One of the two identical white three-pieces worn by the star in his 1977 role is expected to fetch $250,000

It’s one of film’s iconic images: a smouldering John Travolta, in a white three-piece suit where the lapels lick the shoulders, raising his right arm aloft on a glowing dancefloor.

And now, the white polyester outfit from Saturday Night Fever – the 1977 chronicle of the dying days of disco – could be yours for a quarter of a million dollars.

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Elders moved to tears as members of tribe and archaeologists recover canoe discovered in Lake Waccamaw two years ago

Tribal elders were moved to tears by the retrieval of a 1,000-year-old Native American canoe from Lake Waccamaw in North Carolina.

Waccamaw Siouan chief Michael Jacobs told CBC it was emotional to watch the elders “sit on the bank and cry tears of joy, tears of sadness, tears of a future for our youth – how this is going to impact them and help them overcome some of the trauma they’ve experienced through being excluded at times, and even counted as not worthy”.

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Despite the death toll, there is little indication of federal policy changes, but some states have tried to impose more gun control

The US is setting a record yearly pace for mass killings, with around one each week. According to a database tracking such events, the death toll from 17 mass killings in 111 days is 88. All were shot. Only 2009 saw as many such killings in the same period.

At a Nashville elementary school , three children and three adults were killed. In Northern California, farmworkers died over a workplace grudge . At a ballroom outside Los Angeles, dancers were massacred as they celebrated the Lunar New Year.

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State senators advance bill for consideration by house in what critics say is basic violation of separation of church and state

Every classroom in Texas could be made to display the Ten Commandments prominently, after lawmakers advanced a proposal to push more religion into schools.

A parallel bill also approved by the Republican-controlled Texas senate on Thursday would require educational establishments to set aside time every day for students and employees to read the Bible or other religious manuscripts, or to pray.

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Document that advocated more severe punishments for Hispanic defendants ‘not the policy of this office’, Jack Campbell says

A state attorney in Florida has apologized for a “racist” memo produced by staff in a rural county office of all-white prosecutors, advocating more severe punishments for defendants who are Hispanic.

The document covering plea deals was exposed by a whistleblower former employee who worked briefly for Jack Campbell, state attorney for the second judicial circuit based in Tallahassee.

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The Florida governor’s flaws are glaringly apparent. Right now, it’s hard to see the nominee as anyone other than Trump

The Ron DeSantis boomlet is done. He consistently trails Donald Trump by double-digits more. A Wall Street Journal poll out Friday pegs Florida’s governor in severe retrograde, slipping 27 points since December . DeSantis mistakenly conflates his campaign’s bulging war chest with adulation. Wrong!

He forgot that working-class Americans dominate the Republican party and that mien matters. Voting to gut social security comes with fatal backlash, and eating pudding with your fingers is gross. Said differently, largesse from the party’s donor base coupled with little else is a losing recipe.

Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992

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Justices consider appeal by White House following lower court order reimposing restrictions on drug mifepristone

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It’s possible that today ends with a supreme court decision allowing abortion medication mifepristone to stay available at pharmacies nationwide. Or, the court’s conservative majority could again display its willingness to throttle reproductive care access and allow an appeals court decision reimposing restrictions on the drug to go into effect.

Here’s a look at four ways the ruling on the mifepristone case could go, from Steve Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law:

Earlier this month, Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in Texas, declared that the FDA improperly approved the drug in 2000, in effect saying it should be pulled from the market even where abortion remains legal.

The Biden administration appealed to a federal court, where a divided three-judge panel said mifepristone could remain available but imposed several barriers to how the drug is accessed and administered.

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Asked if he will subpoena John Roberts over allegations against conservative, Senate judiciary chair says: ‘I don’t have a majority’

Asked if he would subpoena the chief justice of the US supreme court for testimony over corruption allegations against the conservative justice Clarence Thomas, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee made clear his frustration with a continued absence from the panel that has left Democrats unable to make such a move.

“It takes a majority,” Dick Durbin of Illinois said on Thursday. “I don’t have a majority.”

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Florida governor lines up four-nation tour in attempt to boost credentials as credible leader on world stage

Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, is to meet the UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, in London at the end of the month as he attempts to burnish his credentials as a credible Republican leader capable of operating on a global stage ahead of a widely expected run for US president.

He is to lead a Florida trade delegation on a four-nation tour taking in Japan, South Korea, Israel and the UK.

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