Early data on deaths in 2024, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show that COVID dropped from the list for the first time since the start of the pandemic. It became the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, and remained among the leading causes until now. (Huang, NPR)
Read MoreThe majority said the state had not met the bar to seek an emergency reversal of a preliminary injunction by a federal judge, who had permitted the teen to use the boys’ restroom while he sues over the state’s bathroom restrictions for transgender students. (Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA median of 28% of adults across 24 countries say they are online almost constantly. An additional 40% say they use the internet several times a day, while 9% do not use it at all, according to a Pew Research Center survey from this spring. (Fetterolf, Pew Research)
Read MoreThe founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Faith and host of the streaming “Charlie Kirk Show,” Kirk was shot while speaking in a courtyard at Utah Valley University in Orem, a city of 96,000 adjacent to Provo. He was 31. (Smietana, Religion News Service)
Read MoreWho can feel safe? Where can they feel safe? Whatever you think of Kirk… when he died he was doing exactly what we ask people to do on campus. Show up. Debate. Talk. Engage peacefully, even when emotions run high. (French, The New York Times)
Read MoreAmericans watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left nearly 3,000 people dead in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 20 years later, they watched in sorrow as the nation’s military mission in Afghanistan – which began less than a month after 9/11 – came to a bloody and chaotic conclusion. (Hartig & Doherty, Pew Research Center)
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