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September 10, 2015

The #JournoList is a daily roundup of the events and issues that are making headlines. Compiled by Teddy Wilson, a reporter who covers reproductive rights for RH Reality Check. Follow him on Twitter: @txindyjourno

The former police chief of a small town in Oregon is being investigated by the state over allegations from his own officers that he made racist remarks, including comparing African-Americans to monkeys. (Reuters)
Three police officers in Washington state will not face criminal charges in the February shooting death of an unarmed Mexican farmworker who threw rocks at them before fleeing arrest. (Reuters)
The wife of a New York state prison inmate who died after a confrontation with guards in April filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state amid continuing investigations by authorities into his death. (Reuters)
Arizona state police are investigating nine possible shootings targeting motorists along Interstate 10 in Phoenix as domestic terrorism. (United Press International)
Congressional Republicans showed no signs of having a clear plan for averting a U.S. government shutdown in three weeks over funding for Planned Parenthood, though senior party leaders have made clear they want to avoid that scenario. (Reuters)
A hunger strike to regarding the future of a shuttered public high school in Chicago is now in its 4th week, and is growing. (FSRN)
A U.S. judge said congressional Republicans could move forward with parts of a lawsuit that alleges executive overreach by President Barack Obama's administration in implementing his signature healthcare law. (Reuters)
Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year hiatus starting next month with a double execution, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said as he announced execution dates for eight death-row inmates. (Al Jazeera America)
The European Union’s top executive proposed a plan to distribute 160,000 people throughout the member nations, even while acknowledging that the plan was inadequate to the depth of the crisis. (New York Times)
Sudanese government forces have killed and raped civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan in attacks on villages that could amount to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report. (Al Jazeera America)

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September 9, 2015

Baltimore has reached a tentative $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from an injury sustained in police custody. (Reuters)
The family of a man fatally shot in the head by a Cleveland policeman was awarded $5.5 million by a federal jury in a civil case that found the officer liable for using excessive force. (Guardian)
Authorities have gleaned no additional clues from surveillance videos in the murder of a Chicago area police officer, who was shot to death in pursuit of three suspicious men last week. (United Press International)
A Kansas jury recommended that a white supremacist be sentenced to death for shooting and killing three people, including a boy, outside two Jewish centers last year. (Reuters)
The Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples was released after five days behind bars, emerging to a tumultuous hero's welcome from thousands of supporters waving large white crosses. (Associated Press)
Private companies with federal contracts will now be required to offer their employees paid sick leave, thanks to an executive order President Barack Obama signed. (Al Jazeera America)
A Southern California brushfire has prompted the evacuation of dozens of homes near the border of Orange and Los Angeles counties. (Associated Press)

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September 4, 2015

The #JournoList is a daily roundup of the events and issues that are making headlines. Compiled by Teddy Wilson, a reporter who covers reproductive rights for RH Reality Check. Follow him on Twitter: @txindyjourno

The U.S. economy added 173,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate fell from 5.3 percent to 5.1 percent in August, the lowest since April 2008. (Washington Post)
Three Northern California jail guards have been arrested after an inmate under their watch was found dead of multiple blunt trauma. (Associated Press)
South Carolina will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, who is charged with the June murders of nine black worshippers at a Charleston church. (Reuters)
A Virginia police officer who shot and killed a man in a Walmart parking lot was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and using a gun in a felony. (Al Jazeera America)
A civil rights group asked the U.S. government to deny Los Angeles police the funding they sought for body cameras for patrol officers. (Reuters)
A Kentucky county clerk who has become a symbol of religious opposition to same-sex marriage was jailed after defying a federal court order to issue licenses to gay couples. (New York Times)
The Obama administration proposed a rule that would forbid most health insurers and medical providers to discriminate against transgender patients, including by prohibiting insurers from categorically denying coverage of care related to gender transition. (New York Times)
The U.S. Army ordered the immediate halt of activity and a safety review of all Defense Department labs handling toxic biologic agents, including anthrax, after contaminated material was found outside a primary containment area in a Utah military lab. (United Press International)
The Justice Department will regularly require federal agents to seek warrants before using secretive equipment that can locate and track cellphones, the first regulations on an increasingly controversial technology. (New York Times)
A tense standoff between refugees and police at a train station in Hungary continued into a second day, as EU leaders scramble to find a coherent policy to accommodate growing numbers of people fleeing war and poverty. (Al Jazeera America)

