Monday, August 29, 2016

Monday's Headlines: Clinton had a chance to be an undisputed leader for gay rights. She refused.

Reviews are in for how Clinton handled ‘alt-right’ in speech; Mike Pence wants to keep Syrian refugees out of Indiana. They're coming anyway.; Israel wants to bulldoze this ramshackle village, but Europe is providing life support; 'Women are considered second-rate citizens': One scientist alleges gender bias at NIH;
 
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Clinton had a chance to be an undisputed leader for gay rights. She refused.
Although the Democratic nominee supports same-sex marriage now, her slow shift on the subject has frustrated many of her supporters. Hillary and Bill Clinton had stood out as being among the first to actively court the LGBT community, but in 2008, during her first presidential run, she was unwilling to stand with the community on one of its biggest civil rights issues.
Reviews are in for how Clinton handled ‘alt-right’ in speech
The Democrat denounced the conservative sentiments that she says Donald Trump has inflamed. The movement and its allies said she helped elevate them from the fringe.
 
Mike Pence wants to keep Syrian refugees out of Indiana. They're coming anyway.
Since a court ruling overturned the governor's November 2015 attempt to bar them, 140 Syrian refugees have resettled in Indiana, with more expected in coming weeks.
 
Israel wants to bulldoze this ramshackle village, but Europe is providing life support
The hamlet of Susiya, where Arab herders live in tents without running water or electricity from the grid, has become an improbable proxy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And after donations from countries including Germany, Spain, Ireland and Belgium, it also stands at the center of fraying relations between Israel and Europe.
 
'Women are considered second-rate citizens': One scientist alleges gender bias at NIH
Bibiana Bielekova was passed over for tenure twice despite her international reputation as a neuro-immunologist. Research appears to support her complaints as just 22 percent of tenured research scientists at the National Institutes of Health are women.
 
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