June 16 top stories
It is June 16. Here are today’s top stories.
Deadly tornado hits Texas panhandle
On Thursday night, a tornado hit Perryton, Texas and killed at least three people and injured over 50 people.
ABC News said the north and east sides of the small town saw significant damage, with mobile homes destroyed and communication towers downed. About 200 homes were destroyed and the local hospital is without power.
Texas Gov. Abbott said he is deploying emergency crews to help those in the city.
In Florida, a tornado struck Pensacola and caused a tree to fall on a home, killing one person.
Supreme Court upholds law on Native American adoption
The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 7-2 vote, moved to uphold a law from 1978 that gives priority to Native American families in the adoption of Native American children.
The case was brought by the state of Texas and a group of non-Native foster parents who wanted to adopt Native children but were told that according to the law, Native American families had priority. They disagreed with the law and said it was discrimination on the basis of race.
The Supreme Court upheld the law. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority saying, “Congress’s power to legislate with respect to Indians is well established and broad.”
ABC News said the 1978 law, the Indian Child Welfare Act, was passed in response to generations of government-sponsored separation of hundreds of thousands of Native children from their families through the 1960s.
The law requires state courts to give first preference to a Native child’s immediate family, then another member of the child’s tribe, then a member of an unrelated tribe, before consideration of parents who are non-native.
Father fatally shoots three sons
In tragic news from Ohio, a 32-year-old father named Chad Doerman is accused of fatally shooting his three young sons, aged 7, 4, and 3 years old and wounding their mother on Thursday afternoon.
Police said the first call they got was from a woman who was screaming that her babies had been shot. A second call was from a neighbor who said a female was running down the street screaming.
When police arrived at the family home, they found the father sitting in front of the home and detained him. Police then found the three boys in the yard and tried to save their lives but all died. The mother had a gunshot wound to her hand.
Doerman was charged with three counts of aggravated murder. It is not known what could have driven him to allegedly commit the murders.
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Alleged Pentagon leaker is charged
Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guard member who is accused of leaking classified information related to the war in Ukraine, was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday.
He is charged with six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to national defense. He now faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each count.
Teixeira has been in federal custody since his arrest in April and prosecutors said he should remain behind bars because he is an ongoing national security risk and had researched mass shootings in the past.
Collision between bus and semi-truck kills 15 in Canada
On Thursday, a bus that was carrying a group of senior citizens to a casino collided with a semi-truck at an intersection in Manitoba, Canada. At least 15 were killed and 10 others were injured.
A police spokesperson said the drivers of the bus and truck are alive and hospitalized and that the 10 fatalities were mainly seniors.
There is an investigation on who had the right of way. Police said this is a very sad day in Manitoba and across Canada.
New dinosaur species found on Isle of Wight
BBC reported that the fossilized remains of a previously unknown type of dinosaur were found on the Isle of Wight, which is an island in southern England.
It is an armored dinosaur that is named Vectipelta barretti. The fossil was discovered in rocks dating back between 66 and 146 million years. The dinosaur had spikes and blades across its back and sides.
CBS said 29 different species of dinosaur have been discovered on the Isle of Wight.
There is debate on what caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs with two main theories: an asteroid impact or a volcanic eruption that caused sudden climate change.
That is all the top stories for today. Have a nice weekend and stay with the light.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/devastating-tornado-tears-texas-town-3-dead-50/story?id=100103004
https://abcnews.go.com/US/father-killing-3-young-brothers-shot-killed-mother/story?id=100135263