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Employers Use Facebook To Target Job Ads Only For Men, Alleges Complaint
Three female job hunters, a large worker coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union lodged a legal complaint against Facebook on Tuesday, accusing the company of enabling discriminatory job postings with its ad targeting tools.
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Migrant Families Separated By US Are Refusing Reunification: Rights Group
Immigrant parents separated from their children by the Trump administration and returned to their homes are refusing to be reunited with their children because their countries are so dangerous, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union told a court on Friday.
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US Government Responsible For Immigrant Families' Reunification: Court
The federal judge who ordered the reunification of families separated at the southern US border said Friday it was the government's responsibility to locate parents deported without their children.
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Indian Immigrants At US Detention Centre To Get Access To Meet Attorneys
A US judge has ordered that 120 immigrants, including 52 Indians, be given immediate access to legal aid by allowing attorneys to meet them at the federal prison in Oregon, according to a media report.
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Detained Asylum Seeker Released After Suing Donald Trump Administration
Federal authorities have released a Congolese woman seeking asylum with her daughter in the US after she accused the Trump administration of unfairly separating immigrants like herself from their children, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Rights Group Tries To Fight White House Effort To Obtain Anti-Trump Protesters' Facebook Data
A civil rights group on Thursday launched a bid to prevent White House lawyers from obtaining private data of possibly thousands of Facebook users via search warrants linked to anti-Trump protests.
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Georgia Woman Said She Was Fired For Leaking During Her Period At Work
A Georgia woman is suing her former employer, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union, because she says she was unlawfully fired for leaking menstrual blood at work.
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Twitter Employees Donate $1.59 Million To Fight Donald Trump
Despite US President Donald Trump being a prolific Twitter user, the employees of the micro-blogging site donated $1.59 million to an organisation to fight Trump, a media report said.
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US Travel Ban Working 'Very Nicely,' Says Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his "very strict" crackdown on Muslim immigration was working "very nicely," amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.
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Barack Obama Set For Pardon Frenzy As He Leaves Office
A Rastafarian prophet, a former Taliban captive and thousands of minor drug traffickers have one thing in common: Their names have been submitted to President Barack Obama for clemency before he leaves office in two weeks.
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Facebook, Twitter Feeds Helped Police Track Protesters In US
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram provided user data access to a developer of a social media monitoring product that helped police monitor racial protests in US' Baltimore city, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California report said.
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Chelsea Manning Ends Hunger Strike After Army Allows Gender Surgery
A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday.
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Pregnant New York Prisoners To Be Unshackled In Transit
Pregnant prisoners in New York state will no longer be shackled while in transit, a move hailed by rights groups that describe physically restricting expectant mothers as "dangerous and inhumane."
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A Ford's High-Tech Emergency-Aid Feature May Have Tattled On Its Driver
According to reports from Chicago's ABC7 and West Palm Beach, Fla.'s ABC25, a car driven by 57-year-old Cathy Bernstein automatically called 911 to report a crash. The call was part of a safety feature designed to help first responders locate people who may have lost consciousness after accidents.
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US Group Says George Bush Should Be Investigated for Torture Conspiracy
Former president George W. Bush and a raft of senior US officials from his administration should be investigated for conspiracy to torture and for other crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Employers Use Facebook To Target Job Ads Only For Men, Alleges Complaint
Three female job hunters, a large worker coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union lodged a legal complaint against Facebook on Tuesday, accusing the company of enabling discriminatory job postings with its ad targeting tools.
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Migrant Families Separated By US Are Refusing Reunification: Rights Group
Immigrant parents separated from their children by the Trump administration and returned to their homes are refusing to be reunited with their children because their countries are so dangerous, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union told a court on Friday.
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US Government Responsible For Immigrant Families' Reunification: Court
The federal judge who ordered the reunification of families separated at the southern US border said Friday it was the government's responsibility to locate parents deported without their children.
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Indian Immigrants At US Detention Centre To Get Access To Meet Attorneys
A US judge has ordered that 120 immigrants, including 52 Indians, be given immediate access to legal aid by allowing attorneys to meet them at the federal prison in Oregon, according to a media report.
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Detained Asylum Seeker Released After Suing Donald Trump Administration
Federal authorities have released a Congolese woman seeking asylum with her daughter in the US after she accused the Trump administration of unfairly separating immigrants like herself from their children, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Rights Group Tries To Fight White House Effort To Obtain Anti-Trump Protesters' Facebook Data
A civil rights group on Thursday launched a bid to prevent White House lawyers from obtaining private data of possibly thousands of Facebook users via search warrants linked to anti-Trump protests.
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Georgia Woman Said She Was Fired For Leaking During Her Period At Work
A Georgia woman is suing her former employer, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union, because she says she was unlawfully fired for leaking menstrual blood at work.
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Twitter Employees Donate $1.59 Million To Fight Donald Trump
Despite US President Donald Trump being a prolific Twitter user, the employees of the micro-blogging site donated $1.59 million to an organisation to fight Trump, a media report said.
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US Travel Ban Working 'Very Nicely,' Says Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his "very strict" crackdown on Muslim immigration was working "very nicely," amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.
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Barack Obama Set For Pardon Frenzy As He Leaves Office
A Rastafarian prophet, a former Taliban captive and thousands of minor drug traffickers have one thing in common: Their names have been submitted to President Barack Obama for clemency before he leaves office in two weeks.
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Facebook, Twitter Feeds Helped Police Track Protesters In US
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram provided user data access to a developer of a social media monitoring product that helped police monitor racial protests in US' Baltimore city, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California report said.
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Chelsea Manning Ends Hunger Strike After Army Allows Gender Surgery
A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday.
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Pregnant New York Prisoners To Be Unshackled In Transit
Pregnant prisoners in New York state will no longer be shackled while in transit, a move hailed by rights groups that describe physically restricting expectant mothers as "dangerous and inhumane."
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A Ford's High-Tech Emergency-Aid Feature May Have Tattled On Its Driver
According to reports from Chicago's ABC7 and West Palm Beach, Fla.'s ABC25, a car driven by 57-year-old Cathy Bernstein automatically called 911 to report a crash. The call was part of a safety feature designed to help first responders locate people who may have lost consciousness after accidents.
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US Group Says George Bush Should Be Investigated for Torture Conspiracy
Former president George W. Bush and a raft of senior US officials from his administration should be investigated for conspiracy to torture and for other crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
