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BRIEFLY
Supreme Court
to rule in Virginia
transgender case
WASHINGTON (AP)
— The Supreme Court will
take up transgender rights for
the first time in the case of
a Virginia school board that
wants to prevent a transgender
teenager from using the boys’
bathroom at his high school.
The justices said Friday
they will hear the appeal
from the Gloucester County
school board sometime next
year. The high court’s order
means that student Gavin
Grimm will not be able to
use the boys’ bathroom in the
meantime.
The court could use
the case to resolve similar
disputes across the country,
said Shannon Minter, legal
director of the National
Center for Lesbian Rights.
“Obviously, for transgender
people, the stakes of this case
are incredibly high. Whatever
the court rules in Grimm may
ensure that transgender people
are accepted and included as
equal members of our society,
or it may relegate them to
outsiders for decades to
come,” Minter said.
A lower court had ordered
the school board to accommo-
date Grimm, but the justices
in August put that order on
hold while they considered
whether to hear the appeal.
Grimm, a 17-year-old
high school senior, was born
female but identifies as male.
He was allowed to use the
boys’ restroom at his high
school for several weeks in
2014. But after some parents
complained, the school board
adopted a policy requiring
students to use either the
restroom that corresponds
with their biological gender
or a private, single-stall
restroom. Grimm is backed
by the Obama administration
in his argument that the policy
violates Title IX, a federal law
that bars sex discrimination in
schools.
Plane in Chicago
had ‘uncontained
engine failure’
CHICAGO (AP) —
Pilots were forced to abort
a takeoff and evacuate
passengers from a burning
American Airlines flight
Friday on a runway at
Chicago O’Hare Inter-
national Airport after the
airliner experienced what
a federal official said was
a rare and serious type of
engine failure.
American Airlines Flight
383 to Miami experienced
an “uncontained engine
failure,” in which engine
parts break off and are
spewed outside the engine,
the official said. The official
wasn’t authorized to speak
publicly about the incident
and spoke to The Associated
Press on condition of
anonymity. The danger of
such a failure is that engine
pieces effectively become
shrapnel and can cause
extensive damage to the
aircraft.
Flames and heavy black
smoke poured from the side
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of the Boeing 767 jet as it
sat on the runway after the
aborted takeoff. Officials
said the incident left 21
people injured. Footage from
the scene showed passengers
coming down emergency
slides and hurrying across
grass next to the runway
as emergency vehicles
surrounded the plane. The
right wing was drooping
toward the ground and
appeared to have partially
melted.
Passenger Sarah Ahmed
told WLS-TV the plane was
speeding down the runway
when she heard an explosion
and saw flames and black
smoke. She said everyone on
the right side of the aircraft
jumped from their seats and
moved to the left side.
“People are yelling,
‘Open the door! Open the
door!’ Everyone’s screaming
and jumping on top of each
other to open the door,”
Ahmed said. “Within that
time, I think it was seven
seconds, there was now
smoke in the plane and the
fire is right up against the
windows, and it’s melting
the windows.”
of a 23-year-old female
known as J28 and likely her
10-month-old calf drops
the current population to
80, among the lowest in
decades, according to the
Center for Whale Research
on Friday Harbor, which
keeps the whale census for
the federal government.
A 42-year-old female
whale was reported missing
during the center’s July 1
census.
Center senior scientist
Ken Balcomb said orcas,
particularly mothers and
their babies, are struggling
because they don’t have
enough food, a primary
factor in the population’s
decline.
He and others called for
four dams on the Lower
Snake River to be breached
to open up habitat for
salmon. They said the best
opportunity to save the orcas
is to restore runs of salmon
eaten by the killer whales.
“We know what we need
to do, feed them,” Balcomb
said at a news conference
on the Seattle waterfront
surrounded by supporters
who held signs calling for
the dams to come down.
Those opposed to
removing the Lower Snake
dams say they provide
low-cost hydroelectric
power and play a major role
in the region’s economy.
Dylan says he wants
to attend Nobel
Prize ceremony
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File
In this Jan. 18, 2014, file
photo, a female orca leaps
from the water while
breaching in Puget Sound
west of Seattle.
Scientists call for
breaching dams to
save orcas
SEATTLE (AP) —
Researchers who track the
endangered population
of orcas that frequent
Washington state waters said
Friday that three whales are
missing or believed dead
since summer.
The most recent death
NEW YORK (AP)
— Bob Dylan says he
“absolutely” wants to attend
the Nobel Prize Award
Ceremony “if it’s at all
possible” in December,
finally breaking his silence
about earning the presti-
gious honor.
The 75-year-old was
awarded the 2016 Nobel
Prize in literature earlier
this month. In an interview
with U.K. newspaper The
Telegraph posted Friday,
Dylan says “isn’t that
something.” and “it’s hard to
believe” of getting the award.
The Nobel Prize Award
Ceremony takes place
Dec. 10 in Stockholm.
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Internally displaced persons clear a checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers
south of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday. Islamic State militants have been going door
to door in farming communities south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint to
follow them north into the city and apparently using them as human shields as
they retreat from Iraqi forces.
U.N. says IS using thousands
as human shields near Mosal
BAGHDAD (AP) —
The Islamic State group is
using tens of thousands of
people as “human shields”
in and around Mosul while
the Iraqi forces are waging a
large-scale offensive aimed
at retaking the country’s
second-largest city, the U.N.
human rights office said
Friday.
Here is a look at the main
developments on the 12th
day of the Mosul offensive.
The extremist group has
massacred perceived oppo-
nents on several occasions,
and is widely believed to
be rooting out anyone who
could potentially rise up
against it, focusing on Iraqis
with military training or past
links to security forces.
The U.N. office said civil-
ians from across the region
south of Mosul were being
herded into Hamam al-Alil,
a militant-held town where
the population has more than
doubled to 60,000 since the
forced displacement began.
There, the militants sepa-
rated former members of the
security forces from women
and children, and took both
groups onward to Mosul.
They killed 190 former secu-
rity forces in a military base
on the southern edge of the
city and killed 42 civilians at
another base for refusing to
join the extremists. Another
24 people were reportedly
shot dead on Tuesday.
The U.S. military, which
is providing airstrikes and
ground support for the oper-
ation, said it tried to disrupt
the forced displacement of
civilians south of Mosul
earlier this week by striking
militant vehicles being used
in the forced push.
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen.
Matthew C. Isler said the
U.S.-led coalition conducted
“precision strikes” on vehi-
cles that were unoccupied
and far enough away from
civilians to avoid harming
them. Col. John Dorrian, a
U.S. military spokesman,
later said U.S. airstrikes had
targeted 50 such vehicles,
hitting 40 to 45 of them.
The U.S. is providing
airstrikes and ground support
for the Mosul offensive.
More than 100 American
soldiers are embedded with
Iraqi units and hundreds
more are based in staging
areas. An American soldier
was killed by a roadside
bomb last week.
Isler said Iraqi forces
have retaken 40 villages
from IS near Mosul since the
operation began. But most of
the fighting has taken place
in a belt of sparsely-popu-
lated farming communities
outside the city.
Isler said Iraqi troops
were consolidating gains
made east and south of the
city earlier this week, but
insisted “momentum” was
still on their side. He said
the U.S.-led coalition has
stepped up airstrikes against
the militants, and is carrying
out three times as many
as it did during previous
campaigns to drive IS from
other Iraqi cities.
Iraqi forces are within
4 miles from the edge of
Mosul on the eastern front,
where the elite special forces
are leading the charge. But
progress has been slower in
the south, where Iraqi forces
are still 20 miles from the
city.
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