 | Tuesday 6.11.19 The next time you fly into Louisville, Kentucky, you'll be greeted by a familiar face: Muhammad Ali. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
By Doug Criss | |  | | House Judiciary Committee
The House Judiciary Committee is having itself quite the week. The committee held a hearing yesterday on the Mueller report (without former special counsel Robert Mueller). Watergate figure (and CNN contributor) John Dean testified at the hearing, and he compared President Trump's behavior to President Nixon's. He also said the report gave Congress "a road map" to impeachment. Meanwhile, committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said he's struck a deal with the Justice Department that will let Congress get its hands on some documents from the Mueller report related to obstruction of justice. That will head off, for now, a court showdown between House Dems and the Justice Department. Today, a Judiciary subcommittee holds a hearing on Big Tech and how it's affecting and influencing the news media. The hearing is part of an effort by newspapers and online publishers to get an antitrust exemption to allow them to band together to negotiate with the Googles and Facebooks of the world. | |  | | Helicopter crash
There are renewed calls to ban helicopter flights over Manhattan after a copter crash-landed on the roof of a building. The crash sparked a fire and killed the pilot. Visibility was poor in the area at the time, with moderate to heavy rain falling. New York banned helicopters from landing on rooftop helipads after a disaster in 1977. Today, helicopters come and go from three heliports on the island's periphery. Many New Yorkers said they immediately thought about 9/11 when they heard that an aircraft had crashed into a building. | |  | | Churches and sex abuse
The nation's two largest religious groups are holding meetings this week, and both will be talking about the same thing: sexual abuse by clergy. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops starts a four-day spring meeting today in Baltimore, while the Southern Baptist Convention convenes in Birmingham, Alabama. Both denominations are reeling after internal investigations and journalistic exposés revealed scandals that harmed their members and stained their reputations. The Catholics are expected to focus on accountability for bishops, while the Baptists want to fight an attitude of "casual indifference" that's allowed sexual abuse to continue. | |  | | Canada
Add Canada to the growing number of countries that are banning plastic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country will ban single-use plastic items by 2021. So, that means no more plastic bags, straws, cutlery or stirring sticks. The United Kingdom plans to ban such plastics next year, and the European Parliament has passed its own single-use plastics ban. There is growing concern about the amount of plastic that's ending up in the world's oceans, with an estimated 1 million birds and more than 100,000 sea mammals worldwide injured or killed when they mistake plastic for food. | |  | | David Ortiz
Big Papi is back in Boston. The Red Sox sent a plane to the Dominican Republic to get the legendary slugger after he was shot in the back Sunday night at a nightclub. Ortiz had emergency surgery in the Dominican Republic. The bullet went through his stomach, a police spokesman said, and he had to have parts of his intestines and gall bladder removed. Ortiz's condition is serious, but he was stable enough to be flown. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. A doctor who assisted in Ortiz's surgery hopes his recovery will be "the shortest possible." Ortiz, who was honored at Fenway Park before the Red Sox's game last night, is beloved in Boston for more than baseball. | |  |  People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. Battle of the bands Forget Raptors vs. Warriors. The real action at the NBA Finals is the battle of the National Anthems between the US and Canada. Welcome to Walmart Free SAT prep. Help with college tuition. Walmart is pulling out all the stops to recruit high school students to work for them. Wait, what? Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise to a fight, and, well, we just don't know what to think about it. World history The match was a draw, but Argentina doesn't care because the country's soccer team scored its first point -- ever -- at the Women's World Cup. | | fewer than 100,000
The number of travelers hit in a data breach of US Customs and Border Protection. Images of people and license plates collected by CBP were stolen in a cyberattack. | | |  You're breathtaking! YouTuber Peter Sark to Keanu Reeves, after the actor popped up at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, in Los Angeles | | | before we go
I need to correct something I wrote yesterday. I wrote that Microsoft's' new Xbox would be coming out at the end of this year. It's actually coming out in 2020. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out to me. | | | | | |
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