News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
This is an OPEN THREAD, folks. Chat about any of the stories listed, share links to stories that caught your eye today, and generally have a good time discussing whatever you want.
Pres. Biden participates in wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day. https://t.co/lLVhhjyuXV pic.twitter.com/0HWgyAkUbX
— ABC News (@ABC) May 29, 2023
Both President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) touted the agreement as a win, but they must now sell their respective parties on the specifics.
— The Hill (@thehill) May 29, 2023
https://t.co/k6EWhEJxcW
Lindsey Graham responds defiantly to arrest warrant from Russia https://t.co/TuMth5IcZ3
— POLITICO (@politico) May 29, 2023
The war in Ukraine is forcing farmers across the country to make a life-or-death choice: Is planting seeds to put food on the table worth the risk of inadvertently setting off unexploded ordnance?https://t.co/bsPd4VtlKq
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 29, 2023
The Belarusian President has claimed that nations who are willing “to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus” will be given nuclear weapons, days after confirming the transfer of some tactical nuclear weapons from Moscow to Minsk had begun. https://t.co/fJDjRRmImf
— CNN (@CNN) May 29, 2023
Uganda's president has signed into law one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ bills that calls for life imprisonment for anyone found to have engaged in same-sex sexual acts and imposes a death sentence for the crime of "aggravated homosexuality." https://t.co/ePAoBDxy5x
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 29, 2023
China’s burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country’s orbiting space station, officials said. https://t.co/BjLQ7Xgthc
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 29, 2023
Ralph Yarl, the teenager who was shot in the head when he mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, is set to attend a walk/run event in Overland Park, Kansas on Memorial Day to help raise money for traumatic brain injuries. https://t.co/l1hJopxWkB
— ABC News (@ABC) May 29, 2023
Eight people were rescued after an apartment building partially collapsed in Davenport, Iowa. https://t.co/EUaws5xItP
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 29, 2023
Researchers have identified a dozen symptoms that most commonly characterize long COVID — a condition affecting as many as 23 million Americans. https://t.co/no81JclD15
— Axios (@axios) May 29, 2023
“In my family, we always believed that he would never be found,” Army Pfc. Luther Herschel Story's closest surviving relative said. https://t.co/YvkvJ6ntg3
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 29, 2023
Trump warned that the nation “has never been in greater peril than it is right now” and urged his supporters to help him “stop the communists, Marxists and fascist ‘pigs’ at every turn and make American great again!”
— The Hill (@thehill) May 29, 2023
https://t.co/1sd3nTGzbm