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September 3, 2015

The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns such problems could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law enforcement and the community. (Associated Press)
A judge ordered individual trials for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of a black man from an injury in custody, a case that fed the U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities. (Reuters)
An Indian man left partially paralyzed when he was slammed to the ground during a police stop in Alabama testified that he'd been in the state only about a week when he was confronted by officers investigating a call about a suspicious person. (Associated Press)
The unarmed black Texas teenager fatally shot by a white police officer in August at a Dallas-area car dealership had synthetic psychedelic drugs and marijuana in his system when he died, according to an autopsy report. (Reuters)
A police officer who shot and injured two men he says repeatedly threatened him during a late night encounter on a dark street was justified in the shooting, and the men have been charged with assault. (Associated Press)
The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity since the 1970s is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the United States, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). (Al Jazeera America)
The U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge that Gov. Bobby Jindal's decision to oust Planned Parenthood from Louisiana's Medicaid program appears to violate federal law by denying Medicaid patients the right to choose their health care providers. (New York Times)
The CIA and U.S. Special Operations forces have launched a secret campaign to hunt terrorism suspects in Syria as part of a targeted killing program that is run separately from the broader U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State. (Washington Post)
Violence in El Salvador killed 907 people in August, a number bordering on the levels of death the country experienced during the Salvadorean Civil War in the 1980s. (United Press International)

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September 2, 2015

A second video has emerged in an incident in which two Texas police officers shoot and kill a man who appears to have had his hands up. (USA Today)
The family of a woman shot dead on a San Francisco pier in July filed wrongful death claims against the sheriff and two federal agencies, citing negligence and other errors in the handling of an undocumented immigrant accused of killing her. (Reuters)
More than a month after his trial on murder charges ended in a mistrial for the second time, former South Carolina police Chief Richard Combs has been sentenced to a year of home detention. (NPR)
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the actions of two police officers who responded to the wrong home after a 911 call, where they shot a dog and the unsuspecting homeowner inside -- not to mention one of themselves. (United Press International)
More than 7,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails were released, including some 150 that have been retroactively classified. (United Press International)
Missouri executed Roderick Nunley after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his lawyer's request to stay the execution. (Al Jazeera America)
Arkansas' 10-year hiatus in capital punishment moved nearer to its end when state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge formally asked Governor Asa Hutchinson to set execution dates for eight inmates who have exhausted their appeals. (Al Jazeera America)
Invoking "God's authority," a Kentucky county clerk denied marriage licenses to gay couples again in direct defiance of the federal courts, and vowed not to resign, even under the pressure of steep fines or jail. (Chicago Tribune)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell undercut threats by fellow Republicans to hold the budget process hostage in an effort to defund Planned Parenthood, saying conservatives do not have enough support in Congress to cut off the group, which is under fire from abortion opponents. (Reuters)

