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Crash involving military trucks kills Navy sailor, injures 5 others in North San Diego County
SAN DIEGO — A 26-year-old Navy sailor was killed and five others were hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving a convoy of military trucks on south Interstate 5 near San Onofre State Beach on Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash happened south of Basilone Road about 6:50 a.m. local time when the convoy of five trucks began slowing down for unknown reasons, CHP Officer Juan Escobar said. “One of the truck trailers was pushed forward into the cab, causing fatal injuries to the driver,” who died at the scene, Escobar said in a statement. The name of the sailor wa...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Marines knew infantryman shared extremist content online months before investigation, records show
SAN DIEGO — When Marine Corps leaders first found out a Camp Pendleton-based infantryman was claiming to be chairman of a nationalist organization and was sharing extremist material on social media, they counseled him to leave the group and remove some his posts but kept him among their ranks and sent him on deployment, recently released documents show. Six months later — one day after the San Diego Union-Tribune asked about the Marine, then-Lance Cpl. Thomas Cade Martin — the Corps launched a formal investigation that determined his actions violated military rules against extremism, reduced h...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Demands for Cuomo’s resignation grow following additional sexual harassment allegations
ALBANY, N.Y. — Calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation intensified Tuesday after a third woman came forward with sexual harassment accusations against the governor. Former allies and political foes alike are speaking out against the governor, including the progressive Working Families Party, which called for an end to Cuomo’s “reign of fear, harassment, and intimidation.” “We are calling on Governor Cuomo to resign immediately because he is unfit to serve the people of New York,” said WFP State Director Sochie Nnaemeka. Progressives on the Democratic governor’s left flank are increasingly jo...
New York Daily News
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September date set for 73rd Emmys show
The Television Academy and CBS have picked a date to roll out some version of a red carpet for the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show will take place Sunday, Sept. 19, the partners said Tuesday. Last year’s Emmys aired on ABC as the first of the major awards shows to pull off a live telecast amid the coronavirus pandemic with nominees beamed in from remote locations. This year’s CBS show is also set to stream live and on-demand on the new Paramount+ streaming service set to go live Thursday. The Emmy Awards last aired on CBS in 2017 with host Stephen Colbert. There was no im...
New York Daily News
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‘Degrassi’ star Jahmil French dead at 29
Actor Jahmil French, best known for playing Dave Turner on teen drama series “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” has died, his spokesperson confirmed to the Daily News Tuesday. He was 29. “I can confirm my good friend, co-worker, and all around inspiration, Jahmil French, passed away yesterday,” producer Joshua Safran, who worked with French on Netflix’s “Soundtrack,” tweeted. I will have more to say about him later. Right now we’re all just processing this devastating news.” The actor’s cause of death has not been publicly released. French appeared in nearly 150 episodes of “Degrassi: The Next G...
New York Daily News
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After 85 years of building Miami's Black middle class, longshoremen face biggest crisis yet
MIAMI — Any day of the week in the pre-pandemic, pre-dawn hours, the corner of Northwest 8th Street and Northwest Second Avenue was bustling with sleepy crowds, illuminated only by street lights and the glow inside the corner store. By 7 a.m., hundreds of men and women would make their way inside the International Longshoremen's Association Local 1416 building in Overtown as the sun rose. Most were union members, nearly guaranteed a full-day's work of loading and unloading goods and luggage from cargo and cruise ships at PortMiami. Others were day laborers, hoping to catch a shift and one day ...
Miami Herald
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Fired after organizing, Starbucks baristas turned down a payout and took their bosses to court
Philadelphia baristas TJ Bussiere and Echo Nowakowska believe Starbucks illegally fired them for trying to organize a union. And after months of investigation, lawyers for the federal government thought the workers had a case. Cases such as theirs, which allege an employer has violated a worker’s legal right to organize, are rarely decided in court. Most workers avoid the risk of a long legal battle and settle. But last summer, when Starbucks offered Bussiere and Nowakowska a settlement, they didn’t think it was fair. The final offer was $50,000 each, the baristas said, more than three times t...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Review: Amy Poehler’s ‘Moxie’ lacks the very courage it champions
“If you keep your head down, he’ll move on and bother somebody else,” 16-year-old Vivian advises the new girl at school who has been bullied by a particularly odious classmate. “Thanks for the advice,” comes the response, “but I’m going to keep my head up. High.” That brief exchange is enough to ignite Vivian’s feminist awakening in “Moxie,” a sincere if ultimately empty coming-of-ager directed by Amy Poehler for Netflix, based on the novel of the same name by Jennifer Mathieu. A smart, quiet kid who mostly fades into the background and was voted “most obedient” by her peers, Vivian’s first ac...
Chicago Tribune
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Faced with rising crime and social upheaval, more Black Chicagoans are seeking out firearms for their own protection
CHICAGO — Moments after firing a gun for the first time, Alicea Burton proudly displayed the result of her marksmanship: a human silhouette target perforated with more than two dozen 9 mm holes. “It was easier than I thought,” the 30-year-old from Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood said after emerging from an Oak Forest gun range. “The sound of the bullets did throw me off, but after a while it just became normal so it didn’t scare me.” Burton, who was pursuing a concealed carry license, is among a surge of African Americans who are taking a new interest in firearms. A gun industry survey take...
Chicago Tribune
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Mac Engel: Texas high schools are losing thousands of coaches. How some are tackling the crisis.
Coaches are leaving Texas high schools at a rate of about 6,000 per year. With the state’s population of nearly 30 million and counting, that number may not look that bad, but ... “We are at a crisis point,” said Joe Martin, the executive director of the Texas High School Coaches Association. “That 6,000 (obtained from the Texas Education Agency) was from 2017. We know now those numbers are even bigger today. “The pandemic is going to push this even bigger because of the struggles all coaches and teachers are facing. We think the attrition rate is closer to 20 percent.” This is not just a Texa...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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