The Mississippi school dropped charges against four people arrested for cheering at graduation.

The officials probably realized they must drop the charges, but delayed so they wouldn't seem like pushovers. They are looking ahead to future injustices that might not arouse enough public criticism to make them back down.

For the Associated Press, being shut by a thug makes you a "suspect", automatically.

The G7 made a stronger statement, endorsing big cuts in fossil fuel emissions by 2050.

It is not binding, and important emitter countries are not included, but at least it endorses an adequate goal.

Three medical marijuana growers in Washington were convicted by the federal government and now face sentencing.

If the bill to make the federal government leave state-legal medical marijuana growers and users alone is passed, I hope Obama will pardon everyone who was convicted for this.

The UK's right-wing government is planning big cuts in school funds for non-rich children.

Most of them will only be able to get crap jobs, and right-wingers will say it's their own fault — pointing, as they do, to the brightest few who overcame this handicap, as "proof" that the rest are no good.