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September 1, 2015

The fatal shooting of a Texas man by sheriff’s deputies in San Antonio last week was captured on video that appears to show he had his hands up when the officers fired. (New York Times)
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement have disavowed all political parties after the Democratic establishment adopted a resolution in support of the movement, which has interrupted the party’s front-runners at several campaign events in recent months. (Guardian)
Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as Milwaukee. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 homicides in all of 2014. (New York Times)
Los Angeles has become the largest U.S. city to begin equipping its police officers with body cameras. (Al Jazeera America)
Police shot an armed suspect multiple times when he fired on a state patrolman at the end of a 10-hour standoff along an interstate highway in south Texas. (Reuters)
Shannon J. Miles is accused of shooting Texas Deputy Darren Goforth 15 times -- using the entire clip of bullets -- at a gas station in Houston.(United Press International)
The man accused of shooting and killing a suburban Houston officer has a history of mental illness and once lived in a homeless shelter. (Guardian)
Thousands of lower-income Alaskans will become eligible for Medicaid after the Alaska Supreme Court refused to temporarily block the state from expanding the health care program. (Associated Press)
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a Kentucky county clerk's request for an emergency order allowing her to continue to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples while she appeals a federal judge's order requiring her to do so. (Reuters)
Two Category 4 storms, Hurricanes Igniacio and Jimena, have been located east of Hawaii headed in a northwesterly direction, while a third, Kilo, is to the west of the islands, making history. (United Press International)
Hurricane Fred strengthened in the eastern Atlantic as it approached the Cape Verde islands but was forecast to weaken in the coming days, while the remnants of Tropical Storm Erika brought flooding to parts of South Carolina. (Reuters)
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback shot dead nearly 80 people in separate attacks on three villages in Nigeria's restive northeast in recent days. (Al Jazeera America)

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August 31, 2015

Police are investigating the death in a Virginia jail of a mentally ill black man, who was incarcerated for four months after allegedly stealing $5 worth of snacks. (Al Jazeera America)
A 30-year-old Houston man with an extensive criminal history is expected to appear in court and be charged with capital murder of a police officer, an incident the local sheriff tied to the "Black Lives Matter" campaign against police violence. (Reuters)
A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing New York prison officials of locking an inmate for weeks in tiny cells that reeked of urine and feces, including one cell where they disabled his toilet and forced him to inhale his own excrement. (Al Jazeera America)
A statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, was taken down from its pedestal outside the clock tower on the University of Texas at Austin campus after a legal appeal to keep the memorial in place was rejected. (New York Times)
Alaska’s governor won a legal victory that, at least for now, will allow the state to begin next week to sign up more low-income residents for Medicaid — despite objections from state lawmakers. (Washington Post)
A Texas teenager who contracted a rare brain-eating disease after swimming in a lake about 70 miles north of Houston has died. (Reuters)
The Obama administration will change the name of North America's tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, a major symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Alaska. (Associated Press)
While its no longer a tropical storm, the remnants of Erika are expected to bring torrential rains to Florida and some of the East Coast with the potential of flash floods. (United Press International)

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August 24, 2015

A North Carolina judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in the case of a white police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of an unarmed black man. (Al Jazeera)
Broadway put on a very different kind of matinee as dozens of bare-chested women and men parading down the Great White Way to Times Square. (Associated Press)
A U.S. federal judge ordered the government to swiftly release immigrant children held at detention centers, affirming a July ruling that said some minors who crossed the border illegally were being detained in violation of a long-standing settlement. (Reuters)
The Department of Defense acknowledged plans to send detainees at the Navy's prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to another correctional facility the United States -- the next step in President Barack Obama's promise six years ago to shutter the notorious complex. (United Press International)
A Mexican federal court has denied home detention to former teachers' union head Elba Esther Gordillo, once a feared political operator who has been in jail since 2013 on charges of embezzlement and organized crime. (Associated Press)
Tropical Storm Danny weakened and was poised to bring winds and rainfall to parts of the Caribbean. (Associated Press)

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August 20, 2015

A former Virginia police officer was charged with second-degree murder for a 2013 on-duty shooting death of a man who had his hands raised. (Al Jazeera)
A grand jury has indicted two former Georgia police officers on murder charges for allegedly killing a handcuffed suspect with a stun gun last year. (Reuters)
A New Mexico judge ruled that two Albuquerque police officers must stand trial on murder charges in the on-duty shooting death of a homeless man —which sparked angry protests in the city and helped lead to reforms. (Al Jazeera)
The family of a California woman taken hostage by bank robbers and killed in a shootout with police filed a lawsuit accusing officers of causing her 2014 death by indiscriminately firing hundreds of bullets at the suspects' vehicle. (Reuters)
The Memphis City Council has voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a public park. (Associated Press)
The first openly transgender staff member to work at the White House began her new job this week. (United Press International)
Soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years in a military prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was found guilty of violating jail rules and given three weeks of recreation curbs. (Reuters)

