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Quanisha Ball’s commute to work involved catching an employee shuttle just a few blocks from her apartment in Decatur, Georgia. She mapped out the safest route to the shuttle, but there was no avoiding Scott Boulevard, with its seven lanes of traffic and a speed limit of 45 miles per hour. There, on November 17, 2022, she was hit and killed by a car. Police don’t know how fast the car was going, but Ball, who was 31, went airborne, landing outside the crosswalk, while the car had to be towed from the scene.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday a series of sweeping faith-based initiatives, including a new presidential commission on religious liberty and an executive order targeting perceived anti-Christian bias. Speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Trump also said he would reestablish a White House faith office led by Paula White, a controversial celebrity televangelist and his longtime spiritual adviser.

Attacks on agricultural lands are prohibited under international law. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court from 1998 defines the intentional use of starvation of civilians through “depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival” as a war crime. The Geneva conventions further define such indispensable objects as “foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production offoodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works”.

Essential research on HIV, tobacco use and contraceptive use was removed from the CDC website in January. Information on safety while traveling and international adoption vanished off the State Department’s site. A page on LGBTQI+ inclusion disappeared from the Justice Department. Even an educational page on workplace discrimination was missing from the Labor Department’s site.

All of this information and research was hastily altered or scrubbed entirely from the internet in response to one of President Trump’s many executive orders, issued moments after he took office, declaring there to be only two sexes, male and female, as assigned at birth, and ordering an end to “gender ideology.” Another executive order targeted Diversity, Equity, Inclusion efforts. In response, federally funded agencies rushed to comply.

Previously, these pages had all made references to the LGBTQI+ — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex — population. After the executive order, however, that vanished; the State Department limited its advice for queer travelers in homophobic countries solely to “LGB” travelers. Other pages, particularly those related to queer working groups formed as part of DEI efforts and scientific research on transgender populations, disappeared entirely.

Israel’s defense minister has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to devise a plan for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for how the devastated territory would be administered.