News in :90 – April 10, 2024

3 sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The Arizona Supreme Court has given the go-ahead to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions. Track and field becomes the first sport to pay prize money at the Olympics. Madeline Mussay has today’s News in :90.

News in :90 – March 20, 2024

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s Northernmost coast on Wednesday. Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy. The demolition of McCarthy gym on St. Thomas’ south campus began Wednesday morning. Elaina Mankowski has today’s News in :90.

News in :90 – May 6, 2022

The mother of Daunte Wright said she was injured while she was briefly detained by an officer after she stopped to record an arrest of a person during a traffic stop, Jill Biden thanked U.S. troops deployed to Romania as a check against Russian aggression for their service, and St. Thomas students gathered at Summit and Cretin avenues to protest a leaked Supreme Court draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Podcast Producer Mae Mcfarlane has today’s News in :90.

Contention over Supreme Court leak reaches St. Thomas

St. Thomas students gathered at Summit and Cretin avenues Thursday to protest a leaked Supreme Court draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that established a women’s ability to choose to have an abortion as a constitutional right.

News in :90 – May 4, 2022

About 500 people gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday evening to protest the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance won Ohio’s contentious and hyper-competitive GOP Senate primary on Tuesday and Wall Street is off to a mixed start on Wednesday and bond yields are rising as traders look ahead to an announcement later in the day on interest rates from the Federal Reserve. Ben Hogan has today’s News in :90.

AP: Biden blasts ‘radical’ Roe draft, warns other rights at risk

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted a “radical” Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling t hat has stood for a half century. The court cautioned no final decision had been made, but Biden warned that other privacy rights including same-sex marriage and birth control are at risk if the justices follow through.