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August 10, 2015

Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson one year ago. Protests have been held, speeches delivered and reforms enacted, but the conversation about race and violence in America continues. (United Press International)
A year after Ferguson, Missouri, was torn by unrest over a white policeman's fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, the town that became a symbol of racial inequality in America faces a significant financial toll. (Reuters)
A man who authorities say opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was critically wounded when the officers shot back. (Associated Press)
The police in Arlington, Texas were trying to determine what prompted a black college student to crash his car into a car dealership, and why a white police officer still in training fatally shot the unarmed man four times. (New York Times)
At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal. (Guardian)
Michigan, unlike 30 other states that have provided the wrongfully convicted with financial support, is just beginning to seriously confront the issue after years of stalled efforts and a prolonged economic downturn. (Associated Press)
A Colorado jury sentenced movie rampage gunman James Holmes to life without parole, rejecting the death penalty for the 27-year-old who entered a midnight screening of a Batman film wielding a semi-automatic rifle, shotgun and pistol and killed a dozen people. (Reuters)

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Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts toward making a nuclear-weapons-free world. (Associated Press)
The mother of Michael Brown says she will "never forgive" the "cold and malicious" police officer who shot and killed her son nearly one year ago in Ferguson, Missouri. (Al Jazeera)
A New Mexico judge dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges but retained murder counts against two Albuquerque police officers who shot and killed a homeless man last year. (Al Jazeera)
A majority of Americans support South Carolina’s decision to remove the Confederate battle flag from its State House grounds, while a third of Americans oppose the move, according to a national survey. (New York Times)
A majority of Americans, white and black, believe that more needs to be done to fight racism in the United States, following a year of protests over the treatment of minorities by police, according to a Pew Research Center survey. (Reuters)
A federal appeals court struck down a voter ID law in Texas, saying it violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. (NPR)
The largest of California's active wildfires continued to frustrate firefighters as it grew to nearly 70,000 acres and destroyed several homes. (United Press International)

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August 5, 2015 The #JournoList is a daily roundup of the events and issues that are making headlines. Compiled by Teddy Wilson, a reporter who covers reproductive rights for RH Reality Check. Follow him on Twitter: @txindyjourno

Alleging that Sandra Bland's "rights and privileges as a citizen of the United States" were violated, Bland’s mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety, Waller County and several law enforcement officers. (Texas Tribune)
A Kentucky sheriff defended a deputy who has been accused of illegally handcuffing two disabled children for misbehaving at school, saying that the deputy “did what he was sworn to do” in order to help school officials keep their buildings safe. (Washington Post)
California restored voting rights to tens of thousands of criminals serving sentences under community supervision, reversing a decision by a state official that they could not participate in elections. (Al Jazeera)
Leaders of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said that they had reached a $21 million settlement with hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members, though the agreement is still subject to approval by a federal judge. (New York Times)
Closer coordination between healthcare facilities and public health departments could save 37,000 U.S. lives over five years by preventing infections from antibiotic-resistant germs and from a nasty intestinal bug called C. difficile (Reuters)
The FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system. (Washington Post)
Tony Blair could stand trial on charges of war crimes if the evidence suggests he broke international law over the “illegal” Iraq war in 2003. (Guardian)
A former top CIA official has reportedly become the most senior agency figure to say he is "comfortable" with using the word "torture" to describe so-called enhanced interrogation techniques deployed against al-Qaeda suspects in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks. (Business Insider)
Humans have used everything from screens to chemical repellants to protect themselves from mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. Now, however, scientists say mosquitoes are finding ways to adapt to insecticides and other recent changes in their environments. (PRI)
As firefighters battled a massive Northern California wild land blaze threatening numerous homes, some of the 13,000 people urged to flee their residences were spending what may be just one of many nights in evacuation shelters. (Associated Press)
Two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have derailed within minutes of each other, killing at least 20 people. (BBC News)

