July 2019

Pink Defends Photo Of Kids Running In Holocaust Memorial As ‘Celebration Of Life’

Pink is hitting back at critics who condemned an Instagram photo she posted Sunday of her children running through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. “These two children are in actuality Jewish, as am I and the entirety of my mothers family,” the singer wrote in the caption. “The very person

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62 Border Agents Belonged to Offensive Facebook Group, Investigation Finds

WASHINGTON — At least 62 current federal border agents have joined private Facebook groups and other social media pages that included obscene images of Hispanic lawmakers and threats to members of Congress, internal investigators said on Monday. In all, 70 current and former Customs and Border Protection employees were identified as members of the groups,

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Refugee group: ‘Alarming’ that only 27% of funds received

A leading advocacy group for refugees said Monday that with half of 2019 gone, humanitarian organizations have received only 27% of the money needed to provide relief to people affected by crises worldwide this year. Norwegian Refugee Council secretary-general Jan Egeland said “the current lack of funding is alarming.” Egeland said a total of $26

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Judge recommends $14M award to neo-Nazi trolling victim

The publisher of a neo-Nazi website should have to pay the victim of an internet trolling campaign over $14 million and remove all posts that encouraged his readers to contact the Montana real estate agent, a magistrate judge recommended on Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch called The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin’s behavior reprehensible

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MVP Antentokounmpo gives baseball a shot at Yankee Stadium

In hoops, Giannis Antentokounmpo is court royalty. But in baseball, he’s a complete rookie. In fact, the 24-year-old from Greece said he’d never even touched a baseball before he did so Monday night at Yankee Stadium. The reigning NBA MVP was shocked. “It was really heavy,” Antentokounmpo told The Associated Press. “I thought it would

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