The Short List is a snappy USA TODAY news roundup.\u00a0Subscribe to the newsletter here\u00a0or\u00a0text messages here.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n If you’re seeing more rainbows lately, no need to\u00a0adjust your dial:\u00a0Tuesday’s the official start of Pride Month.\u00a0The month of June marks a time of celebration and reflection for the LGBTQ community and allies. Here’s some\u00a0history for you: Pride dates back to riots at Stonewall Inn in June 1969, led by Black transgender women. New York City police had raided the landmark bar in Manhattan\u2019s Greenwich Village, enforcing a law against selling alcohol to gay patrons. Thirteen people were arrested. Now, more than 50 years later, Pride is celebrated with street festivals, events and parties. While last year’s festivities were moved largely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many 2021 celebrations will host a blend of virtual and in-person events as more Americans become vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n People celebrate as they take part in the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march on June 28, 2020 in New York City. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 parade was canceled. (Photo: Arturo Holmes, Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n One hundred years after a white mob burned “Black Wall Street” to the ground, killing and injuring an estimated hundreds of Black citizens and forcing thousands from their homes, President Joe Biden visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday to commemorate one of\u00a0the bloodiest race massacres in U.S. history.\u00a0Biden delivered remarks\u00a0and spoke to survivors of the attack, who are now between the ages of 101 and 107. Only three remain. Ahead of the trip, the White House announced a slate of policies\u00a0meant to promote racial equity, including\u00a0a new interagency effort meant to combat housing discrimination, as well as new directives that will increase federal contracting with small, minority-owned businesses by $100 billion over the next five years.<\/p>\n Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher arrives to applause at the closing ceremony for the Black Wall St. Legacy Festival 2021, Monday, May 31, 2021.<\/p>\n (Photo: DOUG HOKE, THE OKLAHOMAN\/USA TODAY Network)<\/span><\/p>\n Seizing on a trend coursing through conservative states, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Tuesday a controversial ban on transgender athletes participating in women\u2019s sports at the high school and college levels. While DeSantis, a Republican, denied it was a factor, the measure was enacted on the first day of Pride Month. \u201cWe believe it\u2019s important to have integrity in the competition, and we think it\u2019s important they\u2019re able to compete on a level playing field. You\u2019ve seen what happens when you don\u2019t have that,\u201d DeSantis said. U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla.,\u00a0called it \u201ccruel legislation\u2026creating an issue where one doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d When approved by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, lawmakers struggled to find any examples of transgender girls or women competing in Florida sports. The new law would require schools to have athletes compete according to their sex documented at birth, rather than gender identity. The law takes effect July 1.<\/p>\n Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responds to reporters\u2019 questions Monday in Miami. (Photo: Carl Juste\/Miami Herald via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n It was about\u00a04.5 million miles away, but an enormous\u00a0asteroid\u00a0whizzed by Earth in a relatively close encounter\u00a0on Tuesday,\u00a0according to NASA’s\u00a0Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\u00a0The asteroid, known as 2021 KT1, is about 600 feet, the size of the New York Olympic Tower or the\u00a0Seattle Space Needle.\u00a0The asteroid is classified by NASA as a “potentially hazardous object”\u00a0because it is\u00a0larger than 492 feet\u00a0and within 4.6 million miles of Earth. Flying at\u00a0a speed of 40,000 mph, the asteroid is not expected to make a direct hit, but NASA is keeping a close watch.<\/p>\n Approximate size of the asteroid 2021 KT1 (Photo: USA TODAY)<\/span><\/p>\n But they’re not NOT saying it’s aliens.\u00a0A government-sanctioned report on unidentified aerial phenomena could be released by the Pentagon and other federal agencies as soon as Tuesday.\u00a0It will include information that cannot easily be explained, according to a former top national intelligence official. UFOs are often synonymous with aliens in pop culture, but those who study the phenomenon say they should be understood by their literal name: unidentified flying objects.\u00a0Often, they may have mundane explanations like weather balloons or drones.\u00a0But for now, some sightings don’t have accepted explanations. Last week, a UFO filmmaker shared a video clip depicting radar footage he claimed shows a swarm of unidentified flying objects near a Navy ship off San Diego almost two years ago.<\/p>\n Congress-sanctioned UFO report to detail unexplainable 'sightings all over the world' (Photo: U.S. NAVY)<\/span><\/p>\n\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 Pride Month kicks off <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nBiden meets Tulsa Race Massacre survivors<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWhat everyone’s talking about<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Florida governor OKs\u00a0ban on\u00a0transgender athletes in women’s sports<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Massive asteroid buzzes by\u00a0Earth<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n\ud83d\udef8 They’re not saying it’s aliens<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nA break from the news<\/strong><\/h2>\n