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on July 4, 2014 in World News

Cop Repeatedly Beats Woman in the Head

Cop Repeatedly Beats Woman in the Head “She could have died out there” A new police brutality video shows a California Highway Patrol officer repeatedly beating a woman around the head as she lay flat on her back. The video clip shows a woman walking away from the police officer before he grabs her, throws her to the ground and pummels her around the head and face eleven times. The incident happened on the Eastbound Interstate 10 Freeway near La Brea Avenue. California Highway Patrol told NBC 4 that it, “Would be premature to comment on the video without reviewing… View Article

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on July 4, 2014 in World News

Protesters vow to block the transport of undocumented immigrants

Protesters vow to block the transport of undocumented immigrants Protesters in Murrieta, California are vowing to turn out in even greater numbers if more buses carrying illegal immigrants arrive in the city of 100,000. Halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, the community hosts a processing facility operated by the US Border Patrol. On Tuesday, residents made headlines nationwide when they placed themselves in the paths of three buses carrying undocumented immigrants who had crossed the border in Texas. Outraged at the federal government for failing to secure the border with Mexico and allowing undocumented migrants to pass into the… View Article

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on July 4, 2014 in World News

Females get extra credit for not shaving their armpits

Females get extra credit for not shaving their armpits Female Arizona State University students can receive extra credit for defying social norms and refusing to shave for 10 weeks during the semester. Women and Gender Studies Professor Breanne Fahs, encourages her female students to cease shaving their underarms and legs during the semester and document their experiences in a journal. Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a “life changing experience.” “Many of my friends didn’t want to work out next to me or hear about the assignment, and my mother was distraught at the idea that I would be getting… View Article

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on July 4, 2014 in World News

Sheila Jackson Lee Brings Lollipops to Illegals

Sheila Jackson Lee Brings Lollipops to Illegals, Says Border Crisis Not National Security Threat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) believes the border crisis is not a national security threat, despite gangsters having already been apprehended along the United States-Mexico border. In fact, Jackson Lee waved a bag of lollipops during a Thursday House Homeland Security Field Hearing in McAllen, Texas, and said she took bags of such lollipops to the illegal immigrant children in detention centers during recent visits. “This is not a national security crisis,” Jackson Lee emphasized, noting that she was not armed and did not fear for… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Google Alerts British News Outlets About Deleting Their Links

Google Alerts British News Outlets About Deleting Their Links A week after Google started to remove links to online content in Europe, some examples of the type of information that is to be taken down have started to emerge. A number of British media outlets, including the BBC and The Guardian, say that they have received notification from Google explaining which of their online articles will no longer show up in European online searches. (The links, however, are still available on Google.com) The links include an article about Stan O’Neal, the former chief of the investment bank Merrill Lynch, and… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford fact check: Verifying Toronto mayor’s remarks

Rob Ford fact check: Verifying Toronto mayor’s remarks Mayor blames drinking, drug abuse for racist, homophobic slurs In his first post-rehab interview, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admits to “lying, conniving and hiding to cover up” his substance-abuse problems. The mayor’s deceptions have led his political opponents and members of the public to question his most recent public statements, not least a remark to CBC News reporter Dwight Drummond that his “public record is better than any mayor’s in the city of Toronto.” Here’s a closer look at other comments the mayor made in his conversation with Drummond, and inconsistencies in… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Google Moving to “Suppress Legitimate Journalism”

BBC Reporter: Google Moving to “Suppress Legitimate Journalism” “Right to be forgotten” ruling threatens to “curb freedom of expression” BBC economics editor Robert Peston warns that Google’s implementation of the controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling is working to “suppress legitimate journalism” after one of his articles about Merrill Lynch boss Stan O’Neal was scrubbed from the search engine. A recent ruling in the European Court of Justice mandated that Google must delete “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” data when it receives a request to do so, which could open the floodgates for powerful individuals, corporations and institutions to… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Tuberculosis outbreak at Sacramento high school

Tuberculosis outbreak at Sacramento high school A California high school is at the center of a tuberculosis outbreak linked to an infectious student who tested positive for active TB in February, county health officials said Wednesday. Four more students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento have contracted active TB. Three related tuberculosis cases are considered an outbreak, Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Laura McCasland said. Four relatives and friends of the student who initially tested positive have also contracted active TB — bringing the total to nine known cases. Symptoms of active TB can include… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Chris Christie Vetoes ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban

  Chris Christie Vetoes ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban On July 2, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) vetoed A2006, a gun control bill which would have limited magazines in NJ to 10 rounds. Christie said he vetoed the bill because “it would do nothing to reduce gun violence. According to NJ.com, Christie said: This [bill] is the very embodiment of reform in name only. It simply defies common sense to believe that imposing a new and entirely arbitrary number of bullets that can be loaded into a firearm will somehow eradicate, or even reduce, future instances of mass violence. Gun… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford on drug use

Rob Ford on drug use: ‘You name it, I pretty well covered it’ Toronto mayor says drug use began long before he became mayor Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted today to CBC that he abused alcohol in his city hall office, but refused to say whether he would resign if he returns to drinking and using drugs. Ford made the comments Wednesday in a one-on-one interview with CBC’s Dwight Drummond, three days after returning to work following two months in a rehabilitation facility. In his interview with CBC, Ford also blamed his bad behaviour, such as making sexist and homophobic… View Article

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