Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• The Federal Government Just Outlawed LGBTQ Discrimination in Credit
• FBI trying to build legal cases against Russian hackers: sources

Bad News

• Missouri Republicans vote to override veto of gun bill The law goes into effect in 30 days. You have until then to get out of Missouri. It will be a very dangerous place.
• California high school football hazing scandal may widen

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Judge rules Atlanta Botanical Garden may ban guns

Bad News

• Ex-Stanford swimmer leaves jail after serving half his term
• Maine Senate leaders will not seek special session to chide LePage

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Virginia Woman Blasts Drone 'to Smithereens' with Shotgun I consider this to be a form of self-defense. Flying at a low altitude near a residence without permission is an invasion of privacy.

Bad News

• Christian woman told to remove headscarf for license: ACLU lawsuit
• India's Tourism Minister to Women: Don't Wear Skirts Here

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Bud Light Appears To Pull Sponsorship Of Ted Nugent Concert
• Egypt military says killed leader of Islamic State in Sinai

Bad News

• High court: School can block transgender teen from boys room
• Ugandan police break up gay pride event, briefly arrest some
• Bangladesh shuts 'objectionable' news sites

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Florida: New York Grilled Cheese Defends Transgender Employee
• Electoral Map Gives Donald Trump Few Places to Go
• For LGBT High Schoolers, Gay-Straight Alliances Spell Safety
• Three Chicago police officers relieved of duty after fatal shooting
• Justice Department to review fatal Arizona police shooting
• Dallas Weatherman Resigns After Post Bashing DNC For 'Parading Mothers of Slain Thugs'
• Judge refuses to let indicted sheriff carry gun

Bad News

• Donald Trump attacks Muslim father's convention speech I keep wondering how low Trump will go. I'm afraid it will be a lot further.
• Baylor's strict conduct code may have silenced rape victims
• In Florida Zika probe, federal scientists kept at arm's length

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Alaska parental notification abortion law struck down
• California governor signs bill to require registration of 'ghost guns'
• Thousands March in Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade One Year After Deadly Attack
• Why a Penn. man arrested for flag desecration was awarded $55,000
• France to supply artillery to Iraqi army

Bad News

• Teen sues school for proposing trans students wear green wristbands This is just like the Nazis making Jews wear yellow stars.
• Thai Police Question the Wife of a British Writer Critical of Thailand’s Royal Family

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Wisconsin voter identification law eased for November election
• 2 state troopers arrested following beating caught on tape
• Dad, teen son ordered to disclose data on weaponized drones

Bad News

• Turkey coup: Crackdown toll passes 45,000 I generally dismiss conspiracy theories, but perhaps the one that said Erdogan knew the coup was coming and let it happen has some merit. This crackdown on his political opponents is further proof that Turkey is not a democracy.
• Pakistani man killed for 'honour' over affair: police

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Judge rejects ex-sheriff's plea deal as too lenient
• Russia state-sponsored doping across majority of Olympic sports, claims report It's good Russia was caught. I hope the entire Russian team is barred from the Olympics.

Bad News

• A teen knocked on the wrong door. Now he’s dead, and the homeowner is accused of murder
• Indian rape survivor gang-raped again by same men: police

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• New Hampshire: Governor bans discrimination against transgender government workers
• Mississippi: U.S. judge blocks law allowing religion as reason to deny service to LGBT people
• California tightens gun control laws, expands assault weapons ban
• More Upheaval on Donald Trump’s Team as Two Staff Members Resign
• Hacker Pleads Guilty To Stealing Info From L.A. Celebrities

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Pittsburgh schools adopt transgender nondiscrimination plan
• Unilever vows to drop sexist stereotypes from its ads
• Bucharest gay pride rally draws crowds
• US-backed Syria fighters edge into IS border hub

Bad News

• Former IU student charged in 2 rape cases takes plea deal, will serve 1 year of probation This is outrageous.
• Official: Boy playing with gun fatally shoots brother, 4

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Ban on transgender troops to be lifted July 1
• Black leaders emerge as powerful allies in LGBT fight in U.S. South
• Hawaii becomes first U.S. state to place gun owners on FBI database
• Sanders will vote for Clinton to stop Trump
• U.S. charges Filipino man with hacking accounts of celebrities
• Exclusive: Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos

Yesterday's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• New law prohibits domestic abusers from possessing firearms Yay, Virginia!

