Biden campaign and Jill Biden launch outreach to older voters with bingo nights and pickleball games

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

WASHINGTON — First lady Jill Biden is kicking off her husband’s outreach to older voters, an effort that will blend rallies and phone banks with social events like bingo nights and pickleball games.

While President Joe Biden is in Italy attending the Group of Seven summit, the first lady will travel to four swing states to launch the Seniors for Biden-Harris effort. Older adults are more likely than the average American to vote, and they make up larger shares of the population in some key swing states. Biden, who outperformed previous Democrats with the demographic in 2020, is looking to expand on the gains as his campaign seeks to maximize its chances of defeating former President Donald Trump, the Republican presumptive nominee.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/12/biden-campaign-first-lady-jill-biden-reach-out-to-/

Six years after the Parkland school massacre, the bloodstained building will finally be demolished

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

PARKLAND, Fla. – The three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School looms over campus behind a screened fence, a horrific and constant reminder to students, teachers, the victims' families and passersby.

But now after serving as evidence at the murderer's trial, the building's destruction starts Thursday as crews begin bringing it down piece by piece — implosion would have damaged nearby structures. Officials plan to complete the weekslong project before the school's 3,300 students return in August from summer vacation. Most were in elementary school when the shooting happened.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/national/2024/06/12/six-years-after-the-parkland-school-massacre-the-bloodstained-building-will-finally-be-demolished/

Pope Francis allegedly repeats gay slur, opposes gay men in priesthood

June 12, 2024

Rome - Pope Francis on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to gay priests, allegedly repeating a highly pejorative slur in an encounter with clerics just two weeks after the Vatican issued an apology amid reports that he had used the same word in an earlier meeting with bishops.

Francis reportedly repeated the slur in a meeting with 200 priests at Rome’s Salesian Pontifical University, according to major Italian outlets. The Vatican, in a statement, did not mention use of the derogatory word, but said that the pontiff had spoken of the “danger of ideologies in the Church.”

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2024/06/12/pope-francis-allegedly-repeats-gay-slur-opposes-gay-men-in-priesthood/74068739007/

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