According to usanews.com, Gov. Jerry Brown of California sparked controversy once more when he signed a bill  on today stating that all single-stall bathrooms in California must be gender neutral. The bill also requires that the signs outside of these restrooms must have gender neutral signs outside by March 1, 2017. The bill was sent to Brown in August just after president Obama required that students at public schools use bathrooms that "correlate with their gender identity". Supporters of the bill said that 19 states considered restricting access to bathrooms and other facilities based on the biological sex of a person. Randy Thomasson, the president of a conservative organization called savecalifornia.com, argued the bill saying, "What woman wants a man poking his head in the restroom door that somehow didn't shut or lock? How many women want to use a urine-stained toilet seat?" Opponents of the bill have also stated that they failed to get the required number of signatures to advance and proposed ballot that would have asked people to use the restrooms that correspond to their biological gender.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-09-29/california-governor-approves-gender-neutral-restrooms

According to dailycal.org, Democrats at Cal Berkeley hosted 17 Latin American political delegates on monday afternoon to share strategies for engaging voters as part of a U.S State Deepartment-sponsored program. The International Visitor Leadership Program provides non-American political figures with information about American society and politics. The delegation met in California to specifically address accountability and transparency in the government. The Latin American delegation consisted of representatives, politicians, journalists, activists, and attorneys from The Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Ecuador. The international delegates asked the students about their strategies to encourage voter engagement. The students then asked the delegates about the cost of public education and the current presidential election. Towards the end of the debate, the topic shifted to education once more where Ricardo Corona Real, general attorney for a Mexican think tank, recommended that students keep accountability as their "core issue" with political elections.
http://www.dailycal.org/2016/09/26/cal-berkeley-democrats-host-latin-american-political-delegates/

According to usatoday, President Obama was given a Native American hat and blanket at his eighth and final White House Tribal Nations Conference. One tribal leaders calls Obama the first "American Indian president." Before wrapping president Obama in the blanket, National Congress of American Indians President Brian Cladoosby says, "To blanket it to remember those we honor, those we lost,  and those who are going to build our futures rhythm of the land."  Obama smiled as he called the ceremony "an amazing honor." The annual Tribal Nations Conference became a hallmark of Obama's Native American policy, bringing tribal leaders with administration officials beyond the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian leaders lined up to celebrate Obama's presidency with Marilynn Malerba, chief of the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut saying, "This president has walked down the path with us. He has left his footprints for many administrations to follow."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/theoval/2016/09/26/blanket-ceremony-american-indians-give-obama-warm-embrace/91132146/

According to abcnews.com, the mother of Keith Lamont Scott, found out her 43 year old son had been shot by police tuesday while watching the news on her tv. Keith Scott was waiting outside for his 9 year old son to be dropped off from school outside of an apartment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina. Police said Scott had a handgun, which they later recovered from the scene, and was ignoring their verbal commands to not exit his car and to drop his gun. The police then shot him where he was later pronounced dead. Scott's mother, Vernita Walker explained that her son was suffering from brain damage from a motorcycle accident a few years ago and that he was carrying a book, not a gun. The officer responsible for the shooting, Brentley Vinson has been with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department since 2014, is now on leave pending investigation of the shooting. The shooting has been the center of protests and riots in Charlotte as angry demonstrators demand justice against police brutality.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-keith-lamont-scott-opens-shooting-son-charlotte/story?id=42284822

According to telegraph.com, former US Congressman Anthony Weiner, has been exposed for exchanging sexting messages between a 15 year old girl. Weiner made a statement saying he was sorry for the incident, but that he was the "subject of a hoax." Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo also made a statement about it saying, "I've read the reports and let me say this- if the reports are true, it's possibly criminal and it is sick." Weiner's wife, a close aid to Hillary Clinton, announced her separation from her husband on accounts of a different sexting scandal. The former Congressman had his first sexting scandal exposed in 2011 for sending explicit photographs of himself to a woman on twitter. He soon after resigned from his position in Congress.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/21/disgraced-anthony-weiner-sorry-for-texts-to-15-year-old-girl/

