Daycare Workers Fired For Refusing To Acknowledge Toddler As Transgender

Attorneys are now filing a lawsuit on behalf of two women who claim that they were wrongfully fired from a daycare center which demanded that they refer to a six-year-old girl as a transgendered boy.

Madeline Kirksey, a Christian author, says that she was terminated as the manager of the Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center because she would not go along with parents who’d decided to recognize their daughter as a boy. Her co-worker, Akesha Wyatt, was also let go for the same reason.

Houston, TX, attorney, Andy Taylor, who is most famous for his victory after challenging Houston’s HERO issue, is now taking a stance against their termination.

“This case involves a little 6-year-old girl who has been attending a private school in Katy, Texas for the last four months as a little girl.  She has parents who are a same-sex couple, two men, who decided that she was transgender,” Taylor said Tuesday afternoon at a news conference. “On Friday, that little girl left school. I’m not going to use names, but (she was) known to everybody as ‘Sally,’ and on Monday, this little girl returns to school calling herself ‘Johnny.'”

How to Get Noticed by Your Facebook Crush

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In 2015, more and more relationships are being formed via Online Dating. It’s not as taboo as it used to be and considering you spend much of your time on Facebook along with millions of others, there’s a good chance you’re single and have a few lady interests on your page right now. How do you get her to notice you though? How do you get her to respond to your inbox messages? Better yet, how do you get her to hit you up first? I’ll share a bit of it with you below, and if you want more, hit me on Facebook @ Thee Urban Sophisticate  …. But let’s get into it: 

San Francisco tour bus crashes, injuring 20 people

What began as a serene tour through one of the nation’s most picturesque cities turned into a two-block ride of terror when an open-air tour bus careened wildly out of control in San Francisco’s Union Square, running down a bicyclist, striking two pedestrians and smashing into several moving cars before it plowed into scaffolding lining a construction site.

Twenty people were hurt, six critically, when the big blue bus with at least 30 people aboard raced through one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations Friday afternoon, leaving chaos and carnage in its wake.

“Everybody was asking what’s going on,” said Bay Area resident Hoda Emam, who rounded a corner leading into Union Square moments after the bus struck the scaffolding, bringing it down in a twisted heap of metal and other debris.

She saw paramedics sprinting toward the injured while emergency vehicles pulled up with their sirens blaring.

Hollande says Paris attacks an ‘act of war’ by Islamic State group

Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, French President François Hollande accused the Islamic State (IS) group of conducting a series of attacks in and around Paris late Friday that left at least 127 people dead.

Speaking from the Elysée presidential palace the morning after France saw its worst day of violence since World War II, Hollande said the attacks were “an act of war" committed by the Islamic State group’s "terrorist army”.

The French president said the atrocities were, “against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet."

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group claimed responsibility on Saturday for the series of apparently coordinated attacks in and around Paris.

Here's what it's like in Paris today

Paris is mourning after 129 people were killed in a wave of terrorist attacks on Friday night and into Saturday morning. 

Dina Spector, an editor at Business Insider's London bureau, reported from the French capital and took photos at the Avenue de la Republique

The largest signs of grief and gathering are at the Place de la Republique, a square in Paris located on the border between the 10th and 11th arrondissements, where two of the shootings occurred.

Why France has become a prime target for terrorists

Many experts aren't surprised that Islamic terrorists targeted France in attacks that killed at least 127 people and injured hundreds more in Paris.

John Schindler, the national-security columnist for the New York Observer, tweeted on Saturday: "Jihadists with Balkan small arms were shooting up France in 1995 ... got no idea why anybody is surprised by last night's horror."

Attackers used guns and bombs at several sites across Paris on Friday, including the Stade de France and the Bataclan concert hall, where a shooting rampage and hostage situation left more than 100 dead. Eight attackers have died — seven after killing themselves using explosive vests, according to Reuters — and authorities are now searching for accomplices.

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Man's life saved after mobile phone prevents 'head being blown to bits'(Paris terror attacks)

The man, known only as Sylvestre, holds his phone after saying it saved his life

A man has claimed his mobile phone saved his life during the devastating terror attack outside France's national stadium last night.

The man, known only as Sylvestre, said his head would have "exploded" had his while mobile not took the impact of a bullet.

