CNN News:一名联邦法官阻止奥巴马的厕所法案 张家界玻璃桥正式开放

First up, a U.S. federal judge's ruling on the controversial policy of the Obama administration. It concerns gender and schools.
The background: in May, the White House recommended that U.S. public schools allow transgender students to use the bathrooms or locker rooms with their gender identity. People who are transgender identify as a gender that's different than their biological sex at birth.
The response: supporters say without the new rules, transgender students would be separated and discriminated against in schools. But 23 states sued the federal government, saying the Obama administration was trying to illegally rewrite existing law, enforce radical changes on U.S. schools.
If they don't follow the rules, they can lose education funding from the federal government.
The ruling: yesterday, a federal judge in Texas blocked the Obama administration's policy. He said the government didn't follow the right procedures in issuing the rules and that they go against U.S. laws that are already in place.
The Obama administration can still appeal the ruling. For now, it means that the government cannot penalize the schools that don't follow the transgender policy.

AZUZ: It's not exactly a bridge over troubled water, but given that it's the highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge in the world, it will still cause some shaky knees.
It's almost 20 feet wide, but the real numbers are in its length, more than 1,400 feet and its height, the valley floor is almost 1,000 feet down. It just opened in China's Hunan Province, stretching over the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon. It can support as many as 800 people at a time. At one point, a car drove across it.
But some might hesitate because last October, cracks appeared a different glass walkway in China, as people made their way across. Officials say that was just superficial damage, though.
Glass-bottomed tourist attractions have been popping up all over the world.
阿祖兹：这座桥并不是建在波涛汹涌的海上，但是考虑到它是世界上最高最长的玻璃桥，可能还是会让一些人膝盖发抖。
这座玻璃桥约20英尺宽，重要的是它的长度和高度，这座桥的长度超过1400英尺，桥面距谷底高度约1000英尺。这座玻璃桥位于湖南省张家界大峡谷，刚刚正式开放。桥面最大游客容量800人。一辆汽车曾从桥上通过。
不过有些人可能会有顾虑，因为去年10月中国另一座玻璃桥曾在游客通行时出现裂痕。不过官员表示那只是表面损伤。
玻璃景观在全世界如雨后春笋般涌现。