Baker Jack Phillips was sued by attorney Autumn Scardina in 2017 after his Denver-area bakery refused to make a pink cake with blue frosting to celebrate her gender transition. Justices said in the 6-3 majority opinion that Scardina had not exhausted her options to seek redress through another court before filing her lawsuit. (Brown, AP News)
Read MoreThe Social Mobility Commission, an independent government body, analysed NHS data and found that children aged 11 to 15 who admitted drinking alcohol, taking drugs or vaping were from higher socioeconomic groups. It said the findings were “deeply concerning” but could not identify the underlying causes. (Sleator, The Times UK)
Read MoreThe newly minted Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has a message about the artificial-intelligence systems he helped create: get more serious about safety or they could endanger humanity. (Kruppa & Seetharaman, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreAs a hospice nurse who spent her working life comforting patients in their final hours, Ann Jackson was so vehemently against Oregon’s right-to-die bill she voted against it twice. Then her partner had metastatic prostate cancer diagnosed. Bill Duncan’s march towards death was slow and full of a pain that quickly became unmanageable. (Ensor, The Times UK)
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term this week, with guns, transgender rights, pornography, and lots more on the docket, including potential election cases in the wings. (Totenberg, NPR)
Read MoreThe ruling, which goes into effect Monday, comes one week after a lower court struck down the ban and allowed abortions to legally take place until about 22 weeks of pregnancy. (Habeshian, Axios)
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