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 3

Good News

• Washington State: I-1515, the 'bathroom initiative,' fails to make November ballot
• Same-sex couples win birth certificate lawsuit
• Mike Huckabee paying $25,000 for playing 'Eye of the Tiger'
• Iraq PM says key base taken back from Islamic State
• Islamic State conflict: Nato surveillance planes to help US-led coalition

Bad News

• Ohio: Bakery takes online heat for refusing same-sex pair The refusal is bad. The heat is good.
• Texas: Pride picnic postponed after group says they received threat of violence

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

• Ex-Stanford swimmer expected to leave jail 3 months early
• UN plan to end AIDS by 2030 faces Russian resistance
• ISIS claims deadly suicide bombings in Baghdad area

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Anti-abortion activists indicted in Texas for Planned Parenthood video
• Justices won't let North Dakota enforce tough abortion law
• Judge: Louisiana cannot enforce abortion law
• Arrested Oregon protest leader tells holdouts to go home Meanwhile one of the holdouts gets on the internet and says there's no laws in the United States. As I've said before, they're lawless thugs.
• OECD countries agree to share info to combat corporate tax avoidance
• FCC Chief Moves To Break Cable And Satellite Control Of Set-Top Boxes I hope he's successful.

Bad News

• Turkish journalists face life in jail over Syria report
• Kansas lawmaker imposes dress code on female witnesses Idiot. 

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Arab-Kurd fighters kill 16 IS jihadists near Syria 'capital'
• U.S., allies conduct 26 strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military

Bad News

• New government, same claim over Falklands in Argentina
• IS jihadists kill 12 in raid on Iraq police trainees
• IS threatens Britain in new executions video

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

• Most sex offender parolees exempt from ban Some common sense here. Only people convicted for attacking children who are strangers should be barred from living close to where children congregate.
• Ohio blocked from taking action against Planned Parenthood
• No nativity scene at Florida Capitol this Christmas
• Probation for woman who shot at Home Depot shoplifters It's good that she won't be able to have a gun for several years. This sentence will be much more of a deterrent to gun-toting vigilantes than a short jail term, community service, or a fine. 
• Bangladesh lifts ban on all social media
• Two Swedes get life sentences for 'terrorist crimes' in Syria It is interesting that this trial took place in their home country, for actions abroad.
• 'Unit 732', the French anti-IS volunteers in Iraq
• U.S., allies conduct 16 strikes against Islamic State - U.S. military
• Forces armed with guns and arrows kill girl bombers in Cameroon: sources

Bad News

• This Women's Festival Banned Transgender Women and Also Any Discussion of the Ban
• There Have Been 19 Hate Crimes Against Muslims in the Past Week
• EU relaunches Turkey membership bid in migrant deal With such a repressive government, Turkey does not belong in the EU.
• Tunisia jails six students for 'homosexuality': lawyer
• IS in Libya executes two for 'witchcraft' and 'spying'

Today's news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Supreme Court blocks Alabama court order in adoption case
• Referee Bill Kennedy, following slur by Rajon Rondo, announces he's gay
• Drone registration takes flight as FAA adopts new rules
• Seattle lawmakers set to vote on allowing Uber, other drivers to unionize UPDATE: Seattle becomes first US city to let Uber drivers unionize I suspect the courts will say this would be a violation of the anti-trust law.
• Human rights requirements for World Cup hosts, FIFA sponsors
• Man convicted of planning IS-inspired attack in London

Bad News

• U.S. top court rules for DirecTV in arbitration case There should be no mandatory arbitration for consumer or employee disputes. 
• Town kills solar farm project for fear it’ll consume the sun and prevent photosynthesis Idiots.

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Vermont soldier is 1st woman to graduate as combat engineer
• Mom Arrested for Allegedly Scrubbing Her Son's Face With Brillo Pad to Remove Eye Makeup
• U.S. eliminates a mid- to high-level ISIS figure every 2 days, official says
• Passenger Name Record: EU reaches agreement
• Hard hit by bombings, IS is turning to child soldiers: US
• Turkmen rebels seize Syria border village from IS: monitor
• Nigeria police make arrests over Boko Haram 'sleeper cells' in Abuja area
• Turkey detains eight IS members on Syria border: army

Bad News

• School district to reconsider transgender locker room deal
• Thai printer of Int'l NY Times blocks stories for third time
• Islamic State says California mass killers were their followers
• Triple suicide attack 'kills 27 on Lake Chad island'

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Ukraine passes anti-discrimination law
• 2 Arrested in Laser Strike on Helicopter

Bad News

• IS video threatens attacks in Russia

Today's new round-up

Good News

• Michigan women central to US gay marriage case adopt kids I have met the women. The only reason they sued to get married was that it was the only way under Michigan law to do second parent adoptions. They wanted this so their children would be protected if one of them died--which had almost happened in a car accident.
• Mississippi Supreme Court narrowly grants same-sex divorce
• Tokyo issues Japan's first same-sex partner certificates
• Annual sexual-harassment training required in Missouri House
• ‘BattleBots’ Renewed For Second Season By ABC I watch very little broadcast TV outside of PBS, but really do like BattleBots.
• Ukraine snubs free travel to Europe over anti-gay law There is a price to pay for homophobia.
• France to deploy largest warship in mission against IS
• Niger air force bombs Boko Haram base, arrests 20 militants

Bad News

• Human Cost Rises as Old Bridges, Dams and Roads Go Unrepaired
• Wisconsin Is Moving Ahead With Its Plan to Drug-Test Welfare Recipients What a waste of money.

