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Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, asked students to identify themselves by race, and then segregated them into different orientation sessions according to their identity. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) investigated the situation after a professor brought it to their attention. The foundation called on the school to commit to never offering such sessions again, as they conflict with the law. “Racial segregation is not only morally wrong, it’s illegal on our nation’s college campuses,” said FIRE Executive Director Robert Shibley. “Lewis & Clark must end…

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A family of seven, which included four children, were pepper-sprayed by violent rioters on Sunday while participating in a “Jews For Trump” rally in New York City. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department said 11 people were taken into custody after the rally descended into chaos and violence Sunday afternoon. Six people were charged with disorderly conduct, obstruction of government administration, and harassment. A seventh person was charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, the NYPD said Monday. A convoy of hundreds of cars draped with…

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A court document containing detailed information about Ghislaine Maxwell and her relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed on Thursday morning in New York just moments before a court-imposed deadline. This document, an April 2016 deposition, is among about a dozen long-awaited Maxwell files that have been unsealed, with the first filing involving Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer alleging the British socialite avoided a question “about allegedly ‘adult’ sexual activity related to Jeffrey Epstein.” She also tried to distance herself from and play down links between Epstein…

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The San Francisco Unified School District announced the names of 44 schools that could be changed due to alleged links to “racism” and “colonization.” The list even includes schools named after presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) namesake is also on the list. The school district’s School Names Advisory Committee is considering the name changes. A local news reports said a decision would be announced by December 18. Forbes Magazine reported on the plan: The criteria for renaming included “anyone directly involved in the colonization of…

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Jeffrey Epstein withdrew $800K in cash before his arrest, transferred millions to his victims and pilots, and bought a $3 million house for his lawyer’s wife. Epstein made a number of large transfers and withdrawals in the years before his death, according to new court filings. An email sent to the judge overseeing Epstein’s probate case by Virgin Islands’ Chief Deputy Attorney General, Carol Thomas-Jacobs, details a number of these suspicious transactions. They also landed Deutsche Bank in hot water. Thomas-Jacobs uses the complaint filed against Deutsche Bank by New…

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The shooting, which occurred at an open-air concert near the Mandalay Bay resort in October 2017, killed 58 people and injured more than 850 others. On Wednesday, A Nevada judge approved an $800 million settlement between MGM Resorts International and its insurers and the families of the victims of the deadly mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Under the settlement’s terms, MGM Resorts will make payouts to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the shooting. The judge’s decision finalizes an agreement that was announced earlier…

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Epic Games, the maker of the popular video game “Fortnite,” became locked in a dramatic standoff with Apple and Google on Thursday that immediately renewed questions about the two tech giants’ power over the digital marketplace. The standoff pits Epic Games, a $17 billion gaming company, against the trillion-dollar tech giants over how money flows between the companies — an issue that has also been raised by many other app-makers who argued that Apple and Google use their market power to take a cut of money that they have no right to.…

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A Colorado mother whose 7-year-old son was found encased in concrete inside an animal crate has been given the maximum sentence for her role in his death, KUSA-TV reported Wednesday. Elisha Pankey, 45, was sentenced to 32 years behind bars and 5 years mandatory parole by District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones after she pleaded guilty to the felony charge of child abuse resulting in death. The outlet noted that the boy’s father, Leland Pankey, was sentenced to 72 years in prison earlier this year. The couple’s son, Caden, was found…

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Like most actors, Bryce Dallas Howard is used to showing up on film sets knowing what lines she’s supposed to say, when she’s supposed to say them and, often, not much more. Things are very different on “Jurassic World: Dominion,” one of the first major Hollywood studio films to restart production since the coronavirus pandemic led to a global shutdown in March. Before agreeing to return to Pinewood Studios outside London, Ms. Howard and other members of the cast grilled producers and executives from the studio behind the movie, Universal,…

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