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New York's top prosecutor will investigate the death of a 42-year-old black mother of eight while in police custody on shoplifting charge. (Reuters)
A 44-year man charged with setting off a pipe bomb in January outside the building that housed the Colorado Springs chapter of the civil rights organization NAACP pleaded guilty to arson and a weapons charge. (Reuters)
The families of 14 people killed in the 2012 massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, and two survivors reached a $1.5 million legal settlement against the gunman's mother's estate. (Reuters)
The Koch brothers' political network of wealthy donors this weekend auditioned five GOP presidential candidates, another sign of billionaires' increasing political clout. (NPR)
A Republican-led attempt to defund Planned Parenthood was defeated in the Senate. (RH Reality Check)
A federal judge ruled that Idaho's law banning secret filming of animal abuse at agricultural facilities is unconstitutional. (Al Jazeera)
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will begin reviewing the disability status of Marines who developed cancers and other conditions due to exposure to chemicals that contaminated the water at Camp Lejeune for more than 30 years. (Associated Press)
National Guard forces dropped water along the edges of a raging wildfire over the weekend as more than 2,000 firefighters in Northern California tried to contain a blaze that has already scorched 60,000 acres. (New York Times)
President Barack Obama called for a 32-percent reduction in carbon emissions as part of his Clean Power Plan, which he says will be "the single most important step that America has ever made in the fight against global climate change." (United Press International)

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August 3, 2015 The #JournoList is a daily roundup of the events and issues that are making headlines. Compiled by Teddy Wilson, a reporter who covers reproductive rights for RH Reality Check. Follow him on Twitter: @txindyjourno

Bombs went off outside two churches in the southern New Mexico City of Las Cruces on Sunday, disrupting services and sending federal agents and local police to investigate. (Reuters)
A grand jury has decided that no charges are warranted against two University of Cincinnati police officers who responded to the traffic stop in which another officer fatally shot a driver. (Al Jazeera)
A U.S. Department of Justice report found that a juvenile delinquency court that services an area including Ferguson, Missouri, discriminates against black children. (United Press International)
Fewer than four hundred families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era. (New York Times)
An HIV epidemic in Indiana and a rise in Hepatitis C cases in Kentucky helped push those states to pass laws allowing communities to open needle exchanges. (Reuters)
The board of the American Psychological Association will propose reforms to its ethics guidelines reported to prohibit psychologists from participating in any national security interrogations. (Al Jazeera)
The Nigerian military says it has rescued 178 people from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in northern Borno state. (BBC News)
A massive, fast-moving wildfire has destroyed at least 24 homes and threatens another 5,000 in a drought-stricken area about 100 miles north of San Francisco. (USA Today)

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July 28, 2015 The #JournoList is a daily roundup of the events and issues that are making headlines. Compiled by Teddy Wilson, a reporter who covers reproductive rights for RH Reality Check. Follow him on Twitter: @txindyjourno

Texas authorities on released several hours of footage showing Sandra Bland during her three days in jail, saying they wanted to dispel rumors that she was dead before arriving there. (Associated Press)
A committee of outside attorneys will assist the Texas district attorney investigating the death of Sandra Bland, the woman found dead in a Texas jail cell days after a controversial traffic stop. (United Press International)
A city review board has concluded that a New York police officer used improper physical force when he shoved a handcuffed teenager through the plate-glass window of a Bronx bar during his arrest last spring. (Reuters)
Congress seems poised to revise four decades of federal policy that greatly expanded the number of Americans who are incarcerated, to roughly 750 per 100,000, by far the highest rate of any Western nation. (New York Times)
Senate Republicans are planning a vote in coming days on legislation to cut $500 million in annual federal funding for Planned Parenthood, reigniting a fight in Congress over abortion that has long been dormant. (Reuters)
The State Department has pledged to turn over 5,000 pages of documents to the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks on Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead. (United Press International)
Mexican prosecutors announced that they had won "historic" convictions and sentences of 697 years in prison against five men for killing 11 women near the border city of Ciudad Juarez. (Associated Press)

