House Votes for KeystoneXL, Teacher Ousted for Ferguson Tweets, All Eyes on Uranus: P.M. Links

• The House has voted to approve
  construction of the
  KeystoneXL pipeline, the ninth time it has done so. Whether it
  will make it through the Senate, still controlled by Democrats
  until January, is another question.
• A Dallas-area school teacher was formally fired by the school
  board last night for racially charged
  tweets about the Ferguson shooting, which called her critics
  “crackers” and suggested they kill themselves.
• Chicago’s first female mayor,
  Jane Byrne, has died at the age of 80.
• The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Army on behalf
  of a
  practicing Sikh applicant who is not being permitted to wear a
  turban or grow his hair out as his religion requires.
• Sweden reports a
  foreign submarine trespassed within its waters but couldn’t say
  for certain which country it was from. The country did pick up a
  radio call in Russian, but the country denies any involvement.
• The United Kingdom has announced it will be cancelling the
  passports of citizens who
  travel abroad to join ISIS.
• 
  “Uranus might be full of surprises.” I guarantee you that
  headline writer knew exactly what he or she was
  doing.

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