Friday, July 17 LGB workers may now be protected from discrimination: The federal agency that handles employment discrimination cases, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, just ruled that current law protects lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees from discrimination across the country. Although sexual orientation is not explicitly protected at the federal level, discrimination based on gender/sex is protected, and the agency found that discriminating

Friday, July 10 Charleston shooting may have been avoided if gun background check process worked differently: If someone wants to buy a gun at a gun shop, the shop needs to do a background check on them. The process goes through a national system, often performed by the FBI. But if for some reason the gun shop doesn’t get an answer within

Friday, July 3 BP gets closure on oil spill by paying another $18B in fines: The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the worst offshore oil disaster in history, killing 11 workers and spilling millions of gallons of oil into the ocean and onto the shores of 5 states. BP has now paid dearly, almost $54 billion

  Friday, June 26 Marriage equality now legal nationwide: In a historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex marriage is a right under the Constitution, and that no state may deny that right to its people. By combining two parts of the 14th amendment, both the “due process” clause and the “equal protection” clause, the Court says same-sex couples across