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In our dispatch on Tuesday, number one elections are being held in six states with several famous races, adding Colorado and New York, rescuers in Ukraine have searched for survivors in the ruins of a burning grocery shopping mall hit by Russian missiles, according to the UN, 300,000 of the civilians were killed in the first decade of Syria’s civil war and Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years. of prison.
Judy Woodruff:
In the news of the day: The death toll has risen to 51 in a horror story about migrant smuggling in Texas.
They were discovered Monday night crammed into a semi-trailer parked in San Antonio. Temperatures were around one hundred degrees. President Biden called it terrible and heartbreaking. We will have the main points after the news summary.
There are more consequences of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down Roe v. Wade. A Texas ruling today blocked a 1925 law banning nearly all abortions. A federal appeals court has allowed a Tennessee ban after six weeks of pregnancy.
Meanwhile, the U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. The U. S. Government said it would have all the features to access abortion if they passed the legal exam.
Xavier Becerra, U. S. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesWE’re interested in adapting to bullies and doing things for the sake of it.
And so, to all the Americans affected, my apologies, as I said, we can’t tell you that there is a silver bullet.
Judy Woodruff:
One option may be to simply set up abortion clinics on federal land, but the White House warns that patients and providers can still be prosecuted under state law.
It’s night number one again, with elections in six states and several high-profile contests. Republican Tina Peters is running to be Colorado’s most sensible election official. She has been accused of electoral fraud and rejects the effects of the 2020 elections. And New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul faces demanding primary situations after intervening when Andrew Cuomo resigned.
FDA advisors proposed that COVID vaccines be changed to accommodate the highly contagious ramifications of the Omicron variant. The panel voted today to add new protections to the reinforcements updated this fall. The advice now goes to the entire FDA.
In central Ukraine, rescuers continued to dig into the ruins of a burning grocery shopping mall hit by Russian missiles. The interior minister said no one may have survived the intense heat.
Denys Monastyrsky, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (through a translator):
Now we can say with certainty that there are no other people left alive. At such temperatures, bodies can burn completely. We cannot exclude that a certain amount of other people, the remains, will only be recovered after the complete cleaning of the site. .
Judy Woodruff:
Meanwhile, the Group of 7 democracies has engaged with Ukraine for as long as necessary. And, significantly, Turkey abandoned its opposition to Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO, as alliance leaders met in Spain.
We’ll get to all of this later in the program.
The United Nations now claims that the first decade of Syria’s civil war has killed more than 300,000 civilians. This is the highest official estimate to date, but it doesn’t come with the thousands of other people who died due to lack of physical attention or food. . The war in Syria began in 2011.
A German court has found a former Nazi concentration camp guard guilty of more than 3,500 counts of complicity in murder. The defendant, known only as Joseph S. , is 101 years old. He walked into the courtroom in a wheelchair, hiding his face with a blue backrest. The granddaughter of a Sachsenhausen prisoner celebrated the result.
Lili Grumbach, granddaughter of a concentration camp inmate: But I think it’s vital that my generation and the next generation, since there will be no more direct witnesses to this story, we stay, we keep this memory.
Judy Woodruff:
The suspect was sentenced to five years in prison.
Back in that country, a federal court in New York sentenced Ghislaine Maxwell to 20 years in prison for directing young women to Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse. The British socialite told the court that she murdered the financier for the biggest remorse of her life. Epstein committed suicide in 2019.
Alleged hate crimes in California have reached their peak since Sept. 11. The state says nearly 1800 incidents were reported last year, up 33 percent from last year. almost 50%.
The Michigan Supreme Court today ordered the dismissal of allegations opposed to former state officials in the Flint water scandal. Former Gov. Rick Snyder had faced misdemeanor charges in the lead contamination crisis. to a grand jury.
And, on Wall Street, a sharp drop in customer confidence inventory indices to fall between 1. 5 and 3 percent. The Dow Jones trading average lost 491 topics to close at 30947. The Nasdaq fell 343 temas. la s
It still comes in “NewsHour”: clinics that increase abortion assistance for women across state lines after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Wade; the US ambassador to NATO talks about a critical summit at a time of uncertainty in Europe; and much more.
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