Today's news round-up

Good News

• North Carolina to lose college championships over transgender law
• Instagram lets users filter offensive comments
• Ohio University removing Ailes' name, returning gift

Bad News

• Study details sugar industry attempt to shape science
• Official: Circumstances suggest hate crime in mosque fire

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

Today's news round-up

Good News

• At GLAAD Media Awards, Hollywood vows to continue fight against anti-LGBT laws
• Right-to-die group comes up with new, cheaper medication
• Iraqi forces take northern edge of IS-held town
• U.S. says it killed ISIS militant who killed Marine in Iraq

Bad News

• Top Female Players Accuse U.S. Soccer of Wage Discrimination

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Obama shortens prison sentences for 61 drug offenders 
• Virginia governor vetoes 'religious exemption' bill 
• U.S. states to dissolve cancer charities accused of misusing funds
• New abortion drug label could undo several state laws

Bad News

• Boko Haram kill six soldiers in southeast Niger: ministry

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Kansas: Planned Parenthood still gets Medicaid funds despite threats
• 2 Baltimore officers charged in recorded assault on teen
• Iraqi officials: US captured top IS chemical arms engineer
• 2 Muslims settle lawsuits over church services in Ohio jail
• After Trump endorsement, NASCAR leader faces the fallout

Bad News

• Missouri religious exemption measure advances

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• British police make fourth arrest in TalkTalk cyber attack

Bad News

• Houston LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance rejected by voters
• Arizona drops Planned Parenthood from charitable campaign
• Florida data shows 10,900 sexual assault kits still untested
• Turkey charges magazine journalists with 'coup plot' Turkey does not qualify to be in the EU.
• Court in Georgia orders change of owner at independent broadcaster
• Afghan woman stoned to death for 'adultery'

Recent news round-up

Good News

• US: School district violated transgender student's rights
• Los Angeles sheriff's deputy gets 8 years in jail beating
• Turkish, U.S. air strikes kill more than 50 Islamic State militants in Syria: agency
• Troops drive Boko Haram extremists out of Nigerian school

Bad News

• Neighbors upset over church’s homeless family program
• Islamic State group advances in central Syria, seizing town

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• New York clothing bin operator fined for donation scheme: prosecutor
• Gay marriage signed into law in Ireland
• AP-GfK Poll: Opinions shift on marriage licenses
• Alabama version of 'Skull and Bones' publicly exposed
• US envoy urges Thai junta to lift curbs on free speech

Bad News

• Florida man who shot theatergoer for texting to invoke 'stand your ground' This is a very bad law.

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Judge says drone was invading the privacy of the man who shot it
• Officer fired for throwing student in South Carolina classroom arrest, FBI, Justice Department probe violent US school arrest Video seems to be the best antidote to police brutality.
• Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ Will Be Field Trip For 20K Students At $10 A Pop
• Nigerian troops rescue over 330 women, children held by Boko Haram

Bad News

• Telemarketers may be big winner in Obama’s budget deal with Congress

Today's news round-up

Good News

• U.S. appeals court upholds core of N.Y., Connecticut gun laws
• Crackdown: Amazon sues to stop phony product reviews
• Facebook Will Now Warn You If Another Country Is Spying on You
• Philadelphia Orchestra approves 1-year musicians contract
• Most states show increase in high school graduation rates
• Charges filed against woman who shot at fleeing shoplifters in Home Depot parking lot I missed this when it came out a few days ago.

Part Good, Part Bad News

• Texas defunds Planned Parenthood clinics but Louisiana ordered to pay, Federal judge blocks Bobby Jindal's Planned Parenthood defunding

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Military transgender ban set to end next May
• NorCal Catholic Hospital To Allow Tubal Ligation After Lawsuit Threat
• University of Oregon case prompts new federal guidance on student therapy records privacy
• Big 12 supports prohibiting transfers for violence issues
• Planned Parenthood report says fetal tissue videos were distorted
• Illinois: Activists hail new law on school discipline; districts say few changes needed "Zero-tolerance" policies are mainly a way for school administrators to avoid their responsibility to use good professional judgment.    

