Your weekend must reads📰

So many stories, so little time ... Hello again, friends of The Short List weekend edition!✨ I'm John Riley, newsletter editor, and I hope you'll enjoy this choice selection of stories you might have missed.

☄️But first: The comet is coming! A rare green comet, dubbed C/2022 E3 (ZTF), makes its closest approach to Earth next week. Here's what you need to know to view it.

And now, Your Weekend Must Reads.

How should Brittney fly?

🏀Flying private: As Brittney Griner prepares to resume her WNBA career later this year after being released from a Russian penal colony, there are security concerns concerning her travel. Charter flights are an obvious solution, but the WNBA, despite being subsidized by the NBA, only uses commercial air travel. It's a sore subject among WNBA players, reports USA TODAY's Lindsay Schnell. 

Focus on migrants

🔵'I just want my little girl back': Despite federal efforts to keep migrant families together when they arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, nonparents – grandparents, aunts, older siblings – are routinely separated from migrant youth. USA TODAY's Rick Jervis reported that U.S. law requires separation to shield asylum-seeking minors from child traffickers and other threats, but the policy often ends up breaking up families and traumatizing children.

🔵'A risk you take': On the high seas between Florida and Cuba, an increasing number of migrants are fleeing political and economic crises in Cuba and Haiti by crossing the dangerous Florida Straits, many in boats made of scrap wood, styrofoam and rusty car motors. USA TODAY's Chris Kenning flew with a Coast Guard patrol and interviewed migrants who made the life-or-death crossing.

Smashing stereotypes

🟣What does it mean to be masculine? That question became an Internet Thing recently when NFL icon Tom Brady posted photos of himself showing affection to his 13-year-old son. USA TODAY's David Oliver asked experts on our evolving views of masculinity. "Men are becoming more emotionally expressive than ever. The trope of 'men don't cry' is a thing of the past, which is a complete paradigm shift," says Benjamin Calixte, founder at Therapy For Black Men.

Real quick

• M&M mascots: Candy maker replaces iconic characters with actress Maya Rudolph
• Cancer concern?: UV lamps in nail salons can damage your DNA
• Never give up: This NCAA women's relay team came from WAY back to win
• Splash Mountain scheme: 'Authentic' used water from now-closed ride for sale

There are more great reads below.👇 Thanks for reading! See you next week.