Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• No appeal in Indiana woman's overturned feticide conviction
• California Court Decision Keeps Teacher Tenure Protections
• Ruling: Grad students at private universities can unionize

Bad News

• States file another lawsuit over Obama transgender rules
• Appeals court: Week of early voting shouldn't return to Ohio
• Woman guest editing @ireland Twitter account gets racist and sexist abuse

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Austin police probe officer's throwing black woman to ground
• Nevada ending discrimination of prison inmates with HIV
• US acts to block two mega-mergers in health insurance
• Papa John's Worker Fired After Writing N-Word on Delivery Receipt
• Celeb hacker who stole nude images gets six months in prison
• Ventilation to Be Required in All New York Nail Salons

Bad News

• Fashion brand Zara accused of copying LA artist's designs

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Twitter was quick to pull extremist tweets following Nice attack

Bad News

• U.S. curtails federal election observers

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Transgender Activists Will Air This Ad During the Republican National Convention
• Detroit cop demoted; called black activists 'terrorists' I'm glad he was demoted. I'm also glad about the response of the police union president. While not condemning what the cop did, he also did not endorse it either--a far cry from what police union officials usually say when a member is charged with wrong-doing.
• South Carolina: Columbia Fire Department captain fired for threatening posts

Bad News

• Attorneys confirm Chelsea Manning attempted suicide

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Intel Chief Defends Rights of Transgender Community
• Drummer Defends Stanford Student Convicted in Rape Case. Her Band Pays a Price. What she doesn't seem to understand is that this type of rape is just as bad as someone dragging a struggling victim off and assaulting them.
• Federal judge bars Alabama from blocking gay marriage
• 14-Year-Old Transgender Girl Shares Inspirational Story of Overcoming Her Bullies
• 5 Rikers Officers Convicted in Beating of Inmate
• Washington's National Cathedral to remove Confederate flags from windows
• Iraqi Troops Enter Southern Fallujah for First Time in 2 Years
• Libyan forces enter main Islamic State bastion

Bad News

• Singapore Has Told Foreign Companies to Stop Sponsoring an Annual LGBT Event
• Black students more likely to be suspended: U.S. Education Department
• Pakistani teen burnt alive by her mother for choosing own husband

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Virginia governor enables 200,000 felons to vote in November
• U.S. judge orders recount in Tennessee abortion vote
• Florida Supreme Court halts abortion waiting period, for now

Bad News

• Oklahoma voters to decide on return of Ten Commandments As the article says, if this vote passes it will be challenged on Federal constiutional grounds. It's a total waste of the taxpayers' money.
• Jury Acquits Sing Sing Guard Seen on Video Beating Inmate
• Report: Arizona sheriff is slow in making profiling reforms
• Bangladesh professor hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack
• Turkey academics on trial for 'terrorist propaganda' Turkey is not a democracy. UPDATE: Turkey scholars freed as prosecutors seek to scale back charges
• IS suicide attack kills eight at Iraq Shiite mosque

Today's news round-up

Good News

• How the ‘Trump effect’ could flip the Senate and With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States
• Adam Silver: N.C. law could affect All-Star Game, Hornets future
• Navy scraps mailer over sexism accusations
• David Geffen gives $100 million to Museum of Modern Art
• U.S. Capitol replacing flag display over Confederate imagery
• Vice Media Writers Ratify First WGA Contract

Bad News

• BYU students investigated by school after reporting rape Students should not have to fear expulsion if they report being assaulted.

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Judge blocks Mississippi ban on adoption by same-sex couples
• FCC Vote Kicks Off Debate Over Consumers’ Internet Privacy Rights
• Police Officer in Mail Carrier’s Arrest Is Stripped of His Badge
• Pittsburgh station fires newswoman over black-on-black crime Facebook post

Bad News

• Miffed Maine governor refuses to swear in new senator

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Fairborn officer fired after earlier Facebook comments

Recent news round-up, part 2

Bad News

• Oklahoma Supreme Court upholds state law on limiting abortion drugs
• Federal judge: Citizens can't always record the police I don't think this decision will be upheld.
• Mississippi lawmakers not erasing Confederate emblem on flag
• Nissan Leaf’s app could let hackers run down batteries and see trip logs

