The good news list:

 

• The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas and the Spirit Lake Nation file a challenge against the state of North Dakota for attempting to throw out redistricting maps that enforce voting parity for the reservations’ electorate.
• The Avengers becomes the first movie dubbed into Lakota, a significant step in the preservation and promotion of Lakota language and culture.
• The Biden administration will empower Cuban entrepreneurs to import food and equipment from the U.S., access social media platforms, and hold business accounts with U.S. banks.
• The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions holds a hearing to learn firsthand from those affected by limits to abortion access.
• The Labor Dept. expands a rule requiring financial professionals to act in the best interest of those seeking retirement investment advice.
• The Biden administration proposes extreme heat protection standards for outdoor workers.
• USCIS redesignates and extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. 
• USCIS extends employment authorization documents for certain Temporary Protected Status holders.
• The Biden administration announces $1B in climate resilience funding for communities.
• AL: Marilyn Lands is elected to the state House after centering her campaign on reproductive rights.
• CO: Colorado’s governor signs a bill to facilitate in-person voting for incarcerated people in November.
• FL’s governor signs a bill banning intentional balloon releases, which will protect marine ecosystems.
• IN: An appeals court rules that the state’s abortion ban likely violates residents’ First Amendment rights.
• MA allocates $67M in federal grant money to improve Green Line accessibility.
• ME: Acadia National Park will electrify its bus fleet using a $23 million federal grant from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
• NC: A federal court overturns unnecessary impediments to accessing and taking abortion medication at home.
• NY: A new state law mandates paid lactation breaks for people needing to express breast milk.
• NY: Thanks to public outcry, New York City’s mayor and city council restore library funding.
• OH: A campaign successfully ensures a ballot initiative to end gerrymandering through the state’s citizen-initiated constitutional amendment process.
• RI: A circuit court upholds the state’s ban on high-capacity bullet magazines.
• RI makes it easier and safer for residents to change their legal name.
• TX: A judge’s ruling protects a migrant shelter on the US-Mexico border and affirms that offering support to migrants of any legal status is not illegal.
• Newbern, AL residents’ voting rights are restored for the first time in over sixty years.
• Chicago’s mayor launches a task force on reparations for Black residents.
• A former police officer faces legal consequences for using illegal chokeholds and violating the civil rights of two men.
• 100% of profits from tea company Keats & Co. goes toward funding tuberculosis care in impoverished countries.
• Immigration advocacy groups sue to overturn President Biden’s recently ordered asylum restrictions.
• Civil and reproductive rights groups file lawsuits challenging Ohio laws that delay abortion patients’ access to their desired care and ban telehealth medication abortion services.
• To reduce racial disparities in breast cancer treatment and mortality rates, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force adjusts their recommendations for when patients should start getting mammograms.
• The Latino Economic Development Corporation promotes economic empowerment and community development among Latino communities and other underserved populations in Massachusetts.
• Central Falls High School in Rhode Island opens a Diversity Garden for science students to care for and have lessons in.
• Sarah Towle’s new book, Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, outlines two decades of U.S. anti-immigration policies, factually countering anti-immigrant narratives.
• Virginia Hislop, 105, earns her master’s degree 83 years after initially enrolling.
• Hillsborough County, FL residents adopt every pet from a local kennel.
• Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney co-write a song in a new generation of Lennon-McCartney collaboration.
• Lawmakers in Thailand vote overwhelmingly to legalize same-sex marriage, making it the first country in Southeast Asia to enshrine the right.
• The late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek will be honored with a US postage stamp.
• A small business in Rhode Island installs air conditioners for senior citizens for free.

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