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Trump Offers Dizzying New Justifications For Classified Documents As Former Cabinet Secretaries Sound The Alarm

Former President Donald Trump offered a dizzying multitude of new justifications Monday for keeping classified material after leaving the White House and refusing to give them back to the National Archives and Records Administration. “I was very busy,” he told Fox News’ Bret Baier, explaining that he wanted to go through all the boxes identified by the Archives to remove personal things before handing them over.

Missing Titanic Sub: Desperate Search In The Atlantic As Air Runs Out Hours After Last Ping Above Wreck

One of Pakistan's richest men and his teenage son are among the five people missing in the submarine that set off to see the wreck of the Titanic before losing all communication thousands of feet underwater, it was revealed today. Shahzada Dawood, 48, a UK-based board member of the Prince's Trust charity, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, were on board the tiny underwater craft taking paying tourists to view the famous wreck 12,500ft underwater when they lost signal in the dark depths of the Atlantic Ocean, 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Congress Is Stuck On Rewriting Permit Rules. SCOTUS Brought Its Wrecking Ball

Congress spent months obsessing over an effort to loosen the rules on federal environmental permits — only for the Supreme Court to eclipse its efforts in a single morning. The court’s May 25 decision shrinking federal wetlands protections took a wrecking ball to an expansive permitting regime that has been in place for nearly 50 years ― and it’s already having a ripple effect in how agencies enforce a wide range of other environmental safeguards. The 5-4 ruling put at least half the country’s marshes, swamps and other wetlands outside the reach of federal water protections, an outcome that could speed the way for pipelines, power lines, highways and housing projects across the U.S.

In Tech, Everything Is Labeled "AI" Now

At this peak moment in the tech world's artificial intelligence craze, anything that tech companies can slap an "artificial intelligence" label on, they will. The more our understanding of a new technology is distorted by hype, the less thoughtfully we can apply it — and the more likely it is we will cause harm with it. Real advances in machine-learning based pattern- recognition and -completion have sparked a new bubble in tech-industry investment, encouraging companies to apply the "AI" label to anything that moves.

OB-GYN Shortage Expected To Get Worse As Medical Students Fear Prosecution In States With Abortion Restrictions

A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, the U.S. is facing a shortage of OB-GYN doctors. It's only expected to get worse in the years ahead as medical students make decisions on what and where to practice, in part, based on states' abortion laws. Erin Duggey is a third-year medical student in Florida, but unless things change, she said that is not where she wants to be a doctor. "It's just not the environment I really want to be in," the future OB-GYN told CBS News.

6 Teens Shot After Milwaukee's Juneteenth Celebration

As Milwaukee's Juneteenth Parade celebrations were winding down on Monday, six teens were shot in the area of MLK and Chambers. Milwaukee police officers responded to the area around 4:20 p.m. Thousands were still gathered in the area since the city's Juneteenth event ended at 4 p.m.

UW System Funding Discussed During Senate Committee Hearing

Funding for the UW System was once again up for discussion during a Senate Committee on Universities and Revenue hearing. The informational hearing focused on the status and future of the UW System and the Wisconsin Technical College System. Leaders from both groups testified. UW System President Jay Rothman again put out a call for more state funding in the next budget.

Worker Injured At Lambeau Field Died From Injuries

A construction worker who was injured while working at Lambeau Field died over the weekend, his employer said Monday. “On Thursday, June 15th, one of our valued carpenters was critically injured while working at Lambeau Field which led to his passing on Saturday, June 17th,” Mavid Construction said in a statement.

Federal Complaint Filed In Sun Prairie Trans Student Shower Incident

A conservative Wisconsin law firm has filed a federal civil rights complaint for the way the Sun Prairie Area School District handled an incident this spring involving a transgender student in a girls' locker room. In its complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty alleges the school district violated Title IX rules in March, when, according to the law firm, four 14-year-old freshman girls at East High School were exposed to the genitalia of an 18-year-old senior who is transitioning from male to female.

Schimming Says Republicans Must Embrace Early Voting ‘Or We Lose’

Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Brian Schimming says the GOP must embrace early voting efforts “or we lose.” “I don’t think it’s something we like to do; we have to do,” Schimming said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “I say to Republicans across the state, ‘Look, we can’t keep going into Election Day 200,000 votes down and make it up in 13 hours. It’s just the arithmetic does not work.'”