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Suspect At Large After Woman Found Shot to Death Inside Car, Police Say
The woman was found dead inside of a car from an apparent gunshot wound, according to police.
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American Airlines' New Sick Policy Biased Against Women: Union
Flight attendants say American Airlines is discriminating against women with new sick policy that doesn’t apply to pilots, most of whom are men.
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Japan Court Upholds Sterilization to Register Gender Change
Human rights and LGBT activists on Friday denounced a ruling by Japan’s Supreme Court upholding a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents. The court said the law is constitutional because it was meant to reduce confusion in families and society. But it acknowledged that it restricts freedom...
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Professor Sues Over Transgender Pronoun Rebuke
A Shawnee State University professor is suing officials after receiving a written warning for violating its nondiscrimination policy by not addressing a transgender student using the gender terms preferred by the student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor and evangelical Christian, filed a federal lawsuit this month against officials at the university in Portsmouth.
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For the First Time Ever, Texas Celebrates “Women Veterans Day”
Texas Senate Bill 805 passed last year, and it officially made June 12 “Women Veterans Day”.
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Toronto Van Attack Suspect Hit With 3 More Attempted Murder Charges
The Canadian man accused of using a van to mow down a mostly female group of pedestrians at a busy Toronto intersection was slapped Thursday with three new attempted murder charges, NBC News reported. Alek Minassian, who was linked to an online misogynist group after the mayhem last month that left 10 people dead and 15 more injured, did not...
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City Releases 20 Million Mosquitoes in Effort to Curb Viruses
Could the answer to mosquito-borne viruses be more mosquitoes? There is strategy behind such a plan.
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El Paso Police Issue Amber Alert After Two Children, Mother Abducted
Police say they issued an Amber Alert Friday morning in connection with the abduction of two children and their mother in El Paso.