Rosario Dawson is no stranger to the world of activism. After openly protesting on a range of issues from politics to social issues, the Latina actress is praising fellow actress Shailene Woodley for her recent efforts. According to FOX News Latino, Woodley made headlines on Monday for being arrested during a pipeline protest in North […]
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USAUS Justice Department lawyers are pursuing criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his violation of a federal judge’s order in a racial profiling case. Arpaio is known nationally for pioneering local strategies for taking on illegal immigration. The criminal charge relates directly to his continued efforts to arrest suspected
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USADonald Trump told a rally of supporters in Florida Wednesday that electing Hillary Clinton as president next month would see the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) “take over this country,” as he continued to brush off a string of recent controversies. The firebrand Republican presidential candidate told voters in Ocala, Florida, that the extremist group
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USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump has issued an apology for his country’s decision to bomb Serbia during Bill Clinton’s tenure at the White House. U.S. and NATO allies launched aerial campaigns against the faltering Yugoslav regime, targeting ethnic Serb troops, in 1995 and 1999. The first attack was carried out in support of groups in
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USATwenty-one of the 218 missing Nigerian schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by the extremist group Boko Haram have been released, according to Nigeria’s government. According to presidential spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu, the girls were were released Thursday in northern Borno state, rescued by a military helicopter and transported to the state capital, Maiduguri. Shehu said the
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USAWASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy destroyer launched a salvo of Tomahawk cruise missiles early Thursday at three coastal radar sites along the western coast of Yemen, in what officials said was retaliation for the missiles launched this week toward a U.S. military ship in the Red Sea. The Pentagon said the predawn offensive, launched from
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International, USASydney (dpa) – US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a “revolting slug unfit for public office,” the upper house of Australia’s New South Wales parliament unanimously agreed on Thursday. Jeremy Buckingham, a senator with the minority Greens Party, tabled a motion to the state upper house condemning “mysogynistic, hateful comments” Trump made about women
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International, USABob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday morning. Dylan was awarded the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the American song tradition.” The American musician had long been rumored to be considered for the prize, but literary watchers considered his name among those in the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAAt a town-hall meeting at a historically black college, President Obama said Tuesday he made “all kinds of bad decisions” as a teen and that more black boys in America need people to tell them “you are worth something.” Speaking at North Carolina A&T State University, Mr. Obama referred indirectly to past drug use but
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USALOS ANGELES — The man accused of shooting and killing two Palm Springs police officers had set a trap and ambushed his victims as they stood outside his door Saturday, according to the Riverside County district attorney, who announced the filing of capital murder charges Wednesday. John Felix, 26, faces two counts of murder with
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USALOS ANGELES — The Rev. Al Sharpton on Wednesday called on the Justice Department to investigate the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last month by an El Cajon police officer, a shooting he called “egregious at best.” Flanked by members of Alfred Olango’s family at a news conference in South Los Angeles, Sharpton
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San Diego County, USAActress Shailene Woodley has been arrested while participating in a protest against a big oil pipeline project in North Dakota on Monday. Woodley was part of a group of about 100 to 200 people opposing the controversial expansive project when law enforcers apprehended her at a construction site in Sioux County. The actress, who described
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALOS ANGELES — With just minutes remaining before the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur at sunset, a federal judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that had banned the slaughter of chickens as part of an ancient atonement rite but allowed the lawsuit that triggered the order to go forward. United Poultry
A woman who alleges that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump raped her at a party in 1994 – when she was just 13 years old – will get her day in a Manhattan courtroom, but not until well after the voters have gone to the polls. The case is a civil lawsuit, not a criminal
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