Animal headline of the day

Fugitive NJ Bobcat Found, Possible He Knows How To Open Doors

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Pennsylvania high school's football season canceled over hazing The coach should be fired also.
• Ted Bishop resigns as PGA president
• UN authorizes ship inspections for Somali charcoal
• NBCUniversal settles with unpaid interns for $6.4M
• France announces big air raid against Islamic State in Iraq

Bad News

• Despite Protests, Smith College Still Won’t Admit Transgender Women
• Saudi to deal 'strictly' with female drivers

Throwback Thursday

Veronica Vera and me, about 2005.

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Wyoming gay couples get marriage licenses
• Iraqi Kurds approve sending fighters to aid Syrian town
• Syria says shoots down two of three 'IS warplanes'
• Mount Holyoke's New Transgender Policy Redefines Women's Education
• NBC Is Ready to Name Weir and Lipinski as Its Top Figure Skating Broadcast Team
• Honoring George Carlin With His Own Manhattan Block

Bad News

• Koch Brothers Super PAC adds another $6.5 million in TV ads
• Jamaican gays, transgenders face unchecked abuse
• Lawsuit: Detained transgender teen treated as boy
• Man, woman stoned to death for adultery in Syria: monitor

Living with bears XLVI

Oregon: Baby bear caught roaming the halls of RiteAid in Ashland

Wyoming: Black bear euthanized after breaking into house

Utah: Young bear relocated after roaming through neighborhood

California: Bear cub reunited with mama after getting stuck

Colorado: Black Bear Gets Trapped Inside Car, and Car Damage Ensues

Today's news round-up

Good News

• CVS reportedly wants to punish other pharmacies that still sell tobacco
• Turkey shifts strategy to help Iraqi Kurdish fighters into Kobane
• Deal agreed for Australia forces to deploy in Iraq
• Alabama state House speaker indicted on corruption charges Another Republican in trouble.

Bad News

• Police: Man spray-paints on NYC museum wall
• Malaysia's Sedition Act crackdown 'chilling' free speech
• Islamic State insurgents advance into Iraqi town of Qara Tappa

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List
• Palau legalizes gay sex
• Estonia: Parliament Passes Cohabitation Act; President Proclaims It

Bad News

• Soldiers' rights activist jailed in Russia Russia is not a democracy.
• Top Iranian human rights lawyer barred for three years Neither is Iran.
• 'Bad hijab' link to acid attacks on Iranian women
• Anti-gay law passed in Kyrgyzstan in landslide vote

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