NPR

A “White Lives Matter” rally scheduled at Texas A&M University for Sept. 11 has been called off over “risks of threat to life and safety,” the school says.

The white nationalist rally, organized by former Texas A&M student Preston Wiginton, was not sponsored by any campus organizations, the university says. But the university, which is required to observe First Amendment rights, had allowed Wiginton to reserve space in a public area on campus.  Continue reading “Texas A&M Cancels Sept. 11 ‘White Lives Matter’ Rally Over Safety Concerns”

Law Newz – by Alberto Luperon

On Monday, The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates passed a resolution demanding that Congress let undocumented immigrants practice law. The bar suggests that lawmakers should add this block of text, written by the ABA’s Law Student Division, to 8 U.S.C. 5 § 1621(d):

A state court vested with exclusive authority to regulate admission to the bar may, by rule, order, or other affirmative act, permit an undocumented alien seeking legal status to obtain a professional license to practice law in that jurisdiction.

Continue reading “American Bar Association Wants to Let Undocumented Immigrants Practice Law”

CNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey

The federal government collected record amounts of both individual income taxes and payroll taxes through the first ten months of fiscal 2017 (Oct. 1, 2016 through the end of July), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement.

Through July, the federal government collected approximately $1,312,691,000,000 in individual income taxes.

At the same time, it collected $976,278,000,000 in Social Security and other payroll taxes.  Continue reading “Feds Collect Record Income and Payroll Taxes Through July”

Courthouse News – by Christine Stuart

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CN) — Nestle’s marketing and sales of Poland Spring water has been “a colossal fraud perpetrated against American consumers,” 11 people claim in a federal class action.

Filing their suit Tuesday in Connecticut, where Nestle is based, the lead plaintiffs from the Nutmeg State as well as New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. They say they would not have paid a premium for the water had they known it did not actually come from eight purported natural springs in Maine.  Continue reading “Consumers Call Nestle Poland Spring Water ‘a Colossal Fraud’”

Washington Post

Crews removed Baltimore’s Confederate statues early Wednesday, days after the deadly unrest in Charlottesville instigated by white nationalists rallying to defend a downtown Confederate monument.

The quiet and sudden removal of four monuments, with little fanfare and no advance notice, marks an attempt by the city to avoid a long, bruising conflict that has embroiled Charlottesville and other communities rethinking how they honor figures who fought to preserve slavery.   Continue reading “Baltimore hauls away four Confederate monuments after overnight removal”

Fox 10 News

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Deputies have arrested the woman who climbed a Confederate statue and tied the rope that was used to tear it down.

During a news conference Tuesday, Takiyah Thompson identified herself as the woman who climbed the statue in Durham. She said her actions were justified because Confederate statues represent white supremacy.   Continue reading “Durham protester who helped topple Confederate statue arrested”

Perth Now

A FIT and healthy Mandurah mother’s use of protein supplements has been blamed for contributing to her sudden death at the age of just 25.

Meegan Hefford was taking protein shakes and eating protein-rich foods, such as lean meat and egg whites, to get in shape for a bodybuilding competition.

Unknown to the mother-of-two, she had a rare genetic disorder that stopped her body from properly breaking down the protein.   Continue reading “How a protein diet killed a young mum”

Reuters

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas measures criticized as being discriminatory for limiting transgender people’s access to bathrooms in schools and public buildings died on Tuesday, as the House adjourned and ended its special legislative session.

Business leaders and civil rights groups had battled to defeat the bills, saying they advanced bigotry, would tarnish the state’s image and damage its economy. The measures were blocked by moderate House Republicans.   Continue reading “Texas ‘bathroom bill’ dies in special legislative session”

My San Antonio – by Marie Monteleone and Eric Martin

More than 180,000 people have been killed in Mexico since then-President Felipe Calderon sent the army to fight organized crime groups in his native state of Michoacan in 2006.

But one small town in that state says it hasn’t had a homicide since 2011 because its residents – led by women – took up arms to kick out groups who had expanded from drug trafficking into illegal logging.   Continue reading “Women kicked out organized crime in this Mexican town”