South Africa's president vetoed a dangerous secrecy bill.

Washington DC's mayor vetoed the bill to make large companies pay a higher minimum wage.

DC workers will suffer twice from this decision: they won't get a raise, and some will lose their jobs. Walmart brings a decrease in jobs because it replaces other stores that employ more people. Furthermore, most of its employees are temps and get no benefits.

In Mauritania, the blacks were traditionally slaves of the Arabs. Theoretically this has stopped, but in practice it continues.

Using fingerprints as passwords could have a devastating legal byproduct in the US: people could be required to use their fingers to unlock their data.

This is because the fifth amendment, which forbids requiring people to incriminate themselves, does not apply to biometrics.

The FCC's failure to declare ISPs "common carriers" may undermine its weak network neutrality policy.

IANAL, but I suspect that this failure is also what makes possible the deal that major ISPs made with the copyright industry to punish their customers on mere accusation.