Bad News

• Kansas to use provisional ballots for upcoming elections
• Turkish prosecutors 'demand over 14 years in jail' for activists
• 18 Libya pro-government fighters dead in clashes with IS

Today's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Church leaders that praised Orlando mass killing asked to move
• New York approves unisex bathrooms in nod to transgender people A misleading headline. This only applies to single stall bathrooms.
• U.S. appeals court rejects gunmaker's claim on silencer
• New York area car wash workers get more than $91,000 each in unpaid wages

Yesterday's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Supreme Court rules for R.J. Reynolds in racketeering case I'm glad to see at least a little limitation on the use of the RICO law, which was poorly worded and has been used against far more things than true organized crime racketeering.
• An Australian Man Just Pled Guilty to Sexist Online Harassment on Tinder The headline is wrong. The harassment was on Facebook, not Tinder. And I think it should be "sexual," not "sexist."

Bad News

• Florida GOP candidate to give away semi-automatic rifle Idiot.
• First female teen to win Ohio masonry competition bumped from national contest Smells fishy to me.

For those who like statistics

My 20th warning about Wal-Mart

Police: Suspect shot amid reported shooting at Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is a dangerous place. Stay out of them.

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Laverne Cox: Counting LGBT People Is ‘a Matter of Life and Death’
• California attorney general slams sentence in Stanford sex assault case
• Stepgrandmother of baby killed by dog gets 3 years in prison
• Court: No right to carry concealed weapons in public
• Ireland’s Abortion Law Violated Woman’s Human Rights, UN Panel Finds
• IS militants retreat from Libya bastion as militias advance

Bad News

• Ex-Stanford swimmer expected to leave jail 3 months early
• UN plan to end AIDS by 2030 faces Russian resistance
• ISIS claims deadly suicide bombings in Baghdad area

Today's news round-up

Good News    

• Top U.S. auctioneers refused to sell gun from Trayvon Martin shooting
• Man Pleads Guilty After Pulling Woman’s Hijab Off on Plane
• Anti-Abortion Laws Don’t Reduce Abortion Rates, But Birth Control Does
• UK man jailed for IS-inspired plot to attack US troops
• 5 Boko Haram leaders arrested; dozens of captives freed
• Sweet Honey in the Rock protesting during NC shows
• Event celebrates Salt Lake City street named for Harvey Milk
• Chicago mayor to replace police review board with more independent watchdog
• Walter Scott family attorney: Federal charges against Michael Slager could be a ‘turning point in history’
• Barber arrested for pulling gun on customer, says he 'doesn't cut black hair'  It's good he was arrested.

Bad News

• Police responded to 17,000 calls to Tampa Bay Walmarts in a single year, taxpayers pick up the bill I've said many times that Walmart is dangerous. In addition, it's expensive to the taxpayers--even the ones who don't shop there.

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Federal judge rules in favor of Missouri Planned Parenthood 
• Kansas again delays Medicaid cutoff for Planned Parenthood
• Journalists arrested in Ferguson settle lawsuit with county
• Arizona grandfather jailed for leaving five-year-old in desert with gun
• Google bans payday loans, starting in July

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Microsoft Will Not Donate Money to Republicans’ Convention
• Officer Convicted of Assault for Stomping on Suspect’s Head
• High-speed rail board approves revised California plan
• Obama Puts His Weight Behind Smart Gun Technology
• Spanish pipe-layers find large Roman coin hoard
• Lebanese army kills Islamic State leader at Syrian border