Bad News

• Armed Student Holds Hostages at West Virginia High School, Surrenders
• Kentucky Clerk Continues To Deny Same-Sex Couples Marriage Licenses
• Maine: Sanford methadone clinic to close, citing LePage policies

Recent(ish) news round-up

Good News

• Citizens United loses New York ruling over donors
• Koch Brothers' political group struggles in Alaska
• Obama Delivers Tough-Love Message to End Kenya Trip
• US and Turkey to create 'IS-free zone' in Syria
• Officials: Iraqi forces retake Anbar University near Ramadi
• Cameroon to deploy 2,000 more troops after Boko Haram attacks
• U.S., allies conduct 20 air strikes in Iraq: U.S. Military
• Kurds cut key IS supply route in northern Syria: monitor
• New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport
• Boy Scouts lift blanket ban on gay adult leaders, employees

Sort of Good News

• Texas prosecutor names committee to review Sandra Bland case Cases like like this should be investigated by completely independent prosecutors.
• Egypt cuts debauchery jail term for dancer She should never have even been prosecuted.

Bad News

• Female suicide bomber kills 19 at northern Nigeria market
• At least 16 killed in Boko Haram raids on Lake Chad villages
• Boko Haram fighters behead three in Cameroon raid

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Washington state Girl Scouts return donation over anti-transgender demand

Bad News

• Tennessee store owner posts sign telling gays to stay away
• Islamic State threatens to topple Hamas in Gaza

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Last of 10 young white people in racial assault sentenced
• Ozzy Osbourne gives Louisville Leopards $10K

Bad News

• Five killed in Boko Haram attack on Niger village

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Major survey shows most Americans support same-sex marriage
• David Geffen Captures Naming Rights to Avery Fisher Hall With Donation I suspect I will continue to call it Avery Fisher Hall for the rest of my life.
• Court: Man burned by fajitas while praying can't sue eatery
• Unions say they'll sue Christie again over pension payments

Bad News

• New Kind of Annoying: Robocall Trojan Horse Hides Cruise Offer in Political Survey But it's good they were caught.
• New Jersey officially announces $225M Exxon Mobil settlement They should be paying much more. ADDED: New Jersey Governor Christie's office drove favorable Exxon settlement: NYT
• Yale students protest work requirement for aid recipients What ever happened to work-study?
• A murderer and rapist's views reflect those of many in India

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Nonprofits Provide Jobless Men With a Fitting for a Second Chance I've seen a program to provide unemployed women with interview clothes (though they did not want to help transgender women in some cities). This is the first one I've seen for men.
• Vietnam hosts third gay pride parade as attitudes soften
• 'Revenge porn' now illegal in New York Bad headline. It will become illegal in November.

Bad News

• India right-wing party calls rape charges 'a fashion'

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Court Blocks Arizona Policy of Denying Driver’s Licenses to Some Immigrants
• Missouri governor vetoes health navigator limits
• Uber to follow New York’s price gouging laws

Bad News

• The Do-Gooders Secretly Attacking Gays
• Miss. enacts anti-LGBT law 

It's a win, win, win!

Hey NY area former musicians! You know who you are. You haven't played that instrument since high school, and it's just gathering dust. Now you can help a kid, get a tax deduction, and free up some closet space. Win, win, win!


Go to http://www.wqxr.org/kids

Today's news round-up

Good News

• New York McDonald's owner to pay $500,000 to settle worker claims
• Obama gives Medal of Honor to 24 vets from 3 wars
• Salvation Army settles New York workers' suit They admitted no wrongdoing, but they paid $450,000. It's almost as much as McDonald's.
• New York Settles Bias Lawsuit Against Fire Department

Bad News

• Students Say Profile On Gay Teen is Removed From Yearbook
• NC School Punishes 9-Year-Old Victim, Not His Bullies
• Pandora raises fee for ad-free music service by $1 a month My $36 annual membership is up for renewal at the end of the month, and Pandora has said they will be charging me for the next year on the 31st. I hope that's still true.

Recent news round-up

Good News

• NBA Will Donate Sales Of Jason Collins’ Jersey To LGBT Groups

Bad News

• Democrats in U.S. Senate block Obama civil rights lawyer Even the worst criminal deserves a fair trial and appeals, and  in our adversarial legal system attorneys are necessary for that. There should be no penalties for attorneys who do that work.