TODAY'S TALKING POINTS 07-28-15

TODAY'S TALKI NG  POINTS The Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay scout leaders. Two years after the organization nixed its ban on gay youth, the Boy Scouts National Executive Board ratified a proposal Monday to let openly gay scout leaders serve for the first time in the group’s 105-year history. But religious-backed groups will still be able to lean on religious beliefs when choosing leadership — that includes matters of sexual orientation. Anti-abortion activists hacked Planned Parenthood. One week after an undercover video allegedly showed a Planned Parenthood official casually discussing providing fetal organs for research, hackers known as 3301 dove into the organization’s databases and stole employees’ names and email addresses. Whether the group decides to release the information or not, the incident highlights a much larger war that’s brewing. Throughout the controversy, Planned Parenthood officials have maintained that they’ve broken no laws. Hillary Clinton released her first major climate change proposal. Clinton committed to the installation of half a billion solar panels across the country by the end of her first term, and powering every home in America with clean, renewable energy within a decade of the start of her presidency. Here’s where some of the other 2016 candidates vying for your vote stand on the issue. President Barack Obama rallied for peace in South Sudan. In an effort to thwart the conflict that’s supporting the young nation’s humanitarian crisis, Obama assembled African leaders Monday to discuss a path to peace. A court has sentenced former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's son to death. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was sentenced in Libya along with eight other officials over war crimes committed during the 2011 revolution.