The Supreme Court just took up a set of very big cases on LGBTQ rights

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/22/18510894/supreme-court-gay-transgender-lgbtq-rights…

EU Votes To Create Gigantic Biometrics Database

The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens. From a report: This new database will be known as the Common Identity Repository (CIR) and is set to unify records on over 350 million people. Per its design, CIR will aggregate both…

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Bias Law Covers Gay and Transgender Workers

The justices must decide whether a law that forbids employment discrimination based on sex also bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-transgender-employees.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…

Elizabeth Warren has the biggest free college plan yet

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/22/18509196/elizabeth-warren-debt-free-college…

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Unearthing and Rebuilding

India’s prime minister spurs the excavation of a Buddhist site, a Michigan meditation center rebuilds after a fire, and two reporters jailed in Myanmar win a Pulitzer. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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20 years after Columbine, the guns are still the problem

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18412627/columbine-anniversary-gun-control-mass-shootings…

Mitt Romney is “sickened” by the Trump administration’s “dishonesty” after reading Mueller report

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/20/18508795/mitt-romney-is-sickened-by-the-trump-administrations-dishonesty-after-reading-mueller-report…