Brief Glimpses of Notable Happenings

*ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times report that Border Patrol chases have resulted in 22 deaths and 250 injuries from 2015 to 2018.

*Reuters has reported that the governments of Iraq, Kuwait, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Thailand and the European Union were allowed to rent luxury condos in Trump World Tower in New York. The lease requests were never reported to Congress. Trump is still an active owner of the Trump Organization.

*A researcher for the Boy Scouts identified 12,254 reported victims of sex abuse, and that may be a serious undercount.

*Trump's advisers and appointees are attracting an unusually high number of complaints over accusations that they violated the Hatch Act. Kellyanne Conway, for example, delivered a scathing attack on Joe Biden.

*Trump's new rule would allow health-care workers to refuse to provide or pay for services that violate their religious or moral beliefs.

*Trump wants to put "low-yield" nuclear warheads on U.S submarines. An adversary wouldn't know if an incoming missile was armed with a low-yield warhead or a full-sized one. Several lawmakers are sponsoring the Hold the LYNE Act that would prohibit the research, development and deployment of low-yield nuclear warheads for submarine-launched missiles.

*The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia -- in a split decision--ruled that President Trump's decision to rescind DACA was "arbitrary and capricious," and it was in line with a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

*Only half of the federal government's 10 largest law enforcement agencies currently have permanent chiefs.

*By a 236 to 173 vote, the U.S. House passed a bill banning anti-LGBT discrimination. The bill would expand the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act to bar discrimination on employment, housing, jury selection, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

*Federal judges in Oregon, Washington and California have sided with Democratic AGs in their lawsuits against Trump's anti-abortion Title X "gag rule."

*After the Florida governor called President Trump, an announcement was made that no more undocumented immigrants would be sent to Florida.

*President Trump has called Hungary's authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, "highly respected," and said he is doing a "tremendous job."

*The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study showing that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease, had been found in the brains of 110 of 111 ex-NFL players examined by Boston University researchers.