He was pictured moments after the attacks in Paris still holding onto his Samsung phone which had a smashed screen and huge dent in one side.

Speaking to iTele, he said: "This is the cell phone that took the hit, its what saved me. Otherwise my head would have been blown to bits. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

Sylvestre said he was shot in his foot and was grazed on his ribcage by a bullet.

breaking news Paris terrorist shooting: Man arrested in Bavaria by German police 'linked to French capital attacks'

A man arrested with firearms in his car by German police is being linked to the Paris terrorist attacks.

The arrest of a 51-year-old man in Bavaria last week could be connected to the explosions and shootings in the French capital.

Public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk said German authorities informed French officials about the arrest of the man near the German-Austrian border on November 5. It did not provide a source for its information.

Bavarian state police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger confirmed that firearms, explosives and hand grenades were found.

Mr Waldinger said: "We are providing no further information at this point."

We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story. 

Davido robbed in South Africa yesterday

Music superstar Davido was robbed in South Africa this evening as he landed in the country. According to a source who spoke with 3m360 , Davido and his manager Kamal landed in SA and were on their was from the airport to their hotel when they were attacked by two armed men. Their belongings including a Rolex watch and a passport was stolen. Thankfully, Davido and his manager are okay. Thank God for life!

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A woman “intentionally” threw herself over the side of a cruise ship hosting an electronic dance music festival Thursday night, according to officials.

The victim — identified by the US Coast Guard as Kaylyn Rose Sommer, 24, of Charleston, South Carolina — ditched the 2015 Mad Decent Boat Party and jumped off the EDM party cruise when it was about 22 miles off the coast of Cuba around 7 p.m.

The chartered cruise on the Norwegian Pearl, which set sail from Miami on Wednesday, was headed to Cozumel, Mexico.

Moscow blocks Egyptian national carrier from flying to Russia

Russia's state aviation agency on Friday banned Egypt's national carrier from flying to Russia, a move that follows the suspension of all Russian flights to Egypt after a deadly crash there last month.

Rosaviatsiya on Friday formally notified Moscow's Domodedovo airport, where EgyptAir flights arrive, that the ban is effective starting Saturday, said the airport spokesman Alexander Vlasov.

The aviation agency didn't give any immediate reason for the ban on flights. The move follows Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to suspend all Russian flights to Egypt after the Oct. 31crash of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt that killed all 224 people on board.

Woman: I was a hostage and raped six times a day in remote Alaska cabin

 

A woman told police an abductor raped her up to six times a day while she was held captive over a five-week period in rural Alaska, with the last attack committed as she heard a military evacuation helicopter landing near the man’s remote cabin to take her to a hospital.

The woman said Daniel Selovich, who goes by the nickname Pirate, used duct tape to bind the two together at night and placed a rope around her neck so she couldn’t run away, Alaska State Trooper Matthew Iverson wrote in an affidavit.

She said, “It would be better for her to run away from the cabin and possibly be eaten by a bear than continue being physically and sexually assaulted by Daniel,” Iverson wrote.

Selovich was arraigned this week on kidnapping, sexual assault and assault charges in Fairbanks Superior Court. No pleas were entered. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Nov. 20. Calls to the Public Defender’s Office in Fairbanks, which is representing Selovich, weren’t immediately returned.

Paris under siege: More than 140 dead in terror attacks

Bloodthirsty terrorists killed more than 140 people and wounded scores of other innocents in coordinated shooting and suicide bomb attacks in Paris late Friday that included a mass execution at a rock concert, authorities said.

The carnage began about 10 p.m. local time — with the jihadis targeting venues packed with helpless victims in a busy nightlife district and a soccer stadium where President Francois Hollande was watching a match with Germany.

The well-planned strike played out in multiple locations:

breaking news: At least 100 killed at US band’s concert in Paris

A sold-out rock concert became a scene of carnage in Paris, with much of the horror playing out live on Twitter.

Police ended the hostage situation after storming the music hall.  At least 100 people were killed at the venue, police said, according to the New York Times.

“Ils abattent tout le monde.” one horrified and bleeding concert-goer tweeted from inside the concert hall, where some 100 music lovers had been taken hostage.