Today's news round-up, part 3

Good News

• World Bank pulls funding for Uganda transport project

Bad News

• TSA agents can now force passengers to go through body scanners, even if they opt out
• No charges in Texas jailhouse death of black motorist
• Ugandan police arrest supporters of opposition presidential candidate

Today's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• New Zealand judge rules Kim Dotcom can be deported to US
• Yet Another High School Girl Is Calling Out the School Dress Code Double Standard This is no different than Islamic countries requiring women to cover up their hair, face, or entire body.
• Court upholds Quebec doctor-assisted dying law

Bad News

• Judge rules in favor of San Francisco officers in racist text case It's bad that the judge had to do this, because the city took too long to discipline the officers.
• 3 young suicide bombers kill 6 in Nigeria's northeast

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• New York City lays out transgender protection on dress codes, bathroom use
• Appeals court says gov't can't reject offensive trademarks
• Virginia to Stop Recognizing Concealed Gun Permits From 25 States
• Greek parliament approves civil union for same-sex couples
• Support for legal abortion at highest level in 2 years
• Utah Planned Parenthood to get funds to year end
• Iraq forces advance into centre of IS-held Ramadi
• Islamic State lost 14 pct of its territory in 2015: report

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany
• U.S. arrests three men over hacking scheme targeting 60 million people
• U.S., allies stage eight air strikes in Iraq, six in Syria: U.S. military
• Turkey arrests suspected IS militant over planned U.S. consulate attack -Dogan

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Washington state teen charged with hate crime over social media message
• How Venezuela’s First Transgender Lawmaker Plans to Tackle LGBT Rights
• Idaho finally agrees to comply with federal prison rape law
• New rule: Truck drivers must electronically record hours

Bad News

• Cameroon suicide attack leaves at least 7 dead

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• North Carolina sued over gay marriage opt-out law
• New York State Attorney General Takes Control of Inquiry Into Fatal Police Shooting These must be investigated by an independent body, not the local prosecutors, who depend on the police to gather the evidence.
• Officer guilty of raping black women 'picked the wrong lady'
• US military college suspends cadets over 'KKK uniforms'
• A Device That Plugs Gunshot Wounds in 20 Seconds Just Got FDA Approval
• IS destroys bridge as Iraqi forces close in on Ramadi
• US Willing to Provide Apache Helicopters and Advisers to Help Retake Ramadi, Ash Carter Says

Bad News

• Arkansas Supreme Court halts birth certificates for same-sex partners

Today's news round-up

Good News

• University of Missouri president leaves over race complaints For once college football players used their leverage for the good of their whole school. I am certain that he would not have resigned without the players joining in the protest.
• Lamar Alexander Seeks Path to Change in Senate This is an excellent idea.
• Washington state man sentenced for anti-gay slurs
• Washington-Baltimore maglev gets $28 million for preliminary studies
• Russia faces Olympic ban after hugely critical WADA report I'm not the least bit surprised. I used to be a big track and field fan, but the doping violations that kept happening soured me on the whole thing.
• Egypt police kill leading Islamic State militant in Cairo
• Turkey 'detains 38 foreigners seeking to join IS group'
• French strike hits IS oil facility in Syria

Bad News

• Russia censures Memorial rights group as 'foreign agent' Russia is not a democracy.

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

• New York City to Offer SAT Free to 11th-Grade Students
• Ole Miss removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem
• Tragic new album by late Roy Orbison due out
• Times Square Sidles Up To VOD With New BroadwayHD Streaming Service
• U.S. reports 15 more air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq

Yesterday's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• All drones to require federal registration
• Apple ordered to pay $234 million to university for infringing patent
• Treasure trove of late Triassic fossils discovered in Utah
• Canada's Girl Guides say all transgender girls are welcome
• US to conduct counter-Boko Haram ops in Nigeria
• U.S. judge rules Maryland can ditch Confederate flag license plates

Bad News

• New IS branch claims Saudi shooting that killed 5
• 2 bombs explode by Nigerian mosque, killing at least 30
• IS pays recruiters $10,000 per person: UN