| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, May 29BRAZEN MITCH GIVES UP THE GAME Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he would work to fill any Supreme Court vacancy in 2020, an election year, despite his efforts to scuttle Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the bench for that very reason in 2016. [HuffPost]NEW GOP-ER DERAILS VITAL DISASTER RELIEF A second attempt to pass a bipartisan disaster aid package has failed after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) voted Tuesday against a bill that would secure $19 billion in emergency relief. The bill required a unanimous vote to pass. [HuffPost]NETFLIX MAY RETHINK GEORGIA INVESTMENT Netflix has vowed to fight Georgia’s new “heartbeat” abortion law in court alongside the American Civil Liberties Union and, if need be, reconsider the company’s whole investment in the state. [HuffPost]BIDEN TACKLES EDUCATION IN 2020 POLICY PROPOSAL On Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is the current Democratic front-runner, released a wide-ranging education plan. This includes proposals his campaign contends would raise teachers’ pay and offer universal pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds. [HuffPost]SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS FETAL BURIAL LAW The Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 7-2 to uphold a 2016 Indiana abortion law requiring fetal remains be buried or cremated. The court also refused to hear a question regarding the state’s attempt to ban abortions based on a fetus’s race, disability or gender. [HuffPost]MALAYSIA TO RETURN 3,000 TONNES OF PLASTIC Malaysia will send as much as 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste back to the countries it came from, the environment minister said Tuesday, the latest Asian country to reject rich countries’ rubbish. [Reuters]
 Help us tell more stories from real people, in their words. Become a member so we can deliver the voices you want to hear.  ‘GOP TAX LAW DOING LITTLE FOR THE ECONOMY’ The sweeping tax law Republicans enacted in late 2017 is definitely not paying for itself and has not significantly boosted the economy or increased wages, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service said in a report. [HuffPost]KAMALA HARRIS PROPOSES NEW ABORTION PROTECTIONS Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced a new proposal Tuesday aimed at states and localities with a history of violating Roe v. Wade. According to the proposal, states would need to get clearance from the Department of Justice before any new abortion law or practice could take effect in their jurisdiction. [HuffPost]BOLTON: TANKERS DAMAGED BY IRANIAN NAVAL MINES National Security Adviser John Bolton has said "naval mines almost certainly from Iran" were to blame for the damage to oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month. Bolton provided no evidence to support the allegation. [BBC]THE CAMPAIGN TO CLOSE MISSOURI’S LAST ABORTION CLINIC The announcement that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Missouri is on the verge of shutting down — which would make the state the first to have no abortion providers — is the culmination of a decade-long campaign of surveillance and speculative complaints by activists. [Daily Beast]‘EGG BOY’ DONATES $100,000 TO SURVIVORS Will Connolly, the Australian teenager who became known as “egg boy,” says he has donated almost $100,000 to help those affected by the Christchurch mosque attack. [The Guardian]STRIKE DAMAGE IN SYRIA VISIBLE FROM SPACE Airstrikes and fighting in Syria's last rebel-held province have left a trail of damage visible from space. Escalating military operations in northwestern Idlib province are creating a "humanitarian disaster," despite the international organizations' efforts to provide aid, the United Nations warned Tuesday. [CNN]
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