General Motors Fined over Problems, Christian Woman Faces Death Sentence in Sudan, Camels Declared Possibly Racist: P.M. Links

  • Maybe we should just declare Wednesdays to be racist and get rid of them, too.General Motors has been

    fined $35 million
    by the feds for failing to report in a timely
    fashion problems with ignition switches in 2.6 million of its
    cars.
  • A news editor for CNN’s London bureau has been fired for

    repeated plagiarism offenses
    in about 50 published
    stories.
  • Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota won’t get
    to
    celebrate “Hump Day” with a live camel
    because somebody worried
    that might be racist somehow.
  • A pregnant woman in Sudan is
    facing a death sentence
    for refusing to recant her Christian
    faith.
  • This weekend
    marks 10 years
    since Massachusetts became the first state to
    legally recognize same-sex marriages.
  • The Swiss head to the polls this weekend to vote on whether to
    institute the
    world’s highest minimum wage
    , the equivalent of $25 dollars per
    hour.

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