The Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion could have a wide ranging impact. By striking down abortion restrictions in Texas, abortion-rights activists nationwide are emboldened and a range of anti-abortion laws in numerous states are in peril.
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Congressional dysfunction is likely to stall the Zika bill. It is possible lawmakers may recess without addressing Obama’s $1.9 billion request to combat a potential public health crisis from the mosquito-borne virus.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A preliminary hearing will lay out ground rules for another hearing later this week on the fight between media companies and the city of Orlando over whether 911 calls from the mass shooting at a Florida nightclub can be made public. The media lawsuit contends city officials are wrongly withholding recordings of 911 calls and communications between gunman Omar Mateen and the Orlando Police Department. City officials claim the recordings are exempt under Florida law.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Curators have begun collecting signs, flags, art work and photos left behind at several makeshift memorials for the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Curators from the Orange County Regional History Center started collecting the items on Monday. Memorials have been left behind at Orlando’s new downtown performing arts center, at the hospital where many patrons were taken and also at the Pulse nightclub. The Historical Society of Central Florida will preserve the items to remember the victims of the shooting.
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VW is offering options in the emissions-cheating scandal. In a settlement, Volkswagen diesel owners can choose to either sell their car back to the company or get a repair that could diminish the vehicle’s performance.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton will propose allowing entrepreneurs to defer making student loan payments, as part of a technology agenda she plans to introduce on Tuesday. Clinton’s campaign says she would permit start-up founders and early employees to forgo payments on their federal student loans for up to three years. Those who launch businesses that provide social benefits would also be permitted to apply for forgiveness of up to $17,500 of their debt after five years. She’ll also propose connecting every household in America to high-speed internet by 2020 and training 50,000 new computer science teachers over the next decade. Clinton will present her agenda during a campaign stop at a small business incubator in Denver. She is working to woo young voters attracted to primary rival Bernie Sanders.
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Federal investigators say the pilot was at fault in the April 2014 plane crash in Marion County during the filming of the zombie movie “What Tomorrow Brings.” The crash killed 65-year-old pilot Dennis W. Monroe of Summerfield and 70-year-old passenger Joseph Lewis Sardinas of The Villages. In a new report released by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators said Monroe flew too low, causing the aircraft to stall. Investigators said there was no evidence of any mechanical malfunction.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — When a man suffered an apparent heart attack on a flight from Atlanta to Phoenix, Tim Tebow emerged from the first-class section and helped comfort his family. Erik Dellenbach, executive director of the Tim Tebow Foundation, tells the Florida Times-Union that the former NFL quarterback prayed with the family and other passengers after the medical emergency on the Sunday night flight.
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BOSTON (AP) — A former high-ranking member of the New England Mafia has been ordered to stay in custody after his arrest in Florida on charges he lied to federal authorities about the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner. Seventy-year-old Robert DeLuca is a former capo in the Patriarca crime family. Federal authorities say he lied when he denied knowing anything about Steven DiSarro’s disappearance in May 1993.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A homeless man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for punching a swan near an Orlando lake. 59-year-old Sor Angel Velez, listed as a transient in court papers, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest to injuring the bird. Police report that two off-duty police officers saw Velez punch a mother swan at Lake Eola Park on Sunday evening after she reached for him when he stepped too close to her babies. Besides the jail time, Velez also was banned from the park.
