SENT: 500 words, photos.ĪBORTION-CONNECTICUT - The Connecticut Senate gave final legislative approval shortly before midnight to a bill abortion rights advocates contend is needed to protect in-state medical providers from legal action stemming from out-of-state laws, as well as the patients who travel to Connecticut to terminate a pregnancy and those who help them.
POLICE SHOOTING-MICHIGAN - A Michigan police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head had no complaints of excessive force against him but much praise for traffic stops that turned up drugs, guns and people wanted for crimes, according to his personnel file. Department of Justice has challenged an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to help affirm their new gender identity. Dennis Kelly at the USC Student Health Center but they didn’t realize it was pervasive until a graduate sued in 2019 claiming he had been forced to undergo an uncomfortable rectal exam during a routine checkup. Scores of other men - most of them gay or bisexual - said they had disturbing encounters with Dr. USC-SEXUAL-ABUSE-SETTLEMENT - Kenny Oshita was a first semester law student at the University of Southern California when a visit to a school doctor for a possible sexual disease turned into an invasive procedure that left him feeling violated. Gavin Newsom has raised the possibility that the state’s sole remaining nuclear power plant might continue operating beyond a planned closing by 2025, an idea that could revive a decades-old fight over earthquake safety at the site. SENT: 870 words, photos.ĬALIFORNIA-NUCLEAR-PLANT - Facing possible electricity shortages, California Gov. SPRING WILDFIRES - Thousands of firefighters battled destructive wildfires in the Southwest as more residents prepared to evacuate into the weekend in northern New Mexico where strong winds and dangerously dry conditions have made the blazes hard to contain. Aaron von Ehligner was convicted Friday of raping the 19-year-old last year. IDAHO-LAWMAKER-RAPE-TRIAL -Experts say the conviction of a former Idaho lawmaker who raped a legislative intern was a rare victory for prosecutors in a justice system that can be fraught with trauma for assault survivors. TRUMP LEGAL TROUBLES - Donald Trump’s lawyers have provided a New York judge with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them.