| No Images? Click here  Thursday, June 6FOX NEWS D-DAY SEGMENT FLIES OFF RAILS Fox News host Laura Ingraham slammed Democrats on Wednesday night for using children as “pathetic political props” ― and she delivered the line without irony while using the graves of American soldiers as props of her own. [HuffPost]FEDS SLASH EDUCATION FOR DETAINED KIDS Unaccompanied immigrant children in government detention centers across the U.S. will no longer have English classes, recreational programs or legal aid, according to Department of Health and Human Services emails first obtained by The Washington Post. [HuffPost]WHY YOUTUBE CAN’T FIX ITSELF YouTube announced new policies banning supremacist content from the platform on Wednesday. But YouTube’s treatment of people victimized by its content creators over the previous 24 hours proves that the website was unable ― or unwilling ― to enforce its terms of service in the first place. [HuffPost]UN CALLS U.S. ABORTION LAWS ‘TORTURE’ United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights Kate Gilmore said the abortion restrictions recently passed in several U.S. states are a “crisis” akin to “torture.” “This is gender-based violence against women,” she said. [HuffPost]CONSERVATIVE ICON SHREDS TRUMP ‘CULT’ The Republican Party for decades was the party of conservative ideas, but longtime conservative commentator George F. Will said the GOP has abandoned those tenets to support Trump. “It’s become a cult because of an absence of ideas,” he said. [HuffPost]ADMINISTRATION MOVES TO HALT FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH The Trump administration announced new rules that will sharply reduce and possibly end government funding for studies that use tissue from aborted fetuses. Such research has been instrumental in developing treatments for polio, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and other conditions. [HuffPost]
 Help us tell more stories from real people, in their words. Become a member so we can deliver the voices you want to hear.  URANIUM MINING NEAR GRAND CANYON? Just over a year after taking credit for an Obama-era effort to protect land near the Grand Canyon from uranium and other hard rock mining, the Trump administration is voicing opposition to legislation that would permanently safeguard the same area. [HuffPost]LA HOMELESS NUMBERS SWELL Los Angeles County saw a 12% increase in homeless residents in 2019 from the year before, according to new figures from the LA Homeless Services Authority. There were nearly 59,000 homeless people in the county on a given night in January 2019 ― up from less than 53,000 in 2018. [HuffPost]TRUMP LAWYERS PUSH BACK Trump’s lawyers have asked a federal judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former campaign staffer Alva Johnson, who claims Trump forcibly kissed her at a 2016 rally. Johnson, who is black, also says she was paid less than her white male counterparts. [HuffPost]ALABAMA MAYOR ADVOCATES FOR ‘KILLING’ OF LGBTQ COMMUNITY In a now-deleted Facebook post, Carbon Hill Mayor Mark Chambers railed against “a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics.” He then replied to a response by saying: “The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out.” [HuffPost]CHINA BOOSTS SAUDI ARABIA MISSILE PROGRAM The U.S. government has obtained intelligence that Saudi Arabia has significantly escalated its ballistic missile program with the help of China, a development that threatens decades of U.S. efforts to limit missile proliferation in the Middle East. [CNN]40 BODIES PULLED FROM NILE More than 40 bodies of people slain by Sudanese security forces were pulled from the Nile River in the capital of Khartoum, organizers of pro-democracy demonstrations said, and new clashes brought the death toll in three days of the ruling military’s crackdown to 108. [AP]
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