Recent news round-up

Good News

• Appeals court: Ohio elections chief wrongly purged voters
• Hasidic Man Found Guilty of Gang Assault in Beating of Black Student in Brooklyn
• Hacker who aided IS sentenced to 20 years in US prison
• Mom who swore at meeting not guilty of disorderly conduct

Bad News

• Uganda: Police stop gay pride parade deemed illegal
• Eighteen killed in Islamic State attack north of Iraq's Tikrit

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

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Push to Stop Brock Turner Launching Speaking Tour on ‘Drinking and Promiscuity’ Gains Traction It's good that people are protesting his speaking tour. Drinking does not cause rape. The victims do not cause rape. Rapists cause rape.
• California farmworker overtime bill signed by Jerry Brown
• US says it destroyed IS chemical threat in Iraq

Bad News

• U.S. Supreme Court leaves Ohio voting restrictions in place
• The Burning of a Muslim Woman on Fifth Avenue

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

Today's news round-up

Good News

• This Pro Bono Clinic Guides Transgender People Through Legal Bureaucracy
• City supports LGBT newspaper after explosion destroys box
• Boston police rolling out body-worn cameras
• Libyan forces push into last IS-held areas of Sirte

Bad News

• California legal setback fails to discourage tenure opponents
• Visitor misbehavior abounds as US parks agency turns 100

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Ohio court: Juvenile crimes can't enhance adult sentences
• Russian man convicted of hacking into US businesses
• 2 men in Nevada standoff case plead guilty in federal court
• Clinton Leads Trump by 10 Points in New Poll of Likely Voters
• NHL’s first female full-time coach hired by Arizona Coyotes
• A gay couple in Natick was targeted. Here’s how the neighborhood responded
• Judge in Stanford rape case will stop hearing criminal cases I guess it is good news. I hope he has learned something.

Bad News

• DOJ: Vet's Purple Heart lies cost government $752,000 What a crook. He deserves at least 5 years in jail. I hope they're prosecuting his mother and sister also.

Today's news round-up

Good News

• P&G hires transgender model for ad campaign Rehires.
• Phoenix 1st Arizona city to offer transgender-inclusive benefits to city workers
• Gender-neutral restrooms now available at Southeast Missouri State University
• Georgia Man Who Threw Boiled Water on Gay Men Gets 40 Years
• Mississippi Islamic State recruit gets 8 years in prison

Bad News

• Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets
• Why Conservative States Handpicked This Texas Judge for Transgender Bathroom Challenge
• Lesbian couple upset after getting crude joke inside their pizza box Domino's pizza is the worst. This doesn't help.

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Clinton leads Trump by eight points: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• Illinois latest state to expand domestic workers' rights
• Hundreds protest in Istanbul over transgender woman's murder
• Ole Miss won’t play 'Dixie' at football games anymore: What changed?
• Libyan forces say they capture mosque, prison from Islamic State in Sirte

Bad News

• Egypt state TV orders female hosts to lose weight
• 'Un-Islamic' cultural heritage in jihadists' crosshairs
• Galaxy’s Robbie Rogers says opponent used homophobic slur
• Man accused of unprovoked attack on interracial couple
• An Ethiopian medalist just led a protest that could land him in jail

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Former sailors, Marines booted under gay ban urged to appeal
• Trump tweet attacking Clinton employs image of Jewish star This is good for the Democrats.

Bad News

• Mob burns down mosque in 2nd such recent attack in Myanmar

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Air strike kills two Islamic State military commanders: Pentagon

Bad News

• Hindu priest stabbed, critically wounded in Bangladesh
• Boko Haram suicide bomber kills 11 in Cameroon

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Assailant gets life for Jerusalem Gay Pride stabbing spree
• Nigerian army says it freed over 5,000 people held by Boko Haram

Bad News

• IS claims killing of five citizen journalists in Syria

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 1`

Good News

• Marines Under Investigation for Allegedly Threatening to Attack Gay Bars It's good they are under investigation. Also, it's good the post was taken down.
• Hundreds counter-protest Westboro Baptist demonstration in Orlando Also, Orlando: Hundreds form human chain to block Westboro protesters
• Ringleader pleads guilty in StubHub ticket cybertheft case

