Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• California requires single-stall public bathrooms to be open to all
• California Expands Equal Pay Law To Include Protections For Race And Ethnicity
• Waynesboro man convicted in same-sex kidnap case
• Norman Rockwell Museum has has received a $1.5 million grant from the George Lucas Family Foundation
• France 'conducts operations against IS'

Bad News

• Singapore rebel teen jailed for anti-religion posts
• Myanmar man jailed for calling president 'crazy' on Facebook

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• California toughens sex assault laws after Stanford case
• U.S. to Bar Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Contracts Compulsory arbitration, especially between economic unequal parties, should be illegal.
• Court Overturns New Hampshire Ban on Selfies (and Snapchat) in Voting Booths
• Alabama Chief Justice suspended over gay marriage stance He was suspended without pay for the remainder of his term. I'd say he was fired.
• Van Gogh paintings stolen from Amsterdam found in Italy

Bad News

• This terrible editorial is a monument to Silicon Valley’s sexism

Naked Trump: Sam Biederman for the win

Source

"NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small," parks spokesman Sam Biederman said.

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• As party unease grows with Trump, Republican lawmaker says he will back Clinton I have no idea how many Republican congressmembers will join him, but I doubt he will be the only one.
• Court denies North Carolina motion to stay decision on voter ID law
• Judge Dismisses Suit by Suspended Alabama Chief Justice
• Missouri’s Governor Cut Funding to the State’s Public Defenders. So They Assigned Him a Case
• Georgia man pleads guilty in $30M computer hacking scheme
• X-ray uncovers hidden portrait beneath famed Degas painting
• Libyan forces advance in IS bastion as US keeps up air strikes

Bad News

• Pope: It's 'terrible' children taught they can choose gender I seldom give much notice to what religious leaders say, but this is a total mischaracterization of what it is to be transgender. Nobody chooses their gender. But for some people it doesn't correspond to their physical sex. 
• New Report Shows LGBTQ Students Targeted for Discipline
• U.S. police body camera policies put civil rights at risk: study

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Austin police probe officer's throwing black woman to ground
• Nevada ending discrimination of prison inmates with HIV
• US acts to block two mega-mergers in health insurance
• Papa John's Worker Fired After Writing N-Word on Delivery Receipt
• Celeb hacker who stole nude images gets six months in prison
• Ventilation to Be Required in All New York Nail Salons

Bad News

• Fashion brand Zara accused of copying LA artist's designs

Today's news round-up

Good News

• IS territory 'shrinks 12 percent since start of 2016'

Bad News

• How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught It's good they were caught.
• Busty mermaid causes a stir in West Yarmouth
• Boko Haram raid in north Nigeria leaves civilians, soldiers dead

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Utah’s Misty Snow makes history as Democrats’ transgender Senate nominee
• Judge blocks Indiana genetic abnormality abortion law
• Federal judge blocks Florida law to end abortion clinic funding
• Obama signs bill easing access to government records
• Rome's Colosseum sparkles after magnate-funded restoration

Bad News

• Lawmaker: North Carolina LGBT law will largely stay intact
• Judge tosses case against street artist Shepard Fairey; city to appeal

Also from yesterday

I'd say Morning Lisa.

Today's news round-up

Good News

• How the ‘Trump effect’ could flip the Senate and With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States
• Adam Silver: N.C. law could affect All-Star Game, Hornets future
• Navy scraps mailer over sexism accusations
• David Geffen gives $100 million to Museum of Modern Art
• U.S. Capitol replacing flag display over Confederate imagery
• Vice Media Writers Ratify First WGA Contract

Bad News

• BYU students investigated by school after reporting rape Students should not have to fear expulsion if they report being assaulted.

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Retailer Target to let transgender people use bathroom of their choice
• In U.S. bathroom battles, Florida transgender student fights for equality
• Visa: new technology for chip cards to speed checkout times
• Harriet Tubman to be featured on U.S. $20 bill
• Rembrandt's earliest masterpiece coming to US for 1st time
• Creator of malware used to drain bank accounts gets 9 years
• NHL suspends Blackhawks' Shaw 1 game for anti-gay slur
• UK alerts LGBT travelers to North Carolina, Mississippi laws

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Hundreds expected at gay wedding expo in Utah
• Libyan forces target Islamic State in Sirte with air strikes
• West Africa's Sahel nations to set up anti-Islamist units

