Keep up with today's news: Inexpensive internet, clergy from the LGBTQ+ community, and anger management.
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Here's what you might've missed during your hectic day:
5 major things
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather again to fortify the barricade around their UCLA campus encampment. 1️⃣ College protests: Clashes erupt, and hundreds are arrested on campuses in Wisconsin, New York, and California. ➕ President Biden struggles to find a solution. 📹 Video showcases intense clashes at UCLA
2️⃣ Abortion rights: Arizona Senate votes to scrap the state's ancient near-total abortion ban barely three weeks after it came back. 📹 Video takes you inside a Florida clinic as the 6-week abortion ban commences
3️⃣ Budget crunch: The suspension of a federal connectivity program threatens to push over 23 million low-income American households into financial crisis. Native communities will bear the brunt.
4️⃣ Mystery solved: A teen girl's skeleton was found in a Manhattan basement in the '90s. With a monogrammed gold ring, police identified her victim.
5️⃣ Gay priests: The United Methodist Church lifts its 40-year ban on gay clergy, averting a potential schism.
Watch this
😳 A strange event: A person donning a mask consumed hundreds of cheeseballs in a brief amount of time, surprising onlookers in NYC. "I returned home as a hero," he said.
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Above-standard material
Weather insanity: Meteorologists marveled over two tornadoes exhibiting very uncommon actions as they ravaged southern Oklahoma.
Quiz time
🧟 House Speaker Mike Johnson. Who's the Republican lawmaker planning to force a vote to remove Mike Johnson as House speaker?A. Matt GaetzB. Nancy MaceC. Jim JordanD. Marjorie Taylor Greene⬇️ Scroll down for the answer.
The schedule
🗓️ Tomorrow: British voters cast their ballots, and the voting results don't seem promising for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.
Feel-good vibes
👍 We like to end on a high note here: The Black Opry raises up artists of color in country music and makes them feel welcome within the genre.
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Despite the tension and clashes at UCLA and other campuses, the United States government is struggling to find a solution.
In an effort to promote inclusivity, the United Methodist Church has lifted its ban on gay clergy, allowing US-based LGBTQ+ individuals to serve in religious leadership.
Source: edition.cnn.com
