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A lesbian couple from Los Angeles say in a lawsuit that a Honolulu police officer harassed and arrested them because of their displays of affection at a grocery store, forcing the women to live in Hawaii for months, mostly homeless, while their legal case was sorted out. On March 3, the second day of their…
ISIS supporters are urging their fellow extremists to “follow trending hashtags” and “monitor the media for lies” in an extensive, new propaganda manual that provides a rare inside look into the terrorist organization’s social media strategy, Vocativ has learned. While ISIS has been skilled at using social media and forums to distribute their propaganda, the…
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A US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed close to China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it warned and followed the American vessel. The patrol by the USS Lassen was the most significant US challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China asserts…
On Monday, a case against the Church of Scientology went to trial in Belgium, where the Agence France-Presse reports the international celebrity church faces a possible ban for fraud and extortion. According to the AFP, Belgian authorities opened an investigation into the church’s financing in 1997 after a number of former members came forward to…
While Donald Trump is bragging about closing mosques to fight Islamic terrorism, there has been an under-reported surge of right-wing terrorism recently in the U.S. Since July, when anti-choice crusaders released hoax videos that falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood sells fetal body parts, there has been a rash of arsons at clinics, at least one…
The camerawoman who drew international ire after viral videos of her kicking and tripping migrants crossing into Hungary from Serbia last month, says she plans to sue Facebook and one of the refugees she kicked. Petra Laszlo, formerly of Hungarian Internet-based channel N1TV, told a Russian newspaper of her plans to sue Facebook for allegedly…
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Photo Prof. Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. Credit Larry Levanti/Princeton University, European Pressphoto Agency Prof. Angus Deaton, a British economist, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for improving the accuracy of basic economic gauges, including measures of income, poverty and consumption. Professor Deaton,…
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said at least nine of its staff have been killed in an overnight bombing of a hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack early on Saturday also wounded 37 people, including 19 MSF staff, the medical charity told Al Jazeera. Officials of MSF later told Reuters…