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Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Monday, September 19, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
Thursday, September 08, 2016
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
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.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
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
- 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.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Koch network refusing to help Trump
- Saatchi boss Kevin Roberts disciplined over gender comments
- Socially conservative Guatemala sees quiet LGBTQ gains
- U.S.-backed forces win control of most of Syria's Manbij from Islamic State: spokesman
- Baguette vending machine bakes up French-style bread at anytime
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
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’
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
- 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
Friday, July 22, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Alaska parental notification abortion law struck down
- California governor signs bill to require registration of 'ghost guns'
- Thousands March in Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade One Year After Deadly Attack
- Why a Penn. man arrested for flag desecration was awarded $55,000
- France to supply artillery to Iraqi army
- Teen sues school for proposing trans students wear green wristbands This is just like the Nazis making Jews wear yellow stars.
- Thai Police Question the Wife of a British Writer Critical of Thailand’s Royal Family
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- U.S. appeals court finds that Texas voter ID law is discriminatory
- Court: Traffic stop, arrest prompted by high beams improper
- Campaign aims to register a million U.S. Muslims voters in anti-Trump move
- Indiana Court Tosses Purvi Patel's 2015 Feticide Conviction
- Alaska court strikes down parental notice for abortions
- Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation to Exempt Sales and Use Taxes on Feminine Hygiene Products
- Ventilation to Be Required in All New York Nail Salons
- US goes after more than $1B taken from Malaysian fund
- Bangladesh arrests top Islamist extremist
Bad News
- WikiLeaks may have just published your SSN and credit card number
- Zara has been accused of ripping off an independent artist’s designs Zara needs to be taught about intellectual property law.
- Status update: The rise of the social-media extortionist These people belong in jail.
Friday, July 01, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Utah’s Misty Snow makes history as Democrats’ transgender Senate nominee
- Judge blocks Indiana genetic abnormality abortion law
- Federal judge blocks Florida law to end abortion clinic funding
- Obama signs bill easing access to government records
- Rome's Colosseum sparkles after magnate-funded restoration
Bad News
Friday, June 24, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Court to school: Let transgender teen use boys bathroom
- Obama designates national gay rights monument
- This Is the Transgender Bathroom Ad Campaign America's Been Waiting For I'm rather skeptical that America has been waiting for it, but it's a a great campaign.
- White House unveils measures to help inmates find work after prison
- Workplace retaliation suit against Tammy Duckworth settled
Bad News
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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
- 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
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Today's news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Laverne Cox: Counting LGBT People Is ‘a Matter of Life and Death’
- California attorney general slams sentence in Stanford sex assault case
- Stepgrandmother of baby killed by dog gets 3 years in prison
- Court: No right to carry concealed weapons in public
- Ireland’s Abortion Law Violated Woman’s Human Rights, UN Panel Finds
- IS militants retreat from Libya bastion as militias advance
Bad News
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Top U.S. auctioneers refused to sell gun from Trayvon Martin shooting
- Man Pleads Guilty After Pulling Woman’s Hijab Off on Plane
- Anti-Abortion Laws Don’t Reduce Abortion Rates, But Birth Control Does
- UK man jailed for IS-inspired plot to attack US troops
- 5 Boko Haram leaders arrested; dozens of captives freed
- Sweet Honey in the Rock protesting during NC shows
- Event celebrates Salt Lake City street named for Harvey Milk
- Chicago mayor to replace police review board with more independent watchdog
- Walter Scott family attorney: Federal charges against Michael Slager could be a ‘turning point in history’
- Barber arrested for pulling gun on customer, says he 'doesn't cut black hair' It's good he was arrested.
Bad News
- Police responded to 17,000 calls to Tampa Bay Walmarts in a single year, taxpayers pick up the bill I've said many times that Walmart is dangerous. In addition, it's expensive to the taxpayers--even the ones who don't shop there.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 2
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