Bad News

• A New York Public School Is Being Threatened and Harassed Over This Art Project
• Growing attacks on Polish gay rights groups: commissioner
• Pakistani lawyers' group behind spike in blasphemy cases
• Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Iraqi capital

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Air strike targets suspected Islamic State convoy in Libya - town official

Bad News

• Virginia Woman Claims KFC Fired Her for Being Transgender  UPDATE: KFC fires manager who hired then fired woman after he found out she was trans
• French cleaners scrub off street art
• At least 33 killed in IS-claimed Baghdad bombings

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Turkey police recover stolen Picasso in Istanbul: report
• Hollande waives prison for abused woman who shot husband
• Wisconsin activists push student free-press protections
• Officer resigns after uproar over words to black motorist

Bad News

• 4 remaining occupiers of wildlife refuge remain watchful There is no acceptable reason for giving them immunity. Starve them out.
• Tax Scams Are Targeting Uninsured, I.R.S. Warns
• Thai junta pressures Facebook, Line to censor online posts
• Officials: Ohio man made several tries to find child for sex
• Italy protest against same-sex unions gathers thousands
• Islamic State bombings near Syria Shiite shrine kill 71
• 86 Dead as Boko Haram Burns Children Alive in Nigeria

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

Bad News

• 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

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Republican lawmaker seeks ban on LGBT conversion therapy
• FDNY Supports LGBTQ Youth in New Video
• Confederate Flag Supporters Indicted in Clash With Black Partygoers
• Graffiti artist Fairey to go to trial over tagging in 2016 We don't know if there is sufficient evidence to convict him. What we do know is that he has shown little regard for obeying the law in the past--though it is legally irrelevant to this case. 
• Officer, 37, becomes third woman to pass US Ranger school
• De Blasio: NYPD Officers Will Be Trained To Make Arrests With Least Possible Force
• U.S. forces air drop ammunition to Syrian Arabs: military official

Bad News

• Hazing and Drinking Deaths at Asian-American Fraternities Raise Concerns (It's not the raising of concerns that's bad, of course.)

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Tanks from retired shuttle Endeavour going to space station It's good to see the government economizing.
• Justice Dept. Presses Civil Rights Agenda in Local Courts
• Extended 2nd Life for a Mosaic Mural That Was Lost for Years
• Matisyahu row: Jewish singer invited back to festival
• Planned Parenthood Florida says it will resume abortions

Bad News

• California prosecutors say Uber's background checks missed convicts
• India police say 2 brothers behead sister for alleged affair

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Iceland makes blasphemy legal
• Surrogate children granted legal recognition in France
• Air strike kills IS leader in Syria: Pentagon
• Chad seizes suspected Boko Haram weapons cache in N'Djamena
• Kenya detains alleged Islamic State recruiters from Uganda
• Pakistani police save Christian couple from 'blasphemy' mob
• NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signs law to ban employers from asking job candidates about criminal history
• Sweet Cakes final order: Gresham bakery must pay $135,000 for denying service to same-sex couple

Bad News

• New Spain law sets big fines for disseminating police images
• In under two days, Boko Haram kills nearly 170 in NE Nigeria
• Russian MPs pass 'right to be forgotten' Internet law
• IS says it destroyed archaeological pieces from Palmyra
• IS destroys statue outside Syria's Palmyra museum

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Supreme Court upholds key Obamacare insurance subsidies
• Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias
• Pennsylvania court rejects law that aided NRA gun challenges
• California Set to Make Vaccines Mandatory Despite Heated Opposition
• Police issue felony arrest warrant for Shepard Fairey Time and time again he has shown no respect for the law.
• German museum launches show on 150 years of gay history

Bad News

• Wisconsin governor signs bill repealing handgun waiting period

Today's news round-up

Good News

• North Carolina Governor Vows to Veto a Bill Seen as Targeting Gay Marriage
• New law limits what Minnesota bounty hunters can wear, drive
• Canada rights body to review complaint over birth certificate gender markers
• Maine governor calls for public defenders on state payroll

Bad News

• China detains artist who posted humorous photo of president
• No exit: For female jihadis, Syria is one-way journey

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Al Hirschfeld's drawings, other works coming to NYC museum Let the hunt for the NINAs begin.
• Transgender army major wins victory in conservative Serbia
• Minnesota: State Senate shoots down transgender bathroom restrictions

Bad News

• Niger governor orders evacuations due to Boko Haram
• Police: Arizona 2-year-old grabs gun, shoots himself in face
• Indian girl falls to death from bus after alleged groping: report