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July 27, 2015

The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months. (Associated Press)
For those who did not know her, Sandra Bland's lasting image is a portrait of anger: a woman with a short fuse who crossed paths with a cop of little patience. (Houston Chronicle)
Relatives and friends said goodbye to Sandra Bland -- the woman who died in a Texas jail cell following a traffic stop that has sparked nationwide controversy. (United Press International)
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the in-custody death of Sandra Bland in Texas and the recently released dash-cam video of her arrest underscores long-held fears many black Americans have about interactions with police. (Washington Post)
While the protests have faded in Baltimore, the anger has not — nor has the violence. (Al Jazeera)
The man accused of shooting two people to death inside a Louisiana movie theater had a troubled past that included prior run-ins with the law and near total estrangement from his family. (United Press International)
Colleges across the country are spending summer break re-evaluating their policing strategies after a university officer in Ohio killed an unarmed motorist away from school grounds and a court decision stripped university police in North Dakota of their off-campus authority. (Al Jazeera)
With help from a well-funded, well-researched and invigorated anti-abortion movement, Republican politicians have refined how they are talking about pregnancy and abortion rights, choosing their words in a way they hope puts Democrats on the defensive. (New York Times)
The Boy Scouts of America will end its ban on gay leadership within the organization, but some groups will not be forced to accept election of gay leaders. (United Press International)
The U.S. government is violating a 1997 settlement by detaining unauthorized immigrant children, and an order may be forthcoming to require the release of the minors and parents detained with them. (Reuters)
The Defense Department, reacting to armed citizens appearing in front of military recruiting offices around the country since last week's fatal shootings of five U.S. servicemen in Chattanooga, has asked that "individuals not stand guard" on federal property. (NPR)
A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military jail will call for the transfer to U.S. prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release. (Reuters)
Weeks after drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman allegedly got inside help in a daring escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico, a Mexican federal judge has ordered three officials who worked in the facility's monitoring center at the time of the jailbreak to be formally taken into custody. (NPR)

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July 22, 2015

The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson is getting a new interim police chief as the anniversary of the killing of a black 18-year-old nears. (Associated Press)
Dashboard camera video involving the traffic stop in Texas of a woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell showed how the incident quickly escalated into an altercation between her and a state trooper. (Reuters)
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has responded to concerns that a police video showing the arrest of an African-American woman, who later died while in police custody, was edited by saying they would look into the matter. (Al Jazeera)
The family of a Tennessee man are asking for state and federal help after police hogtied him during an arrest at a concert in Mississippi and he later died. (Reuters)
Liberal members of Congress in both the House and the Senate will introduce legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, an in an effort to boost labor movement organizing around this issue and push the Democratic Party to the left on wage inequality. (Al Jazeera)
Even with the steadily improving job market and the economy gaining ground, more American children are living in poverty today than they did before the economy bottomed out in 2008. (United Press International)
Slamming the Obama administration for failing to penalize cities that shield undocumented immigrants, congressional Republicans on started to pursue legislation that would withhold federal funds from these so-called sanctuary cities. (New York Times)
A U.S. military strike earlier this month in Syria killed a senior al-Qaida leader with a $7 million bounty on his head. (United Press International)
An international human rights group says South Sudanese troops committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by killing and raping civilians during an offensive in rebel-held parts of the country's Unity State. (Associated Press)

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