NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
Racial justice: The U.S. Marshals Service is investigating after a protester in Portland, Ore., was hospitalized in critical condition over the weekend after being hit in the head by a lesslethal round fired by a federal law officer. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he spoke with U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams and learned of the probe. Bystander video shows the protester, identified as Donavan LaBella, 26, collapsing to the ground and bleeding profusely from the head. The shooting was widely condemned in Portland, which has seen violent protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Body found: The body of “Glee” star Naya Rivera was found Monday at a Ventura County lake where she had gone boating with her son last week. Sheriff ’s officials confirmed that the body search crews found floating in a corner of Lake Piru was the 33yearold. The discovery came five days after Rivera vanished on the lake, where her 4yearold son was found asleep on a rented pontoon boat. The boy told investigators that his mother boosted him back on to the deck before he looked back and saw her disappearing under the water. An autopsy will be conducted by the coroner’s office. Rivera played cheerleader Santana Lopez for six seasons on the Fox musicalcomedy “Glee.”
Student visas: Attorneys general for 17 states, from Massachusetts to New Mexico, on Monday filed a lawsuit in Boston against President Trump to halt a new federal visa rule that threatens to force out thousands of foreign students studying at colleges in the United States. The lawsuit comes less than a week after California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a similar suit seeking to stop the mandate, which orders that foreign students attending all classes virtually may not remain in the country. Universities have also challenged the order.
Abortion rulings: Federal judges in Tennessee and Georgia blocked measures enacted in both states that would have severely restricted access to abortion. In Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee on Monday signed one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, and a federal judge in Nashville quickly blocked it. And in Georgia, a federal judge struck down a state antiabortion law approved last year, calling it unconstitutional. Both laws would have banned most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, or about six weeks into pregnancy. Supporters of these type of bills hope lawsuits over them head to an increasingly conservative U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of ending the constitutional right to abortion protected under the Roe vs. Wade ruling.
Flood ordeal: A New Jersey woman survived a harrowing milelong ride through a storm drain after flash floods swept her and her car into the drainage system. Nathalia Bruno, 24, attempted to drive through deep and fastmoving water on July 6 when her car began to fill with water. She escaped from her vehicle but was pulled into a brook that runs beneath Passaic. Bruno eventually was shot out of the drain into the Passaic River and swam to safety. “She was stunned,” said Rutherford Police Chief John Russo. “She really didn’t know what happened to her.”
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