MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK WHILE BURYING GIRLFRIEND HE STRANGLED A 60-year-old man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their South Carolina backyard, investigators said. [AP]
GOP CRUSADE AGAINST ABORTION COULD LEAD TO CONTRACEPTION BANS With Roe on the chopping block, Republicans have been speaking up about other Supreme Court cases they don't like. One of those cases is Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 decision that said married couples have a right to contraception access. If Griswold gets overturned, it would kick the issue back to the states and open the door to restrictions or bans on birth control methods, because there would be no federal guarantee of access. [HuffPost]
COURT RULES CALIFORNIA'S UNDER-21 GUN SALES BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL A U.S. appeals court ruled California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional, arguing the law violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles" for young adults. [AP]
HUNDREDS OF NATIVE CHILDREN DIED AT GOVERNMENT BOARDING SCHOOLS: U.S. REPORT Hundreds of Native children died at boarding schools the U.S. government forced them to attend from 1819 to 1969 in a violent, racist attempt to assimilate Native people and take their territories, according to an Interior Department report. [HuffPost]
TRUMP LAWYER PRESSURED STATE LAWMAKERS TO DISCARD VOTES Former Trump lawyer John Eastman pressured Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania to tamper with the 2020 election result to falsely project Donald Trump the winner, the lawyer's emails show. Meanwhile, a New York state judge stopped fining Trump $10,000 a day for contempt, but ordered him to cough up $110,000 for 11 days of defiance. [HuffPost]
SURFSIDE CONDO COLLAPSE LAWSUIT SETTLED FOR NEARLY $1 BILLION A nearly $1 billion tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida. The deal involves insurance companies, developers of an adjacent building and other defendants. [AP]
