? Fast rundown: Oklahoma lawmakers have handed an all-out abortion ban; President Joe Biden is on a five-day go to to Asia; some concern retribution on hundreds of Ukrainian troops leaving Mariupol in Russia’s fingers; the Texas GOP AG main runoff; Harry Kinds’ new album is lastly right here.
??♀️Hello! I am Nicole, and this is Friday’s information.
? Up first: A church service was held on Thursday night in Buffalo, New York, to honor victims of the lethal grocery store capturing.
⚫ The white man accused of killing 10 Black folks in a racist bloodbath at a Buffalo grocery store appeared briefly in court docket after he was indicted by a grand jury.
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? The gunman in a hate-fueled capturing assault at a Southern California church despatched copies of a diary to a Chinese language-language media outlet earlier than he fatally shot a parishioner and wounded 5 others, the newspaper that obtained the package deal reported.
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? A potential monkeypox case was reported in New York Metropolis as an outbreak spreads to seven nations.
? Black most cancers loss of life charges are falling, however stay larger than in different teams.
✍ Illinois’ governor signed a invoice banning ”ghost weapons,” untraceable weapons typically comprised of a package bought on-line that presently don’t require a background test.
? Children ages 5-11 can begin receiving third doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine after the CDC signed off on the boosters.
? Deciding what to put on for a Zoom assembly? Our product specialists at Reviewed have gathered the right outfits for a work-from-home life-style so you possibly can look implausible on digicam and be comfy.
? On as we speak’s 5 Issues podcast, hear from abortion suppliers in Oklahoma because the state passes the nation’s strictest anti-abortion legislation. You’ll be able to take heed to the podcast day-after-day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or in your good speaker.
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Oklahoma lawmakers cross invoice banning abortions after ‘fertilization’
Oklahoma is poised to implement the strictest anti-abortion legislation within the nation after state lawmakers on Thursday gave closing passage to a invoice that bans abortion from the purpose ”fertilization.” If signed by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, this invoice would supersede a Texas-style abortion ban Stitt signed earlier this month that largely prohibits the process after six weeks. Stitt, who has vowed to signal all anti-abortion payments that advance to his desk, is predicted to signal the invoice, HB 4327. Abortion suppliers within the state plan to problem in court docket the measure that would take impact any day. Restricted exceptions to the invoice embrace abortions crucial to avoid wasting a lady’s life and people carried out to finish pregnancies that occurred as a consequence of rape or incest, as long as the girl reported the crime to legislation enforcement. The vote spurred state Republican Rep. Garry Mize to specific frustration with the Legislature for not doing extra to assist pregnant Oklahomans get assist and sources. He stated: “What are we doing? Are we truly going to place our cash the place our mouth is?”
? Video: Some states prep for extra sufferers if Roe v. Wade falls.
? Emergency contraception, additionally known as ”Plan B,” continues to be authorized in Oklahoma and different states.
Biden to go to Samsung semiconductor plant in South Korea
President Joe Biden begins his five-day Asia journey with a go to to a Samsung semiconductor plant Friday, a cease meant to show the rising cooperation between the U.S. and South Korea on expertise and different points. When South Korea’s earlier president, Moon Jae-in, traveled to Washington final 12 months, the nations introduced “mutual and complementary investments” in semiconductors and batteries for electrical automobiles. The intent is to broaden manufacturing of key merchandise and strengthen provide chains to be much less reliant on China. Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan stated Biden “will have interaction with expertise and manufacturing leaders in Korea who’re mobilizing billions of {dollars} in funding right here in the USA to create hundreds of good-paying American jobs.” Biden will grapple with a large number of overseas coverage points throughout his go to to South Korea and Japan, however he additionally crafted an itinerary clearly meant to are likely to the issues of his residence viewers as nicely.
? Russia, North Korea, international democracy: This is what to anticipate from Biden’s Asia journey.
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? Gabrielle Blair is a Mormon mother-of-six whose viral Twitter thread locations the accountability of undesirable pregnancies on males. Her 63-tweet thread has garnered practically 40 million impressions, and helps folks reframe the abortion debate.
? Feminine refugees from Ukraine are displaying up at prepare stations all through Europe, the place they’re being met by shadowy males who traffick them.
? The White Home and Congress took steps to fight the nationwide child components scarcity. However don’t anticipate aid in a single day.
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Organizations warn of Russian retribution in opposition to Ukrainian troops
In what seemed to be the ultimate stage within the practically three-month siege, greater than 1,700 Ukrainian troops have surrendered in current days after weeks of defending the port metropolis of Mariupol, Russian authorities stated, with some taken to areas managed by Russian-backed separatists. Now, some are voicing fears that Russian forces could inflict retribution on the troops. The Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross is making an attempt to register the Ukrainian troops as prisoners of conflict, gathering private data from lots of of troopers, as a part of its function in making certain the humane remedy of POWs beneath the Geneva Conventions. In the jap Donbas area, 12 folks had been killed when Russia shelled the neighboring cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, regional governor Serhiy Haidai stated in a Telegram put up Friday. Russian floor troops additionally tried to assault Severodonetsk however took losses and retreated, Ukraine’s Common Workers stated in its Friday morning replace.
