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Michigan
Advocacy group Progress Michigan filed a complaint Friday over Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s ‘failure’ to create a Legal Defense Fund under state law.
The complaint comes after the news last week of Snyder hiring two attorneys from private law firms to assist in the aftermath of the Flint Water Crisis.
Elsewhere
President Obama urges SXSW audience not to be 'absolutists' on encryption https://t.co/Ga0EyKribX pic.twitter.com/17zrPdDBNz
— Engadget (@engadget) March 11, 2016
Isis launches two chemical attacks in northern Iraq https://t.co/6q3mLav2yV
— Guardian World (@guardianworld) March 12, 2016
In other news
Officials say a rare flower has been rediscovered in Maryland after 112 years: https://t.co/rfxn6OVBGw #odd
— AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities) March 11, 2016
In case you missed it
The United Nations released a “searing” report on the human rights situation in South Sudan, documenting what the human rights office called a military-perpetrated “scorched earth policy” against civilians.
A Danish children’s rights campaigner and her husband were both found guilty of people trafficking for driving a family of Syrian refugees to their Copenhagen home and then to the city’s railway station.
Kosovo’s government will buy a new body scanner in an attempt to stop opposition members from using tear gas in parliament.
General interestingness
Serene images of an abandoned mining town https://t.co/AVNG2znvNo by David Ogden pic.twitter.com/kws4bu53fA
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 12, 2016
Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling https://t.co/4w5QqCLtj9 pic.twitter.com/bcIOvkirNx
— New Scientist (@newscientist) March 11, 2016