ABORTION-RIGHTS GROUPS FRUSTRATED BY DEMOCRATS' MODIFIED BILL TO CODIFY ROE Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) filed an updated version of a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, in a last-minute attempt to protect abortion rights. The new version doesn't include the legislative findings, which detailed the history of abortion restrictions, and the ways they've intersected with racism, classism and misogyny. Several abortion-rights groups met with Democratic leadership to discuss why they stripped the findings. [HuffPost]
PENCE SAYS HE HOPES 5 JUSTICES IN LEAKED OPINION WILL HAVE 'COURAGE' TO OVERTURN ROE Former Vice President Mike Pence said he hopes the five justices named in a draft majority opinion have the "courage of their convictions" to overturn the case that created a constitutional right to abortion. Pence also suggested that he would not support a national law banning abortion, saying it should be up to the states to decide on "this profound moral issue." [HuffPost]
AMBER HEARD TESTIFIES JOHNNY DEPP SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER WITH BOTTLE Amber Heard continued to describe the violence she says she endured at the hands of ex-husband Johnny Depp, sharing her side of the incident where Depp said Heard threw a glass bottle at him, severing his fingertip. Heard said multiple times that evening in March 2015 was "terrifying." At the height of the violence, Heard said, Depp penetrated her with a bottle repeatedly. [HuffPost]
GOP CANDIDATE ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE WINS PRIMARY ELECTION FROM JAIL A farmer from Boone County, Indiana, who is accused of murdering his wife won a Republican primary election this week, from jail. He secured a spot on the ballot in November's general election for the Clinton Township Board, by winning 60 votes. [HuffPost]
SUNBATHING WOMAN RUN OVER AT THE BEACH BY FLORIDA SHERIFF'S SUV A Florida sheriff's deputy ran over a woman who was sunbathing at St. Pete Beach, seriously injuring her. Authorities said Deputy Todd Brien was speaking to pedestrians on the beach before being dispatched to investigate a 911 hang-up call. Deputy Brien "made a right turn" as he left to respond to the call and drove over a 23-year-old woman "while she was lying on her back in the sand," the sheriff's office said. [HuffPost]
ESPER SAYS TRUMP ASKED ABOUT FIRING MISSILES AT MEXICO TO TARGET DRUG LABS Then-President Donald Trump asked his defense secretary, Mark Esper, if the U.S. could fire missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs run by cartels, keeping the military action secret, Esper writes in an upcoming memoir about his time in the White House. Esper previously recounted a moment when Trump urged his top military officials to order troops to shoot protesters who demonstrated after the police killing of George Floyd. [HuffPost]
