Samuel Jackson Rips 'Uncle Clarence' Thomas For Risking Interracial Marriage In Roe Reversal
But Thomas specifically named only the rights to same-sex marriage and contraception. He side-stepped the Loving case, which, if overturned as Roe was, could threaten his own interracial marriage to Ginni Thomas. Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff behind the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on same-sex marriage, said Friday that Thomas omitted Loving v. Virginia on his list of top court decisions to “reconsider” because it “affects him personally.”That “affects him personally, but he doesn’t care about the LGBTQ+ community,” Obergefell said on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out.”Though some Thomas supporters criticized Jackson for what they called a “racist” attack on the justice, the actor’s Twitter followers mostly applauded the dig — and the issue:
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June 26, 2022 11:46 UTC
Olivia Rodrigo Brings Out Lily Allen For F**k You Glastonbury Duet Dedicated To Supreme Court
Olivia Rodrigo did not hold back during her Glastonbury set on Saturday, unleashing on the U.S. Supreme Court justices who joined in overturning Roe v. Wade this week. “So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this.”AdvertisementRodrigo then introduced the next song: Fuck You by Lily Allen, who then appeared onstage with her (watch the full video above). We hate you.”Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen singing together. Joseph Okpako via Getty ImagesAdvertisementWhile Rodrigo spoke, Allen could be seen giving two middle fingers. Last month, she told fans in Washington, D.C., she was “heartbroken” after seeing a leaked copy of a Supreme Court draft ruling on overturning Roe v. Wade.
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June 26, 2022 09:45 UTC
After the UK was chastised for approving Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, he now faces 175 years in prison.
After approving the extradition of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange to the United States, UK home secretary Priti Patel was chastised on social media. Any appeal, however, would almost certainly be based on the right to freedom of expression and whether the extradition request is politically motivated. “Juliаn hаsn’t done аnything wrong. He isn’t а criminаl аnd hаsn’t done аnything wrong. He is а journаlist аnd а publisher who is being punished for doing his job, аccording to the stаtement.
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June 26, 2022 06:37 UTC
This Senior Pooch Has Been Crowned 'World's Ugliest Dog'
Happy Face. Happy Face is famous. On Saturday, the little canine won first place in the annual “World’s Ugliest Dog” competition, a tongue-in-cheek pageant held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Happy Face looks toward the camera before the start of the World's Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California, on June 24. Happy Face, whose contest bio does not specify his breed, wasn’t expected to live long after his adoption.
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June 26, 2022 05:26 UTC
Vatican Says 'Pro Life' Activists Must Fight For Gun Control
The Vatican hailed the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, but said it is imperative that people who identify as “pro-life” also fight for other critical life-protecting issues like gun control. And “strikingly,” maternal mortality rates are three times higher for Black women in the U.S., Tornielli added. “Being for life, always, means asking how to help women welcome new life,” he added, noting that that 75% of women in America who have abortions live in poverty or are low-wage earners. AdvertisementThe U.S. Conference of Bishops and the Vatican’s Academy for Life praised the Supreme Court ruling on Friday. But the Academy for Life also called for social changes to help women keep their children.
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June 26, 2022 05:19 UTC
Vanity Milan: 'No One Is Ever Going To Stop Us Being Who We Are'
Vanity Milan SuppliedAdvertisementLooking back at the scene-stealing performance – which had Alesha Dixon herself up on her feet and rapping along – Vanity tells HuffPost UK: “I was shaking in my little boots. Especially coming from a Black queer perspective, that is amazing, because we don’t have many Black queer people we can look up to, but that band is iconic. And I’m going to say Beyoncé is a queer icon for me, because she lives her life unapologetically. Pride is a message of, “love is love”, it doesn’t matter who you love, and it’s still important to this day. "No one is ever going to stop us from being who we are as human beings in the world."
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June 26, 2022 05:08 UTC
Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk now 'completely under Russian occupation' after months of fighting
(CNN) The eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is "completely under Russian occupation," the city's head of military administration said Saturday, following months of grueling and bloody fighting . North of Sloviansk, the Ukrainian military reported continuing battles in areas that have been on the front lines for months. On the southern front, the Ukrainian military reported that a Russian assault to recover previously lost ground in Kherson had been repulsed. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Lysychansk are under growing pressure from Russian forces that have taken territory to the south of the city. The Russian goal appears to be to cut off Ukrainian forces in a pocket of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
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June 26, 2022 04:45 UTC
NYC Subway Surfer Hospitalized With Serious Injury After Riding On Train Roof
FILE: A train on the New York City MTA's 7 line rolls into Queensboro Plaza station. A teenager is in critical condition after riding the roof of the train on Thursday. BeyondImages via Getty ImagesA teenager is in critical condition after suffering a head injury while subway surfing on the roof of a train in New York City, NBC News reported. In 2015, three kids were caught riding on top of a train, and in 2019 a man was found riding a 5 train. In 2021, a man died from falling off a J train while subway surfing, according to the news outlet.
