Blah News Day
This was a real suck-of-a-day for news...... yeesh.
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U.S. Secret Service settles race discrimination case with black agents (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service has agreed to pay $24 million to settle a 17-year-old federal lawsuit filed by a group of black agents who accused the agency of racial discrimination in its employment practices.
U.S. sues New York City for denying police job to man with HIV NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has sued New York City for revoking an emergency dispatcher job offer it made to a man before he disclosed he had HIV, which the police department said disqualified him from the position.
U.S. sues JPMorgan for alleged mortgage discrimination NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sued JPMorgan Chase & Co, accusing the bank of discriminating against minority borrowers by charging them higher rates and fees on home mortgage loans between 2006 and at least 2009.
Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave secrets to WikiLeaks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the biggest such breach in U.S. history.
Woman sues Trump in New York for defamation over sexual assault denial LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of about a dozen women who previously accused President-elect Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances filed a lawsuit against him in New York on Tuesday, alleging he had made false and defamatory statements about her in rejecting the accusation, causing her emotional and economic harm.
(New York Times) - Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.
(USA Today) - About 60% of Earth's primate species are now threatened with extinction and about 75% have declining populations, according to study published Wednesday. In the case of the Hainan gibbon, a species of ape in China, there are fewer than 30 animals left on the planet. That and many other species will disappear in the next 25 years.
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