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Animal headline of the day

Colorado woman stabbed by her knife-loving dog

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Transgender Teen Becomes the First to Join His High School Football Team
• Government severs ties with for-profit colleges accreditor
• Three Phoenix policemen resign after making motorist eat marijuana
• UN holds first leaders' meeting on LGBT rights
• Kentucky's GOP governor overridden in feud with Democrat

Cartoon of the day

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Czech court frees Russian artist facing extradition, may seek asylum Russia is not a democracy.
• County to pay $4 million in sheriff's racial profiling case
• Affidavit allowed for North Dakota voters lacking ID

Bad News

• Lawsuit: Transgender inmate raped at New Orleans' new jail
• Judge dismisses challenge to N. Carolina gay-marriage law

Animal headline of the day

Helicopter accidentally picks fight with a cow and loses spectacularly

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Ex-National Guard soldier given 30-year prison sentence

Bad News

• Suspected Boko Haram militants kill six in northern Nigeria ambush - army

Animal headline of the day

I understand the concerns over privacy, but I think this goes a little too far.

Google Street View blurs cow's face

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Mayor Roberts: Charlotte City Council won’t consider LGBT ordinance repeal Monday
• Chicago police to undergo mandatory 'de-escalation' training
• Boy who wanted to try on skirts found ‘Justice’ in this North Carolina store
• Seattle passes new scheduling rules for hourly workers

Bad News

• L.A. Woman Gender-Profiled & Escorted From Female Bathroom
• Federal court OKs Christian prayers at county board meetings

Semi-random thoughts

• There should be background checks for people who want to buy pressure cookers.
• I got a new computer monitor, because my old one died after about 11 years. HP uses HDMI connectors for digital input. HP includes a nice HDMI to HDMI cable with the monitor. But my two year old computer doesn't have an HDMI output--it only has a DVI digital output. Guess who made my computer.
• I hate it when I update an app on my phone and it wipes out my settings.

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• From He to She in First Grade
• Transgender Briton is UK's first female combat soldier: report
• Belgium sees first case of minor being granted euthanasia

Bad News

• Boko Haram atrocities haunt Cameroon's displaced

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Serbian police cordon off central Belgrade to protect pride march
• Spotify adds third gender to registration forms for non-binary users
• Museum in New York acquires Billie Jean King archive

Bad News

• Trans Woman Murdered in Baltimore Is 21st This Year, Nearing 2015's Total
• A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks
• Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain

Animal headline of the day

Wandering cow taken for ride in New Zealand police car