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Assistant chief Joe Robinson told the York Daily Record they found a tree atop a vehicle but no one inside. Park rangers told them the tree had trapped a man in the portable toilet. Robinson said crews treated it like a car entrapment, cutting away the tree with a chainsaw and then cutting the portable toilet open with another saw.

Under a Massachusetts civil rights agency’s interpretation of new anti-discrimination law, churches can be forced to let biological males who identify as transgender women use the women’s bathroom. Recently passed legislation amending the state’s anti-discrimination law to include protections for “gender identity” will take effect Oct. 1. The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, which enforces the state’s anti-discrimination laws, recently published a “Gender identity guidance” that lays out what will be legally required of employers and “agents of places of public accommodation.” Faithful attend a Thanksgiving Mass for newly elected Pope Francis at Saint Ignatius church in Newton, Massachusetts March 19,...

NARA JOURNALJapanese Masters Get Closer to the Toilet NirvanaBy JAMES BROOKE ARA, Japan — Japan's toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric charge through the user's buttocks, yielding a digital measurement of body-fat ratio.Unimpressed, engineers from a rival company, Inax, counterattacked in April with a toilet that glows in the dark and whirs up its lid after an infrared sensor detects a human being. When in use, the toilet plays any of six soundtracks, including chirping birds, rushing water, tinkling wind chimes, or the strumming...