June 2023 – World Top News Now

The Supreme Court made big decisions this week and more are coming. Here’s what you need to know

30Jun

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The Supreme Court made big decisions this week and more are coming. Here’s what you need to know

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is expected to announce major decisions Friday on President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and a case that impacts gay rights. It’s the court’s final day before the justices go on their summer break. Already this week the justices have released important decisions on other issues including affirmative action, voting rights and religious rights. The court’s final opinions tend to be on some of the most contentious issues because writing those decisions often takes the longest. Here’s a look at the decisions the justices issued this week and those left to come: STUDENT LOANS The justices have yet to decide the fate of President Joe Biden’s plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. When the cour...

French suburbs are burning. How a teen’s killing is focusing anger over police tactics

30Jun

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French suburbs are burning. How a teen’s killing is focusing anger over police tactics

The fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old outside Paris this week has set off widespread disorder in French suburbs, with protesters burning cars, garbage and buildings. The killing also has raised questions about whether France has failed to move on since it was wracked by weeks of urban rioting in 2005. The shooting of the teen, identified as Nahel, was captured on video and shocked the country. It stirred up long-simmering tensions between police and young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods. It also prompted calls for a thorough overhaul of the conditions governing the use of weapons by police. SHOOTINGS ON THE RISE Thirteen people were killed in police shootings last year after not complying with orders during traffic stops, according to police. This year, three people, inc...

5 takeaways from AP’s series on health disparities impacting Black Americans

26Jun

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5 takeaways from AP’s series on health disparities impacting Black Americans

The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have harmed generations of Black Americans. From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts. They have higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, higher incidence of asthma during childhood, more difficulty treating mental illness as teens, and higher rates of high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease and other illness as adults. Here are the key takeaways from each story: WHY ARE BLACK BABIES AND MOTHERS MORE LIKELY TO DIE? Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States — 69.9 per 100,000 live births for 2021, almost three times the rate for white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2021...

When wealthy adventurers take huge risks, who should foot the bill for rescue attempts?

26Jun

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When wealthy adventurers take huge risks, who should foot the bill for rescue attempts?

When millionaire Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart. And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who should foot the bill? In recent days, the massive hunt for a submersible vehicle lost during a north Atlantic descent to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has refocused attention on that conundrum. And with rescuers and the public fixated first on saving and then on mourning those aboard, it has again made for uneasy conversation. “Five people have just lost their lives and to start talking about insurance, all the rescue efforts and the cost can seem pretty heartless — but the thing...

Days of sweltering heat, power cuts in northern India overwhelm hospitals as death toll climbs

20Jun

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Days of sweltering heat, power cuts in northern India overwhelm hospitals as death toll climbs

BALLIA, India (AP) — A scorching heat wave in two of India’s most populous states has overwhelmed hospitals, filled a morgue to capacity and disrupted power supply, forcing staff to use books to cool patients, as officials investigate the number of deaths that has reached nearly 170. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 119 people have died from heat-related illnesses over the last several days while neighboring Bihar state reported 47 fatalities, according to local news reports and health officials. “So many people are dying from the heat that we are not getting a minute’s time to rest. On Sunday, I carried 26 dead bodies,” Jitendra Kumar Yadav, a hearse driver in Deoria town, 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Ballia, told The Associated Press. Other residents said they were scared of ...

What we know about the missing OceanGate sub and its expedition

20Jun

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What we know about the missing OceanGate sub and its expedition

The eyes of the world are on an extraordinarily difficult rescue operation to find a missing submersible vessel carrying people to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The five-person submersible had on board crew and paying tourists and was one of 18 "missions" planned by deep sea exploration company OceanGate Expeditions for 2023 and onwards. According to its website, OceanGate successfully completed similar expeditions to the Titanic wreck - which lies 3800 metres below the surface around 685 kilometres south-southeast of the coast of Newfoundland - in 2021 and 2022. The company said the aim of its missions was to document the Titanic and its rate of decay, by collecting images, videos, laser and sonar data. The expeditions were being funded by tourists, with the in...