? Thursday Ukraine recap: POW “pleading for forgiveness” from Ukraine widow.
? ”Struggle for survival”: Senate approves $40 billion in Ukraine help as final support package deal runs out.
? U.S. support to Ukraine may hit $53B: This is what it covers, the way it compares and who pays for it.
Deadline to forged votes in Texas GOP AG main runoff that includes George P. Bush
Friday is the final day for Texans to forged their vote in a runoff for the GOP nomination for lawyer normal between two-term Texas Lawyer Common Ken Paxton and George P. Bush. Bush, who’s leaving his land commissioner put up to problem Paxton, will face the Donald Trump-backed incumbent once more after neither garnered a majority of the votes forged within the March 1 Republican main. Paxton led with 42.7% of the first vote, whereas Bush obtained 22.8%, forcing the runoff. Since March 2, Bush has raised $2.3 million, edging Paxton, who raised $2 million in that point. In a current interview with the Austin American Statesman, a part of the USA TODAY Community, Bush stated of Paxton that “Texas deserves higher.” He added that, “Our get together deserves to have anyone that may champion necessary values beneath the federal Structure.”
? U.S. senator weighs in: Sen. John Cornyn calls Texas AG Ken Paxton’s authorized troubles “a supply of embarrassment.”
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? Video from Austin: Who can vote in a runoff? Explaining the Texas runoff elections.
Nations proceed to calm down COVID-19 restrictions for globetrotters
Beginning Friday, all U.S. vacationers arriving in Israel by airplane will not should take a PCR take a look at upon arrival and won’t should quarantine. This comes as nations throughout the globe are persevering with to calm down worldwide journey restrictions associated to COVID-19. Many nations corresponding to Laos, Jamaica and the Czech Republic at the moment are permitting extra guests to enter after, in some circumstances, greater than two years of tight restrictions. The European Union is predicted to drop its masks mandate for air vacationers beginning subsequent week and New Zealand will reopen its borders to vacationers by July, the federal government introduced Could 11. The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention final month eliminated all of the remaining nations on its “Do Not Journey” checklist, however the CDC recommends all vacationers keep updated on their COVID-19 vaccines and “comply with all home and worldwide journey necessities and proposals.”
? The place are masks nonetheless required now that the masks mandate has been lifted?
? Put up-pandemic journey: Is it OK to ask one other passenger’s vaccine standing or request they masks up?
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? Gaffe: George W. Bush condemns Vladimir Putin’s ”brutal, unjustified invasion of Iraq,” that means Ukraine.
? Interview with Jean Good on ”Hacks” Season 2: “Fixed stress” of parenting with out her late husband.
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? Assessment: ”Downton Abbey: A New Period” continues British household saga in stable, soapy vogue.
?? Rihanna, A$AP Rocky welcome first little one after internet-breaking being pregnant.
Harry Kinds releases anticipated third album, ‘Harry’s Home’
Harry Kinds is again along with his first album since 2019’s “Tremendous Line,” with the discharge of “Harry’s Home” Friday. The album – Kinds’ third solo effort – follows the discharge of the album’s first single, “As It Was,” which has topped the Billboard World 200 chart for a number of weeks. “Harry’s Home,” whose title is a nod to Joni Mitchell’s 1975 music “Harry’s Home / Centerpiece,” incorporates a dazzling unfold of sounds, from spunky horns to glistening synthesizers to sinewy bass traces, USA TODAY’s Melissa Ruggieri writes in her overview. Ruggieri provides that Kinds’ pursuit of “musical experimentation one way or the other by no means sounds indulgent, and his blatant alerts to his forebears, whether or not ‘80s new wave or ‘70s funk, are at all times freshly dressed.”
? 12 spring albums we will not wait to listen to: Harry Kinds, Miranda Lambert, Arcade Fireplace and extra.
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“Prime Gun: Maverick,” has landed throughout the pond with royal aptitude! The sequel to Tony Scott’s 1986 motion drama, which soars again to the massive display on Could 27, had its United Kingdom premiere on the Leicester Sq. Gardens in London on Thursday. Simply the day earlier than, Tom Cruise mania descended in Cannes the place the actor walked the purple carpet and obtained a shock Palme d’Or, the competition’s prime award. The Cannes cease was a part of a worldwide tour for the movie forward of its launch in theaters. Paramount Photos delayed its launch for 2 years in the course of the pandemic, a transfer that seems to be paying off with glowing critiques and box-office expectations that “Prime Gun: Maverick” will simply mark Cruise’s largest opening weekend ever.
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Israel continued to pound Lebanon with a fierce wave of air strikes overnight, as Israeli forces stepped up their air campaign against Hizbollah, hitting what they said were targets linked to the militant group.
The bombardment lit up Beirut’s skyline on Sunday, as powerful blasts rocked the city throughout the night. Targets included a building near the road to Beirut’s airport, where the strikes set off huge fires. Smoke was still seen rising from the area in the morning.
