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Figures released by Germany’s Interior Ministry just two days before the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are sobering. They reveal a “sharp increase” in right-wing violence, with 175 racially motivated attacks in 2014, as compared to 58 the year before. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said asylum seekers and…
12/21/2014 Font: – + The End of Tolerance? Anti-Muslim Movement Rattles Germany By SPIEGEL Staff REUTERS Members of the loosely organized “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West,” gather at a major protest in Dresden in eastern Germany on Dec. 8. Disenchanted German citizens and right-wing extremists are joining forces to form a protest…
Languages: English • 日本語 • (Add your language) On May 6, 2015, WordPress 4.2.2 was released to the public. This is both a security update for all previous WordPress versions, and a maintenance release for versions 4.2 and newer. Installation/Update Information To download WordPress 4.2.2, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your…
A screen grab from the group’s website. NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR A screen grab from the group’s website. NPR It was a plot to rival Foucault’s Pendulum: Police in Los Angeles arrested three people in connection with operating a fictitious police department they said was 3,000 years old and had jurisdiction over 33…
Start: GPT End: GPT Begin comScore Tag End comScore Tag Google Tag Manager End Google Tag Manager May 06, 2015 9:00am PT by Lesley Goldberg ‘Powers’ Renewed for Second Season at PlayStation (Exclusive) Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television The comic book drama was the first original scripted series for the Sony-owned video gaming console. Powers…
A man is being investigated for felonious assault after striking another man over the head with a chair, as seen in an Instagram video, posted May 5, 2015. By Brian Ries2015-05-06 16:38:50 UTC An Instagram video captured the shocking moment a man viciously clobbered two gay men over their heads with a chair at a…
Located in a towering late Gothic revival building – apocryphally described by locals as the first million-dollar high school west of the Mississippi River — Topeka High School, situated just four blocks from the Statehouse, is the pride of Kansas’ capital city. The hallowed halls of the 84-year-old building have served as the academic home of…
Miley Cyrus has changed, just a little, from her Hannah Montana days. We can’t quite put our finger on what is different about her. Maybe it’s the short hair or the constant tongue-wagging or the dilated pupils.Whatever it is, she seems to be heading in a good direction. Cyrus made a media splash on Tuesday—not…
On “The O’Reilly Factor” last night, Megyn Kelly shamed host Bill O’Reilly for daring to criticize Pam Geller’s absolutist version of free speech, saying that he was “catering to the jihadis.” The pair were discussing the shooting of two Islamic extremists in Garland, Texas, on Sunday when O’Reilly echoed Donald Trump and claimed that Geller…
Peaceful protesters have been pleading their case against police brutality for months in Baltimore. I kept hearing people say, “Baltimore is not Ferguson,” meaning, I suppose, that we do not repress our issues of wealth and racial disparity or deny them. Baltimore, after all, has been a city in recovery for half a century now….