Recent news round-up

Good News

• TV’s first out transgender child actor on ‘Modern Family’
• Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case
• School adopts gender-neutral homecoming court, so there might be no ‘king’ or ‘queen’
• New York City Starts $5 Million Fund for Women in Film and Theater
• Chad, Niger forces kill 123 Boko Haram in crackdown - Niger

Bad News

• Poor, Transgender and Dressed for Arrest I'm surprised this law has not been found to be unconstitutional by now.

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

Good News

• Judge orders Georgia to release database records on voter registration
• California governor signs bill dumping rape-reporting limit
• Ethics panel rebukes W.Va. Rep. McKinley over business name
• After 170 years, remains of US troops return from Mexico

Bad News

• Halifax trans football player says 'media attention' a reason for McDonald's firing
  

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

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

• ACC to relocate athletic championships from North Carolina
• SoCon suggests it may move hoops from North Carolina
• Court denies Virginia GOP's challenge on felon voting rights
• Serbian transgender army veteran celebrates new beginnings
• Man sentenced in $31 million mortgage scam conspiracy case
• McCartney, Starr reunite on blue carpet for Beatles documentary

Bad News

• Transgender patients face fear and stigma in the doctor's office

Today's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike, Army agrees to treatment: ACLU
• Thai junta to end trial of civilians by military courts But royal defamation is still a crime there.
• Facebook, Twitter join network to tackle fake news

Bad News

• Indian girls attacked with acid days after landmark death sentence verdict

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

• Appeals Court blocks Kansas, Alabama, Georgia on voter ID rule

I'm Not Sure How I Feel About This

• Real-Time Election Day Projections May Upend News Tradition It's interesting to say the least. I tend to think it will have little effect on the presidential election, but I wonder about the down-ballot races.

Bad News

• Report: Benchmark led to special education services denials
• IS-claimed bombings near Baghdad mall kill at least 13 people
• Boko Haram blamed after road attack in NE Nigeria

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Judge orders state not to block Planned Parenthood funding
• Turkey court acquits famed pianist of blasphemy charges Blasphemy should not be a crime.
• Female WWII pilot has finally been laid to rest at Arlington
• Hungarian camerawoman who kicked refugees charged
• Rival Boko Haram groups clash in NE Nigeria: sources

Bad News

• New Hampshire city to reinstall Ten Commandments monument
• Maldives police raid newsroom after documentary broadcast

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• N Carolina elections board expand voting hours
• New York to allow late-term abortions for health at-risk women I am amazed that it has taken over 40 years to clear this up.
• FCC Chairman Shifts To App-Based Approach For Set-Top Box Competition This has a long way to go before it happens, unfortunately.
• U.S. Marine trainers may be prosecuted after suicide of Muslim recruit, Muslim Marine Recruit Was Slapped Before Falling to His Death: Report
• France sees sharp fall in number of citizens joining Islamic State
• Ryan Lochte Suspended For 10 Months Over Rio Gas Station Incident I think this is a reasonable punishment.

Bad News

• Asking for raises benefits men more than women, research finds

Today's news round-up

Good News

• US Army gives combat medics new type of tourniquet
• 'Bea Arthur' LGBT Homeless Shelter Slated for Completion in Feb. 2017
• We will rock you: ​Asteroid named after late singer Freddie Mercury

Bad News

• Video shows vandals destroying popular Oregon rock formation
• 40 killed in wave of bombings targeting government-allied parts of Syria

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• N.Y. high court broadens definition of parent in landmark ruling I'm proud to say that I am on the board of directors of one of the organizations that participated in this this victory.
• Five Chicago officers face firing over slaying of black teen
• Obama cuts short the sentences of 111 federal inmates
• Wisconsin Sen. Johnson has another awkward campaign moment
• 'Principal architect' of IS attacks on West killed in Syria

Bad News

• Phoenix sheriff wins primary after toughest campaign yet
• North Carolina Republicans Accused of Dodging Order to Fix Election Rules
• Judge won't review sex case in which athlete got probation
• Islamic State claims suicide bombing at Iraqi wedding

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.

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Virginia governor restores voting rights to 13,000 felons
• Anti-abortion boss to recuse self from case at medical board
• Suit alleging Catholic school gay marriage bias to proceed
• AG: Ex-Milwaukee officers investigate fatal police shooting
• Woman settles lawsuit, now OK to use '8THEIST' license plate
• Nikki Hamblin, Abbey D’Agostino awarded rare Olympic medal
• Nigeria: Air raid 'fatally wounds' Boko Haram leader If it's true it would be good--though these groups seem to be able to replace leaders without that much difficulty.

Bad News

• U.S. judge grants nationwide injunction to halt Obama transgender policy 
• GOP senator suggests swapping college instructors for videos

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

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

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

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Federal judge blocks North Dakota voter identification law
• An After School Satan Club could be coming to your kid’s elementary school
• Interpol arrests Nigerian accused of $60 million cybercrime
• U.S. Conducts Airstrikes Against ISIS in Libya

Bad News

• Thai mother indicted over one-word 'royal slur' Facebook message Royal defamation should not be a crime.