Welcome back to the week!
It’s basically the last week of summer, so hopefully everyone’s having a good one. Of course, before you get too amped and leave early for your three-day weekend, check out these blogging ideas to keep your content fresh while you’re away:
- Hackers steal 600,000 records from health care firms—could your wearable device be next?
- After the NSA hack: Cybersecurity is in an even more vulnerable world.
- Silicon Valley keeps its distance from Donald Trump.
- Who is, after much to-do, walking back his plan of mass deportations. What’s immigration policy look like now for the 2016 election?
- Tenants struggle in win-win contracts for landlords.
- 20 years since welfare’s overhaul, results are mixed.
- A Philadelphia cab company’s claims that Uber falsely advertised as a taxi service even though it doesn’t have to follow industry regulations has been thrown out of federal court.
- 6th Circuit allows suit claiming WebWatcher software violates wiretap law, invades privacy.
- Chipotle must take worker social media policy off the menu.
- For midsize firms, salary hikes raise rate dilemma—will rate increases foot those bills?
- This is the Reddit post that caused a legal battle with Atlantic Records over the Suicide Squad soundtrack.
- The fight over voter ID laws heats up in the courts.
- And on that note—good news! Wisconsin can’t reinstate its unconstitutional voting restrictions.
- How the Democrats are failing the Affordable Care Act: It’s time for them to stop pretending everything’s fine.
- After international outrage, the French are lifting their ban on the “burkini.”
- Why is New York scrapping its language test for cab drivers at the same time London is planning to enact a similar one?
- California lawmakers unanimously repeal state’s “tampon tax.”
- President Barack Obama on Friday expanded a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating a safe zone for tuna, sea turtles and thousands of other species in what will be the world’s largest marine protected area.
- FCC makes a few big changes in media-ownership rules.
- Department of Education bans ITT from enrolling new Title IV students, adds tough new financial oversight.
- Pharrell and Robin Thicke aim to overturn their major copyright infringement verdict for “Blurred Lines.”
- Here’s why we have no clue how often rape is happening in the U.S.: Federal agencies just can’t agree on the definition.
- Staff of Law360 votes to unionize, joining the growing digital media union movement.
- Tech giants gobble start-ups in an antitrust blind spot.
- Seattle public broadband hinges on a President Hillary Clinton.
- University of Kentucky has opted to sue its own newspaper to avoid releasing documents on a professor’s alleged assaults.
- Vox looks at how the first liberal Supreme Court in a generation could reshape America.
- “Comply or Die” policing claims a hearing-impaired victim.
- Carbon tax must increase to be effective, says Canada federal environment minister.
- The President’s commuting of sentences and an end of the use of private prisons signal potentially meaningful changes in how the United States handles drug abuse.
- DOJ: Stop jailing people just because they can’t afford bail.
- Human skulls are being sold online—but is it legal?
- The Supreme Court’s awful Hobby Lobby decision just spawned a very ugly stepchild.
- U.S. judge granted a nationwide injunction blocking White House transgender policy.
- Fantasy sports bill proposed for Nevada.
- Taiwan to probe one of country’s biggest banks for ties to ‘Panama Papers’.
- First sexual orientation discrimination decision sets legal precedent.
- Pro-nuclear countries slowest to make progress on climate targets.
- SEC brings additional enforcement actions against companies with employee agreements that impede whistleblowing.
- California bill to secure biometric, other data facing deadline.
- Facebook pulled back the curtain on targeted advertising. Yikes. But, it’s all legal.
- Are animals people too? Soon a chimpanzee could walk into a courtroom as a thing, and walk out as a person.