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Top eight stories for today including the Supreme Court’s review of a federal law criminalizing certain speech related to illegal immigration drew disapproval from the court’s liberal wing; Three students and three adults were fatally shot at a private Christian school in Nashville; Scotland’s ruling political party elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader, and more.

National

Liberal justices balk at criminalization of certain speech linked to illegal immigration

The Supreme Court’s review of a federal law criminalizing certain speech related to illegal immigration drew disapproval Monday from the court’s liberal wing.

A pair of asylum-seeking families from Brazil passes through a gap in a border wall to reach the United States after crossing into Yuma, Ariz., from Mexico in June 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

Biotech outfit with eye on cholesterol drug patents grilled at Supreme Court

Working to aid the high court's digestion of a patent case behind the drugs that purport to lower "bad" LDL cholesterol, a lawyer for Amgen asked the justices Monday if they could think about the technology in the same way they see other history-making enterprises.

(Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

Poll paints paltry party support for Biden second term

Less than one year out from the 2024 primary elections, nearly half of Democrats told pollsters they aren’t ordering a second cup of Joe. Three-quarters of Democrats said they like President Joe Biden, but only a quarter said they’d like to see him run for reelection, according to a Monmouth University Poll published Monday.

President Joe Biden speaks at the Green Road Community Center in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, June 24, 2021. Biden is in North Carolina to meet with frontline workers and volunteers and speak about the importance of getting vaccinated. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Regional

Shock and horror after school shooter kills 6 in Nashville

Members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation expressed their grief Monday in the hours after three students and three adults were fatally shot at a private Christian school in the state’s capital.

Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a deadly shooting at their school on Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)

With drought relieved, California casts wary eye on snowmelt

California's massive snowpack has water managers on edge due to flooding concerns that could occur later this spring and summer.

Floodwaters cover South Davis Rd. near Salinas in Monterey County, Calif., as the Salinas River overflows its banks on Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

International

López Obrador announces ‘Plan C’ to blocked electoral reform

Not to be deterred by the latest hurdle to his electoral reform's “Plan B” in the Supreme Court, Mexico’s president Monday resorted to a not-so-novel third option for pushing the changes he wants through: democracy.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stands during the commemoration of his second anniversary in office, at the National Palace in Mexico City, on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. (AP Photo / Marco Ugarte )

Scottish ruling party elects next leader after shock resignation

Scotland’s ruling political party elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader Monday, putting him in line to become the nation’s most senior politician following last month’s shock resignation of longtime First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Newly elected Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf speaks at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, after winning the party’s leadership contest on Monday, March 27, 2023. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)

Science

Lunar water found in glass beads formed by meteorites

Future lunar explorers could get water from glass beads – specifically, the impact glass beads scientists extracted from the soils that China's Chang’e 5 lunar mission collected.

Photograph of impact glass beads under binocular microscope separated from the Chang’e-5 lunar soils. The glass beads vary from black to brown in tens to hundreds of micrometer sizes. (Sen Hu/IGGCAS)

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