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Rep. Jim Himes: Why I walked out of the House’s moment of silence for Orlando – The Washington Post

Jim Himes, a Democrat, represents Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House. After House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) led lawmakers in a moment of silence the day after the Orlando mass shooting, representatives erupted in shouts and chants as Democrats protested the Republican-led chamber’s refusal to consider tighter gun regulations. (Reuters) On Sunday evening,…

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U.S. Southern Baptists Formally Repudiate Confederate Flag

The U.S. Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution on Tuesday repudiating the Confederate battle flag as an emblem of slavery, marking the latest bid for racial reconciliation by America’s largest Protestant denomination. The resolution, passed at the predominantly white convention’s annual meeting in St. Louis, calls for Southern Baptist churches to discontinue displaying the Confederate…

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What it’s like to live under North Carolina’s bathroom law if you’re transgender – LA Times

Going to the bathroom in public makes Payton McGarry nervous now. He’s worried somebody will confront him. Or, worse, attack him. So before he leaves his apartment, he asks himself: “Have I drunk too much water today?” That’s because McGarry, a 20-year-old student at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, is a transgender man. But because his…

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Facebook executive: Your News Feed will likely be “all video” in five years » Nieman Journalism Lab

A Facebook executive said Tuesday that she expects the social platform to probably be “all video” in five years. Videos are now viewed 8 billion times daily on Facebook, up from 1 billion views a year ago, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s vice president for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, said at a Fortune conference in…

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Paris: ‘Hundreds’ of masked protesters clash with police – The Local

Police officers detain an injured demonstrator during a protest against the French government’s planned labour law reforms, on June 14, 2016 in Paris. Photo: AFP Protests turned violent in Paris once again as an estimated million people were expected to demonstrate against labour reforms nationwide. The latest protest against the government’s unpopular labour laws turned…

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