5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Friday June 28th

Winners and losers from night 2 of the 1st Democratic debate:

The majority of the frontrunners for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination crowded onto 10-person debate stage in Miami Thursday night, the second half of a debate-a-thon that began 24 hours earlier with 10 more aspirants duking it out for precious media attention and that most valuable and elusive commodity in national elections: Buzz.

Unlike the relatively polite affair on Wednesday night, the candidates in Thursday’s debate came out ready to scrap. It was a much more spirited affair and produced a series of powerful moments — the vast majority authored by California Sen. Kamala Harris.

A pregnant woman shot in the stomach is indicted in her unborn child’s death:

Once again, Alabama is at the forefront of a nationwide debate over the rights of pregnant women.

This time, the controversy stems from a pregnant woman who was shot in the stomach and is now charged with manslaughter for the death of her unborn child.

A Jefferson County grand jury indicted Marshae Jones, 27, based on her alleged role in starting a fight that led to the gunfire, CNN affiliate WBMA reported.

Jones was five months pregnant in December when she got into a fight with another woman outside a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, just west of Birmingham, the station said.

Nestlé Toll House is making cookie dough you are supposed to eat. No, seriously:

Go ahead, lick the spoon! Nestlé Toll House has hinted that it’s rolling out cookie dough that is safe to eat.

Word has been hushed so far, but the cookie company did retweet a Cosmopolitan article featuring 15-ounce jars of ready-to-eat dough.

“Surprise!” The company said in the tweet.

And on Instagram, a shopper at a Publix in Florida, posted a picture of two jars of the edible treat and wrote how excited he was.

Harris’ attack on Joe Biden steals spotlight at Democratic primary debate:

Democratic voters tuned into Thursday night’s debate searching for the candidate who could take down Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election — and many flipped on their television sets expecting that person to be front-runner Joe Biden.

In a surprise twist, it was former prosecutor Kamala Harris who took command of the debate stage, outshining her rivals time after time with succinct and fiery denunciations of the Trump administration’s policies on everything from the treatment of migrant children to the gaping income equality in this country—and even setting the tone early in the debate by reminding her colleagues that Americans don’t want a “food fight,” they want to know Democrats are “going to put food on the table.

‘I stand by the comments that I made about not wanting to go to the White House’:

Megan Rapinoe isn’t backing down.

The US Women’s National Team forward, speaking ahead of Friday’s blockbuster Women’s World Cup quarterfinal match against host nation France, reiterated Thursday that she would not visit the White House.

On Tuesday, Eight by Eight, a soccer magazine, released video of Rapinoe telling a reporter in January, “I’m not going to the f*****g White House” if the US wins the Women’s World Cup.

“I stand by the comments that I made about not wanting to go to the White House — with the exception of the expletive,” Rapinoe said in Paris on Thursday. “My mom would be very upset about that.

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