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Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined this week's episode of CNN's 'Who's Talking to Chris Wallace,' and defended his previous comparison of the January 6th Capitol riots to Kristallnacht violent attack on the Jewish people. Schwarzenegger, 73, made his original comments comparing the two events in a January 2021 video, when he issued a dramatic speech slamming Trump and comparing the MAGA January 6th riot to the Nazi takeover of his native Austria. CNN anchor Chris Wallace played a portion of his speech in the interview with Schwarzenegger on Friday before asking him whether he still stands by his original...

A handful of “super polluter” publishers are mostly to blame for widespread misinformation about the climate crisis on Facebook, according to new research. Ten publishers, among them the far-right news site Breitbart, once headed by ex-Trump advisor Steve Bannon, are responsible for nearly 70 percent of climate change denial on Facebook, according to a study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The “toxic ten” include several conservative U.S. outlets and Russian state media, according to the report.

ACT, college sports, discrimination, A proposal recently released by The National Association of Basketball Coaches requests the NCAA remove an eligibility requirement to submit SAT or ACT scores. In the proposal, put forth by the Committee on Racial Reconciliation, the NABC decries the two tests as wicked forces of institutional racism that should be “jettisoned for that reason alone.” The committee was formed last month, and the proposal shows it.Their argument runs like this: the SAT was created in 1926 by the eugenicist Carl Brigham. Brigham intended the test to demonstrate the racial superiority of white blood. His project, of...

LEXINGTON COUNTY, SC Two Lexington High School students have been charged with assaulting a freshman on the school’s wrestling team in a locker room. Preston Edward Painter, 18, and Donald Hinson Lewis, 17, were charged last month with third-degree assault and battery, according to arrest warrants. The two students were charged in March, and the victim’s father told The State newspaper Wednesday that the family intends to relocate because of the incident. Witnesses told police that on March 10, one student struck the 14-year-old victim on the back with an open palm, and the other struck the victim on the...

FULL TITLE: Pals of footballers accused in Connecticut high school rape case STILL defending them and bullying 13-year-old victims as they post grinning Instagram photo with Twitter hashtag demanding '#FreeEdgar' Friends of three Connecticut high school students charged with statutory rape of two 13-year-old girls have continued to support the defendants, attack the victims and make light of the serious offenses, a week after the story made national headlines. In a frightening display of ignorance, 10 students at Torrington High School posted an Instagram photo of themselves posing in the school gymnasium making hand gestures which spell out '21,' the...

Marcel Williams is plopped down on a couch in his family's duplex apartment. The stillness is unusual for the 14-year-old, who a few years ago roamed football fields as a star running back for the national champion Flagler Junior Pee Wee Bulldogs. Since then, Marcel said he had been earning A's and B's at Buddy Taylor Middle School, where he also expected to continue playing football this year. Instead, school just started and Marcel finds himself slouched on the couch, expelled from the classroom and the football field until next year because of something called "tea-bagging" -- a crude taunt...

ootball and men’s basketball players on the nation’s big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates, and some of the gaps are so large they call into question the lengths to which schools will go to win. The biggest gap between football players and students as a whole occurred at the University of Florida, where players scored 346 points lower than the school’s overall student body. That’s larger than the difference in scores between typical students at the University of Georgia and Harvard University Nationwide, football players average 220 points lower on the SAT...

<p>WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - NFL star Keyshawn Johnson has found trouble in the East Bay a lot easier than he found himself open this year on the football field.</p> <p>Johnson, the controversial wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has been hit with both a restraining order and a lawsuit brought against him by his ex-wife's new boyfriend.</p>

Minnesota Vikings receiver Randy Moss was charged on Wednesday with two misdemeanor offenses for using his car as a slow-motion battering ram against a traffic officer, but his playing status was uncertain. Authorities said Moss, 25, tried to turn left in his 2002 Lexus sedan from the wrong lane and was confronted by a female traffic officer during Tuesday's afternoon rush hour. Witnesses said Moss nudged the officer with the car for about half a city block, then stopped when she fell to the pavement. After a night spent in the Hennepin County jail, Moss was charged with careless driving...