According to foxnews.com, controversy is spreading over a history teacher that stomped on the American flag during a lesson in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The incident occurred Monday at Massey Hill Classical High School, situated in one of the most patriotic towns in the nation. One parent of students in the teachers class respond by saying, "What that teacher did was a gut punch to all military kids at that school," A spokesperson for Cumberland County Superintendent Frank Till Jr. told fox news that they are investigating the incident and will not be commenting further until the investigation is complete.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/20/history-teachers-lesson-includes-stomping-american-flag-in-classroom.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork

According to nbcnews.com, the longtime head of Baltimore's library system will become the new lead of the Library of Congress. Carla Hayden will become the first woman and the first African-American Librarian of Congress in American history. Obama nominated Hayden to be the 14th Librarian of Congress in it's 214 year history. She won the position with a 74-18 vote on Wednesday. Obama also recently signed a law giving Librarians of Congress a 10 year tenure with an option of reappointment. Hayden, who is 63, has let the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore since 1993, and will be just the third professional librarian to serve this position.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/baltimore-library-chief-tapped-lead-library-congress-n609236

According to oann.com, President Obama "paints Trump as no friend of the working class." Obama has recently stepped up to fight against Trump's campaign with Hillary Clinton in the background fighting pneumonia. Obama begins by saying, "This is a guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for the working people. He spent most of his life trying to stay far away from the working people. He wasn't going to let you on his golf course." This campaign appearance was Obama's first as a solo act on behalf of Clinton to ensure that the Democrats retain office. However, Clinton's spokesperson, Nick Merrill, stated that Hillary will be back on the campaign trail by Thursday.
http://www.oann.com/protester-hit-at-rally-as-trump-decries-deplorables-comment/

According to nationalinterst.org, Hillary Clinton broke an unwritten law at an LGBT fundraiser in New York Friday night. In is known supposedly instinctively among politicians that you can criticize and attack your political opponent, but not their constituency. Clinton did just this at the fundraiser by saying what she calculates as half of Trumps followers could be put in a "basket of deplorables." Going on to then say, "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic-you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up." This is in and of itself very controversial now-a-days. Clinton then goes on to speak about the "other basket, who feel that the government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really matter where it comes from.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/hillary-clinton-broke-unwritten-rule-american-politics-it-17667

Accroding to cbsnews.com, Republican vice-presidential candidate, Mike Pence, speaks out on Thursday defending Donald Trump's remark about Vladimir Putin being a stronger leader than President Obama. Trump initially made the remark at a security reform sponsored by NBC on Wednesday saying that Putin has "been a leader, farm more than our president has been a leader." Although, afterwards, he did state that Russia has a "very different system" and that he doesn't "like the system. Hillary Clinton took little time to respond to this remark saying, "What would Ronald Reagan say about a Republican nominee who attacks America's generals and heaps praise on Russia's president?"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-inarguable-that-putin-is-a-stronger-leader-than-president-obama/

According to USAtoday.com, New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo signed a piece of legislation into law today requiring New York's nearly 700 districts to test their waters for lead contamination by October 31. The law also requires schools to report the findings to the public as well as the state and local governments. Many schools across the state have tested positive for lead poisoning already. The state Health Department states that if the water at any particular tap contains lead levels higher than 15 parts per billion, the school must stop using that faucet and find a new source of water until the contamination can be fixed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/06/ny-governor-signs-law-mandating-lead-testing-schools/89942448/

According to telegraph.com, protesters outside of a lack community church in Detroit, Michigan charged at police officers as Donald Trump spoke inside about "building on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln." He visited the Great Faith Ministries International church, being greeted with a prayer shawl as he joined the others clapping and swaying. Here, he promised a "civil rights agenda of our time", but outside, 150 protesters were struggling against cops yelling "Dump Trump". Trump's support from black American's is very low, while 80% of Detroit is black, but he was invited to the service by a the church pastor, Wayne Jackson, who is a supporter.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/03/donald-trump-claims-ill-build-on-abraham-lincolns-legacy-as-he-v/