Good Morning Australia!! - The already dubious impeachment effort against Brazil's president has been thrown into chaos - The "rape and murder" guy won the Philippine election, good luck to that country - The US government takes on conservatives and their anti-trans "Bathroom Bill" - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The US Justice Department and North Carolina are suing each other over the conservative southern state's hate-filled and unnecessary anti-LGBT law, known disparagingly as the "Bathroom Bill".  NC officials claim the Obama administration overstepped its authority by declaring it unconstitutional.  But US Attorney General Loretta Lynch made an unusually strong statement against the bill, which mandates that people use public bathrooms matching the genders on their birth certificate and rolls back local LGBT protection ordinances.  Ms. Lynch said the bill is "state-sponsored discrimination" that exists only to "inflict further indignity on a population who has already suffered far more than their fair share."

The unofficial vote count indicates that former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte has handily won the Philippines presidential election.  This is the guy who bragged about running death squads to kill supposed "criminals" and who said he wished he had been first in line to rape an Australian missionary who was killed in a prison riot.  So, the next few years are going to be pretty messed up around there.

The acting speaker of Brazil's lower house has annulled the vote taken on 17 April that sent the impeachment case against President Dilma Rousseff to the senate.  Waldir Maranhao is no friend of Ms. Rousseff, but says there were irregularities and the vote must be taken again.  But the speaker of the senate says his chamber's vote to suspend Rousseff from office will take place as scheduled on Wednesday, although there's no way that can be legitimate now that the only legal means it was allowed to take the vote has been mooted.  Dilma Rousseff is not charged with any crime, but is accused of manipulating accounting practices to make it look like the government had more money; she defends her actions as common practice.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Feymann has rather surprisingly stepped down after losing the confidence of members of his center-left Social Democrat Party.  Deputy Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner of the center-right People's Party will step in as interim chancellor.  Both traditional parties have been losing ground to the far-right "Freedom Party", which made big gains in the first round of voting in the presidential election a fortnight ago.

A US Coalition airstrike has killed a senior leader of Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar province.  Abu Waheeb was a member of al Qaeda before switching to Islamic State where the former computer engineer was a rising star. 

A Mexican judge has ruled that drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman can be extradited to the US to face drug charges there.  But the Foreign Ministry must first approve the transfer (as if it wouldn't).  The ministry must now consider removing El Chapo from one of Mexico's porous prisons (from which he's already twice escaped) and sending him to the US (to live the rest of his days being 36 inch think concrete and steel walls in a Supermax).

Cooler weather in Canada is giving firefighters hope that they'll be able to control the giant forest fire in Alberta sooner, rather than later.  At least one-fifth of the homes in Fort McMurray has burned to the ground, and the 88,000 residents remain evacuated.

Hundreds of people are afflicted with norovirus aboard a vomit-and-diarrhea encrusted cruise ship from the UK traveling the North American East Coast and Caribbean.  The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said 252 of 919 passengers on board the Balmoral cruise ship had had the stomach virus - and the ship's owner Fred Olsen Cruise Lines insists the ship is being subjected to "extensive 'sanitisation' measures and cleaning".   Uhm, yeah.  It's the latest in a long line of cruise ship mass-illnesses and raises the question, "why would you?"

You didn't believe Johnny Depp, did you?  I didn't.

A Japanese Court has ruled that artist Megumi Igarashi is not guilty of obscenity for displaying figurines in the shape of on her Lady Parts.  But it did fine her for sending 3D printer data of her HooHaa to a kayak builder so he could build a boat shaped like her genitalia.  "I've been working to change the concept of obscenity, which is usually seen from the perspective of men," said Ms. Igarashi, who markets her art under the name of Roku De Nashiko - old Japanese slang for "Bad Birl".  "I'm mortified the (female) judge didn't understand that," she added.

By the way, the Kawasaki Penis Festival took place last month, during which people carry phallic-shaped religious shrines, pose on giant willies carved into logs, and eat penis-shaped candy and sweets.  So, double standards.