• Judge: North Carolina Universities Must Allow Transgender Students to Use Bathroom Matching Identity

  North Carolina's university system must allow two transgender students and a transgender employee to use bathrooms matching their gender identity, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, in a partial victory for those fighting the state's restrictive restroom law.

  

• Abused and Exploited, Child Migrants in Italy Dream of Better Life

  Isaac, a 17 year-old from Ghana, holds back tears and looks down as he tries to describe the six months he spent in a Libyan jail where he says not a night would pass without someone dying.

  

• Two Women Lynched, Set on Fiire in Congo as Ethnic Tensions Flare

  Two Hutu women were dragged out of a minibus, lynched and their bodies set on fire by a crowd in eastern Congo, the local mayor said on Wednesday, as inter-ethnic tensions in the region surge in the wake of massacres that have killed hundreds of civilians.

  

• Heartwarming: Orlando Hospitals Won't Charge Nightclub Shooting Victims for Care

  Two Florida hospitals will not seek payment of medical bills from the dozens of people treated for injuries suffered in the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, officials at the health facilities said.

  

• Texas, Four Other States Sue Obama Administration Over Transgender Health Policy

  Texas and four other states sued the Obama administration on Tuesday over extending its healthcare nondiscrimination law to transgender individuals, saying the move "represents a radical invasion of the federal bureaucracy into a doctor's medical judgment."