And another day of indictments, creations, enactments, respiratory symptoms, ad campaigns, raising alarms, overturned convictions, denied requests, self-identifying gender, and free feminine hygiene products for school students comes to a close:
“Today was not a great day for women.” -- Molly Jong-Fast
“We said ‘free Britney,’ not ‘free Cosby.’” -- Jennifer Taub
Deaths
US: 620,247 (+267)
World: 3,962,410 (+8622)
Cases
US: 34,540,833 (+13,340)
World: 182,960,885 (+282,269)
Grand jury indicts Trump Organization, CFO on tax crimes, led by New York AG, district attorney. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the New York Attorney General’s Office have obtained indictments against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
House votes to create select committee to investigate January 6 insurrection. The House voted 222-190 to formally create the select panel. Just two Republicans joined with Democrats to support its formation -- Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
Seventeen states have enacted 28 new laws making it harder to vote. More than half of these new laws make it harder to vote absentee and by mail, after a record number of Americans voted by mail in November.
Common cold or Covid? Upper respiratory symptoms are growing more prevalent, docs say. Doctors say even fully vaccinated people need to pay attention to Covid-19 symptoms, such as headache and congestion. Doctors are beginning to notice Covid-19 cases that look more like a very bad cold, especially in areas of the country where the highly contagious delta variant is quickly spreading.
Tuskegee relatives promote COVID-19 vaccines in ad campaign. Tuskegee is the one-word answer some people give as a reason they’re avoiding COVID-19 vaccines. A new ad campaign launched Wednesday with relatives of men who unwittingly became part of the infamous experiment wants to change minds.
Department of Homeland Security raises alarms over potential for summer violence pegged to August conspiracy theory. Department of Homeland Security officials are warning that the same sort of rhetoric and false narratives that fueled the January 6 attack on the US Capitol could lead to more violence this summer by right-wing extremists...The August theory is essentially a recycled version of other false narratives pushed by Trump and his allies leading up to and after January 6, prompting familiar rhetoric from those who remain in denial about his 2020 election loss. But the concern is significant enough that DHS issued two warnings in the past week about the potential for violence this summer.
Bill Cosby released after assault conviction overturned by Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
EXPLAINER: Why Bill Cosby’s conviction was overturned. “It breaks new ground entirely,” said Oliver, who teaches at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh. “It sets precedent not just for Pennsylvania but probably other states.” He said the ruling should drive home to prosecutors the risks of suggesting at news conferences, in press releases or verbally in private that they will not prosecute. “They should at least add three words — ‘at this time,’” he said. “If you add that qualifier, which wasn’t done in Cosby’s case, you should be good to go,” Oliver said...The trial judge deemed him a sexually violent predator who could still pose a danger to women given his wealth, power and fame, and ordered that he be on a lifetime sex offender registry and check in monthly with authorities. However, the decision negates that finding.
Judge Denies Britney Spears’ Request to Remove Father From Conservatorship.
Americans will be able to self-identify their gender on their passports.
Mexico's Maria Clemente Garcia will become the first of two trans women to sit in the lower house of Congress in September, and she has big plans to push for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Latin America's second-largest economy.
UNC board grants tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones amid outcry from Black faculty and students. The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after facing backlash from Black students and faculty who said the board's initial failure to do so reflected a history of systemic racism at the school.
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine introduced legislation in the D.C. Council to ensure that 16- and 17-year-olds accused of certain crimes start in the family court system instead of adult court.
Rhode Island state legislature passes bill making feminine hygiene products free for school students.
Starting Thursday, college athletes can profit from endorsements, social media and other sources of income.
Stop the Freakout Over Kids’ Screen Time. Most of the studies on the negative mental health effects of screen time rely on caregivers’ iffy recollections of how much time children spent in front of a screen. And studies using brain imaging, experts told me, are also dubious, because of the incredible complexity of the cognitive process.
Spanking does not appear to improve a child's positive behavior or social competence, a review of global studies finds. Physical punishment does not appear to improve a child's positive behavior or social competence over time, according to a review of 69 studies from the US, Canada, China, Colombia, Greece, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Donald Rumsfeld, former secretary of defense, dies at 88.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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