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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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 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

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

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 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 1

Good News

• More than 100 celebrities pledge to work against Trump
• At least 105 Russian athletes banned so far, The Latest: 22 Russian rowers rejected for Olympics
• US Army special forces accepts first female candidates
• Feds: Senate cafeteria workers will get $1 million back pay
• Texas attorney general took gift while investigating company It's good they have found something else bad that this jerk did.
• Bangladesh police kill nine suspected Islamists in Dhaka raid

Bad News

• Anti-abortion duo behind Planned Parenthood videos cleared Only on a technicality. I wonder if a new grand jury could hand up a valid indictment--but I doubt the DA would ever present that case to another grand jury.
• Georgia appeals court says 'upskirting' not against the law I think the dissent's reasoning is correct, though they should make the law more explicit.
• Islamic State group claims attack that killed priest of 85
• Suicide bombing north of Baghdad kills 16, Islamic State claims attack

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• California man sentenced for trying to aid Islamic State
• After ruling, McAuliffe moves to restore rights individually
• Illinois Republican lawmaker resigns, cites Facebook, Twitter hacks It's not that hard to eliminate or discredit fake accounts. There's got to be more behind this.
• U.S. judge faults Uber, bans background check in NY lawsuit
• 7 Russian swimmers to miss Rio Olympics over doping It's not a ban of the whole Russian team, but it's something.
• Monitor chosen to oversee Ferguson's police, court reformspart 

Bad News

• Islamic State group claims second Germany attack in a week

Today's news round-up

Good News   

• ACLU praises new Illinois limits on cellphone surveillance
• Rulings may make voter ID laws presidential race nonfactors
• PGA threatens to move future events from North Carolina because of HB2

Bad News

• Effort to abolish superdelegates fails at DNC rules meeting I hope some sort of compromise can be reached. 700+ superdelegates is ridiculous. I'd like to see the number limited to 5-10% of the total delegates. 
• Turkish lawmakers give leader Erdogan sweeping new powers, Defiant Turkey extends police powers, shutters schools after coup  Turkey is not a democracy.
• Islamic State claims responsibility for Kabul attack, 80 dead

Recent News round-up, Part 1

Good News

• NBA Moves 2017 All-Star Game Out Of North Carolina To Protest Anti-LGBT Law
• NCAA to survey potential host cities on discrimination laws
• Roger Ailes Out At Fox News, Rupert Murdoch Taking Over As Acting CEO
• Feds File Copyright Charges Against Owner Of World’s Most-Visited File-Sharing Site

Bad News

• Virginia's top court rules against move to restore felons' voting rights
• Court: Birth control mandate violates religious rights

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