Meet Tess Ledeux, the Youngest French Athlete at the Winter…

Meet Tess Ledeux, the Youngest French Athlete at the Winter…

Meet Tess Ledeux, the Youngest French Athlete at the Winter Olympics

To see more from Tess, follow @tessledeux on Instagram.

Sixteen-year-old Tess Ledeux (@tessledeux) still remembers her first backcountry ski experience in her hometown in the French Alps: “I was following much older friends and decided to drop off a small cliff with them,” says Tess, who was 9 years old at the time. “The result was a broken nose, but it didn’t stop my love of jumps and tricks!”

Tess is the youngest French athlete representing her country at the Winter Olympics this year in #Pyeongchang2018. “It’s just so cool to see all these athletes from so many different countries and cultures, all reunited by their love for winter sports,” says the slopestyle skier, a sport that combines downhill skiing with terrain park obstacles, like jumps and rails. “After the Olympics, I’ll probably take a short break from skiing. But I’ll soon get back to practicing. I can’t go too long without it!”

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Bermuda Lawyer Launches Challenge to New Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

Bermuda Lawyer Launches Challenge to New Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
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A lawyer in Bermuda has filed a motion with the Supreme Court seeking to reverse a new law banning same-sex marriage.

The motion was filed on February 16th against the Attorney General, whose lawyers serve as legal advisers to the government.

Earlier this month, Bermuda’s Governor John Rankin approved the Domestic Partnership Act (DPA) which reversed a law legalizing same-sex marriage.

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According to the government, domestic partnerships may be formed under the law that will offer equal rights as marriage.

Channel News Asia reports that lawyer Mark Pettingill is representing Roderick Ferguson, a Bermudian who lives in the United States.

“My client,” said Pettingill, “has the right to the constitutional protection of the law and that has been infringed as a result of the DPA.”

Ferguson aims to render the DPA void for contradicting Bermuda’s constitution, which guarantees freedom from discrimination.

Former Attorney General Pettingill won Bermuda’s marriage equality case in May 2017 in the Supreme Court, only to see it reversed nine months later.

Activist group and a number of British lawmakers have criticized the bill, arguing that the United Kingdom should have blocked the legislation.

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Bermuda Lawyer Launches Challenge to New Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

Hate Groups in U.S. Grow for Third Straight Year: SPLC

Hate Groups in U.S. Grow for Third Straight Year: SPLC
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The number of hate groups operating in the United States grew by four percent in 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based monitoring group. The SPLC identified 954 hate groups in the US last year, an increase from the 917 it had documented in 2016, the group said in a report released…

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