| No Images? Click here  Friday, June 21TRUMP ORDERS IRAN STRIKES, BUT OFFICIALS ABRUPTLY CALL THEM OFF U.S. military assets, including planes and ships, were in position during the early stages of the strike, ready to target several Iranian assets, according to The New York Times, citing senior administration officials. But those plans were called off before any missiles were fired. [HuffPost]GEORGIA CARRIES OUT 1,500TH U.S. EXECUTION SINCE DEATH PENALTY WAS REINSTATED Marion Wilson, 42, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday night for killing an off-duty prison guard in 1996. He was the 10th inmate executed in the United States in 2019 and the second in Georgia, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. [Reuters]TRUMP LAWYERS OBJECTED OVER 130 TIMES AS DEMS ASKED HOPE HICKS ABOUT MUELLER REPORT White House attorneys took the position that Hicks, as a former senior adviser to Trump, could not be compelled to answer Congress’ questions about her work in the administration. [HuffPost]ROY MOORE RUNNING FOR SENATE AGAIN During his 2017 run, nearly 10 women accused the disgraced Alabama judge of sexual assault, including when they were teenage girls. [HuffPost]JOE BIDEN CALLED CORY BOOKER AFTER BOOKER SLAMMED BIDEN'S REMARKS ON SEGREGATIONISTS “Booker said privately what he said publicly,” a Democrat with knowledge of the call told HuffPost ― meaning the senator did not back off his criticism of Biden. [HuffPost]STORMS BRING TORNADOES, FLOODS, POWER OUTAGES ACROSS THE U.S. Fallen trees ripped down power lines and crashed into buildings along a line from Texas to Alabama overnight and into Thursday morning, the national Storm Prediction Center reported. Similar damage continued later in the day in parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and southeast Virginia. [AP]U.S. WOMEN COAST TO KNOCKOUT STAGE OF WORLD CUP The Americans completed a perfect group stage, with a 2-0 victory over Sweden. [Yahoo Sports]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  NRA IN DISARRAY The National Rifle Association’s second-in-command has been suspended following a lawsuit alleging he participated in a bid to oust Wayne LaPierre as the gun group’s chief executive. [HuffPost]SOME WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS ARE THROWING A GOODBYE PARTY FOR SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS The outgoing press secretary's adversarial relationship with reporters isn’t stopping some of them from planning to send Sanders off with “farewell drinks” at an upscale D.C. restaurant. [HuffPost]PROTESTERS RETURN TO THE STREETS OF HONG KONG TO DENOUNCE EXTRADITION BILL Millions, fearing further erosion of Hong Kong’s freedoms by China, have clogged the streets of the former British colony this month to rally against the bill, which would allow people to be extradited to the mainland to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. [Reuters]LAWSUIT SEEKS TO BRING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTO THE ME TOO ERA An ex-Scientologist has filed a lawsuit against the church and its leader, David Miscavige ― alleging that it put her through years of “heinous abuse, human trafficking, and intimidation.” [HuffPost]NEW STUDY REVEALS JUST HOW MUCH THE HYDE AMENDMENT IS HURTING WOMEN Over a quarter of low-income women in Louisiana who wanted an abortion didn’t get one because Medicaid didn’t cover the procedure. [HuffPost]CATHOLIC SCHOOL KICKED OUT OF ARCHDIOCESE AFTER REFUSING TO FIRE GAY TEACHER The Archdiocese of Indianapolis will no longer formally recognize Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School as a Catholic school, after administrators “respectfully declined” the archdiocese’s order to dismiss a “highly capable and qualified teacher” because of that teacher’s same-sex marriage. [HuffPost]
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