Day's Headlines: Hate Crusade; Playgrounds in Court; Russian Intercept Deux; Taking the Fight to Abu; Pact Uncertainty Lingers; and Negative Mass

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Hate Crusade; Playgrounds in Court; Russian Intercept Deux; Taking the Fight to Abu; Pact Uncertainty Lingers; and Negative Mass

Society

LGBTQ Advocates Seek to Label Conservative Opponents as Hate Groups reuters

The Eliminate Hate Campaign seeks to draw attention to groups it sees as extreme and hateful against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, accusing them of hiding behind ostensibly Christian or family values.

The Supreme Court appears to side with a church in a funding battle economist

The core question in Trinity Lutheran Church v Comer is whether Missouri’s stricter-than-thou separation of church and state goes so far that it violates the other religion clause of the First Amendment: the ban on prohibiting the free exercise of religion.

Military

Russian bombers approach Alaska for second day in a row adn

Capt. Anastasia Schmidt, a spokeswoman for the Alaskan Command, said Tuesday's flights involved a pair of Tu-95 Bear bombers – the same type of Russian propeller-driven aircraft flown Monday.

Philippines

Philippine leader may launch 'invasion' of Abu Sayyaf's island lair reuters

Duterte offered cash rewards for the capture, dead or alive, of six Abu Sayyaf bbc militants still at large following a day-long clash last week on Bohol island, which killed six rebels and four members of the security forces.

Climate

Trump aides abruptly postpone meeting on whether to stay in Paris climate deal theguardian

Trump’s top advisers were set to meet on Tuesday to provide the president with a recommendation ahead of a G7 meeting in May g7italy. However, a White House official said the meeting had been postponed due to conflicting schedules. It is unclear when it will now take place.

Research

Physicists create 'negative mass' phys.org

Washington State University wsu.edu physicists have created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. Push it, and unlike every physical object in the world we know, it doesn't accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.

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