Your daily round-up of today's news:
- The International Criminal Court has junked the Philippines' petition to suspend the resumption of their investigation on the drug war that began during the Duterte administration.
- A heavily-armed shooter killed six people, including three children, at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, before being shot dead by police. It's the latest in the ongoing gun violence plaguing schools across the United States. The shooter behind the recent killing is identified as Audrey Hale, a transgender who used to be a student in the school where the attack occurred.
- Harvard University is offering Tagalog language classes for the first time.
- Humza Yousaf is elected leader of the Scottish National Party and is set to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's First Minister. Yousaf defeated rivals Kate Forbes and Ash Regan in a leadership contest that exposed deep divisions within the party. He is the first Muslim to lead a major British party.
- The US Army picked Lockheed Martin to develop an advanced propulsion LRMF missile that can be fired from existing Army launchers to defeat distant threats at ranges that significantly exceed those of the PrSM baseline.
- Jeep ends production of the Cherokee SUV after five decades.
- Shueisha is ending the publication of The Margaret magazine after 41 years after its 1982 launch. The final issue will be out this June 23rd.
- A 26-year-old woman filed a federal defamation suit against Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, alleging the three men "initiated a deliberate plan" to portray the billionaire's "own daughter...as an 'extortionist' and a 'shakedown artist' whose motivation was money and greed."
- Disney is laying off 7,000 jobs companywide, mostly from TV production and acquisitions.
- Authorities are continuing the probe on the car accident that killed aspiring actor Andrei Sison last weekend.
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