Today's Liberal News

Israeli Human Rights Group B’Tselem: Israel Is Committing War Crimes by Killing Civilians in Gaza

As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 200, the leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is accusing Israel of committing war crimes by killing blockaded civilians and destroying infrastructure on a massive scale. Executive director Hagai El-Ad says Israel has not done enough to distinguish between military and civilian targets or to act with proportionality. “We’ve seen war crimes in previous military assaults on Gaza,” he says.

“Genocide”: Palestinian Lawmaker Condemns Netanyahu for Bombing Gaza to Stay in Power, Avoid Charges

The ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza, which has now killed at least 213 people, “really is an act of genocide,” says Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian parliament and head of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society who has been leading efforts to manage the pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza. He says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces multiple corruption charges, is using the latest violence to save his political future.

Gaza Physician: Israel Is Targeting Doctors & Health Facilities to Overwhelm Our Crumbling System

The death toll in Gaza has reached 213, including at least 61 children, as Israel continues to attack the besieged area by air, land and sea using U.S.-made warplanes and bombs. The death toll in Israel stands at 11 from rockets fired from Gaza. Israel is facing increasing criticism for targeting doctors in its attack, and its airstrikes have reportedly damaged at least 18 hospitals and clinics, according to the World Health Organization.

Can the News Be Fixed?

One morning a few years ago, Amanda Patten, 26, invited five strangers into her home in Cincinnati. She cleared the toys off of the couch and offered everyone a seat. For three hours, she answered questions about her childhood, her hopes and fears for her own kids, and her news-consumption habits.The visitors were from E.W. Scripps, a broadcasting corporation that owns 60 TV stations in 42 markets, and they were doing something unheard-of for a news-media company.

The New ‘Right Stuff’ Is Money and Luck

In a strip mall just off Houston’s NASA Parkway is a restaurant called Frenchie’s Italian Cuisine. You wouldn’t know it from the unassuming beige storefront, but inside, Frenchie’s looks like a museum. The walls are covered in framed pictures of smiling astronauts, in their blue jumpsuits and puffy spacesuits, holding up bubble helmets and model spaceships.

Republicans Oppose Kristen Clarke for Top Civil Rights Job at DOJ in Latest Attack on Voting Rights

Republican senators in Washington are attempting to block Kristen Clarke, a prominent voting rights advocate, from a top Justice Department position. The Senate Judiciary Committee has deadlocked on an 11-11 vote on whether to move Clarke’s nomination for assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to the Senate floor for a full vote.

News Roundup: Supreme Court again threatens abortion rights; new program for parents begins in July

In the news today: The Supreme Court takes up a case that it may use to sharply curtail abortion rights. The Biden administration announces monthly relief checks to American parents will begin in July. After losing the November election, Trump lashed out by demanding large-scale withdrawals of U.S. troops abroad.

Here’s some of what you may have missed:

• Supreme Court takes up Mississippi abortion law, setting the stage to overturn Roe v. Wade

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LGBTQ students harassed in their own home in ‘horrific’ incident at Bucknell University

A university in Pennsylvania announced an investigation into a “horrific” incident in which LGBTQ students were harassed after at least 15 to 20 male students tried to storm into the Tower House, a Fran’s House affinity house for the LGBTQ community at Bucknell University, university officials said. Students were left traumatized with their “sense of place and security” threatened and little to no support from public safety officials.

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who joined GOP just ahead of loss in infamous 1991 race, dies

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, a conservative Democrat who joined the Republican Party months before he lost re-election in the infamous 1991 “Race from Hell,” died Monday at the age of 77. Roemer’s third-place showing in that year’s all-party primary led to a general election duel between the ultimately victorious Democrat Edwin Edwards, whom Roemer had unseated in 1987, and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Activists: ‘Did it really require eight police officers to subdue this barefoot homeless man?’

A San Diego resident caught police on camera pummeling a man she identified as homeless after police said he urinated in public. Nicole Bansal told the San Diego Union-Tribune she was driving when she saw police vehicles racing past her, and she started recording on her cell phone when she recognized the man officers were targeting Wednesday morning in La Jolla. “There was no movement made to de-escalate,” Bansal said.

Biden admin pledges probe after report of unaccompanied kids being left stranded in buses overnight

Following a shocking NBC News report last week that a number of unaccompanied migrant children were stranded in vans overnight—one child reportedly for several days—while waiting to be transferred to sponsors, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra has pledged an investigation into the allegations, The Washington Post reports.

“This is completely unacceptable,” Becerra said in the report.