Episode 98 – News for June 11, 2015

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INTRO

PUTTING THE DEGREE TO WORK – Creation and Salvation

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – June 11

• 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish

• 1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 1982 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial released

• 1986 – “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” released

• 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Update: Lightsail has rebooted

• Vermont has removed philosophical vaccine exemptions

• California’s new water plan is a massive desalination facility

• Scientists have converted blood into neurons

POLITICS AND RELIGION

• Rick Santorum says Pope should leave climate change to the scientists

• Indian filmmaker documenting corrective rape

• Nigeria bans FGM

• Update: Florida mom signs consent to son’s circumcision

• Ensaf Haidar reaches out to European leaders for Raif Badawi

• Muslim woman wins discrimination case in SCOTUS

• Muslim chaplain complains of discrimination on United flight

• Anti-Islam rally at Phoenix Mosque

FEEDBACK

• Paul via Facebook

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