just to live. and yet, here we are. seeing the right of our community members diminish. their voices are silenced, they re very identities denied. our nation has made great strides with filling the fundamental promises of freedom and equality for lgbtq plus americans, but lately something has changed. the arc of progress is bending in ways we did not think possible just five years ago. unjust ways. so far this year, more than 520 anti lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures. that is a record. more than 220 of those bills, specifically, targeted transgender and non-binary people. also a record. and an unprecedented 70 anti lgbtq laws have been enacted just this year. in the past, we have put together pride specials celebrating lgbtq+ individuals and their achievements, first in the white house and then on the stage and screen. achievements that deserve to be celebrated. but tonight, as that progress is threatened like never before, we are going to do something d
acts. attorney general merrick garland releases a scathing report on the minneapolis police department following the death of george floyd. its patterns and practices investigation found the police department has a history of using excessive force and violating citizens and civil rights. norah: ups union workers threaten to strike. what it could mean for your packages. hundreds of thousands of ups union workers could walk off the job, making it the largest strike in u.s. history. norah: the whistle-blower who leaked the pentagon papers exposing secrets about the vietnam war dies. tonight, a look at daniel ellsberg s legacy. at gm s milford proving ground outside detroit, these screens replace their traditional dashboard. one of the big influences behind these screens are video games. norah: and it s friday, so we go on the road. from a desperate place across the atlantic, a suspicious message went out. i took him for a scammer, but he sho
not defaulting. days before a portion of an apartment building in iowa collapsed repair work was under way on that section. three people remain missing. i said, if you value your life, get away from that building and an hour later i heard the building fell. the inspection never failed. it was incomplete. so the work was still in progress. this needs to be done in a way that it respects that this is a resting place. president biden tripped over a sandbag and fell. because this wasn t the president s first stumble it has gotten a lot of attention. according to white house official, totally fine. remember to stay true to ourselves. jokic knocks down the three. the first finals game in franchise history is a rousing success. p-s-a-m-m-o-p-h-i-l-e, psammophile. that is correct. after much anticipation about a spell-off, a 14-year-old dev shah won the 2023 scripps national spelling bee. it s surreal. i didn t even let it settle in. my legs are still shaking.
companies. and we re exactly two weeks away from the day the u.s. is expected to run out of money to pay its debts. negotiations are under way in d.c. despite president biden being half a world away in japan. plus, new details about the man who authorities say is behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in years. court documents are revealing the suspect may have been mishandling classified information months before the leak. new attacks in ukraine. with officials saying russia launched an unprecedented barrage of missiles across the country overnight. we ll talk to ukraine s former president about what appears to be a rise in russian assaults. and more crackdowns on lgbtq rights. texas on the verge of becoming the biggest state of the nation to ban gender transition treatment for children. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the nation s highest court. just in the last hour, the supreme court ruled the social media giant twitter is not liable f
washington. doug. doug: warning about a tidal wave and chaos at the border and numbers keep climbing. we are in excess of 10,000 immigrants per day crossing the border illegally. the surge is already underway and fox learned the administration has organized mass release of immigrants into communitieses once shelters are overcapacity. president biden is bracing for what we are likely to see ahead. president biden: we ve had chaos at the border for years. we are making real immigration more streamlined and the direction people know there is a legal way to get here and not a legal way. doug: the secretary of homeland security continues to claim the border is closed and secure. we are taking this approach within the constraints of a broken immigration system that congress has not fixed for more than two decades. when we release individuals, we release them on conditions. the vast majority will be addressed in our border patrol facilities and our ice detention facilities.