The explosions began around midnight, after Israel’s military warned residents to evacuate neighbourhoods in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which Hizbollah dominates, including Haret Hreik and Choueifat. Another powerful blast was heard on Sunday morning.
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The more intense bombing followed a day of sporadic air strikes and the constant buzz of reconnaissance drones, both of which have become almost routine for residents of the capital.
Israel’s military said it had struck weapons storage facilities and other infrastructure linked to Hizbollah in Beirut. It also said Hizbollah launched projectiles across the border, some of which were intercepted.
Hizbollah said it successfully struck a group of Israeli soldiers with a salvo of rockets. It is not possible to verify the battlefield claims on either side.
Israel has intensified its assault against Hizbollah over the past two weeks as it has shifted its focus from Gaza to the northern front. It has killed Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, launched air strikes across Lebanon and sent troops into Lebanon’s south for the first time in almost two decades.
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More than 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in the conflict, the majority in the past two weeks, according to data from the Lebanese health ministry. More than 1.2mn people have also been displaced from their homes because of the fighting.
This includes about 375,000 people who fled to Syria in recent days, some of whom made the journey on foot. Israel bombed one of the roads leading up to a major crossing point, saying it was targeting Hizbollah’s supply routes from Syria.
Foreigners have also continued to flee Lebanon, with multiple nations chartering planes to help repatriate their citizens in recent days.
Israel on Saturday struck a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern city of Tripoli for the first time, targeting a Hamas commander. There were also indications that Israel was widening its offensive to include Hizbollah’s civil infrastructure.
Lebanese authorities said Israeli bombardment had killed 50 health workers in the past four days, as Israeli fighter jets continued to attack medical facilities, mosques and other buildings it says are used by Hizbollah militants.
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The WHO’s director-general warned that the capacity of Lebanon’s health system — already on the brink after five years of a dire economic crisis — was deteriorating and that the UN agency’s “medical supplies cannot be delivered due to the almost complete closure of Beirut’s airport”.
While Lebanon’s only airport remained open, most airlines have suspended flights in and out of the country because of the heavy bombardment in the nearby southern suburbs.
Israel has issued multiple evacuation orders in recent days, warning people in towns and villages across the south to move north. It gave similar orders during its war against Hamas in Gaza ahead of big offensives.
The escalation has pushed the Middle East closer to all-out war. The region is bracing for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to an Iranian missile barrage fired at Israel on Tuesday.
Tehran said the missile attack was in response to the assassination of Nasrallah and the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.
Israel also carried out further strikes in Gaza overnight, including bombing a mosque and a school in Deir al-Balah. Palestinian health officials said 26 people had been killed and “dozens” had been injured in the strikes. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas militants using the sites to direct operations against its forces.
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Israel also launched a new offensive in Jabalia in the north of the enclave, with warplanes carrying out a heavy bombardment of the area before it was encircled by ground forces. The military said it had launched the assault because militants had regrouped in the vicinity.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday renewed his calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying weapons shipments to Israel for its campaign in the enclave should be suspended, and warning against further escalation in Lebanon.
“The Lebanese people must not in turn be sacrificed, Lebanon cannot become another Gaza,” he said in an interview with the France Inter radio station.
Netanyahu hit back, branding those supporting an arms embargo a “disgrace”. “Shame on them,” he said. “Israel will win with or without their support. But their shame will continue long after the war is won.”
Weather satellite image of the U.S. taken on Saturday afternoon ET shows stormy conditions brewing in the Gulf Coast.
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Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene left a devastating and deadly trail across the Southeast, another storm is forecast to reach Florida next week — bringing threats of heavy rain, strong winds and flash flooding to the already-storm battered state.
The National Weather Service said Saturday that a tropical storm, named Milton, has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is heading toward the west coast of the Florida Peninsula. It is forecast to strengthen rapidly into a hurricane on Sunday night and become a major hurricane as it approaches the Florida coast, according to a 5 p.m. ET update from the NWS.
Forecasters said the storm is expected to bring potentially life-threatening storm conditions, including storm surge and strong winds, starting late Tuesday or Wednesday. Meanwhile, some parts of Florida will be drenched by heavy rainfall as soon as Sunday or Monday.
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Parts of South Florida were already experiencing heavy rainfall on Saturday. South Florida was expected to receive up to 7 inches of rain through Thursday. The NWS plans to issue a flood watch for parts of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties starting Sunday morning through Thursday morning.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday issued a state of emergency for 35 counties, including all of central Florida, in preparation for Milton’s arrival.
The governor’s order activates the Florida National Guard as needed and expedites debris cleanup from Hurricane Helene.
The prospect of another major storm comes as communities across the Southeast continue to uncover the full extent of Helene’s damage. Six states — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia — were hit the hardest. Helene’s death toll has surpassed 200.
In Florida, at least 19 people have died as a result of the storm, according to USA Today. Helene is considered one of the deadliest hurricanes to have hit the continental U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.