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The customer, whose name is Pedro, received a drink labeled “beaner” — a racial slur for Mexicans — when he visited a location Tuesday in La Cañada, news station KTLA reported.[cut] The coffee chain responded in a tweet saying that the incident was “not the welcoming experience we aim to provide.”

The unfolding story of the Obama administration monitoring not just telephone records but Internet usage has drawn media coverage with adjectives like "astonishing." No doubt about it, even the pro-Obama press acknowledges it is a scandal. Still, it is laughable that the media would label him a "dictator" or discuss the "I word." That's not what greeted George W. Bush at the end of 2005. Just eight years ago, journalists openly discussed tyranny and the possibility of impeachment. On Newsweek's website on December 19, 2005, Jonathan Alter went ballistic: "We're seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license...

Wait, so the academy fired Brett Ratner from his gig as Oscars producer for making sexist and crude comments, but then, as Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan smartly points out, allowed host Seth MacFarlane to make “that kind of un-PC humor the cornerstone of his whole act.” BuzzFeed has rounded up the nine most sexist moments of Sunday’s Oscars, including MacFarlane’s sophomoric “boob” song. And New York Magazine transcribed the most offensive barbs, in case you want to relive the horror. …

Castro's former daughter-in-law recalls excitement, resentment Idalmis Menéndez, who now lives in Spain, provides a rare and sometimes surprising up-close view of life in Fidel's household. BY LISA ABEND Special to The Miami Herald BARCELONA, Spain - Idalmis Menéndez can't help but smile when she recalls meeting her first husband. Visiting an aunt on the outskirts of Havana, she was startled when a young man appeared in the patio, smelling of fresh dough and tomato sauce. ''He told me he was a pizza maker,'' she giggles. ``And that he adored my hair. It was love at first sight.'' Menéndez quickly...