Bad News

• Supreme Court rules for police in search case
• France's first Shakespearean-style theatre vandalised
• Turkey charges press freedom activists with 'terrorist propaganda' Turkey is not a democracy.
• Polygamous leader Lyle Jeffs flees home confinement

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• ABC Decides Maybe It’s Best To Not Feature A Hate Group Leader Discussing The Orlando Shooting
• Recovery schools for addicted teens on the rise
• New York Senate passes bill that bans short-term apartment listings on Airbnb  I hope the governor signs it. It is limited to whole apartment rentals. People can still advertise to rent out rooms. 

Bad News

• Istanbul riot police break up LGBT rally

Today's news round-up

Good News

• U.S. court backs landmark Obama internet equal-access rules
• Elliot Morales, Who Killed Gay Man in West Village, Gets 40 Years to Life
• Prosecutor bumps Stanford sex assault judge from new case

Bad News

• Anti-abortion activist's human organ purchase charge dropped It's strange they aren't going to refile. But the important thing is that the felony charge is still alive.
• Brock Turner’s Probation Officer Asked for Lenient Sentence Over Drunkenness
• IS suicide attack kills five in Iraq's Ramadi: officers
• Russian gay couple 'arrested for Orlando tribute'
• Syrian teen's amputated hand a cruel reminder of IS rule

Recent news round-up

Good News

• The Latest: Target to hold moment of silence for workers
• London’s Mayor Bans Body-Shaming Ads on Public Transport
• Ukraine holds its first major gay pride march in Kiev

Bad News

• Qatar convicts Dutch woman held 'after being raped' Qatar is a dangerous place for women. No woman should go there.

Recent news round-up

Unsurprising News

• Convicted Stanford rapist talked of drug use before college: court records

Good News

• 10th Circuit: Kansas can't block voters from casting ballots
• Campaign to remove judge in Stanford rape case gains steam
• Five sentenced to life for raping Danish woman in Delhi
• Retired Rikers Captain Convicted in Beating of Inmate
• Libyan forces claim port in Islamic State stronghold of Sirte
• Fox Sports Florida Subs Out Sideline Reporter Over Racial Comments In Facebook Chat
• Thousands march for gay rights in Poland, Croatia, Italy
• Thousands march in Seoul for Gay Pride parade

Bad News

• Lawyer says Qatar detained Dutch woman who reported rape
•  A Hindu Monastery Worker Has Been Killed in Bangladesh Amid a New Wave of Extremist Violence

Yesterday's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• U.S. West Point academy set for first woman dean in two century history
• Uber agrees to $225,000 settlement in lawsuit alleging discrimination against the blind The money is nice, but the big thing is that they will terminate any driver who refuses to take a service animal.
• UK strikes in Syria, Iraq kill 1,000 IS fighters: Ministry of Defence

Bad News

• A Texan who called Obama a gay prostitute may soon control what goes in children’s textbooks Fortunately, today textbook publishers can easily create different versions for different customers. But this is still bad for the children in Texas.
• Turkey detains pro-Kurdish news editor over tweets: channel Turkey is not a democracy.
• Hindu tailor in Bangladesh hacked to death in attack claimed by Islamic State

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Abortion rights' advocate looks to amendment recount

Bad News

• Gay rights activist among two hacked to death in Bangladesh
• Putin forms new Russian security force answerable to him Russia is not a democracy.
• Car bomb near Damascus kills at least six: Islamic State

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge in voting rights case
• U.S. top court rejects Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo class action appeals
• Man Pleads Guilty to Beating Transgender Woman Islan Nettles to Death This was a hate crime. Unfortunately he never said anything explicitly, so the prosecutors didn't think they could prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. Thus he wasn't charged with a hate crime.
• California governor signs $15-an-hour minimum wage into law Also: New York's Cuomo signs two-tier minimum wage law in push for state-wide $15/hour
• Virginia governor vetoes bill to label books 'sexually explicit' in schools