News of the day from across the nation, Sept. 15
Human and civil rights organizations, including the ACLU, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, launched a public campaign on Wednesday to persuade President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden for revealing the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs.
The hope is that the movie director’s largely sympathetic portrayal of the whistle-blower will further help Snowden’s image nationwide.
2 Hunger strike ends: A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday.
Fake teen doctor: A Florida judge has revoked the bail of a 19-year-old man accused of impersonating a doctor after he was arrested in Virginia on charges he tried to buy a Lexus using a fake earnings statement.
Days after killing himself, a vocal advocate for gun rights and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won a New York primary election.
Assemblyman Bill Nojay was facing a fraud trial in Cambodia and reportedly under FBI scrutiny when he went to his family’s cemetery plot in Rochester and shot himself in front of an arriving police officer on Friday.
[...] the defeat Tuesday of challenger Richard Milne coupled with a quirk in state election law means that local GOP leaders, who encouraged voters to choose Nojay despite his death, get to pick someone to take on Democrat Barbara Baer in November.