Thursday, June 3 top stories
Hello, it is Thursday, June 3. Here are today’s top stories.
Queen Elizabeth has invited President Joe Biden to visit her castle — Windsor Castle — on June 13. That will be two days before the G7 summit in London.
CNN said Queen Elizabeth has met with every US President except for Lyndon Johnson.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be pushed out of power for the first time in 12 years.
An opposition leader named Yair Lapid was able to get the 61 seats required for a majority in the Knesset (parliament) by forming agreements with smaller political parties and bringing in an Arab party called Ra’am. If they stay united, they can seize power from Netanyhau and his party, Likud.
Analysts said Netanyahu will try to disrupt the new alliance and cause certain members to defect. The Knesset will hold a vote sometime next week to make it official.
Axios reported that the U.S. now has the lowest number of Covid-19 cases ever since the pandemic started with about 16,000 new daily cases. In 43 states, cases are declining and in the other seven states, cases are steady. Axios said “the U.S. has contained the virus” with the help of the vaccine rollout, but around the world, cases and deaths are still soaring. The Biden administration can make an impact on supporting other countries’ Covid-19 crises.
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NBC News reported that prosecutors in the Derek Chauvin murder case have asked Judge Peter Cahill to sentence him for 30 years in prison. The prosecutors pointed to the judge’s decision last month to allow a longer sentence due to four aggravating factors during the crime: abuse of power, cruelty, doing it in a group, and in front of children.
Chauvin will be sentenced June 25. He is 45 years old.
Ally Bank announced it would end overdraft fees on all of its bank products. AP News said it is the first large U.S. bank to do this. Ally said they will allow customers six days to bring the account back into positive territory.
AP News said banks as an industry are reliant on the $35 overdraft fees to boost profits, but often at the expense of poorer Americans. The industry raked in $12 billion in overdraft fee revenue last year alone.
Ally, based in Detroit, said overdraft fees can be a major cause of anxiety and can cause poorer households to decide to not have a bank account.
A Texas high school valedictorian, Paxton Smith, is going viral because she used her speech to speak out against Texas’ heartbeat anti-abortion bill. News reports said Paxton had an “approved graduation speech” but gave a different one at the podium.
She said in the speech that she has hopes and dreams like every girl graduating today does, but she is terrified that if her contraceptives fail or if she is raped, then her hopes and efforts for her future would no longer matter. She said she couldn’t give up her platform when there is a war on her body and women’s rights.
Hillary Clinton praised Paxton, saying “this took guts.”
Texas is one of several states led by Republicans that have passed laws restricting abortion. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on anti-abortion bills during its next term, which begins in October.
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Queen: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/03/politics/queen-elizabeth-joe-biden-meeting-scli-intl-gbr/index.html
Ally: https://apnews.com/article/business-8a105eafc5cd233ead34434fdf61189d
Texas valedictorian: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/556609-texas-valedictorian-goes-viral-after-giving-unapproved-speech-blasting