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Rightwing thinktank leader on Google’s new AI council.

A group of Google employees have called for the removal of a rightwing thinktank leader from the company’s new artificial intelligence council, citing her anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant record. Employees published a letter on Monday criticizing the appointment of Kay Coles James…

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No eviction: Wisconsin couple allowed to keep pride flag.

A Wisconsin couple who had been ordered to remove a gay pride flag from their rental property or face eviction are now allowed to keep it. Kevin Kollmann and his partner, Merle Malterer, received a letter Monday from the owner of…

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Gay couple faces eviction over Pride flag.

Kevin Kollman and Merle Malterer, a couple in Oak Park, Wisc., are being forced to choose between displaying their pride and having a roof over their heads. The men told the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee that their landlord gave them…

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Did a jury sentence a man to death because he’s gay?

It was 1993, and a South Dakota jury was debating whether to sentence a gay man to death. Life in prison, one juror said, would be no punishment at all. Allowing the defendant, Charles Rhines, to spend his days surrounded by…