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June 26, 2022 03:07 UTC
Canada Will Allow Americans To Cross The Border For Abortions: Trudeau
Trudeau called the court’s decision “horrific” and voiced concern that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry. Advertisement“We know that this is an extremely, not just scary, but disheartening time for so many women,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Kigali, Rwanda, at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Asked if his government would help American women seeking abortions in Canada, Trudeau did not directly respond, but said: “Everyday Americans who find themselves in Canada access our health care system in Canada and that’s certainly something that will continue,”AdvertisementHowever the cost, the need to travel and to have a passport make that prohibitive for some Americans. Thirteen states, mainly in the South and Midwest, already had laws to ban abortion in the event Roe was overturned. Trudeau vowed to continue to stand up for woman’s rights in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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June 26, 2022 01:56 UTC
Tear gas used to disperse protesters outside Arizona Capitol building, officials say
Late Friday, law enforcement in Arizona used tear gas to disperse a crowd of abortion rights supporters protesting outside the State Capitol in Phoenix. "Troopers deployed tear gas after a crowd of protesters repeatedly pounded on the glass doors of the State Senate Building," Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bart Graves told CNN. JUST WATCHED CNN asks women outside of Supreme Court about ruling. Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH CNN asks women outside of Supreme Court about ruling. 01:21The crowd then moved across the street to the Wesley Bolin Plaza, where police used the tear gas after a monument was vandalized, Graves said.
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June 26, 2022 01:42 UTC
June 25 Roe v. Wade news
Former President Donald Trump gives remarks during a Save America Rally at the Adams County Fairgrounds on June 25 in Mendon, Illinois. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)In his first public appearance since the Supreme Court's historic reversal of Roe v. Wade, former President Donald Trump applauded the court's six conservative justices for their "courage," describing the ruling as "a victory for the Constitution, a victory for the rule of law and above all, a victory for life." "We got almost 300 federal judges and three great Supreme Court justices confirmed to do exactly that. The former President also weighed in on recent protests at the homes of the Court's conservative justices and the arrest of a man earlier this month who was charged with attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh. "I especially want to commend the justices for standing strong in the face of outrageous threats and violence," Trump said.
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June 26, 2022 01:39 UTC
Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk now ‘completely under Russian occupation’ after months of fighting
(CNN) — The eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is “completely under Russian occupation,” the city’s head of military administration said Saturday, following months of grueling and bloody fighting. On the southern front, the Ukrainian military reported that a Russian assault to recover previously lost ground in Kherson had been repulsed. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Lysychansk are under growing pressure from Russian forces that have taken territory to the south of the city. Hayday said Russian forces tried to enter Lysychansk from the south and to surround the city — and had also carried out an airstrike on the city. The Russian goal appears to be to cut off Ukrainian forces in a pocket of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
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June 26, 2022 01:38 UTC
More Bad News For Dems From CNN Polling Maven Harry Enten
He is that rare commodity among members of the liberal media who is willing to break the bad news to Democrats. The CNN polling maven was back on New Day this morning. Second, Republican enthusiasm is way up from the last midterms in 2018, whereas Dem enthusiasm is down. As for that good news for Dems that could actually be bad news: Enten displayed data indicating that Biden is well-positioned to cruise to the Dem nomination in 2024, given his still-high approval rating among Dems. On CNN's New Day, polling maven Harry Enten sharing data showing Republican primary voting is way up while Dem voting is down, and Republican enthusiasm is up while Dem enthusiasm is down, was sponsored in part by Pfizer, Sling, Amazon, and Servpro.
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June 26, 2022 01:29 UTC
Monkeypox is not a global emergency for now, says WHO. 3 things we need to know next about how it’s mutating and spreading
Here are three things we know about monkeypox and three things we want to find out. Unlike the related smallpox virus, variola, which only affected humans, monkeypox virus is found in rodents and other animals in parts of Africa. Australia never had mass smallpox vaccination. The monkeypox virus has a very large genome, so is more complex to study than smaller RNA viruses, such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID). Read more: How monkeypox epidemic is likely to play out – in four graphsAnother factor is COVID.
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June 26, 2022 01:26 UTC
Energy prices are causing chaos in Asia. The rest of the world should be worried
in a bid to bring prices down, ease pressure on the energy supply chain and prevent blackouts. Having suffered through widespread outages amid record temperatures, the world's third-largest carbon emitter announced on May 28 that state-run Coal India will import coal for the first time since 2015. "Energy demand has rebounded quite quickly from the coronavirus and more quickly than supply," said Samantha Gross, director of the Brookings Institute's Energy Security and Climate Initiative. "So we saw high prices even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine (but then there was) really a shock to energy supply. Various actions taken in response to that are really a challenge for energy supply globally."
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June 26, 2022 01:26 UTC