‘Embryonic pulsing’

The euphemism employed by The New York Times to describe the heartbeat of a child in the womb. In the May 29 story Times correspondent Alan Blinder wrote that Louisiana’s heartbeat bill would ban abortion “after the pulsing of what becomes the fetus’s heart can be detected.”

Down on digging

Officials in an Outer Banks, N.C., town have a message for visitors: Stop digging holes in the beach sand. The complaints from officials in Nags Head began in 2015 when officials posted a picture of a hole dug so deeply that the bottom could only be accessed with a ladder. Officials say they don’t know why beachgoers are spending vacation time digging, but they note the deep holes pose a threat to people or animals that might fall into one. Nags Head officials posted the request to the town’s Facebook page on May 21, ahead of the tourist season.

Dangerous journeys, contentious crossings

Acting like animals

‘We’ll take AOC’s carbon footprint for ourselves.’

TV host Rachel Campos-Duffy, wife of U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., on becoming pregnant with the couple’s ninth child. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., earlier this year questioned whether it was moral for people to have children because of the supposed impact on the climate.

Died

45 million

The number of missing baby girls around the world from 1970 to 2017 due to sex-selective abortions. A new PNAS study of the sex ratio imbalance found most missing female births occurred in China and India.

$85,889

The average teacher salary in New York—the highest in the United States—according to National Education Association estimates. Mississippi paid teachers $45,574 on average.