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Deshaun Watson’s discipline hearing is complete. What’s next: What we know
Disciplinary officer for Deshaun Watson hearing said she will take meticulous approach to reviewing the evidence and that her decision will take time.
Inflation means people are spending less, which may be putting a recession on fast track
Consumers cutting spending faster than expected due to inflation sends alarm bells about the economy. Some now see recession sooner rather than later.
Appropriation or appreciation? How ‘Elvis’ highlights his complicated history with Black music
Elvis’ legacy has taken center stage in Baz Luhrmann’s film starring Austin Butler, as has his relationship with Black musicians. Who benefited?
France bans use of ‘steak,’ ‘sausage’ to describe vegetarian products
Plant-based meat alternatives will have to come up with new terminology in France. The country adopted a measure banning plant-based products from using the same names as food from dead animals. …read more
AOC repeats call to ‘reform or do away with’ filibuster after SCOTUS EPA decision
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the Senate should “reform or do away with” the legislative filibuster after the Supreme Court’s decision on the Environmental Protection Agency. …read more
Abortions may resume in Kentucky after judge grants temporary suspension of ‘trigger’ law
Abortions may resume in Kentucky after a judge granted a temporary suspension that halts the state’s trigger law after Roe was overturned.
‘Shocking’ and ‘disgraceful’: Supreme Court climate ruling sparks anger from Democrats, environmentalists
The Supreme Court’s Thursday decision restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to confront climate change sparked an uproar among climate hawks in Congress, environmental activists and the clean energy industry.
But it also left them facing big questions about what their Plan B will be, amid Democrats’ struggles to push President Joe Biden’s climate agenda in Congress.
“Climate change is here and happening regardless of whether a tiny, extremist minority wants us to do something about it,” a White House official said of the decision under condition of anonymity. “This decision is shocking in its impact even if it’s not surprising.”
A White House spokesperson said its lawyers will “study the ruling carefully and we will find ways to move forward under federal law. At the same time, Congress must also act to accelerate America’s path to a clean, healthy, secure energy future.”
Congressional Democrats whose efforts to pass legislation to fight climate change have been blocked for years — both by Republicans and, more recently, by Democrats’ own troubles unifying their razor-thin Senate majority — said their party must take action in response to the Supreme Court’s decision.
The court’s “disgraceful ruling” reinforces the urgency under which Democrats must pass climate and clean energy legislation through a party-line measure that can pass with a bare majority vote in the Senate, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) said. “The radical-conservative and wildly out-of-touch majority on the Supreme Court just undermined the federal government’s ability to use the Clean Air Act to protect our clean air and clean water from harmful climate warming pollution.”
However, the party has so far failed to garner the 50 votes in the Senate needed to move climate legislation amid resistance from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, and supporters see the next few weeks as the last chance to pass a measure.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that “just like last week’s dangerously misguided and abhorrent decisions on gun safety and abortion, the extremist MAGA Court’s ruling today in West Virginia v. EPA will cause more needless deaths — in this instance because of more pollution that will exacerbate the climate crisis and make our air and water less clean and safe.”
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said in a statement her caucus has called for actions such as ending fossil fuel subsidies and financing for fossil fuel infrastructure overseas that must be pursued in the wake of the ruling.
And House Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said the decision “makes a mockery of the clear separation of powers outlined in our Constitution and subverts decades of settled law. The Clean Air Act is emphatically clear that EPA has both the authority and the obligation to protect public health and regulate dangerous air …read more
George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite in rom-com ‘Ticket to Paradise’: Watch the trailer
More than 20 years after first starring opposite each other on the big screen, Julia Roberts and George Clooney are reuniting at the movies again.
Former USC women’s soccer coach is sentenced in college admissions scandal
The former head coach of the University of Southern California’s women’s soccer team was sentenced Wednesday for his role in a college admissions scandal, prosecutors announced Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/us/college-admissions-scandal-usc-soccer-coach-sentenced/index.html
Maine woman killed, stabbed nearly 500 times, affidavit says
The body of a woman in Maine who was killed in April had been found wrapped in a blanket with nearly 500 stab wounds, according to an affidavit released Wednesday. …read more
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maine-woman-stabbed-nearly-500-times-affidavit