in their own home in ‘horrific’ incident at Bucknell University

A university in Pennsylvania announced an investigation into a “horrific” incident in which LGBTQ students were harassed after at least 15 to 20 male students tried to storm into the Tower House, a Fran’s House affinity house for the LGBTQ community at Bucknell University, university officials said. Students were left traumatized with their “sense of place and security” threatened and little to no support from public safety officials.

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who joined GOP just ahead of loss in infamous 1991 race, dies

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, a conservative Democrat who joined the Republican Party months before he lost re-election in the infamous 1991 “Race from Hell,” died Monday at the age of 77. Roemer’s third-place showing in that year’s all-party primary led to a general election duel between the ultimately victorious Democrat Edwin Edwards, whom Roemer had unseated in 1987, and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Activists: ‘Did it really require eight police officers to subdue this barefoot homeless man?’

A San Diego resident caught police on camera pummeling a man she identified as homeless after police said he urinated in public. Nicole Bansal told the San Diego Union-Tribune she was driving when she saw police vehicles racing past her, and she started recording on her cell phone when she recognized the man officers were targeting Wednesday morning in La Jolla. “There was no movement made to de-escalate,” Bansal said.

Biden admin pledges probe after report of unaccompanied kids being left stranded in buses overnight

Following a shocking NBC News report last week that a number of unaccompanied migrant children were stranded in vans overnight—one child reportedly for several days—while waiting to be transferred to sponsors, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra has pledged an investigation into the allegations, The Washington Post reports.

“This is completely unacceptable,” Becerra said in the report.

Gaza Journalist: Israel Is Deliberately Targeting the Media by Bombing AP & Al Jazeera Offices

We speak with Palestinian reporter Youmna al-Sayed, who was among the journalists who had to flee for their lives when Israel bombed and leveled a 12-story Gaza building that housed the offices of media organizations including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Israel has claimed, without evidence, that the building was being used by Hamas operatives, but al-Sayed says it’s part of a pattern of Israeli attacks on media. “This is no coincidence,” she says.

Israel Is Trying to Destroy Us: Gaza Father & Writer Speaks Out as Palestinian Death Toll Nears 200

Israel’s assault on Gaza has entered its second week, as Israel killed at least 42 Palestinians in Gaza Sunday in the deadliest day so far when it bombarded the besieged area with airstrikes, artillery fire and gunboat shelling. Israel has killed nearly 200 Palestinians, including 58 children and 34 women, and destroyed over 500 homes in Gaza, leaving 40,000 Palestinians homeless. Israel also leveled a 12-story building housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.

‘They Learn to Parrot What They Know They’re Supposed to Say’

Erin McLaughlin, an educator in Pennsylvania, believes that, in school and in life, people should study what others think and why. But in her estimation, many educational institutions that purport to value diversity and inclusion fail to treat viewpoint diversity—which she defines as “the recognition that nobody’s worldview is complete, and that no one marker of identity actually defines the way we see the world around us”—as a vital part of civic education.

What Kamala Harris Has Learned About Being Vice President

Air Force Two is a smaller plane than Air Force One. The exterior is the same light-blue and white, but unlike the commander in chief’s plane, the vice president’s aircraft is open plan—from the back, you can see all the way to the front, where a small office doubles as a bedroom. Kamala Harris spends most of her Air Force Two flights in that office, with the door closed. She doesn’t work the plane, the way Joe Biden or even Mike Pence did.

Europe Wants Americans Back

“It’s a great time to be an American tourist.”Such a statement would have been nonsensical a year ago, when the COVID-19 surge in the United States was so grim that Americans, who are accustomed to traveling most places without issue, were considered personae non gratae across much of the rest of the world.