In the day's other news, the U. S Supreme Court sided with a high
school football coach in Washington state, who was suspended in 2015
for leading prayers on the field after games.
Today. 6 to 3 ruling said Joe Kennedy's actions were protected by
the First Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch
said the Constitution and the best of our traditions, council, mutual
respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression.
In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned the decision moves further
down a path in forcing states to entangle themselves with religion.
An Amtrak train with more than 200, passengers and crew hit a truck
and derailed in Missouri Today, Three people were killed, two on
the train and one in the truck. An ambulance official says At least
50 were injured.
Amtrak said eight cards derailed when the train struck a dump truck
that had blocked the rail crossing. Rescuers used ladders to climb
inside and medical helicopters waited nearby.
In Ukraine. Russian missiles spread more terror today, smashing into
a shopping mall and a sports arena in the central Ukrainian city
of Kremen shook. Officials confirmed at least 13 killed but warned
there could be many more. It came as G seven leaders met in Germany
to discuss new sanctions on Russia will get more on all of this after
the news summary.
Police in South Africa are still trying to figure out what killed
21 teenagers at a nightclub early Sunday. Investigators cordoned
off the club in the coastal town of East London. Some of the victims
were celebrating the end of exams and others were having a birthday
party.
Authorities say it appears they were accidentally poisoned, but it's
not clear how back in this country. The congressional January 6th
committee has called a surprise hearing for tomorrow. The panel originally
said it planned no more sessions until July.
Now, it says Tuesday's hearing will feature what it calls recently
obtained evidence. Lawmakers today gave no details of what that evidence
is on. Wall Street stocks gave back a little of last week's games.
The Dow Jones industrial Average lost 62 points to close at 31,438.
NASDAQ fell 83 points. The S and P 500 slipped. 11 and artist Sam
Gilliam has died. He was best known for large abstract drape paintings
and was the first black artist to represent the U. S. The prestigious
Venice Biennial biennial art exhibition, Jeffrey Brown has more
He was a pioneer of color abstraction and form.
Painting onto canvases and then hanging them unstructured and flowing
draped from the ceiling or wall. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Sam
Gilliam moved to Washington D C in 1962 and was connected to what
was called the Washington Color School. He spoke in a 2011 news.
Our video
We had what was called a movement, but it was like a community.
Movement through desire.
To do things.
I decided to work with the canvas just as it was painted on the floor.
And work from the floor to the wall.
Against today. It's a that we learn to think outside the box.
In recent years, his profile had risen to its greatest heights. Just
last month, The Hirschorn Museum in Washington opened an exhibition
of new large scale round paintings made during the pandemic titled
Full Circle.
Sam Gilliam died of kidney disease and his Washington D. C home on
Saturday. He was 88 years old.
And still to come on the news. Our our politics Monday team weighs
in on the latest developments from the Supreme Court to the G seven
summit in Germany. American W N B A star Britney Griner appears in
a Russian court as their supporters try to increase pressure to bring
her home and the artists in residence at hospitals working next to
doctors helping
To hell.
Plus much more.
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State University.