Today's news round-up

Good News

• More Jobs and Higher Wages: U.S. Recovery Starts to Hit Home
• Virginia board to amend rules that would close abortion clinics
• Nigeria repels attack by gunmen on French factory
• New group of Iraqi peshmergas enters Syrian Kurdish town
• Prison sentence for German who joined IS

Bad News

• GOP makes final push for school lunch waiver
• Hundreds of killings by cops are not reported to FBI, study finds

Ladies, beware of angry nieces and nephews

From Todd Wilbur on Facebook.

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• U.S. military monitoring Islamic State training in Libya: general I'm glad they're being monitored.
• Federal Court Thwarts Rick Scott Once Again On Drug Testing 

Bad News

• Air bag maker balks at coast-to-coast recall So people whose air bags haven't been recalled shouldn't drive where it's hot and humid? That's ridiculous.

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Gay Men Could Soon Donate Blood UPDATE: US panel fails to lift ban on gay blood donors So it's no longer good news.
• Glenn Beck must face Saudi's lawsuit over Boston Marathon bombing
• Utah man gets maximum sentence in hate crime case
• Albuquerque policeman who shot woman fired over camera lapse
• The Arrest of the ISIS Leader's Wife and Son
• District ordered to pay transgender student $75K
• U.S. leads 25 more air strikes against Islamic State militants: CENTCOM

Bad News

• Ohio bill would shield doctors who say 'My fault' If the idea is to give patients or their next-of-kin more information there are far better ways of doing it.
• Egypt to criminalize 'insulting revolutions'
• Pakistan singer-turned imam accused of blasphemy Blasphemy should not be a crime.

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Pace of Health Care Cost Increases Falls to a 54-Year Low
• Tribes honor 2 who wouldn't take part in massacre
• More Bill Cosby accusers expected to speak out
• Police Body Cameras Could Come to New York Soon
• Teenage suicide bomber caught in northern Nigeria
• US issues anti-discrimination rule for employers

Bad News

• States sue Obama administration on immigration: Texas attorney general What a waste of the taxpayers' money.
• Nude museum photo exhibit 'porn' to Florida city council head I like the artist's comment: "Maybe he hasn’t seen enough porn.”

Plat du jour--guest submission

Found by Joanne.