* To those of you in areas with severe weather going on, I hope you are all somewhere safe and warm and dry with plenty of food. My heart goes out particularly to areas with flooding and/or power outage ( Read more... )

* "Long walk to justice: Transgender voices from across India:" http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1507/S00069/long-walk-to-justice-transgender-voices-from-across-india.htmRead more... )

* "Former Brooklyn Tea Party head and anti-obscenity candidate arrested for child porn possession:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/former-brooklyn-tea-party-head-and-anti- ( Read more... )

* There has been a high death toll catastrophic mine explosion in Turkey, in which so many are trapped, I'm not doing preliminary figures for dead and wounded as numbers I gave you know aren't likely to mean anything tomorrow. It's a terrible thing.

* "Victory for science in state fossil bill:"

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* Outrage after nursing home patients were left to fend for themselves:

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* The Libyan Prime Minister has been freed ( Read more... )

* "Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/business/food-fraud-more-widespread-than-suspected.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&Read more... )

* "Police take 16 year-old girl into custody for “dressing inappropriately”:" http://minivannews.com/society/police-take-16-year-old-girl-into-custody-for-dressing-inappropriately-57429Read more... )

* The Syrian government has been firing Scud missiles at the civilians of Aleppo since Friday.

* 53 US veterans die every day waiting for their disability claims.

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* In real life, women are already in combat in the US military. For example, Tammy Duckworth lost her legs when the enemy shot down her helicopter. The thing is that they are officially banned from combat, so women in combat aren't given are denied the combat related promotions they would otherwise be entitled to. They are already taking the ( Read more... )