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Friday, December 04, 2015
Recent news round-up, Part 3
Good News
- UAW wins historic victory in U.S. South with vote at VW plant
- Missouri attorney general seeks to curb debt collections
- Court says you can use your work computer however you like The headline is misleading. As the article states, the court ruled that using a computer at work in violation of your employer's rules is not a crime, but you can still be fired for it.
- Saudi Women No Longer Need Ex-Husbands' Permission to Care for Their Kids
- Turkish court jails three for life over female student's murder
- UK bombs Syrian oil field after MPs vote for strikes
Bad News
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Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Illinois school district OKs deal over locker room access A reasonable compromise: access with privacy.
- Boston library recovers stolen map created in 1612
- Cameroon: Army raid kills 100 Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages
- Syria conflict: German MPs vote for anti-IS military mission
- U.S.-led air strikes hit Islamic State oil production in Syria
Bad News
- Feminist Germaine Greer Doubles Down on Anti-Trans Rhetoric in New Interview
- Big Pharma Payments for High Prescribing Doctors
- Officer tells black driver: 'I don't care about your people'
- Boko Haram waging 'scorched-earth' campaign in Niger: official
- Military says boy trained as suicide bomber against refugees
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Thursday, December 03, 2015
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Defense chief to announce plan to open military combat jobs to women: official
- U.S. charges Texas city with discriminatory police hire practices
- Revenge porn website operator Hunter Moore sentenced to 30 months in prison
- Brooklyn Eyeglass Merchant and 2 Others Are Charged in $3.4 Million Loan Fraud
- US-led coalition target IS oil facilities in eastern Syria
- US to Deploy Special Forces in Iraq
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Monday, November 30, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Judge blocks Missouri from pulling clinic's abortion license
- High Court rules against Northern Ireland's abortion law
- States Lead Effort to Let Pharmacists Prescribe Birth Control This was from last week.
- Rice University opts out of Texas 'campus carry' gun law
- Belgian scheme tries to nip radicalisation in the bud
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Chicago police will add more body cameras for officers
- Woman, 90, locked officer in basement, settles with police
- Barnes art museum looks to build on successful move
- Syrian army advances against Islamic State east of Aleppo: Syria state TV
- Life returns to Syrian town after IS ousted
- Germany outlines plan to support fight against Islamic State: media
- U.S., allies conduct 22 strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military
- Wisconsin school nixes reading of book about transgender kid
- Waffle House Customer Fatally Shoots Waitress Who Told Him to Put Out Cigarette: Cops
- Four Egypt policemen killed in attack claimed by IS
- IS executes 3,500 in Syria since declaring 'caliphate': monitor
- Iraqis find 3 more mass graves in formerly IS-held Sinjar
- Predatory Islamic State Wrings Money From Those It Rules
- Iraq suicide bomber kills six in flashpoint town
- Twin suicide bombings kill at least 5 in north Cameroon
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