Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to be released from jail

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to be released from jail

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — After five days behind bars, county clerk Kim Davis was ordered released from jail Tuesday by the judge who locked her up for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

U.S. District Judge David Bunning lifted the contempt order but directed Davis not to interfere with the granting of licenses by her deputies.

Harvard adds alternative gender pronouns
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Harvard adds alternative gender pronouns

Kara Bettis

CAMBRIDGE — Starting this school year, students at Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences will be allowed to select their gender and choose their own pronouns.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in which more than half of Harvard undergraduates are enrolled, will allow students to select from genders, including "male," "female," "transgender," and other write-in options, according to the Harvard Crimson. They can then select traditional pronouns or "ze, hir, hirs" and "they, them, theirs."

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