In the executive order, Abbott noted that protected free speech areas on Texas university campuses, including the buildings and parking lots of Jewish student organizations, have been covered in antisemitic graffiti.

—The Dallas Morning News

Hartford, Conn., set to raise Christian flag at center of Supreme Court controversy

HARTFORD, Conn. — Hartford is set to raise the Christian flag over city hall after a contentious debate over what flags should be flown on city property.

The resolution, introduced by council Democrats, calls for the historical white and blue flag with a red Latin cross to be flown on Thursday in observance of Holy Week before Easter Sunday. The flag, designed over a century ago, represents all Christian denominations.

The flag raising comes after Hartford and numerous towns across the state have passed policies restricting what flags can be flown on municipal flagpoles. Strict flag policies, now commonplace across Connecticut, have sparked controversy in several towns over what flags should or should not be flown on municipal property.

Several towns have outright banned the Pride flag and the POW/MIA flag while allowing only official government flags to be flown. Proponents of flag policies have said they are necessary to avoid lawsuits.

—Hartford Courant

Yellen warns China's industry ramp-up is distorting world economy

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen slammed China’s use of subsidies to give its manufacturers in key new industries a competitive advantage, at the cost of distorting the global economy, and said she plans to press China on the issue in an upcoming visit.

“There is no country in the world that subsidizes its preferred, or priority, industries as heavily as China does,” Yellen said in an interview with MSNBC Wednesday — highlighting “massive” aid to electric-car, battery and solar producers. “China’s desire is to really have global domination of these industries.”

The Treasury chief was speaking from Norcross, Georgia, where she’s showcasing the reopening of a U.S. solar-cell manufacturing facility that had shut in 2017 under the pressure of “cheap imports flooding the market.”

Speaking to reporters after the event, Yellen declined to say whether the Biden administration was prepared to threaten Beijing with retaliatory trade actions if China doesn’t reduce its subsidies.

—Bloomberg News