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A San Diego judge ruled Monday that yoga poses like downward dog and “criss-cross applesauce” are not religious, allowing a yoga program to continue in a Southern California school district.
More information is coming out about the Supreme Court decision that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Last week, we reported Lambda Legal's advice about the ruling and what it means. Now we have specific details about how the decision affects federal employees, coming from the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, Elaine Kaplan.
Yoga poses like downward dog and “criss-cross applesauce” are the subject of a lawsuit in Southern California on which a judge is expected to rule Monday afternoon.
Over at AlterNet, Richard Eskow has a great article highlighting hard-to-believe facts about American corporate tax dodging that will probably make you angry. For instance, did you know that corporate tax rates are at a 60-year low at the same time that corporate profits are at a 60-year high? Or, that as part of the extreme lengths companies go through to avoid paying taxes in the United States, one building in the Cayman Islands is the officially registered headquarters for nearly 19,000 corporations?
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that if fugitive leaker Edward Snowden wants to stay in his country, he "must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners.
Be part of a “Human Chain Against the Chained CPI” Tuesday in a national day of action to spotlight the cuts to Social Security, veterans' and other federal benefits that are masquerading as just a "change" in the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated. Find an event near you.
A judge in New York has tossed out three lawsuits brought by men who said former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash sexually abused them when they were underage.
The Rhode Island State Senate passed legislation that would grant 80% of the state's workers access to paid family leave, allowing them to take paid time off for a new child or to care for family members. The House now must take up the bill before it adjourns in the next few days. If it passes, Rhode Island would become the third state, after California and New Jersey, to offer such a plan.
