Today's news round-up

Good News

• Transgender Teen Becomes the First to Join His High School Football Team
• Government severs ties with for-profit colleges accreditor
• Three Phoenix policemen resign after making motorist eat marijuana
• UN holds first leaders' meeting on LGBT rights
• Kentucky's GOP governor overridden in feud with Democrat

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Czech court frees Russian artist facing extradition, may seek asylum Russia is not a democracy.
• County to pay $4 million in sheriff's racial profiling case
• Affidavit allowed for North Dakota voters lacking ID

Bad News

• Lawsuit: Transgender inmate raped at New Orleans' new jail
• Judge dismisses challenge to N. Carolina gay-marriage law

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Mayor Roberts: Charlotte City Council won’t consider LGBT ordinance repeal Monday
• Chicago police to undergo mandatory 'de-escalation' training
• Boy who wanted to try on skirts found ‘Justice’ in this North Carolina store
• Seattle passes new scheduling rules for hourly workers

Bad News

• L.A. Woman Gender-Profiled & Escorted From Female Bathroom
• Federal court OKs Christian prayers at county board meetings

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

Animal headline of the day

Wandering cow taken for ride in New Zealand police car

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Lafayette [Indiana] adds transgender antidiscrimination protections
• Seattle Children's to open Gender Clinic in October
• Appeals court blocks proof-of-citizenship voting requirement

Bad News

• Some police departments shelve body cameras, cite data costs

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Facebook co-founder pledging $20 million to defeat Trump
• Supreme Court rejects Michigan straight-ticket voting appeal
• Facebook allows postings of 'napalm girl' photo after debate
• Deputy who tossed student wants job back; sheriff says no
• CEO cuts 'Creationism' from Youngstown school classrooms

Bad News

• Foiled Paris attack 'was directed by IS'
• Report cites growing evidence of extremists reviving slavery

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Former St. Louis prosecutor who helped cover up beating of suspect loses her law license
• Mariners apologize to LGBTQ community, plan to train staff
• Atty General Ken Paxton shares dinner with transgender boy and his family
• Court rules search warrant in Terrebonne blog case unconstitutional
• Hometown of Kim Davis just threw its first ever Pride celebration

Bad News

• Suspected Boko Haram militants riding camels kill five in Niger

Today's news round-up

Good News

• U.S. Supreme Court rejects bid to reinstate North Carolina voting limits
• Insurers Can Make Obamacare Work, But They Need Help From Congress
• Georgia grand jury charges white ex-policeman with murdering black man

Bad News

• Maine governor says will not resign, to seek spiritual advice Spiritual advice? He needs anger management advice. And why should his wife and children need advice?
• Study: Ohio's abortion pill law led to worse health outcomes
• NYPD might not say if officer in chokehold death is punished
• Son had 36 bruises. Mom quoted the Bible as defense.

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

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Transgender North Carolinians get restroom-access win
• Long-time Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio faces tough re-election bid He belongs in jail, not running a jail. UPDATE: Justice Department will probe metro Phoenix sheriff Arpaio
• Biden announces new funding for Amtrak Northeast Corridor, Amtrak awards Alstom $2.0 bn deal for high-speed trains
• France burkini: Highest court suspends ban
• Court: Michigan sex offender rules cannot be retroactive
• Federal judge won't immediately block California vaccination law for schoolchildren, one of strictest in US for eliminating exemptions based on religious, personal beliefs

Bad News

• Maine governor leaves obscene voicemail on lawmaker's phone

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

Another tiny news round-up

Good News

• Ex-Detective’s New Assignment: Investigating the Science of the Brain

Today's tiny news round-up

Due to the my watching the Olympics, my posts are going to sparse and small for the next couple weeks.

Good News

• NJ Police Chief Suspended, Demoted For Email Advocating Racial Profiling

Bad News

• Hot Springs Store Owner Asks Lesbian Couple to Stop Holding Hands

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Being a Transgender Police Officer in New York: ‘We’re All Cops’
• Amtrak: New locomotives have cut delays nearly 25 percent

Semi-Good News

• Rare conviction made in shooting by Virginia police officer He should have been convicted of murder.

Bad News

• Stalker sets schoolgirl on fire in deadly attack in southern India

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

• 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 1

Good News

• Court strikes down "discriminatory" North Carolina voter ID law
• Kansas: Kobach will not appeal ruling on voting rights
• U.S. judge strikes down parts of Wisconsin voter ID law: report
• The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign This guy is a total amateur. He gets nothing in writing, and falls for the "great exposure" crap. As performers I know say, "People die from exposure." But this is straight from the Trump playbook: Stiff the little people. See below:
• Judge orders Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees in Doral painter’s lawsuit
• Congresswoman Trolls Melania Trump By Wearing Her Dress To DNC Hilarious!
• With Degree Debunked, Melania Trump Website Is Taken Down
• Former St. Louis police officer gets 52 months in prison for punching handcuffed man
• 6 public workers charged in Flint water crisis
• Russian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics for doping

Slightly Good News

• Turkey's Erdogan dropping lawsuits for insults against him I'm guessing most of the people he's suing have already been dismissed from their jobs. They wouldn't have any money to pay him even if he won. "Insulting" a politician should not be illegal. But as I keep saying, Turkey is not a democracy.

Today's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• U.S. opens door to a change in blood donation policy for gay men
• California City Bans Deceptive Ads By Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Clinics
• Qualcomm to Pay $19.5M to Settle Gender Discrimination Suit
• To Reduce Bias, Some Police Departments Are Rethinking Traffic Stops
• Florida principal suspended after saying gays ‘must be put to death’

Bad News

• Teen says she was fired after asking for equal pay
• This attorney wore a Black Lives Matter pin to court — and went to jail for it