On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who attracted national attention for refusing to a bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. The decision—which may disappoint some LGBT advocates—is narrow in its application. As the New York Times notes, the majority decision doesn’t explicitly allow businesses to discriminate against
A 64-year old man from Cleveland, Ohio, is suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection after officials confiscated his life savings at an area airport. Customs agents, writes The Washington Post, seized the money in October through a process known as civil forfeiture. Under the statute, authorities can confiscate cash and property from individuals—regardless of whether
In May, unemployment shrank to a mere 3.8%, but that doesn’t mean affording kids is getting any easier.
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Earlier today, five former cheerleaders filed a federal lawsuit against the Texans, alleging the NFL team of paying them “a dime a minute to cheer for pro football players who are paid in the millions of dollars.” The suit itself was filed by the attorney’s Gloria Allred and Kimberly Spurlock and is “the second filed against the Texans and the latest in a series of legal actions accusing NFL teams of failing to pay minimum wage and overtime and in subjecting cheerleaders to unsafe working conditions.”
Anyone who’s a fan of Spam may be disappointed to learn that about 228,000 pounds of the product has been recalled by the Department of Agriculture after “four consumers complained about finding metal objects in the affordable food.” As if chewing on metal wasn’t enough for the unfortunate consumers who found the objects in their spam, some even reported sustaining “minor oral injuries” as a result.
On Thursday, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced that it would create a $210 million trust fund for hundreds of victims of clergy abuse. The settlement, writes the New York Times, ‘is the result of a years-long battle and arduous negotiations in one of the country’s most high-profile cases involving abuse in the
A transgender woman reportedly died in I.CE. custody last Friday after being detained for five days in a small cell fraught with freezing temperatures. Roxana Hernandez, 33, arrived in California early in May. After a 2,000-mile journey, the transgender woman was banking on the opportunity to file an asylum application. Citing widespread “violence” and “hate”
Think libraries aren’t relevant in the Amazon age? There are libraries doing more than ever before, from being a teen commons to lending seeds and tools.