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Utah agrees to end same-sex parent birth certificate lawsuit
• New York City Prepares to Plant One Millionth Tree, Fulfilling a Promise
• Trudeau's Liberal juggernaut sets new course for Canada
• NBA GMs predict James will lead Cavs to title this season I'm from Cleveland, in case you haven't figured that out. Cleveland hasn't had a champion in any major league sport in about 50 years.
• Iraq says forces recapture refinery town from IS militants
• Alabama offers limited driver's license services in rural areas
• Tennessee county overwhelmingly shuts down Confederate flag measure

Bad News

• Candidate for Montgomery County register of wills won’t sign same-sex marriage docs Basically she is saying if she is elected she won't do part of her job.
• Republicans to charge media to cover 2016 convention

Today's news round-up

Good News

• UN chief offers support to Nigeria to counter Boko Haram
• France offers to host international meeting on Boko Haram: Hollande
• 14 suspected IS recruiters arrested in Spain, Morocco
• Wine train issues apology to black women booted from train
• Group turns over donor list from gay marriage fight in Maine
• University student pleads guilty to making Android spy app

Bad News

• Clock shock: British admit Big Ben's bongs not quite on time
• Girl suicide bomber kills 5, injures 41 in northeast Nigeria
• Islamic State attacks kill 51 Syrian soldiers in north: monitor
• Student playing with gun shoots child at Georgia school

Today's news round-up

Good News

• The FTC can regulate companies with bad cybersecurity, court rules
• 3 finalists for Thurber Prize for American Humor are women
• Chicago commuter trains will stop marking gender on monthly passes
• U.S., Turkey to launch 'comprehensive' anti-Islamic State operation
• Bangladesh charges 10 for allegedly beating boy to death Hopefully they will be prosecuted, and if found guilty, heavily punished.
• Judge overhauls troubled Ferguson, Missouri, court

Bad News

• Judge fines Final Exit group convicted of assisting Minnesota suicide This should not be a crime.
• Islamic State claims to kill 30 for sodomy, UN meeting told
• Islamic State suicide attacks targeting Iraqi outpost kill 8

Recent news round-up

Good News

• US, Chile put spotlight on extremist attacks on LGBT people It's good they're having this meeting.
• Colorado appeals court backs gay couple in wedding cake dispute
• NY man gets 16-year sentence for trying to support jihadists
• U.S. military's transgender care costs 'negligible,' study says
• U.S., allies target Islamic State in Syria, Iraq with 24 air strikes: U.S. military
• Puerto Rico prepares for mass wedding of gay couples
• California bans secret hearings on most police shooting deaths
• Stubbing it out: Ethiopia implements smoking ban

Bad News

• Kentucky Clerk Defies Court on Marriage Licenses for Gay Couples
• Broadway Hears Static Over FCC Proposed Auction Of Bandwidth For Wireless Mics
• Azerbaijan jails rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus
• At least 6 killed in Boko Haram attack near Nigeria's Maiduguri
• Law curbing public assembly takes effect in Thailand
• Cambodian leader orders arrest of opposition senator
• Germany says Iraqi Kurdish forces report chemical attack
• US general says Islamic State gaining in Afghanistan

Today's news round-up

Good News

• FCC issues largest robocalling fine ever against travel marketer
• U.N. urges Thailand to amend tough law on insulting royalty
• Federal judge orders South Carolina attorney general to pay legal costs for gay marriage case

Bad News

• Heavily armed 'Oath Keepers' inject disquieting element in Ferguson
• After 2 Killers Fled, New York Prisoners Say, Beatings Were Next
• Blast kills around 50 in Nigeria's Borno state
• Charges filed against Washington Post reporter who covered 2014 Ferguson protests

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Firing of Milwaukee police officer who shot man upheld
• CDC: 11M fewer uninsured since passage of Obama's law
• Canada to conduct airstrikes against IS group in Syria
• UN committee approves benefits for spouses of gay staffers
• Pa. officer charged in fatal shooting of unarmed motorist
• Family of alleged Facebook fraud fugitive to forfeit bail: U.S. judge
• India's top court strikes down ban on 'offensive' online comment
• BP drops out of conservative ALEC policy group

Slightly Good News

• Wisconsin Decides Not to Enforce Voter ID Law This only applies to the election in a couple of weeks.

Bad News

• Gays Targeted in a California Initiative

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Obama announces new education effort to 'let girls learn'
• Chad president tells Boko Haram leader to surrender or face death
• All-women's college Wellesley to accept transgender women

Bad News

• Facebook posts about job land US contractor in Emirates jail The Emirates is a dangerous place. They don't respect many standard human rights. Don't work there. Don't vacation there. Don't even change planes there.
• Boko Haram remote control bomb kills two Niger soldiers
• Islamic State torches oil field near Tikrit as militia advance