Saturday, June 10, 2023

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The Short List

Sat Jun 10 2023
 

John Riley |  Audience Editor

Good morning, and welcome to The Short List weekend edition✨, home to some of the best stories of the week from the USA TODAY Network! I'm John Riley, newsletter editor, and wherever you are I hope that the air quality is healthy. Here's a map showing the last wildfire and smoke information.

And now, here are the week's must reads.

How one Illinois town became the symbol of abortion rights

🔵In the year since the Supreme Court's radical redrawing of abortion access, few places in America have been affected as much as small, blue-state towns near red-state borders. As states moved to restrict or ban abortions, some clinics moved or opened anew in these border towns. Such is the case with Choices Center for Reproductive Health in rural and conservative southern Illinois. Read more

The Class of 2023 lost everything to COVID. Then they fought back.

🏫The Class of 2023 will always be the class of COVID. They're the students who wrestled with virtual classes and the cancellation of their favorite activities. When school returned, they endured masks, swabs and uncertainty. The USA TODAY Network spoke with more than a dozen seniors from colleges and high schools across the nation. They talked about their depression, loneliness, and isolation. Also the talents they discovered, their pride at earning a degree and their hopes for the future. Read more

'Our numbers are screwy'

🗳️During Arizona's high-profile "audit" of the results of the 2020 presidential election, the CEO of the tech firm hired to recount 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County was in a panic ― because he had no way to tally up the results. Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, privately admitted in a series of text messages last summer that he could not make sense of the data, The Arizona Republic found. "How plausible is this solution looking? I looped back to look through all of the aggregation data again. It (is) pretty broken. A lot of it doesn't make any sense," Logan wrote. Read more

There are more great stories below.👇 I hope you have a great weekend. See you next week!
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence arrive in the Rose Garden to speak on COVID-19 testing at the White House in Washington on Sept. 28, 2020.

Donald Trump was indicted over his alleged handling of classified documents. Will Joe Biden and former Mike Pence be indicted too?

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla. Timothy Parlatore, a key lawyer for former President Donald Trump says he's leaving the legal team, a move that comes as a special counsel investigation into the retention of classified documents shows signs of being in its final stages.
 

Trump indicted: What does that mean? Was he arrested? What to know.

Former President Donald Trump was indicted for allegedly mishandling classified documents. But what does indicted mean? Has he been arrested?
Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada diminishes the visibility of the Empire State Building on Wednesday in New York City. New York topped the list of most polluted major cities in the world on Tuesday night, as smoke from the fires continues to blanket the East Coast.
 

Will smoke from Canada affect eastern US again? Yes.

Canada's wildfires are bigger than they used to be, and experts say they're set to get even worse. That will keep impacting US air for years.
A participant holds a PRIDE flag at the march for PRIDE and the Black Lives Matter anniversary celebration on Sunday, June 13, 2021 in Milwaukee.
 

The harsh truth about 'coming out' as LGBTQ

LGBTQ people should come out and assert their identities in the face of bigotry, though experts say they should never feel obligated to.
Protestors gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 27, 2023 in Washington, D.C., ahead of the oral arguments in two cases that challenge President Joe Biden's $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan.
 

Student loan payment pause ends this summer. How you should prepare.

The debt ceiling deal cemented a late summer starting date for student loan payments to resume. Here's what you need to know and how to prepare.
Addison Brown, seen here on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at Cascio Motors in Scottsdale, Arizona, is fighting to regain custody of four Ford F-150 pickups she purchased legally with legitimate Arizona titles for an estimated $300,000. A car dealership that Brown co-owns with her husband was raided by armed police officers on Dec. 23. After Cascio purchased the pickup trucks, Ford reported them stolen. Delay and inaction by Ford has tainted the reputations of businesses large and small in the Phoenix area. Now Brown has been banned from buying at auction or borrowing money for the company while also having to pay off all bonds that protected her dealership. She has been battered financially after unknowingly selling to an auction house a stolen vehicle that had not been reported stolen by Ford.
 

Ford under fire as multi-state stolen vehicle scheme is discovered

A ripple effect of litigation and criminal probes paralyzes small businesses out west over Ford F-150 pickups stolen in Michigan.
Protesters protect themselves from tear gas smoke behind umbrellas and garbage containers during clashes on the sidelines of a demonstration on the 11th day of action after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using article 49.3 of the constitution, in Nantes, western France, on April 6, 2023. - France on April 6, 2023, braced for another day of protests and strikes to denounce the French President's pension reform one day after talks between the government and unions ended in deadlock.
 

Do French retirees fare better than Americans?

President Emmanuel Macron recently forced through a plan to raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64.
Views of Denali National Park from George Parks highway (Alaska Route 3), February 19, 2022.
 

Alaska's 'scourge of suicide' abates at Army bases. Here's why.

Suicide among soldiers posted to Alaska has abated from "horrifically high rates." A surge of counselors might have stemmed the tide.
Jimmy Dunne tees off on the 18th hole during a practice round prior to the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the Old Course St. Andrews on Sept. 28, 2022.
 

How 'golf's ultimate power broker' helped with PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger

Jimmy Dunne might be more familiar on Wall Street than he is to the average sports fan, but in the world of golf, he quietly looms large.
"Based on a True Story" star Kaley Cuoco
 

Why Kaley Cuoco is 'past' sex scenes: 'I'm not doing that anymore'

Kaley Cuoco says she relied on a body double for intimate scenes in Peacock's thriller comedy "Based on a True Story" (now streaming) for this reason.

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