Was an innocent man executed?  He was executed for murder 4 years ago. Now someone else's DNA has been found on the murder weapon. What do you do when a DNA test is requested and then denied?

Should a person be weighed before getting on a plane? In what is bound to be a sensitive issue for some passengers, airlines may soon be asking fliers to step on a scale, or provide their weight, before boarding a flight.

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Amy Coney Barrett took speaking fees from a group that pushed Mississippi's abortion ban. A constitutional law expert says that won't stop her ruling on the case. Do you agree?

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California announces pandemic-related guidelines.

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It was meant to be a gift of sorts, for the second anniversary of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Inauguration. The leader of the country’s third-largest city was offering sit-down interviews exclusively to reporters of color. In a letter Wednesday, 

Lightfoot argued that the overwhelming maleness and Whiteness of Chicago’s press corps — in a city where roughly two-thirds of the residents are people of color — did not adequately reflect the population and was a detriment to local media coverage.

“As a person of color, I have throughout my adult life done everything I can to fight for diversity and inclusion in every institution that I have been part of and being Mayor makes me uniquely situated to shine a spotlight on this most important issue,” Lightfoot wrote.

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Israel and Hamas announced a cease-fire Thursday, ending a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip and brought life in much of Israel to a standstill.

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Should the Olympics be cancelled?  Also, The San Francisco Giants revised their rules for entry to home games at Oracle Park, saying fans with tickets in socially distanced sections no longer are required to show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. And finally, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas issued an order on Tuesday that will bar local governments and public schools from having mask mandates, the latest in a string of states issuing similar bans.

 

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The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations.

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John's guest is Special Agent in Charge of FBI SF Craig Fair.

The FBI has seen a rise in hate crimes and hate incidents directed at the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community throughout the nation and in particular the Bay Area over the past year. 

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This Thursday, May 20th, is National Rescue Dog Day and what a pandemic the past 15 months it's been in the world of rescue animals. Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco has seen a large increase in adoptions as people work from home and realize the heartfelt value in adopting a rescue dog and saving a life. Muttville has also seen an increase on the intake side, in fact the number of dogs we've saved has jumped by 28% compared to last year at this time!

www.muttville.org

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A sharply divided House voted on Wednesday to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, overcoming opposition from Republicans determined to stop a high-profile accounting of the deadly pro-Trump riot.

But even as the legislation passed the House, top Republicans locked arms in an effort to doom it in the Senate and shield former President Donald J. Trump and their party from fresh scrutiny of their roles in the events of that day.

The final vote in the House, 252 to 175, with four-fifths of Republicans opposed, pointed to the difficult path ahead.

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