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Supreme Court rules in favor of former high school football coach who prayed on the field after gamesThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday that it was within former high school football coach Joseph Kennedy’s constitutional right to pray on the field after his team’s games. After games at Bremerton High School in Washington–where he started coaching in 2008–Kennedy would kneel to pray on the 50-yard line, and began leading students in locker room prayers. The school district asked Kennedy to stop when they caught wind of his actions, over concerns that it could be sued for violating students' rights to religious freedom. While he stopped leading students in prayer, Kennedy didn’t stop kneeling after games. The district then placed him on paid leave, and the head coach recommended he not be rehired. Kennedy sued, and the case landed in the Supreme Court. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said that Kennedy’s choice to pray on the field was protected by the First Amendment and that the Bremerton School District’s suspension of Kennedy after he refused to stop engaging in the practice was, in fact, a violation of his religious freedom. In their dissenting opinion, Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the ruling went against the “nation’s longstanding commitment to the separation of church and state,” and that it “sets us further down a perilous path in forcing States to entangle themselves with religion, with all of our rights hanging in the balance.” |
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Two Russian missiles strike a Ukrainian shopping mall with over 1,000 civilians insideA shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk was struck by two Russian missiles yesterday, according to country officials. According to Dmytro Lunin, the regional governor of the Poltava region where Kremenchuk is located, at least 13 individuals were confirmed dead in the attack. Over 50 others were wounded, per Lunin, with 21 people hospitalized and 29 others receiving first-aid care without hospitalization. In a post to the secure messaging service Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky corroborated reports that over 1,000 civilians were inside the mall when the missiles struck. He also added that the mall posed “no danger to the Russian army,” and that the attack was of “no strategic value” to Russian forces. Yesterday’s attack on the Kremenchuk shopping mall follows other Russian attacks on locations containing Ukrainian civilians, including a missile strike on a Maripol theater where an estimated 600 civilians were killed, and an attack on a train station in eastern Kramatorsk that left 59 dead. |
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Credit Suisse convicted of money-laundering related to cocaine trafficking ringA Swiss court yesterday found Credit Suisse and one of its former employees guilty of helping a Bulgarian crime ring launder money related to cocaine trafficking through the bank. The court found that by failing to adequately monitor its accounts and ensure compliance with anti-money laundering rules, Credit Suisse enabled the crime ring to launder millions in illegal profits through the bank between July 2007 and December 2008. During the trial, prosecutors said the former Credit Suisse employee in question accepted suitcases of cash from one of the members of the crime ring that went above legal limits on a regular basis. While the court pointed out “deficiencies” in the bank’s management that enabled the laundering, Credit Suisse said the case arose from an investigation from over 14 years ago, and that it is “continuously testing its anti-money laundering framework and has been strengthening it over time, in accordance with evolving regulatory standards.” As part of the court’s ruling, Credit Suisse was fined 2 million Swiss francs (around $2.1 million) and was ordered to pay the Swiss government about $20 million. Both the bank and its former employee denied any wrongdoing, and Credit Suisse said it plans to appeal the verdict. |
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Question of the dayWhat do you find interesting that most people don’t? Tell us your thoughts here: Looking Back…On June 28th, 1997, Mike Tyson was disqualified from a boxing match for the heavyweight title after he twice bit opponent Evander Holyfield's ears; he temporarily lost his boxing license as a result of the infraction. |
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