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Trump: Transgender people 'can't serve' in US military

US President Donald Trump says transgender people cannot serve in "any capacity" in the military.

The Obama administration decided last year to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military.

But in June, Defence Secretary James Mattis agreed to a six-month delay in the recruitment of transgender people.

"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.".

Rand also predicted that the inclusion of transgender people in the military would cause a 0.13% increase in healthcare spending (approximately $8.4m).

Image copyright Twitter @xychelsea Image caption Chelsea Manning, a transgender former US soldier, tweeted her reaction to the news.

Republican opponents of transgender people serving in the military include Vicky Hartzler, a congresswoman from Missouri, who wants transgender service members honourably discharged. »

Harris Rosen Takes a New Approach to Philanthropy

Authored by ucf.edu

His bosses at Walt Disney World told him that they didn’t believe he would ever become “a company man.”

Despite his successes developing the Contemporary, Polynesian and Fort Wilderness resorts, he realized that he couldn’t be what Disney wanted him to be.

“I finally came to the conclusion that I most likely didn’t have the organization man’s personality,” says Rosen. »

Nobelists, Students and Journalists Grapple with the Antiscience Movement

Authored by blogs.scientificamerican.com

Due to a family emergency that prevented Chu from being present, the speech was read by William E. Moerner, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

Moerner was also part of the panel at a press conference held June 27 titled "Science in a Post-Truth Era."

Moerner began by reminding the audience that "science is not an alternative fact or a belief system. »

'I was raped every day for six months': Yazidi girl says after escaping from ISIS

Authored by muslimpress.com

In 2014, ISIS fighters attacked the Yazidis, an ethnic Kurdish group in northern Iraqi, killing the men and capturing women as sex slaves.

She was kidnapped along with thousands of other Yazidi women.

Some 9,900 Yazidis were killed or captured when ISIS took over Mount Sinjar in the summer of 2014. »

Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI fearmongering is bad. Elon Musk thinks Zuckerberg doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Authored by recode.net

Facebook and other tech giants are scrambling to build this kind of technology, and Zuckerberg even built an AI assistant to help control his Palo Alto home.

Musk, on the other hand, thinks AI could ultimately destroy mankind and send everyone scrambling to Mars to avoid machine overlords.

When a viewer mentioned Musk and asked what Zuckerberg thought of the warnings, he downplayed the concerns of AI. »