12 PM ET: Title 42, US-Russia call, Israeli police beat funeral mourners & more

We start this afternoon in Louisiana, where a federal judge will hear arguments over whether to end a pandemic policy for migrants at the US-Mexico border. The US Defense Secretary had a call with his Russian counterpart for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, as the intelligence community looks into its practices there and elsewhere. Police in Israel were beating crowds carrying a coffin of a prominent Palestinian-American journalist. The GOP is shook over a rising conservative star in Pennsylvania and a dangerous inmate is on the loose in Texas. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy